‘Barbie’ beats ‘Oppenheimer’ at the box office with a record $155 million debut
The comedy directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margo Robbie fetched $155 million in the first three days of domestic ticket sales, according to the data aggregator ComScore.
I’m amazed that a Corporation reliant on the plastics made from the petroleum industry and who has fucked with the body image of women for decades is now suddenly a ‘you-go-girl-feminism’ cinematic triumph.
That this corporate pink washing advert manages to beat Oppenheimer, a heavy duty examination of the power of atomic weapons perfectly sums us up as a global culture right now.
Funnily enough both are inspired by Germany. Oppenheimer was born to German parents in New York and he studied in Germany, Mattel based Barbie on a right wing German adult cartoon character and toy, Bild Lilli, who was a high end prostitute who partied with the far right.
How charming.
Watching Barbie to bond with feminism would be like watching He-Man and his roid rage muscle mates to understand masculinity.
To paraphrase Oppenheimer, โNow I am become Death, the tedious ennui of worlds.โ
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Agreed. It’s sickening. Last week I was lucky enough to go shoe shopping in Taupo, home of the nouveau riches, and Uugh, disgusting, ugly, square heeled, pink clunkers ad nauseam. I despair.
Nouveau riche or just cashed up bogans? I don’t know where they could even shop, all the department stores are shuttered.
“lucky enough” ??
We live in dystopian times now. Look that up if you don’t know what it means.
I’m certainly not depressed under this government!
I suggest the 0800 number. 0800 make the rich richer National party.
I totally agree, infantile culture. While the planet burns humans are playing with dollies….
If you view Barbie through the lens of everything being based on how an 8-10 year old girl imagines the world should be (both Barbie World and the “reality” Barbie goes to), it makes almost perfect sense. Seen that way, it’s really not feminist at all, outside of having a message that boys stuff should play no part in girls stuff (which would strongly imply that vice versa is equally true, e.g. that girls should not have a major role in a GI Joe toy world).
Knew there was a message in it somewhere, Nitrium!
Cog, it.
Eh!, thought, clone, dare not.
What call this thing.
Wow I can’t believe a PG movie marketed for all ages did better than a 3 hour WW2 era biopic…
What a fucking tragic movie. Not that I’ve seen it. Watching the trailer alone was enough to drop 10 points on the IQ score. Now watch all the unesscessary plastic merchandise shit they’ll pump out onto the shop floors to wring a few more bucks out of it.
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