‘Barbie’ Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating ‘The Dark Knight’
‘Barbie’ Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating ‘The Dark Knight’
Greta Gerwig's movie based on the world's most iconic fashion doll keeps dancing past one record after another.
My parents have seen this movie three times, I’ve seen it twice, might go again lol. I’m in a deficit of movies marketed toward women that dont revolve around romance, I can only watch legally blonde so many times (who am I kidding, I will watch it a dozen more times at least)
I can only assume that my one downvote is from someone who vehemently opposes the notion that anyone could get tired of seeing legally blonde
Giiirl! Love legally blonde! Before seeing barbie I realized women kind of get like one super great kinda cult following comedy movie a decade. (Not a hard rule or anything) Clueless, legally blonde, mean girls. The stuff we still quote and watch today. My prediction was that Barbie is going to be that movie. After I first saw it I thought maybe not, but I keep thinking about it and like it more and more as I sit on it, the flaws became more acceptable/tolerable. Sorry for ramble I'm just excited to see another woman say it hits that niche for them too!
Yes!! There are flaws with all of those movies, but it’s hard to be choosey when there are so few movies that feel like this. Everything Everywhere All At Once also kind of scratches this itch for me, though in a more broad sense due to the wide range of ideas it covered. I’m super glad to talk about Barbie with other women! It has been great seeing all the women I work with embracing a side of themselves that has historically been shit on.
It felt odd, marketed as a female movie, It had a female lead, women that talk to other women, but half way through I commented to my partner that this feels like a movie about Ken.
My only take away as a dirty male is I can t wait to see it again for Ken, but when it's streaming.
I’ve seen this opinion from a lot of men, about 80% of the top comments on the Reddit mega thread were about how Ken “made the movie”. I’ve talked to a lot women about this, and every one of them has essentially said “of course they think it’s about the man”. It’s a bit frustrating, honestly, to see this opinion everywhere. I do not see how he could be seen as the focus of the movie. I loved Ken of course, but you missed a big point of the movie if your main takeaway is how great Ken was.
I agree it was a lot of Ken.
It was a female movie, we had the sort of history of progress that barbie either helped bring or at least reflected the change of times. We had our relationship, memories, references, inside jokes, and love of barbie. It is also a VERY feminist movie. I'd argue the best depiction of what feminism is about I've seen. It shows how the patriarchy hurts everyone too, and the answer isn't a matriarchy. It was just done in a way it could easily be ignored if someone wanted to just enjoy the surface level fun. What bothered me about it was the Mattel dicksucking corporate bs I suspect was forced to be included and portrayed a certain way. They did a decent job trying to make it work but if felt obvious and gross to me.
My parents have seen this movie three times, I’ve seen it twice, might go again lol.
Wow. Marketing on Lemmy has been a resounding success.
If you've never seen it, watch 'A New Leaf' with Walter Matthau and Elaine May. May directed it. It's a rom com for people who really hate rom coms.
If the movie is still making $6 million on a Tuesday, this movie is going break a lot more records.
I’ve seen it three times. I’m going this week which will make four. It’s a fun movie
I’m at the theaters to see this right now and the theater is packed, never seen a movie that was this packed outside of opening day
Same. I think enthusiasm for films is up this year, the audiences for both Barbie and Sound Of Freedom were the biggest audiences I've ever seen, and I've been going to theaters for years.
I think people just miss the movies since the pandemic honestly. I missed the movie going experience a lot
That's wild! I'm stoked to see it but keep waiting for the crowds to die down... Which seems like it may never happen.
Unless you're waiting for saftey reasons, I say go now. It's sort of a cultural phenomenon right now, a Moment, kinda like endgame and batman trilogy. It will lose just a bit of magic if you go when everyone is done talking about it imo.
Hmm, the article says the ticket revenue wasn't adjusted for inflation, so batman actually made over 760 million in 2023 dollars. I haven't seen the movie but my partner really wants to, can't wait to see what the hypes all about.
If you can clear your head of the hype going into the movie, you'll have a better experience.
It's a good movie, but the hype is killing the expectations.
You won't know until you see it! 🥰
It's good. If you're a man, I'd say don't take it seriously and you probably won't end up getting too offended.
Thanks for sharing!
Unless you're waiting for saftey reasons, I say go now. It's sort of a cultural phenomenon right now, a Moment, kinda like endgame and batman trilogy. It will lose just a bit of magic if you go when everyone is done talking about it imo.
Also I originally was trying to post this as a reply and then the comment disappeared? Idk if my app glitching. Hope someone who was waiting for the crowds to die down sees this!!
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Shit, I'm a man and I went for Ryan Gosling.
His ending outfit was cool.
Plus those abs have to be airbrushed... Right?
At least spell my name right.
It's "Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie" to you.
If I am going to a movie just to get my dick excited, I would rather Oppenheimer.
Apparently there are better scenes.
White People trash will always do good at the movies, no one wants to see people of color star in anything these days
So much for Black Lives Matter
White People trash will always do good at the movies
This is so hilariously wrong that it's hard for me to take this seriously. I don't know of a recent movie that bombed that didn't have a predominantly white cast.
As a non-white, an outsider and onlooker on the American sociopolitical scenery, I can attest that I also regard the non-white people as perceptually racist, and sometimes even worst. It's been many occasions that I observed where they don't say a word regarding all-non-white-casts movies. But when people made all-white movies (or if none of them won any awards), they will throw tantrums for being left out. Quite typical scenarios.