‘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, “Now I am become Death, the tedious ennui of worlds.”
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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” ??
I see white people.
time to take your fear goggles off
We scare you way more then you scare us!
Or that the only black guy in Oppie was seen leading J-Rob across the sports field as if to say that was pretty much their only avenue for success.
Though I did read there were 19 black people working on the Manhattan project as researchers/scientists.
The rest were involved in manual labour building Los Alamos.
One can only imagine the outcome if Black people were afforded the luxury Jewish people had to integrate and educate themselves in science and art.
I cringe watching movies from Citizen Kane era to Deliverance. The blaxploitation era was when the fun started.
LOL
I see pistons in your avatar bwav.
Who invented those again?
The invention of which has led to a climate crisis.
Own that shit!
Only sad fuckers blame the government for their depression and post dumb shit online thinking its entertaining.
Martyn – NEVER believe Hollywood media releases, especially on ticket sales…Hollywood as we know it is on the way out….
I guess the next Blockbuster German feature movie will be Klauss Barbie and Operation Paperclip!
“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”
?? Nobody has fucked with the body image of ACTUAL women as much as the mentally ill trans nutters.
I’ve had lunches with Margo Robbie and have worked with her and she’s a great gal so fuck off. I’m proud to say I’ve met and worked with Barbi. Margo’s a talented, brave and fun kid with a heart of gold and great to have on set, as were Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Typical of tacky little kiwi’s squeaking about in the dark with their beaks in the ground while peering cowardly from behind the bushes. There’s a far greater menace to us here in funny little AO/NZ. The poppy bashers.
Focus on who’s plucked your money from out under your dumb, sticky little beaks and leave our shared creative talent alone.
You think these movies are bad: you should see what is on our YV channels!
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.
citations for the analsis of ‘the bild lili doll’ please…
thought not….a gold digger just like the popular british ww2 strip jane(who appeared in the mirror, does that make her a lefty?) and as such as amoral as she was apolitical
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