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@Portersona69420

9 ай бұрын

This guy hates everything more then I Hate Everything. Like dude, we get it. Your sinicle and take the fun out of everything. Can you stop ruining movies for other people now? Especially the people who haven't even seen it? There's a lot of really good stuff that you "hate" that's actually really good. But people won't go see it because their mindless drones taking "advice" from people like you on the internet. If you don't like it then just don't watch it and stop ruining shit for the rest of us. It's THAT simple.

@NDenizen

9 ай бұрын

holla holla

@Coconut-219

9 ай бұрын

no

@Joemamma664

9 ай бұрын

I would have but then you said i couldn't be number one.. so now I don't wanna

@cryhavoc196

9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of choas from Sonic Adventure 2. I might actually check this out

Strangely, Margot Robbie's analysis is more coherent and based than the director's - by a long shot.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I get the sense Robbie was really genuinely invested in it as a project.

@veronicab15

9 ай бұрын

The movie itself is more balanced than the marketing lol

@brusso456

9 ай бұрын

Barbie is not interested in ken because ken does not have the D. Barbie chooses the patriarchy world so she can get a V. then she can chase some D.

@Kyle-sr6jm

9 ай бұрын

One of the women interviewed had a brain.

@glitchinthesystem4798

9 ай бұрын

@@Kyle-sr6jm I thought Gerwig proved she had a brain when she made Little Women

"My sister's Barbie was stabbed with the laser sword of a gundam. By me." - The Little Platoon, 2023

@barrybend7189

9 ай бұрын

I actually wanted to see that. The imagery was too good to not show.

@FlyingHeadbutt100

9 ай бұрын

*guitar riff* "IT'S A GUNDAM!!!"

@txag007

9 ай бұрын

@@FlyingHeadbutt100 The crossover we so desperately need!

@Dharengo

9 ай бұрын

I think that might have been the best anecdote in the whole video.

@draketheduelist

9 ай бұрын

And that's not just _any_ Gundam. That's the Gundam _Epyon._ Ain't no pissant RX-78-2 royalty-free lightsaber, and Gundam beam weapons are already _way_ scarier than anything in Star Wars, and not just because of their size. And then there's Epyon, arguably one of the top melee oriented suits in the franchise. Just imagine how scary _its_ beam weapons have to be to earn that distinction...

The interview about how everyone was complementing Ryan but not Margot completely nullifies the message the real world scenes are trying to push and Gerwig is completely blind to it

@SpecterVonBaren

9 ай бұрын

With feminism, the conclusion has already been reached, so when something is observed, it is not a matter of following a logical path of deduction, but instead figuring out how it validates what you already believed to be true. Man flirts with woman, patriarchy, man doesn't flirt with woman, patriarchy, man treats woman as an equal, patriarchy, man treats woman differently from men, patriarchy.

@Ergeniz

9 ай бұрын

@@SpecterVonBaren Very well put. I call it a 'civil religion for/of women'.

@realnamehidden1314

4 ай бұрын

@@SpecterVonBaren Isn’t there a name for such a fallacy? I feel like there is but I’m drawing a blank for some reason

@SpecterVonBaren

4 ай бұрын

@@realnamehidden1314 Could maybe file it under the Galbrush Paradox.

@Metalgarn

4 ай бұрын

@@realnamehidden1314 Confirmation Bias

What annoys me the most is how anyone who defends the Barbie movie say that “if your mad your clearly didn’t understand the message of the movie” but yet give no example of how they views are right where if you put someone who was against the film they actually give very good points

@BWMagus

9 ай бұрын

Or you see "It's just satire, no one actually thinks like this!" right after a comment that says "It was great, I think exactly like this!"

@GigaChadh976

8 ай бұрын

@@BWMagusthats what i love about satire: that its not anything like real life and that it doesn't say anything about the real world

@osmanyousif7849

6 ай бұрын

@@BWMagus, the problem is, though, that nobody in the audience even knows what is meant to be satire or not. There were so many moments where I was wondering, “is it supposed to be a punchline, or is it genuinely how the characters feel?”.

@madelynabeyta7205

4 ай бұрын

I know right, it’s the LAZIEST argument, if you could even call it that. Like I don’t think everyone missed the point just because they disagree 🙄

I never knew that a Barbie movie would be more politically driven than frickin Oppenheimer!

@DeadlyPlatypus

9 ай бұрын

They "hid the ball" in Oppenheimer to make everyone believe that "The Red Scare!" was just a N×zi witch-hunt to persecute poor slightly left-leaning people, instead of the entirely justified rooting-out of dangerous, violent subversives that would ultimately spawn BLM, public school teachers, woke universities, and Hollywood in its current form.

@happynihilist2573

9 ай бұрын

Oppenhimeimer just invited a big bob that failed to kill as many people as bunch bats with nepom glued to them, ending an active war and setting up cold one that was ended by time Barbie is film about the one of the biggest political taking poind of the last 2 decades

@AlexJoneses

9 ай бұрын

are you serious, where we not watching the same movie?

@Coconut-219

9 ай бұрын

I don't know, there was probably somebody in the Oppenheimer team that desperately wanted to do a history raceswap ala 'Cleopatra' but they managed to play it straight good on them.

@doodleBurgers

9 ай бұрын

​@@AlexJonesesare you?

Gary Buechler was right when he said Ken is like Archie Bunker and Rorschach. Characters designed to be hated, but they turn out to be the most sympathetic and likeable.

@keiththomas1416

9 ай бұрын

No-Ken and the rest are a cyphers, the good obedient proles, like an East German factory or a Hungarian agricultural worker. He is all performative, an imaginary fuck buddy for Margot and Greta. When he finally has that moment of gender or more correctly class contentious, like Winston Smith in 1984, he really does imagine a stilettoe stamping on a human face forever. I am surprised they didn't reprise him crying as the announcement of the victory over the Patriarchy in the Barbie land equivalent of the Old Chestnut Tree. Those cheering him on, rather like witnessing a Soviet show trial, or Saddam's first Baath Party Congress, are cheering on a pathetic voodoo doll of a 'man' for the entertainment of the riot girl faction of the Party that runs Hollywood.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

*Gotta💓The Underdog!*

@sthubbins4038

9 ай бұрын

None of those characters were supposed to be hated 😂

@ninjanibba4259

9 ай бұрын

​@@sthubbins4038then why was he the way he was on Toy Story 3 for? Tell me, make it make sense and you'll get a like

@Wanda711

9 ай бұрын

Just like The Don became a sympathetic character after Captain Marvel brutalized him and stole his bike. The creators of the movie were convinced that they'd done a terrific creating a hateful foil for their heroine, but the harder the propagandists squeeze, the more thinking humans slip through their fingers.

The director needs an award for “most words used to explain absolutely nothing”

@newtpondskipper

9 ай бұрын

She has a future in politics.

@kehammer100

9 ай бұрын

She's in a tight race with Kamala Harris

@tranquilthoughts7233

8 ай бұрын

That award already belongs to judith butler for lifetime.

The part about the rollerblading scene at 45:50 is quite illuminating. We've had years of women complaining about men having the temerity to say "hello" to them, and things like the Gillette ad where a man is going to try approaching a woman (gasp!) and he is held back and told not to do it because that would be evil toxic masculinity. And the result of this is that when they are filming, people are afraid to talk to her and only talk to Ryan. She then somehow interprets people being afraid to talk to her as an "undertone of violence"?!?

@jrd33

9 ай бұрын

At this point, anything a man says or does can be interpreted as misogynistic. As a result, many men are just avoiding women in an effort to minimize their chances of finding themselves in a situation they regret.

@DMCMaster550

8 ай бұрын

Everything is problematic to the femoid, including things that they said weren't problematic, two years ago. If they can find a way to make something sexist or misogynistic, they'll do it, even if it's exactly what they asked for. They're zealots.

@NateO123

8 ай бұрын

It’s almost like it is impossible to win when people are desperate to validate their own victimhood.

