• @yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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      43 days ago

      2023 Barbie is nowhere near based, it feels like a half baked apology from Mattel, who happens to be the ones which forced unrealistic body types over women for a whole century

      Honestly, not a good movie either, can’t recall rn but I feel like 25% of it was about mattel corpo propaganda.

      Some of it was fun though. I liked the flashy songs

      • @YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        I get where you’re coming from, but the new Barbie film was pretty based if you take a step back and examine it as a whole. I mean the whole Ken takeover of the Barbie village is strangely prophetic, given the whole trump takeover (so happy my small town had the biggest protest I’ve ever seen from her yesterday!) and the snippet about Margot explaining what fascism means. And this is coming from a 6’6 270lbs. Cis het ally with a shaved head and fairly thick beard. I enjoyed it for what it was. Yeah it’s no citizen Kane, but it definitely hit higher than it’s weight class.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      “Both”? Brother, there are way more than 2 Barbie movies. Waaaaaaay more.

      The Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse show is way better than you would expect it to be. Like not “good” necessarily but fun.

      • @YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        123 hours ago

        Someone just told me there were 52! My only experience is using an old Barbie or Ken doll as the bbeg my gi joes fought against. But the Margot Robbie one was the first one I saw, or even knew about! I thought it was pretty good.