Barbie and Oppenheimer - Double Review

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00:00 Intro
00:49 Oppenheimer
08:00 Squarespace
09:04 Barbie
16:52 Outro
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[@kandycane2337]

Missed Oppertunity to give the Barbie movie a “Ken out of Ken”

[@anonymhous8875]

Well, anywhere else he'd be the ten.

[@nonetheyoshi9093]

@@anonymhous8875 Is it his destiny to live and die a life of blonde fragility?

[@Mr_bukowski4435]

He made that joke in his Letterboxd review

[@nicolefermor]

i love 'Oppertunity'

[@mapledemon5601]

that’s what his letterboxd review said

[@GordonFreemanFN]

Ken not being as excited about patriarchy when he found out horses weren't a part of it was the funniest thing to me for some reason

[@appelofdoom8211]

Fun fact horses are matriarchal. So yeah of course it wasn't about horses

[@katlyndobransky2419]

@@appelofdoom8211 Idk they can be both. But historically, horses were very patriarchal

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

@@katlyndobransky2419 hmm

[@CaspiDrako]

He's a horse girl. It's just the truth.

[@WyattF_07]

Bro honestly relatable. Once I found out that dudes don’t ride horses everywhere anymore, I decided to transcend the mortal plain into an existence far beyond human comprehension and then with my unfathomable power recreate the Big Bang in a region of space and time secluded from the current one, and then shape its entire existence around dudes riding horses everywhere. I can relate 🤪

[@abrador3327]

Given how much awful CGI is in modern movies, seeing the creative real-life sets in Barbie brought me such joy

[@gisela_oliveira]

I feel like thats the most "groundbreaking" thing about the movie, bringing back real sets and practical effects in an era where some studios (cof, cof, Disney...) rely so much in CGI that their actors can't perform well because they are interacting with a green wall. This movie deserves more attention for it's great production

[@HannahCharbonneau]

YES OMG I love the props and sets of this movie so much. I love practical effects, like I loved the spy kids gadgets growing up, and especially love them in horror media, like in The Last Of Us show and the use of it in the spoiler free trailers of Talk to Me I’ve seen!

[@iluvpandas2755]

I personally love CGI in movies. The problem is when it is done well everybody thinks it was real, but if it is bad people mock the CGI.

[@gisela_oliveira]

@@iluvpandas2755 nobody hates the CGI, the problem is that studios are making the movies 90% CGI, so they are closer to being animation than live action, and the abuse of effects harms the actors performances, since they sometimes are acting alone because everything else is done in editing. Is ridiculous. The little mermaid movie even had some stupid continuation problems because her hair was different in the underwater scenes and in the land scenes

[@J_GamerSP]

It looked soo amazing!

[@sliceofvie2381]

With the Barbie movie my gf and I nearly started crying when Barbie looks at the old woman and says “you’re so pretty” because it’s another subtle thing where women are just expected to look like we’re 20 forever, it made us happy to see and especially because that woman was the actual daughter of the inventor of barbie

[@liliaplushie]

I didn't know that she was the daughter! That's so cool! That was the first scene in the Barbie movie that I actually cried to, so I'm very happy to hear someone else point it out!

[@eggominnie]

The woman is actually not Barbara Handler... That was a rumor-

[@LilPinkFuzzyMonster]

Yeah it was just a rumor. The woman is actually a wardrobe designer in film and has worked in other projects for Greta. They're good friends.

[@liliaplushie]

@@eggominnie awww man! that's such a shame to hear!

[@yuriakibara8469]

That scene spoke to me the most, i was so emotional seeing Barbie and that woman interact, it's so beautiful

[@riahnoel6680]

The thing I love most about Barbie is that you can tell that every single person involved, from the actors to the costumers to the set designers, had the absolute time of their lives making it

[@TalpaTulpa]

Apparently ken did insane method acting

[@kylemorello4787]

​@@TalpaTulpaas long as it's not the harmful kind

[@iheartblock3792]

@@kylemorello4787he was apparently just acting like a himbo the whole time.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Yeah. I think the set-up really nailed the Barbie Girl music video aesthetic with a fresh coat of paint.

