‘It’s the first film soley directed by a woman to ever cross $1 billion in global box office sales.’
But is it Kenough?
Just saw it today with my daughter… great great movie. Definitely deserves the hype.
I thought it was pretty fun and enjoyable. My GF thought it was a bit boring though. Not for everyone surely, and I think it could have been better but still a solid 7/10 by me
Go woke, go
brokerich?It turns outs “woke” doesn’t have a definition nor really a unifying theme, and that marketing a film to 50+% of the population can actually work.
I’ve asked dozens of republicans and not one of them can answer the question: “what is woke?”
Yeah, Greta Gerwig just completely invalidated that right wing slogan.
Would like to see that gross adjusted for inflation. But either way, incredibly solid box office.
Have to admit I kind of want to see it.
Well it’s not something I like so what arbitrary metric can I use to dismiss this accomplishment?
Is anyone surprised?
Every time the was a movie that appealed a lot to women, it broke all box office records. Just look at Titanic.
Adjusted for inflation it still made over $1B.
I mean so we can compare it to box office of all time. Haven’t seen a source though.
Wonder Woman would have grossed over $1B if adjusted for inflation. Barbie has already passed its total inflation-adjusted gross, though.
I thought it was very mediocre, even disregarding how gross it is as a transparent advertising vehicle that tries to lampshade its intent with a few throwaway lines about capitalism being bad.
The acting and set design and visuals were super well done and I liked how irreverent and tongue and cheek it could be. That said yeah it definitely gives this vibe of “wow heehee look how progressive we are” and the story is kind of all over the place. Overall it was alright and kinda fun but it also had a lot of mixed messages and while it had lines criticizing consumerism and such it is still very blatantly a big multimedia joint venture to sell a ton of stuff.
At the same time I understand that as a child growing up in the US that a lot of our nostalgia and childhood memories are intrinsically intertwined with marketing, IP, and big business. I’m a guy so my barbie experiences were only when I was playing with at the house of a friend who was a girl or a cousin or something, but I know how ingrained in my youth my old gi joe toys, transformers, powerrangers, superhero stuff, and etc is.
