‘Barbie’ Marks The Return of Edgy, Barely Kid-Friendly Blockbusters Like ‘Ghostbusters’ : moviesandtv

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Barbie was so an adult level film. How that script survived and was released is the story I want to hear because it is both honest about what it is and it was a genius method of marketing to the Alphas generation.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the feeling that Hasbro knew what Barbie could mean in discourse and decided to perform well enough in that space rather than let the Internet do it for them.

You don't pick a filmmaker like Gerwig and expect a movie that doesn't touch on being a woman growing up.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Hasbro

Mattel is the company you mean.

Although Hasbro also makes a shit ton of toys!

[–] Hogger85b@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What a world where a biopic of father of atomic bomb has more.comments about "great Boobs" and the one about a child's doll and pink fun has sparked more deep political.diacourae and division

[+] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone -12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I'm not reading an article that calls Barbie edgy

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

I look at it like this. The Ghostbusters movie wasn't meant for kids, but kids liked it. Hell, kids liked RoboCop even when they really shouldn't have.

Barbie seems like it it's introducing kids to the kinds of ideas that movies of this age did. It isn't a sharp edge, but it is an edge.

[+] sweeny@sh.itjust.works -25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I still think it's weird that they made Ken say the n word, I know it technically isn't R material and that it fits his character, but it still felt a little off and wrong

Edit: wow lots of KKKen supporters here I guess

Lol someone went through my profile and down voted every comment I've ever made, I have no idea why this joke has generated so much salt, are there actually rumors of Ken being racist or something?

[–] casuldad@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago

Go back to reddit with that shit.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, I don't remember that at all. Did you just make it up?

[–] BadRS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the internet

[–] sweeny@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Lmao I thought it was obvious that I was joking, I just thought it was funny that they called the Barbie movie "edgy"

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