@pohjanakka4992

6 ай бұрын

And now we are getting women who complain that they can't find anybody to date because men no longer ask. Perhaps one example of something where in the very beginning there was something real to complain about, but it went way too far, partly perhaps because it became some sort of meme everybody - or too many - wanted to take a part in. Which seems to be kind of common. There is a problem, maybe a completely real one, possibly big, possibly quite small, possibly something in between, or possibly something that is a problem only in some instances or when taken to extremes. A few people point it out and suddenly that idea, that that something is bad, takes on in general in society, and it becomes fashionable to participate in the effort to "do something" about it. And suddenly lots of people find some meaning for their lives when they "do" that "something". They feel good. They feel like they are "doing something" that is important and meaningful. They feel that they are good as people, among the "white hats" of their society, fighting evil and defending good. Or they want the sympathy and attention they can get by claiming to be victims suffering from that something. Which of course then further fuels the efforts of their "defenders", who like to feel that their efforts to help are "doing good". The problem, the original one, mostly disappears, but the people who felt good "doing something" don't want to stop doing that something because, well, it made them feel good, so they keep doing it, and new people who see that those other people are feeling good and feel like they belong somewhere because they are part of that movement want to join in. And everybody wants to be good people, be "on the right side of history", and now for lots of people one sign of being a good person is to fight against that whatever. And other people take advantage of that, for one reason or another, and become new "victims". And the whole thing keeps being pushed way past useful, until it becomes a problem in itself, and creates other, new problems. Possibly worse ones that existed at the beginning.

@DH-yz3cr

6 ай бұрын

satire flew over your head

So if dolls exist in their own unique "doll world" doesn't that mean that the beginning of the movie opens with a baby genocide?

@nomad5544

9 ай бұрын

I don't think the baby dolls are valued in the same way as the Barbie dolls. You can take of that what you will

@dragonmaster1360

9 ай бұрын

@nomad5544 No, they've got a point. The movie made the premise that barbies have an alternate world where they actually live, affected by the real world, each individual influenced by the real world. By making it so the barbies have an alternative world, it opens up the possibility that ALL toys have an alternative world, where there are living versions of those toys. Meaning it is ABSOLUTELY possible that those girls literally committed a mass baby genocide. Another notch against this movie.

@babbit09

9 ай бұрын

​@@dragonmaster1360Especially considering this is supposed to be the start of, and I wish I was joking, the "Mattel Cinematic Universe". They're already working on an Uno movie, Magic 8 Ball movie, and American Girl Doll movies, implying that yes, all brands of toys seem to have their own respective worlds.

@RecluseBootsy

9 ай бұрын

​@@babbit09it would imply that in this doll world, those dolls were sentient and alive in the same capacity Barbies are... The 2001 rip off makes me equate the baby dolls with the Neanderthal though. I didn't register it as infanticide until you made that point. 😂

@babbit09

9 ай бұрын

​@@RecluseBootsyHaha, yeah, learning the barbies were connected like Voodoo dolls to their earth versions just made me instantly think of this baby doll universe where everyone just started shattering. Brutal.

The fact that Margot Robbie didnt know the word misandry says it all

@Princess_Feona

9 ай бұрын

You expect her to know the meaning of any word over 5 letters?

@mellowgeekstudio

9 ай бұрын

Narcissistic self indulgent vapid cheap plastic dolls.

@coaty79

9 ай бұрын

@@Princess_Feona yeah good point ☝️

@I-own-your-feelings

9 ай бұрын

She's too privileged to know. Men protect her from her own delusions.

@blacklivesorblackvotes2985

9 ай бұрын

@@Princess_Feona not unless the word is “money”.

In her review of this movie, KZreadr Alteori presents a counterargument to Mom's speech from the male perspective. And in doing so, she (perhaps unintentionally) highlights the core problem of modern feminism: it demands empathy from men on the part of women, but actively discourages women from empathizing with men.

@Locke350

9 ай бұрын

It also showed that she is a better scriptwriter as she used real examples of personal issues that guys face and brought along a few receipts as well.

@verminvanaokigahara7859

9 ай бұрын

I'm just finding out how toxic she is. I watch (ed) for her Primal videos because she posts so fast and I love the show. Every now and then she would say some pretty sexist stuff that was sprinkled here and there (always referring to men and women and male and female not in the usual way but very pushy and kind of weird especially very recently) but it was becoming pretty obvious after a certain point and it made me wonder if she was some sort of alt right personality. So, I watched one of her other videos non Primal related and I saw her for her true colors. She is GROSS! Primal is an excellent show but I won't watch reactions from people who think women should be okay with being cat called.

@Locke350

9 ай бұрын

@@verminvanaokigahara7859 Receipts or it didn’t happen.

@SpecterVonBaren

9 ай бұрын

Not modern feminism. Feminism period.

@sugartoothYT

9 ай бұрын

@@SpecterVonBaren women are selectively oppressed and live under unequal treatment right now across the world and have been even more in the past. Do you argue there was never any need to counterbalance that out through taking serious political stances in favor of women's value and interests, AKA feminism?

That girl throwing the little boy down a well was shocking and horrible. I found out he was rescued by villagers a few hours later... Phew. Now I can watch the rest of the video.

@timkinss

9 ай бұрын

Yes. Perhaps stressing that might have been worth a couple of seconds of commentary!

@MrShaun42088

6 ай бұрын

an awful moment i wish i never seen. FFS

@realeyesrealizereallies1194

6 ай бұрын

That was a girl. Dummy

@Gyrfalcon312

6 ай бұрын

Bless you for caring about that little guy.

@Peeps7468

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for that update! Much appreciated

There's hardly anything more hilarious and telling than STB coming back and tearing Barbie Land apart and remaking it in her own image, only to then leave Barbie Land behind in the end for something *else* she wants, Barbie Land now poorer for her "help".

@DeadlyPlatypus

9 ай бұрын

*FEMINISM FTW!*

@elysemeyers1256

9 ай бұрын

“Thank you, next ex.”

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Yes! I’m annoyed I didn’t spot that one. That’s really quite funny.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

@@DeadlyPlatypus *Third Wave Feminism is only supported by Shallow Women/People..*

@iratepirate3896

9 ай бұрын

Classic woman moment!

The way Margot Robbie can hold a smile for a supernaturally long time is both charming and creepy.

@OsellaSquadraCorse

9 ай бұрын

Truly Whorely Quinn

@tjroelsma

9 ай бұрын

Margot Robbie is an Australian who's desperately trying to be an American, complete with perpetual fake smile and terrible fake accent (that she can't hold for even two sentences).

@vsznry

9 ай бұрын

I dont understand her appeal.

@Dmanacyde5

9 ай бұрын

Ironically, this trait is part of what makes her a good Harley Quinn... despite the movies being... meh... in writing.

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

9 ай бұрын

Have you heard of editing?

I still think the biggest question is how does Ryan Gosling still look 24 at 42

@GigaChadh976

8 ай бұрын

Adrenochrome

@uglybetty8747

8 ай бұрын

He chopped off his ba##s

@kaelkirkby9191

7 ай бұрын

He's 42!? Jesus H. tap dancing christ he looks good for his age.

@PrincesseKittyKat

6 ай бұрын

He's still not my type and does nothing for me.

@Gyrfalcon312

6 ай бұрын

Great fuckin' question!

I agreed, the "real" world felt less real than the fantasy Barbie world.

@Zach-hi5gw

9 ай бұрын

That is the point lmao

@ggt47

8 ай бұрын

I said something similar. But two women disagreed with me saying the world is a bad place for women. I know that too be true,but it is not the 1950's. I feel like want to try and pretend it is.

@user-is7xs1mr9y

8 ай бұрын

@@ggt47 As a woman, the "real" world felt like a parody of the real world, hence making it not the real world if that makes sense. Both Barbie land and the real world felt like a parody and a bad one at that, the whole movie is a disjointed mess. At least it looks pretty.

@ggt47

8 ай бұрын

@@user-is7xs1mr9y Definitely. You can tell this film was made by an "American" by the over use of the word "patriarchy. They probably say patriarchy more than character's names.

@ggt47

8 ай бұрын

@@user-is7xs1mr9y Yes it does make sense. Apologies. I feel like people want to act like we have not made any progress as a society at all. People like Gerwig do not make that point any better.