[@kylemorello4787]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 the sets were the best part

[@edsp666]

What I love about the whole barbenheimer phenomenon is that at no point has it ever been Barbie VS Oppenheimer but rather Barbie AND Oppenheimer. That so many people have gotten tickets to see both when, had they been released separately, huge amounts of people would not have seen the other one. I love it when cinema feels like an event and everyone is just sharing in good stories and creativity. Humanity can be wholesome sometimes and I love that this was one of those.

[@15Candles]

At the end of the day, both movies succeed what it's trying to do, they both exceed expectations at the box office so the real winner here is cinema, not either one of them. Even Francis Ford Coppola recently answered a question in his IG story when a fan asked him if he has seen Barbenheimer or not. The answer was he hasn't but he's happy that people both are showing up to both movies and succeed is a victory for cinema so yeah glad that it's a healthy competition

[@bevanmcnicholl2525]

BUT in the end Oppenheimer was the better film

[@darklordofgaming2872]

​@@bevanmcnicholl2525Yeah we're not talking about that pal

[@15Candles]

@@bevanmcnicholl2525 Both movies are good in their own way kiddo, hard to compare which one is better. It's like comparing Taylor Swift and Eminem, one is a talented singer in the pop genre and the other one is talented rapper. Taylor can't rap like Eminem neither does Eminem can't sing pop like Taylor therefore there's no need to compare both talented people the same way with Barbie and Oppenheimer, understand?

[@bevanmcnicholl2525]

@@15Candles One is a well made film and the other is a mess

[@dieraviolieuresvertrauens]

I'm a man and watched barbie because my friend and her friends wanted to see it and asked me to come with them. I didn't expect to love the movie as much as I did, I was so close to tears at multiple points in the movie. I thought the movie would focus on the struggles of women alone (which would be perfectly fine) but I didn't expect Kens character arc to be this good. I love how the Kens were all in touch with their feminine side and it wasn't portrayed as something weird. This movie wasn't anti-men but anti gender roles & anti-patriarchy.

[@Drekromancer]

Brilliantly stated. Thank you for sharing your perspective, brother. 🙂

[@OReily08080]

I felt that

[@greywolf7577]

The message of Barbie got kind of muddied. The Barbies, despite learning how gender inequality was bad, at the end were willing to give the Kens a little power, but not treat them equally. It seemed unclear whether the movie was trying to treat gender equality as okay or not based on how it ended.

[@shiftmym9079]

@@greywolf7577the ending was a reference to the fact that there are still less women in power compared to men, and that ending the movie on a note where everyone was equal is not a super accurate reflection of real life. But they also say that over time the kens would get more power, saying that even though things aren’t perfect, it can get better

[@LilacSreya]

@@greywolf7577It’s to parallel real life. Everything won’t change overnight. Just like feminism (or any other revolution) it’ll take time, but the first seeds have been sown.

[@jarrettdrummer7638]

I don't get why people think that Barbie is anti-men. The beginning of the movie literally establishes that Barbieland is an oppressive matriarchy where the Ken's lives revolve around the Barbies, they hold no positions of power, and they're all homeless. Barbieland is a juxtaposition to the real world, so when Ken overthrows the Barbies and establishes the patriarchy its not just saying that the patriarchy is bad, but also overthrowing one oppressive regime just to establish a new one is also evil. That's why Ken is the bad guy. Hell the patriarchy doesn't even work out for the Ken's. For a while they find some temporary bliss, but they just end up fighting each other in the end. At the end of the movie, Ken has his own feminist enlightenment. He doesn't have to uphold the pressures of patriarchal society to be an idealized man, his self-worth isn't determined by Barbie's opinion of him, Ken can discover himself and become his own person, who he actually wants to be. Feminism isn't anti-men, patriarchy is.

