Greta Gerwig's Barbie

It's crazy that Barbie and Oppenheimer are going to be much more similar thematically than previously thought.

Alright, but imma be shocked if this movie gets anything harsher than a PG rating.

Yeah I'm not super sure if mortality is gonna be a big theme of the movie. I mean, it might be! Which would be cool. But I was definitely expecting more of a Lego Movie thing.

Either way, this trailer looks fun.

I will note the line (which I may not be remembering word-for-word):

" Humans only end one way. Ideas live forever."

So I'd guess that mortality and immortality are indeed going to compose a theme in the movie.

Unless, of course, Trailers Always Lie... ;P

As to the trailer... I'm conflicted.

On the one hand, the overall premise seems really interesting, and I really like the characterisation shown thus far for Barbie and Ken, and the world-building for Barbie-Land.

On the other, I'm not sure that I'm inclined towards what seem to be elements of an evil businessman trying to capture and/or thwart and/or control Barbie, or some of the above-mentioned mortality and immortality philosophy.

On the other hand again, as I recall I was smiling through much of the trailer, which is promising...

(And of course, this is only a trailer, so it's hard to say how any of this will actually work out in the movie itself.)

So... *shrugs*

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on May 25th 2023 at 9:09:25 PM

I'm pretty sure this movie is gonna be rated PG-13, at least from what I could find.

It was Confirmed to be PG-13, yes.

Gonna need a source.

The music video for Dua Lipa's new song for the movie.

So with Dua Lipa herself, i think that makes a grand total of eleven Barbies we know about.

Though I won't be surprised if Helen Mirren (the narrator) turns out to be another Barbie.

I refuse to believe that old people exist in the Barbie universe. Though she could be a Barbie that escaped and aged.

Wait, are we talking about Barbie or Logan's Run?

Cover interview with Margot Robbie for Vogue, a long, fun feature that discusses the history of the film's production, as well as various costume and acting choices among the cast.

Pretty much where I hoped Greta would take this, after two movies about teenage adolescence:

Ah, the antithesis to the Jared Leto school of method acting.

It's official: Barbie and Ken's mugshots are a full-blown meme.

If Karl Urban was in this movie, he would have told Barbie to just take the other shoe and stop being a cunt.

Barbieland seems like the kind of setting that would excommunicate him for calling a woman a cunt.

he'd be send to the barbie jail!

But would jail exist in Barbie land?

The place where Barbies go and never return.

Under the bed.

Right next to Jessie?

'Barbie' Film Banned in Vietnam Over Disputed Map Scene.

That map huh. For anyone who wants context, China and the nations of South East Asia have an ongoing territorial dispute over the South China Sea over which parts of the sea is under their control.

China insist almost all of the South China Sea belongs to them while the South East Asian Nations dispute this and insist they each have a fair share of the South China Sea which The Hague backed their claimed although China refuses to recognize it.

Since Vietnam and China don't get along sometimes due to the latter invading the former several times in the past especially during the Sino-Vietnamese War, the Vietnamese government doesn't like it if the media uses any map of the South China Sea that has the nine-dash line, the part that claims almost all of the Sea belongs to China, since it's just saying Vietnam has no claim to it's own Sea.

Can't say I blame them on this one. A government laying claim to parts of the world it can't even live on is a glaring abuse of authority.

From what I heard the map is actually very distorted/parody-like.

For reference, here's the map in question.

Yeah, it's not very accurate. Feels a bit weird to get mad about it.

Edited by lbssb on Jul 4th 2023 at 11:09:42 AM