The funny thing about the female soccer players saying they are paid less than the males. They sued and the judge threw their case out because the women were making more money 🤣🤣🤣

@Ramsey276one

9 ай бұрын

O M G XD

@wiseauserious8750

9 ай бұрын

I believe the same thing happened at Google a few years ago, it was hilarious

@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133

9 ай бұрын

To be exact, the money they were making was indeed smaller than what the male players were making, but it was many-many times a bigger percentage of the total money that their matches were gathering. So in short, if the women's matches were bringing in nearly as much money as the men's, female players would be getting a lot more money than males.

@derrickcrowe3888

9 ай бұрын

@@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133 To add onto this, the women's compensation package includes things like guaranteed pay and a bunch of benefits. The men have none of those things. So when covid happened and things shut down, the women were still getting paid while the men made nothing. The men have a high risk, high reward system, whereas the women have a low risk, low reward system. Comparing only the final outcome and none of the calculus of those two systems is inherently dishonest.

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116

9 ай бұрын

Yep, girls soccer makes WAY more. They ruined their own case by arguing against profits and market of the men. Trying to ignore the percentage of that getting paid to the players. Wayyyyy too funny

46:47 "People would go by Ryan, high-five him, and say, 'Awesome, Ryan, you look great!' And they wouldn't say anything to Margot." No sane person would do that to Margot unless they desire sexual harassment charges.

@jamesp8164

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. You don’t run that risk high fiving Gosling.

@jacklemm1518

9 ай бұрын

Since when is saying “good job Margot!” sexual? Stop trying to play martyr

@thesupreme8062

9 ай бұрын

​@@jacklemm1518it isnt youre right, but it would be spun as that

@ilias856

8 ай бұрын

@@jacklemm1518 That never stopped women lying about it.

@8ligh7

8 ай бұрын

​@@jacklemm1518​You live in a world where a blind guy gets thrown out and banned from a gym just because some woman accused him of staring at her creepily even though he told them that he's fucking blind. It seems like you lack experience on the over zealousness of people when it comes to false accusations of sexual harassment especially on the internet.

Can confirm that girls will ruin their Barbie dolls. My baby sister, for whatever odd reason, loved to chew her Barbie's hands (she didn't eat them, just chewed; leaving the hands a mangled mess). She also got it into her head one day to see how the doll's legs worked, took a pair of scissors and performed surgery on Barbie's leg. My sister was a little weird when she was a kid; by thankfully grew up just fine.

Ken is on par with John Walker from the MCU. Despite their respective projects expecting the audience to think they're bastards, they're actually the best part.

@osmanyousif7849

6 ай бұрын

The irony, when you realize that they usually portray the “sympathetic characters” as in the right, when they’re actually wrong. While the ones that are portrayed as evil, are actually seen as right.

@DH-yz3cr

6 ай бұрын

its intentional. u just dont understand satire in this context

@mrstrangeworld5977

5 ай бұрын

no

@cmool

4 ай бұрын

Ken was not meant to be a villain..

I realised watching this that the problem with female representation as positive role models is that they are *never* shown as working hard to get to their exalted position. They simply deserved it. Which is a fine way to fuck up someone's ability to achieve those positions. At least until we got ESG...

@javierlopez9789

9 ай бұрын

Because women think they deserve everything just because they exist.

@DeadlyPlatypus

9 ай бұрын

That's because feminists are so stupid that they believe that's how men got what they wanted. To them, men just "got lucky" nearly 10,000 years ago, society just fell into our laps, and we've kept control of it JUST to spite women for no real reason.

@MinisterOfTruth

9 ай бұрын

0 reply... thanks censorship, thanks minister of truth and thank you masters...

@brusso456

9 ай бұрын

I would love to deport all feminists to barbie-land. but barbie-land has a border patrol that does not allow ugly people in.

@jesusrivera521

9 ай бұрын

The Barbies (females) represent men. Who pretty much receive a position of power unearned. The kens represent women in the real world. You were rooting for kens? You were therefore rooting for feminism

That rant about Mother's rant was... so cathartic.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I almost skipped over it with a quick joke, but it went on so long and became so annoying that, yeah, catharsis was necesssary!

@RobotTanuki

9 ай бұрын

Seriously, when I hear that rant quoted by KZreadrs (eff watching the actual movie), I went "What the hell? How are all these problems uniquely female? Get the eff out."

These videos are like a fine aged single malt. Rare, takes a long time to create, but so worth it. Excellent work sir.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate that simile. Thanks very much!

The edits while Greta was trying to explain Barbie were chef’s kiss. John Travolta shrugging and looking confused was perfect 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Mom: Are you really watching an analysis about Barbie that is way longer than the movie itself? Me: Yes.

@luismedrano6680

7 ай бұрын

u are a mom?

I have to say you’re an absolute legend for putting footage from the iconic animated Barbie movie that is Barbie: A fairy secret 😌

@blacksheep9505

9 ай бұрын

You can’t forget Barbie: Life in the Kitchen.

@lucapeyrefitte6899

9 ай бұрын

Funny because most of the movies are iconic

@FreyjaRKim

9 ай бұрын

Right? Barbie: A Fairy Secret is one of my favourites.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I actually found myself watching it as I was making the clip bin from it. It’s… an experience.

@AJadedLizard

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon This, *this* is the content I support you on Patreon for.

When Margot Robbie pointed out how it is basically misandry at Barbieland you could see it actually blow the director’s mind in real time… it was like she never even considered it that way and made her become immediately incoherent when answering questions 😂 that was amazing

My favorite unintended consequence of this flick is the rise of the Kentocracy. Strive, achieve, take care of each other, charish our women. Pround memeber of the Kendom.

"But if you think the existence of crime makes it impossible to be a woman, then you might as well fly into Canada, and get yourself some healthcare, because really, you are finding it impossible to be a human." I laughed so hard once I got the joke

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Laugh too hard and you, too, might need some Canadian healthcare!

@HeortirtheWoodwarden

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon It's such a clever veiled threat, a more sophisticated form of the stereotypical online harassment of "go unalive yourself".

@pensandshakers

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon What makes it even funnier is that there's a donut shop in Houston that has a reputation for the most decadent, unhealthiest donuts in the state, if not the country. One of them is called the Canadian Healthcare. And a dozen of those would save you the cost of the plane trip.

@Dharengo

9 ай бұрын

I hope this euphemism becomes more widespread.

@jamesp8164

9 ай бұрын

I went “oof” out loud. That was nuclear tipped savage 👍

I would be terrified if I saw Margot Robbie in the wild for fear of being accused of gazing, so yes I would probably acknowledge Ryan Gosling.

@csabaszabo6859

9 ай бұрын

your pfp is UNREAL

@alejandromolinac

9 ай бұрын

Don’t know if you have ever seen “catcalling” videos on KZread…. For the most part the girls are told they are told “good afternoon pretty”….. while Hot Dudes get told nasty raunchy stuff….. it’s hilarious….

@andy2172

9 ай бұрын

​@alejandromolinac I don't know if you have ever seen a Matt Rife comedy set, but he gets thirsted upon pretty aggressively by women in the audience, online etc. Unironically becoming what you dislike seems to be the new vogue in the last 5 years.

@jdraven0890

9 ай бұрын

Yes - imagine a scenario where that would work out well for you. Pay Ms. Robbie a genuine and sincere compliment? You'll still be branded a horndog or creeper, so instinctively knowing this, no one bothers to. But you can come up and actually fawn all over Mr. Gosling and no one cares. Hmmm 🤔

@mythrick7109

9 ай бұрын

My coworker, a 37 year old woman, literally talks about men like meat. Her last “boyfriend” she stated literally the only reasons she was with him was because he had a tongue and a dick.

“This new culture is strange and cheap and regrettable “ 😂😂😂 well said

Whether Robbie knows the word 'misandry' or not, I'm kind of impressed that she'll sit next to the director on camera and say that the movie has that feel. Maybe it was unintentional, but if not, ill give that some kudos.

@ballfondlercum

7 ай бұрын

I think it's supposed to feel that way, that was the intention I'm pretty sure. Like little platoon said, it's supposedly mirror the "real" world but reversed.

