In is a fun movie with an actual fresh plot. Who knew Hollywood could still make those?!
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It's based off existing IP, though, so not as fresh as we would like. This is more likely to lead the studio execs to think they can mine kids toys for content, rather than think writing is important.
Apparently Polly Pocket and Uno are going to have their own movies as well. I am not totally sold on Polly, but I am all in for Uno. I hope they put in a draw 25 or really showcase the extreme desperation associated with not finding your card. But yeah, new compelling content please.
Lol I mean this in a friendly way. You're either too sober or too wasted for my stoned ass. I see it opposite, and love both. I'm a simp for all sorts of card games; uno and all their "expansions" turn me on
But I can see how they can actually movitize Polly pocket (eg like green army men in toy story) There's a whole Pocket world! I love miniaturized things and Polly pocket was the fucking shit
The Uno movie is gonna be a sequel to Battleship.
Uno could be done as a Running Man remake lol
Make it like Casino Royale but replace poker with uno.
Which is hilarious because after the long and expensive process of producing them (likely during the strike so the writing and acting will suck), the companies get a delayed box office bomb on their hands when they try to hype up their Hot Wheels "it's fast and furious for 9 year old boys" movie.
Fast & Furious is already for 9 year old boys smh
It probably made over many objections from the old fuddy duddies.
Uhm yeah sure
😂 I immediately thought of this video but more specifically the black guy reacting to it.
Damn, if you check out some Right Wing videos on YouTube they’ll tell you all about how the movie failed financially and how it was a massive flop.
I put off watching the critical drinkers video on it until I went to go see it myself. Actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit, was able to understand the hyper feminist tones were obviously very intentionally ironic. Then you go watch this guy's review and its all lost on him.
I thought he was funny when I first saw a couple of his videos like a year or two ago. Probably because the videos were about really bad movies.
And then I realized if a movie had a female main character in it (gasp!) most of the "review" was going to be him shitting on her using whatever big words he looked up. Doesn't matter if the movie itself was good or bad. Women bad!
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Well, that works for their audience because, spoiler, the "did my own research" crowd never goes beyond the blowhard source
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Go woke, become billionaire?
It was woke? Barbie put down a alave revolt and it was presented as a good thing.
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I'm honestly not surprised. It's one of those rare movies that has mass appeal (which guarantees it at least half a billion) and also a surprisingly good story that had critics and audiences raving about it.
I was only forced to watch it because I didn't want to wait in the mall that long for Oppenheimer to start while the wife finishes Barbie. I haven't been more satisfied and entertained by a blind watch since... Burning.
They may have made a barbillion, but they'll never make a morbillion, which one is really the achievement? Checkmate libs.
Even though my local movie houses have the fancy reclining reserved seats, in most cases we just wait a month or two to watch any new releases on streaming. My wife wanted to see this, but into the 3rd weekend seats are still sold out - we could not even get a matinee showing. They must have done something right.
Can't wait to see all the triggered "alpha male" reactions.
This organic marketing campaign thing sure worked out here.
Not sure how organic the marketing was here
I made this comment somewhere else earlier.. the only time I ever heard about it was from my physical therapist that I saw for a couple weeks
she was like "you see all those ads and previews for the barbie movie that's coming out?" "No. I don't usually see any ads or anything and I haven't seen a movie preview in... years"
Also didn't notice any "organic" posts about it on reddit (where I was at the time) or here (I joined at the start of the blackouts). only since opening weekend did I start seeing posts here about oppen/barbie
Don't wanna pull the "are you living under a rock?"-card but I've seen tons of promotional material about it. I read about it when production started he took note because of the director and cast, then nothing for a while but in the months and weeks leading up to the release I saw an increasing amount of ads and press.
As reported by Variety, the marketing budget allocated to Barbie was a staggering $150 million
Also didn’t notice any “organic” posts about it on reddit (where I was at the time) or here (I joined at the start of the blackouts).
Wow. I'm way better at this "astrotufing" thing than I thought.
It's turfing but in outer space.
/end mansplaining.
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I hope you negotiated points for your salary.
Don't worry about me, I'm doing well. Support the other actors and writers on strike instead, I think they would appreciate it.
And only 3 weeks in.
Great movie with lots of substance
It's was fun!
Needs inflation adjustment to be a realistic statistic.
Here's a list of the top 30 adjusted for inflation: https://www.gamesradar.com/highest-grossing-movies-inflation/
With that information, I don't believe Barbie is in the 50 if you adjust for inflation.
Unadjusted isn't entirely useless. It's interesting to see how a movie compares to more recent ones and it also filters out movies that were released in a time where TVs, home media or streaming didn't exist or were not as common.
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