I honestly feel the film would have been so much better if there was no "real world." Just have it exist in its own unrealistic Barbie aesthetic. Because I feel all that stuff was unique and looked great. But it falls apart when I start thinking about the implications of the fact these are dolls being played with, yet none have dog teeth marks on them, none have their legs ripped off, none have their heads melted from a magnifying glass under the sun, none are running around butt naked from me sneaking into my sisters room and stripping them when I was 6 years old to see something my brain is telling me that I want to see, but don't yet understand why I want to see it...er, um, that last part never happened. Shut up! Look! Congress is talking about aliens and UFO's!

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I think it needed to pick a lane and run down it. Either you really play with the Matrix analogy, or - as you say - you don’t go to the real world at all. The film half-arsed it.

@tni333

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I mean even the portrayal of the Kens makes a lot of sense in the Barbie fantasy world.

@hawkward957

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoonwait… you guys SPELL it that way too? I thought you just pronounced “ass” differently 😂

@agentj3627

9 ай бұрын

@@hawkward957 "Arse" is actually the original word before "ass"

@ChuckieGee-nc8jp

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon I agree. And as I said in another comment, we are in an era where we can't have good satire, so I would just rather a goofy, light hearted Barbie film, over wannabe clever satire that isn't clever and contradicts itself.

The dichotomy between what Gerwig thought she was making and what she actually made speaks volumes in regards to the idiocy of her philosophy. Its amazing that Robbi knew exactly what the film said, and Gerwig was so oblivious she got mad when it was pointed out to her.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

*But the fact that Margot Robbie went along with everything tells all you need to know about Her and Her mindset/thoughts about certain things.. like Men/hatred of Masculine Men who won't obey a Woman... let Me remind You that She played in other movies about Men who loved Sex.. like for example: 🎬The Wolf🐺 of Wall street💰 starring Leonardo DiCaprio!*

@othertalk3313

9 ай бұрын

I think that also had a lot to do with using a bunch of vaguely defined terms. For example, "feminist" can mean wildly different things depending on the individual, and many will take offense at the suggestion that anything could be "too feminist." As if something could be "too good." Coincidentally, religious zealots/extremists tend to find themselves in a similar situation.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

@@othertalk3313 *I'm a Woman&Feminist but this Barbie movie is simply disgusting in a whole lot of ways.. and actually quite offensive to both Women♀️&Men♂️!*

@alexkaplan6581

9 ай бұрын

@@scarlett19b "It's all about the money, spider man."

@sladewilson9741

9 ай бұрын

@@scarlett19b Only if your IQ is 3 and blatant satire is blind to you.

The fact that Margo Robbie doesn't know the word misandry is a sign of how propagandized our society is. There are way more misandrists than misogynists due to it being socially acceptable and oftentimes promoted. Yet everyone knows the word misogyny in a society where misogyny is relegated to the shadows and misandry is published in the New York times.

This barbie movie made me realize just how prevalent brothers messed with our barbies 😂. My brother (1yr older than I), would always invade our barbie homes with his GI Joes and even TMNT. My lil sister and I hated it, but looking back it is nostalgic. My friends who had brothers also suffered the same fate as I, but I didn't realize that was a national or even international phenomenon 🤣. That's why, I think, I was so put off by the movie. It could've been so fun and not the hot feminist propagandic mess that it was. There was so much potential here.

Was I the only one who saw them unintentionally make the villain sympathetic and would have been the hero of the film in any other decade? Lol

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Make Kendom Great Again

@ChuckieGee-nc8jp

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon From here, to Kendom Come

@Shineinpoverty

9 ай бұрын

I noticed that with many other works of woke people. They try to show their point of view and tell the viewer who the bad guy is. And unintentionally, they write a character that actually feels human and sympathetic to the viewer. Roscharc comes to mind as one of the examples..

@ChuckieGee-nc8jp

9 ай бұрын

@@Shineinpoverty I'm not sure Rorshac is a good example. I don't believe Moore was trying to paint him as evil. I honestly don't know what to think of Alan Moore when it comes to his public statements as opposed to his writing. I think he talks out of his a$$ half the time. That is why I really avoid most of his interviews. But yeah, there is a trend of there being such a polarizing ideological divide, that many modern hero's are unironically seen as villains by most average, politically uninitiated people and moderate right to left leaning folks. And the, let's call it for what it is, the commies who write the villains are clueless to the villainy, from atop their elitist ivory towers.

@ChuckieGee-nc8jp

9 ай бұрын

@@Shineinpoverty I get what you are saying and wasn't outright saying you are wrong. I see why one could say Rorshac. Especially since the modern day "sequel" series all be retconning a b!tch like it was The Last Of Us Part 2 or some sh!t. Lol My point was, despite what Moore has said in interviews, or what retconning mofos try and force for a political agenda, I don't think us seeing Rorshac as a villain was intended in Moore's OG writing, despite him talking out of his a$$, in my opinion, in interviews. Lol There was nuance there. And Moore just seemed to be playing to a particular audience at the time of those statements. In fact, Watchmen was around way before this modern trend we are even speaking about. Which furthure lends credence to Moore talking out of his a$$ to cater to an ever leftward marching band of dolts. Sometimes it seems he just answers things based on his particular mood in politics that day, even if the evidence in his own writing from years before doesn't match with sh!t he says about it modernly. It's possible his opinion in politics has changed since then. But just say that, and don't be a weasel about it. Like, b!tch, I read what you are referring to and your own written word heavily suggests the modern words you speak are full of sh!t. Lol

Barbie as a movie represents today’s modern battle with feminism and, turns out, post-modern ideology: glitz and glam disguising the half-baked, hazy, contradictory messages that ultimately stutter on execution.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, hard to argue with that suggestion. It’s a fashion statement now much more than it is a positive ideology.

@liamphibia

9 ай бұрын

Just like how Greta Gerwig stuttered in that interview.

@AJTalon

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon I recall reading some early 19th century stories about a bored rich girl adopting the suffragette slogans and activities not out of any genuine desire for equal rights, but simply because it increased her social standing and made her seem very serious. Do you know what I'm remembering, because I've forgotten the title. But it stuck with me that this is exactly how Hollywood works with all these social movements: It's just for the social credit with their peers and nothing else.

@MariyahBrown-fi4hm

9 ай бұрын

What is feminism?

@MariyahBrown-fi4hm

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon yet u do agree it's a positive ideology.

You make it sound like there was a seriously brilliant movie in there somewhere. You gave me the closest thing possible to that, thank you very much!

it's so wild that half of the movie is exactly what people want out of a Barbie movie, then the other half is insane and explicitly for adults

@censoredbybigbrother1175

7 ай бұрын

There is a reason why I don't watch movies much anymore. It's all the same garbage these days. Same goes for my kids. THey play outside not a smart phone in sight. We keep them away from the screen-guided-zombies.

I am a woman in my 20s, so I think I'm the target demographic for this and didn't really enjoy it. The first part where they were just having fun with the absurdity of the living dolls was fairly entertaining, but I think it really went downhill when they left Barbieland. Even in the theater I was thinking that they had gone so hard at punching you in the face with the messaging that it sounded like a parody, but you could tell that you wanted it to be taken very seriously. These expositional speeches about the struggle of being a woman just don't resonate with me. I've never felt this cognitive disonance of womanhood, so personally, it was really off-putting for the whole plot to devolve into this tell don't show diatribe. It's certainly not a film I would recommend or ever watch again.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. It’s a shame because (especially in that opening 20 minutes) there’s some genuinely great work. It wasn’t just a soulless gimmick, and it introduced some ideas that could’ve made for an excellent comedic film. But then the rest of it happened…

@Godstud

9 ай бұрын

Remember what Rhea Perlman said, near the end? "Humans make up things like Patriarchy and Barbie just to deal with how uncomfortable life is.". I think that says it all.

@jillianc7485

9 ай бұрын

also a woman in my 20s and i couldn’t even bother spending money to go see it. i had a feeling it would be preachy and im glad I was proven right. to be fair, i *may* see it when it’s streaming just for the ken arc !! someone needs to make an edit that strips away all the feminazi bs and focuses solely on gosling’s character- now THAT i would see lol

@Godstud

9 ай бұрын

@@jillianc7485 It had its funny parts, but the overall message was toxic. Ken's the best part of the movie, and probably the character most people will empathize with.

@jillianc7485

9 ай бұрын

@@Godstud that’s what i’ve been hearing ! first reviews i’d seen were essentially “woke trash” so i didn’t consider watching it at all- BUT, seeing reviewers talking about gosling’s ‘ken’ makes me want to see it solely for him lol.

I think it speaks volume that most women don't even know the word for male discrimination

@empiar5481

8 ай бұрын

The average woman doesn’t believe misandry is possible, let alone that it exists.

@meredithcarroll6209

8 ай бұрын

Tell that to any non-leftist woman with a son. Trust me, lots of women know what misandry is.

@givmi_more_w9251

2 ай бұрын

@@meredithcarroll6209 Don't need a son for that, a working brain suffices.

The chapter "Welcome to the real world" (45:47 to 53:34) was so great. I especially found the part about #MeToo to be a great example of how that movement has affected our culture in negative ways -- like how innocent interactions have gotten so tangled up in webs of fear of inappropriateness that people have ended up just completely avoiding communicating with others. This has happened to me several times. Recently it hasn't been so bad but it is definitely still there.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I’m glad you liked it!

@tomektalk4671

8 ай бұрын

Oh it’s so sad that women being sexually assaulted bothers you not because it happens but because women feel free to speak about it. You poor baby.

@archstanton9073

8 ай бұрын

@@tomektalk4671 The MeToo thing was started by actresses in Hollywood complaining about creeps in the Hollywood system (and you figure there would have been more men taken down by the movement than Weinstein and a few others if it were as widespread as they said it was). MeToo was never a large culture-wide problem. The vast vast majority of that kind of stuff was eliminated in the wake of the Tailhook and the Monica Lewinsky scandals back in the 90's.

@Castragroup

8 ай бұрын

No. women throw themselves at men in all walks of life

@libertyprime7911

8 ай бұрын

It's broader than women's rights or male/female dynamics. It's more about the "social justice" politics. We live in an environment of fear of persecution. (This is similar to the idea of the Chilling Effect of censorship.) The pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. "so tangled up in webs of fear of inappropriateness that people have ended up just completely avoiding communicating with others."

You can tell this is fiction because they get arrested in California for theft. 53:54

@tomcoop9750

9 ай бұрын

😂

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Lol

@A_YouTube_Commenter

9 ай бұрын

But they were on the streets immediately after so ......

@petery6432

4 ай бұрын

@@A_KZread_Commenter Usually, the violent attackers are the ones that get same day no bail release. Shoplifters don't even get arrested.

Honestly, at this point, I think construction workers should sue every writer/director who depicts them as cat-calling patriarchists.

@blackosprey2219

9 ай бұрын

Considering the majority of construction workers where I live are hispanic, you can say the catcalling stereotype is racist for good measure!

@givmi_more_w9251

8 ай бұрын

It's ridiculous. Maybe I'm just too ugly, but I have never experienced or witnessed construction workers cat-calling or otherwise harassing passerby women. They were too busy constructing and shouting at each other. And fucking hell, cat-calling in broad daylight is made to be this unbearable violence. It's rude and reflects poorly on the one doing it. Like jumping the line at the cashier in the supermarket. That's it.

@weeee2457

8 ай бұрын

​@@givmi_more_w9251 hey don't let yourself down like that you are prob more beautiful than you think

@defeqel6537

7 ай бұрын

@@weeee2457 nah, she is hideous

@tarektechmarine8209

6 ай бұрын

@@weeee2457 why you lying to us.

There were more people laughing in my theatre during Oppenheimer than Barbie…and Oppenheimer is dark

@RecluseBootsy

9 ай бұрын

I had quite the chatty audience too watching Oppie. I was surprised how packed the theater was. There were several people laughing at the absurdities of fact. When the nuke went off, it was dead silent. Other than that, it was almost an open floor of discussion.

@Ramsey276one

9 ай бұрын

YIKES

@jillianc7485

9 ай бұрын

my fiancé did “barbenheimer” while i was visiting home and he called me after and said: “my friends laughed at me. i fell asleep during Barbie and missed 3/4 of the movie” fair, honestly lmfao

This is more or less how I felt about the film. My partner was suprised of my low opinion and my gut reaction basically boiling down to it being a "mess". As usual you express things far more coherently. Good show sir!

Barbie, as a doll, was actually stolen from a German doll, Bild Lilli. There is a long histroy behind it, long story short Matel destoryed a german man's company and smeered his doll as a sexual gag gift when it was actually very popular and even had a movie

It's like Greta walked into a surprise essay with the prompt "choose something from pop culture and explain why it is feminist" and then she had 45 minutes to pull together a defense for why she chose Barbie

@markpostgate2551

9 ай бұрын

I think that is probably spot on, because I think the whole purpose of the movie is to rehabilitate Barbie from previous feminist criticism that has been a speed bump for Barbie sales. You know the end is the mom who had helped proselytyze feminism to the "brainwashed" Barbies (despite being an adult who plays with Barbie - authors message: you can be feminist and still play with Barbie) instructs the CEOs of Mattel that what they really want is a Barbie that can be anything - which is basically original Barbie, so it's reinventing the wheel as a feminist wheel! "We wanted to redesign the wheel to serve women better, since statistics show that the vast majority of traffic accidents have involved vehicles fitted with toxically masculine wheels designed by men for the benefit of men. So to correct this injustice, we arranged some all women consultation workshops and there was an overwhelming agreement that wheels should be round exentuating its femininity. And whilst patriarchal wheels have been historically penetrated by axles in a violent way, emblematic of rape culture, we decided that a feminist wheel would instead embrace the axle, taking it inside. So the first feminist wheel will be going into production in time for the international festival of the uterus in the first week of this Vulvember (formerly known, problematically, as August)" And then they say well you know it is better to be the imaginer playing with Barbie than to be Barbie. Only you can liberate her with your mind! If Barbie was male no one would criticize her so all the critics (that ahem, were all feminist, but let's ignore that; it doesn't support the thesis) slut-shaming Barbie are all misogynists! I mean, joking aside, it would actually be a lot easier to argue that G I Joe is a fascist; at least he has a uniform! Yet it is Barbie that gets all the intense criticism. We know the real reason why Barbie is more under scrutiny than any toy designed for boys is people are more concerned about harm to girls, and when they do worry about boys toys causing harm they are not worried about harm to the boys but the toys causing boys to harm others (e.g. first person shooter video games) and then that gets quickly swept over as excusing bad behaviour (because males are seen as hyperagents but females seen as hypoagents) and so the toy immediately gets defended. BUT if you were trying to construct a feminist argument to deflect criticism from Barbie, claiming she is being singled out because of misogyny is a clever ploy. It's a good parlour game - pick anything at random and come up with an argument for why it is misogyny!

@kylekatarn5964

9 ай бұрын

To put it succinctly: Performative Screed, A Tragedy in 3 Acts

@uglybetty8747

8 ай бұрын

Lmaoooooo so truuuu

@kingkaza

8 ай бұрын

Tropes vs women the movie

"Fly to Canada and get yourself some healthcare" is such a hilarious reference to the MAID system! Permission to use that phrasing in the future?

@AcidAdventurer

9 ай бұрын

New way for angry gamers to get around chat ban systems?

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Go right ahead! Careful though. If you upset them they might just turn up at your house at night and healthcare you.

I honestly didn't think the barbie movie would be like it was. I naively thought it would be a feel good, silly movie, and was actually looking forward to be big chessy turn my brain of comedy. How wrong I was. The first scene when the little girls started smashing up babies kinda set the tone for me 😅

A woman in a position of power making a film saying the patriarchy is somehow keeping her down

@waterdog7172

5 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter how much power a woman has she can still be affected by the patriarchy.

@christopherbennett6571

4 ай бұрын

@@waterdog7172 That has 0 logic. If you have power, no one is affecting you. You're affecting yourself. Stop blaming others for your own sick mind.

@zawarudo1041

3 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter how much you can read and write you can still be affected by stupidity

Stellar review, but you may have glazed over the Ken-Beach off, the dance bit at the end of the fight shows the Kens overcoming their conflict and coming back together despite the Barbie Ploy. Again showing the Kens ability to overcome and grow as characters.

@gumzy3000

9 ай бұрын

As a dude, Kens story arc was fascinating and I admit, it was somewhat relatable. They really should have explored the brotherhood of the Kens more. Overall, I think the movie had a good message for young men as well.

@butters-vs-chaos

2 ай бұрын

The overriding messaging I read in this is that Barbie is vacuous and has no direction. Women are terrible to men. When everyone else is happy, feminists will band together to ruin everything. A grumpy sad arty/writing woman in the real world ruins Barbie's life. Grumpy sad woman has a terrible relationship with her obnoxious daughter with a bad attitude (a true representation of the worst feminists). True love is not a valid goal, nor is having a family. The goal is actually...well there is no apparent goal. The Ken's were good people treated badly, then they found happiness, then they fought each other because all the women cheated. Then at the end they are evicted because feminists cheated the legal system to get their own way. The morality of this story is completely bizarre

Gerwig is gonna make absolute mincemeat of the Narnia series Netflix has her working on

@DeadlyPlatypus

9 ай бұрын

The subversion will continue...

@john_michael97

9 ай бұрын

I shudder to think what she’s going to do with the explicitly Christian themes of the Narnia Books 😅

@landlubbber

9 ай бұрын

@@john_michael97 the white witch will be a girlboss, no question

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

I do think she has considerable talents. But she’s much stronger when treating characters as characters rather than as props and vehicles.

@landlubbber

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon Maybe being given characters rather than making them from whole cloth is better for her? I hear Little Women was okay. It's mostly a question of whether she's getting paid to adapt the books or to make something and put the books' names on them. Narnia's themes are so far away from everything she's used to that I'd be surprised if she really tried to convey CS Lewis' thoughts about the world

Your rebuttal of the Speech points is a classic, it really should be adopted in Social studies classes everywhere.

Ken’s subplot redeemed this movie. I’m part of the subculture of women who wanted Ken to conquer the world.

I love that phrase, "Putting a hat on a hat." It's clear, concise, and creates a great visual. Apparently it has been around a while but I just hadn't heard anyone use it. Hat(s) off to whoever came up with it.

@LegendaryDorkKnight

9 ай бұрын

It makes me think of Team Fortress and that makes it a great quote.

Respect on the sponsor for allowing your sassy humor during the segment

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Yup, they were very good about it!

I love the whole telling women to "man up" thing. I think us men should make this a thing.

ima be honest, im 20 and a woman and i dont think ive ever been discriminated against for being a woman. not that other women haven't been discriminated against, but like... i can't relate to any of this "women have to act a certain way" thing bc... i've never had to do that. and like u said, there are loads of ways women have advantages over men (custody battles, etc etc etc). so i don't really believe that the cards are stacked against me. like for various reasons both women and men have advantages over each other now. it's not like this is the 1800s and i can't have my own bank account or something. and about ur point on how if all women banded together to get something done we could do it---i remember while ago i read that about how all the women of iceland refused to do anything for an entire day as a way to protest the inequality between men and women in their country. and everything kinda went to shit that day, like schools/banks/shops etc had to be closed bc no women showed up to work. husbands had to take their kids to work with them bc the women refused to take care of them that day. so we could totally get shit done if we acted like the women in iceland, but we don't. people just like to complain.

"My sisters barbie was stabbed with the laser sword of a gundam ... by me" is the greatest platoon line ever

I've heard so many different and surprising takes on this movie that I otherwise don't care about. This critique provides an analysis that seems to conserve all those disparate opions. Great job.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

Loved how you destroyed Ben Shapiro’s childhood regarding double entendres in Pokémon 😂

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Oh, hell, I could’ve chosen any number of shows - I had a great time finding the clips because, lo and behold, they’re bloody everywhere! Kids shows are filthy, it turns out.

They were talking to Ryan and not saying how great Margo looks because they didn't want anyone to say they were a creep and sexually harassing her. You see this in the workplace men feel like they have to tiptoe around what they say to women just in case anyone takes what they say out of context and tries to get them fired or canceled. The feminist are the cause of exactly what they claim to be against. Edit....You took the words right out of my mouth

I think this may be Platoon’s finest work. Do I say that every time? Well, in that case platoon is clearly becoming more of a master of this art with every video.

@jamesp8164

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. Every day is better than the last for him. As opposed to myself where every day is worse than the last 🤣

You know, women are weird. A girl from my uni class once told me I had internalized misogyny after talking to me for about 10 minutes and now that this movie exists, for a moment I thought she might've been right given how alien it seemed.

@censoredbybigbrother1175

7 ай бұрын

Why didn't you tell her to shut up? Why do you listen to retardation like her words are valid?

What an absolutely amazing critique. I watched it with my lady, she insisted of course 😄 and, although I did enjoy parts of it, I noticed a lot of the same things you discussed. So her and I had a wonderful conversation about it. But thank you very much for all your hard work in producing this. Excellent video

Barbie as a Rorschach test is the same conclusion I came to.

Margot Robbie doesn't know the word for the opposite of misogyny. Imagine my surprise.

@section7173

9 ай бұрын

They generally don't know anything that isn't covered in their "real life" script. Nothing but pride-filled puppets with no self-awareness.

@luismedrano6680

7 ай бұрын

did u have to live thru it yourself? woe is me

@thethrashyone

7 ай бұрын

@@luismedrano6680 Ok male feminist/future rapist. (Interchangeable, really.)

Actresses still haven’t heard the word “misandry”, have they?

@artnull13

9 ай бұрын

The oldspeak word has been struck from the Wokespeak dictionary - therefore doesn’t exist.

@RedDeadDevilTrigger

2 ай бұрын

Tbh I even forgot the word, I’m a guy, Margot had the exact right idea she just didn’t know the word

“No, it’s not literally impossible to be a woman, you’re being one right now.” LP is kinda ruthless when he wants to be huh? 😂

I truly admire you for your articulate language, total repudiation of ideology from both sides and precision of thought, not to mention excellent humor. Great video as always

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Your comment about Barbie not liking other women holds even more true if you actually knew doll history. That whole intro was a lie, there were more types of dolls then babydolls before Barbie, and she's not even the first fashion doll, not even of the US as that right goes to Beatrice Alexander, whose doll company Madame Alexander still produces dolls. There were multiple female doll makers in the US alone, that Mattel has been trying to erase. Mattel, the company behind Barbie, has been trying to rewrite doll history in their favor for years, you see? Barbie was even inspired by a German doll that they defamed and they completely destroyed the German toy-company that created the Bild Lilli doll to clean their tracks. It's why the doll community has a love-hate relationship with Mattel because whilst they produce iconic and beautiful dolls, Mattel itself is trash.

@georgeray1906

2 ай бұрын

I watched mjtanner's video about the history of dolls which is very informative and she indulged what Lilli was really like contrary to the popular belief that she was a "call girl" due to some out of context images.

"The Patriarchy keeps women from power!" Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher would like a word.

This might be not only the best of your work I've watched so far (till now it was the avatar 2 vid), but also one of the best videos I've ever watched. Fantastic mingling of philosophy, critique of politics and movie review. Astonishing! Well done !

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

High praise indeed!

They should've had the construction worker say "Eh, you have a mouth." Hahaha. That would've been funny and helped their point.

Barbie Land was creating overworked and unimaginative Barbies and miserable Kens who wanted a more cohesive society. Ken brought real world gender roles to Barbie Land and everyone was happy, fixing the problems of both the Barbies and Kens. Ken is the hero of this film. Barbie saw everyone being happy and having a great time in Barbie Land with their new gender roles and decided that because they weren't doing things her way, she needed to dismantle the genuine happiness Ken brought to Barbie Land and rebuild it in her image (a thing dictators and/or conquerors typically do). Barbie is the villain of this film. Edit: I actually thought of something else too. The issue of the happiness in the new gender roles of Barbie Land only appears to be a problem to the board of directors at Mattel. Or said another way, Barbie Land's newfound happiness only poses a problem for the megacorporation. Barbie dismantled the happiness of her own homeland in service (willing or not) of not only her ego but also the giant company that would suffer from happy Kens and Barbies. She sold out her people for the power of some corpos who don't care about her anyway. This movie really is an accidental cautionary tale against radical feminism.

@idawg7332

9 ай бұрын

Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is unironically a less evil person thank Margot Robbie’s Barbie

@BWMagus

9 ай бұрын

Except it wasn't even a problem for Mattel; we hear they are making money from the situation as well, but they reject it out of some undefined "principles." So there is literally no reason for her actions besides the assumption of the director that, well, OBVIOUSLY that world was bad; Greta thinks traditional gender roles are self-evidently as bad as, you know, murder or slavery, such that there isn't even a need to show or explain why it's a problem.

Remember how the Barbie’s needing to break the conditioning of the patriarchy while Kens willingly listen. What did Greta Gerwig mean by this?

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

*To put it nicely: Happy Wife, Happy life!* *Or in other words: Obey or Get the Fuck away!*

@newtpondskipper

9 ай бұрын

That she sounds exactly like my mother in law? Yes it's a special hell to deal with.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

@@newtpondskipper *I feel bad for you!*

Also on Margot's Beauty debate, I certainly wouldn't say she's mid, but she has this overwhelming kind of conventional Beauty quality to her that she kind of just fades into the background, like it doesn't really do anything for me.

@dorn0531

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! You put into words what I think. She’s not ugly but she does nothing for me either. I think that’s what people mean by mid: she’s ‘generic pretty’, nothing special

@defeqel6537

7 ай бұрын

Better not comment on any woman's appearance before you see them without makeup

@Metalgarn

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's in line with my thoughts as well, beauty is a very personally subjective thing. Many of you might not even understand this analogy but some will (and you could always look it up). To me this goes back to the old Ginger versus MaryAnn debate. I always found Ginger horrible looking, despite that apparently she was supposed to be the super hot, sexy one. MaryAnn on the other hand was just about perfect in my mind.

@fictiontheorizer4253

4 ай бұрын

Exactly this. I assumed this is what average people meant when they said 'mid'. If they meant 'ugly' they could've said that. No reason for a song and dance.

@osmanyousif7849

4 ай бұрын

Ironically, they were considering casting Amy Schumer for the role of Barbie. Which would make much more sense, until you start realizing that she’ll probably ruin the comedy. But yeah, I would have preferred that they casted someone who isn’t all that pretty, unless wearing makeup. Do something similar like how Lady Gaga wears a lot of makeup, but when doing some roles where she takes it off, you wouldn’t even recognize her.

1:30 "Not mine, though. That's a two-hand job" made me literally laugh out loud so hard my dog jumped up and looked at me quizzically.

The wife and daughter knew nothing of any controversy regarding the movie and saw it as pink bubblegum summertime romp. When they got back from the theater, they felt it was completely mid, a 5 out of 10, and said it's worst crime was making women look like the age old fickle stereotype; not knowing what they really want.

@Left4Coragem

9 ай бұрын

Barbie live action movie was a lisence to print money, and the studio wasted it.

@stoneymahoney9106

9 ай бұрын

@@Left4Coragem lol, no. The production budget was a "mere" $100m, and the box office receipts are comfortably over the $1bn mark. Obviously we don't know what the marketing spend was like, but it's significantly outperforming the Mario movie, and both had the same $100m production budget.

@allbullaside7778

8 ай бұрын

​@Left4Coragem um did you see the earnings? 1.4 billion 😅 Margot Robbie's studio produced it on a $145 million budget. You couldn't be more wrong.

@Left4Coragem

8 ай бұрын

@@allbullaside7778 Indeed, I'm baffled this trash was popular, then again, Twilight and 50 shades of gray also were also massively successful. Sometimes trash just sells.

@allbullaside7778

8 ай бұрын

@@Left4Coragem I don't get the hate, this was easily better than 95% of romcoms I've seen. At the end of the day thats all it is. BTW the other 5% are Ben Still, Judd Apatow movies. So stiff competition to be fair.

The pace by which you're able to pump out high-quality long-form review content inspires awe. Tell us, what is the secret behind your excessive stamina?

@bojannisic2906

9 ай бұрын

@@hectorpenalver2023 it's called beer 😂😂😂

@MegaSpideyman

9 ай бұрын

​@@bojannisic2906Not wine?

@MegaSpideyman

9 ай бұрын

@trygveplaustrum4634 Is it possible to learn this power?

@bojannisic2906

9 ай бұрын

@@MegaSpideyman wine strikes me more like a French.

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

He must be supernatural at script writing. I would write a paper and the re write half of it over the next two months, a piece at a time. I wonder how much he doesn't nail on the first draft.

It annoys me to no end STB destroyed Kendom via emotional manipulation and after still being depressed and miserable, she moves out of the state of California to Texas to do the exact same thing

Who would have thought that in the post me too era, when men are getting harassed and cancelled for existing near women, that no one would go up to Margot Robbie in her strange little rollerblading outfit? Almost like this is a problem that Hollywood created, has trickled out to the general population, and now men are much less willing to interact with women for fear of their own safety. And can I just say, there are plenty of women who enjoy LOTR for it's adventure and it's interpersonal relationships, just as much as we love Pride and Prejudice adaptations (especially the BBC 1995 series).

This movie is literally about feminists being in their own dream world where everything is perfect, and then being upset that the real world sucks and they don't always get what they want.

@DUKEzors

9 ай бұрын

What's wild is that Margot Robbie seems to interpret it the same way in the interview clips that were shown. But the Director comes across as fearful that her star sees it that way.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

🤷🏽‍♀️ *You mean Toxic Third Wave Feminists NOT the Classic Feminists!* 🐸☕

@Olebull93

9 ай бұрын

The movie definitely has that feeling of satire dripping from it. I kinda always wondered if feminist are able to have self irony.

@scarlett19b

9 ай бұрын

@@Olebull93 😂 *Satire!?* 🤣

@DeadlyPlatypus

9 ай бұрын

​@@Olebull93No. They aren't. That would require them to be open to the idea that ANY woman, ANYWHERE, at ANY time ever had a flaw.

It occurred to me listening to this that modern feminism and somewhat leftist politics have become so individualistic as to be a chaos of narcissism. They constantly attack community, relationships, organizations, nearly any sort of group. This is antithetical to humanity as we are naturally social creatures. Our primary strength is in numbers and shared talents and resources with a healthy level of competition constantly pushing our creativity and innovation.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Yeah. It’s a difficult balance to strike. On the one hand, we’re all so often pigeon holed by modern politics into arbitrary groupings that a counter-ideological message like “be yourself” could actually be really good. On the other hand, the film isn’t really committed to that, so naturally it fudged the point.

I love all the pro-feminist stans who've been saying about this movie, "You just didn't GET the message. You were watching it WRONG." Momentarily putting aside the fact that these people never bother to elucidate _what exactly_ we allegedly 'didn't get' about the movie-implying _they_ didn't even understand it themselves, but I digress-you'll have to excuse me if I found the film to be so utterly SCHIZOPHRENIC about how it tried to convey its message that I had to rely on Margot's and [director whose name I've already forgotten]'s interview to have any remote clue about what they were going for. Real top-notch movie you're stanning for, guys!

@tomektalk4671

7 ай бұрын

You sound like you just have trouble understanding things. It’s a movie about being human. Your humanity isn’t something you need permission for, or something that you even have to want, it’s just something you discover you are. People make up ideas like Barbie, patriarchy, feminism to try to make sense of how uncomfortable life can sometimes be, but ultimately none of those things define who you are. You are enough just as you are. That’s the point of the movie. The rest of us did get it.

Margot didn’t know the word Misandry because women aren’t taught that we can also oppress and be prejudiced against men. That is why I can’t stand this movie. I love Margot Robbie and some scenes (mostly bc of Ken) but this film was not it. Hating men is not the flex you think it is. What about you father? Grandfather? Your husband? Your son? Do you really hate them? Of course not. You don’t hate all men. And If you do, I feel so sorry for you.

@touchbytonymikael

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, thank you 💐 😊

"Somewhere in the crowd, Tarantino came." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I still stand for the fact that not adding in characters like Barbie's sisters (and only reducing one of them to a cameo) and the THE MOMENT HERSELF Raquelle, was one of the worst moves for this movie. Seriously, get on the show Life in the Dreamhouse. It's way more comedic than the live action movie itself. And if an animated show "for little girls" is way more funny than the live action movie, you know there's a problem.

@that1chickinFL

9 ай бұрын

Life in the Dreamhouse is the ironic, self-aware comedy this movie was supposed to be. I actually found that show amusing when forced to watch it with small children.

4:55 is EXACTLY what I took from the movie and to hear the director try to stop her from explaining it by just "yeah. Yes. YES." all over it, and then later failing to even prove that she understood what she even said, instead boiling it down to "good vs. Evil" really shows how she feels about men in general.

The "let us show you" Ken scene looked like something straight out of an advertisement for a luxury hotel or a friendly convenience store yet its framed as something bad

Man. What a shock it is to hear all those Pokémon bits I absolutely did not pick up on as a kid.

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

There’s a tonne more. Turns out kids cartoons are pretty filthy!

@CazRaX

8 ай бұрын

@@TheLittlePlatoon Yep, the makers add them in to give the adults something while they are usually forced to watch the kids show.

I really want to see you tackle Oppenheimer because you’re generally a smart reviewer and not just a “reactionary” like other channels. Plus, I want to see you do a positive review for once lol

@DrCruel

9 ай бұрын

I love that insult. It's what a socialist rapist calls a victim who tries to avoid being sodomized.

@leonearl1903

9 ай бұрын

That would be great! Although I have some sympathy, considering it's more likely videos like this that pay his bills

@no.1spidey-fan182

9 ай бұрын

​​@@leonearl1903 true...BUT people like in depth commentary about good movies as well😂

@burnypython8230

9 ай бұрын

What does the word “reactionary” even mean? I’m more under the impression that it’s when someone responds with the exact opposite action from what’s going on without thinking it through. I don’t trust the google definition of it being someone who just opposes reform or being ultra-conservative.

@no.1spidey-fan182

9 ай бұрын

​@@burnypython8230Your definition is pretty much spot on tbh💀

Alright guys, here me out here. I think we just stumbled on the prototypical allegory for the change in fiction over the last 50 years. In 1968, a visionary director created 2001: A Space Odyssey, and shot what is potentially the best scene ever put to film that illustrates the nature of humanity, how it is implicitly tied to violence, and ultimately concludes that the difference between man and beast is technology that facilitates said violence. Not a single word was spoken in this scene, and it is accompanied by an incredibly memorable song. Ostensibly the director chose to have no spoken words because he trusted the audience to pick up on the incredibly obvious message from visual, sound, and contextual clues. The film is now lauded as the best in its genre and has been regularly referenced in scifi films ever since, as well as regularly making critical top film lists of all time. In 2023, a 'visionary' director created Barbie, and shot a scene that mimics the scene from 2001, but mischaracterizes the scene completely, misunderstanding the dark implications and deeply disturbing truth it portrays, instead simply referencing it because it is memorable. The scene is accompanied by a voice over explaining the scene, ostensibly because the director does not trust the audience to pick up on the contrived message obfuscating the purpose of the scene that it is mimicking. The film makes a billion dollars and probably launches a new wave of toy-related fiction based entirely on its financial success, but will probably be forgotten within a calendar year and referenced by no other films going forward. 21st century fiction ladies and gents. (((past - present) x (popular contemporary thought)) - (subtlety)) = $$$ Where (past - present) is equal to the set of all positive numbers

@billjacobs521

Ай бұрын

Hmm, the potentially best scene ever put to film is one that shows a message that is categorically wrong and profoundly ignorant?

@williammiller3052

Ай бұрын

@@billjacobs521 I'm not sure if I'm following (and not attempting to be hostile). I'm referencing the Dawn of Man scene from 2001, that basically claims that man is 'man' because of violence achieved through technology, which has been demonstrated quite a bit in the last century. We're talking to each other on computers that wouldn't have existed had they not been invented (in precursor form) as a weapon used in the greatest war ever fought. Said war also saw the invention of nuclear power for the same purpose, which came to define the entire era that followed it (atomic age), just as the computer defined the era after that (information age). The ape/man using a bone to 'become human' by killing (and notably being forced to stand on two feet to properly use the weapon) illustrates this idea, which was what I was getting at. As Barbie basically says 'girls weren't "girls" until Barbie' if taken in the same context. This makes no sense (at least to me) and was a very strange choice by Gerwig (at least from my perspective).

I am really impressed by the quality of this analysis. It pointed out many of the critics I had, plus the motherhood theme that I had not seen. Thank you and keep on like that ! It’s a pleasure to listen to your work !

@TheLittlePlatoon

9 ай бұрын

Very kind, and I’m glad you liked it!

I'm loving the intro. My problem with any minority group, including the ones I am in, is that publicly it is not acceptable to go against the popular belief, but in reality not everyone believes in the same things, and not everyone agrees on x-topic.

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116

9 ай бұрын

People in the west say this while not accepting any belief besides the popular one.

@markpostgate2551

9 ай бұрын

One of the issues I have with identity politics is that prejudice toward specific demographics, which should be opposed, are generally founded on treating the demographic as a monolith - they're all the same, they're all in it together, you've met one you know them all and so on, but identity politics in which people appoint themselves as spokespersons for the entire demographic, supposedly to combat said prejudice, by doing so, project the sense that it is a monolith. They are reinforcing rather than dispelling the very premise upon which prejudice is founded.

@markpostgate2551

9 ай бұрын

1:00:20 Wow this is a long video, but it is substantive and doesn't waffle, so that is not a criticism. It doesn't surprise me that that "Barbie set feminism back 50 years" rant is what Gerwig would have heard from her mother. That has been a fashionable feminist opinion (or a distillation and blend of various fashionable feminist opinions) of Barbie for longer than I have lived. And given the film is trying to rehabilitate Barbie as a feminist icon it would have been conspicuous in its absence, I think. Given it is presenting itself as a feminist movie it would have been an elephant in the room had it not been there. Now, I guess, it could have gone for being a Barbie movie that wasn't feminist... and then it would have been boycotted by a third of its target demographic that believe pretty much what Sacha says.

I remember as a child plenty of little girls playing with Barbies and still playacting motherhood. I think girls will use toys to playact whatever they choose to.

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116

9 ай бұрын

Im a guy and used to play with a girl and her my little pet shop toys. We would play Naruto and we’d use them like action figures, fighting with jutsu. I assume it’s a mix of imagination and what you’ve got. All mammal children play, human children are more cunning about it.

@BWMagus

9 ай бұрын

What else do you do with a Barbie, anyway? Like, Doctor Barbie--okay, she does doctoring and...then what? Like, this is a very static idea. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were NINJAS, they fought things, they were active, they had enemies, but you have little choice with a Barbie but to DO something with it.

This situation reminds me of Ari Aster's Midsommar. Most audience and film channels takes of Midsommar was how horrible the boy friend was and how that cult community gave Dani the main character the emotional support she needed thus was willing to stay there in the end so most hated the plot and praised the visual. I saw it as Dani was manipulated and brainwashed into become a new breeder of that community and how blind emotion if got enabled will turn you into agreeing with a bunch of psychopath with ulterior motive - so a pretty based commentary and metaphor about social pressure and new wave feminism. Especially with the ending and art cover that Dani looking back half smiling half crying in horror after burning her ex-boyfriend alive because she knew in her heart that manipulated or not she is a muderer and part of the community for real from then on. Now with Barbie lots say it's unintentionally based, a feminist movie gone self parody, some say it's light hearted and actually not too focus on feminist messaging like from really good channel like Yourmoviesucks. I don't plan to watch Barbie so I don't know but the movie and the audience are both too politically or culturally inclined with this one that's for sure, not the kind of fun or brainstorming I look for.