[@TheBennestBen]

Because the end of the movie reverts it back to the Barbie’s having complete control and the kens being pretty boys, and all of the reviews are complaining about how much screen time the men got while showing that men are bad, and will take any opportunity’s to abuse and oppress women. We now live in a society where men and women have basically equal rights, and the only inequality’s are literally biological, but feminists keep acting like they’re still oppressed, and they’re trying to teach young girls that they’re oppressed and need to fight against it. It’s hilarious how if a group of people want to believe something, they will no matter what, and no matter what always be in the right, that’s why people are encouraging kids to be trans, or decide what they’re attracted to at the age of 9, or be told they”re being oppressed by men and/or just white men. Since we live in an even world now, these supporters shouldn’t mind it if the reverse of this movie is made right? Wrong, because that’s sexist, idgaf if you disagree regardless but just think about how the world would take in a Ken movie where the kens rule the world, go into a world where women are all gold diggers or a certain farm tool, the women in their world become like this, then stupidly argue and the men get back in control and turn them back into pretty girls

[@bloomypeach6168]

It's absolutely hilarious how you're claiming people are making up things to believe while you yourself believe that sexism isn't real. Pretty much every crime ever committed is disproportionately commited more by men. Plenty of men still believe they should get to control women. Sex trafficking still happens. The trans ideology you're complaining about literally is founded on sexism--the idea that men should be allowed into women's spaces, that doing girl things makes you a girl. Doesn't your idea of "equal rights" begin and end at voting?

[@val-ci5fo]

@@TheBennestBen This is the most tone deaf thing I've ever seen, opression against women does exist, misogyny, rape, harrassment, catcalling, femicide, human trafficking, physical domestic abuse, objectification, porn, sexualization etc are all things women are the most victim to and to ignore that is just extremely tone deaf. I feel like what you're opinionating on is simply as someone who just does not understand that certain things do still exist simply because you've personally never gone through it. You cannot determine what a woman does or doesn't go through because you at the of the day are not woman who has to worry about a lot of these things

[@TheBennestBen]

@@val-ci5fo saying it’s ok because women go through problems is genuinely the most retarded thing ever, men suffer just as much in different ways, and you can’t use the rare bad experiences from women to normalize radical feminism, especially in a movie for kids, clearly you’re the only tone deaf person here

[@JohnSmith-og1xq]

​@val-ci5fo careful don't let the feminists hear you Sex work is empowering to feminists don't say porn is a system of oppression or you will have an army if feminists trying to tear you up I think porn is bad for both genders but feminists actively support it so just FYI on that Also I hate this sexist movie

[@i.d.9754]

Barbieheimer just shows how unity between meme and culture communities can easily be made, just like how Doom and Animal Crossing did

[@randorookie8587]

Is Barbieheimer the Doom Crossing of the movie world now?

[@emanuelvasquez3380]

but before doom crossing came to be, before barbiehiemer there was mama knight (the double feature of mama mia and the dark knight)

[@aidenemerson670]

@@randorookie8587 Damn right. July 21st might as well be the holiday of Barbenheimer Day for all eternity

[@vloggie300]

The 2020s peaked w Doom and Animal Crossing releasing on the same day and hadn’t been matched until Barbenheimer (and Pikmin 4) came out 🐐

[@onepresence9460]

Exactly. I love this so much. In my opinion, Barbie and Oppenheimer are peak cinema, while Doom: Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons are peak gaming.

[@Omnywrench]

Fun fact: they used so much pink paint building the sets for Barbie they briefly caused a nationwide shortage

[@caritahearts2405]

Things CGI just can't do:

[@andrewpinedo1883]

Worldwide* shortage

[@Veylon]

That's not how paint works! You get the undyed bucket, squirt in the dyes you want, shake it up, and now it's whatever color you wanted. Source: Mixed way too much paint in my day.

[@g.d.graham2446]

Lol

[@ZomifiedHam]

@@Veylonthey caused a worldwide shortage of pink *dye*

[@fluffcake]

Oppenheimer showed me the horrors of war and humanity. Barbie showed me the beauty of womanhood and humanity.

[@Blaze_ooz]

80% lost my braincells

[@SD-zz4ov]

​@@Blaze_ooz 80 % of zero is still zero babe

[@lemonpanty1239]

​@@Blaze_ooz babe u didn't have braincells to start with 😘

[@BalaenicepsRex3]

I think the only real beauty I could draw from Barbie was the beauty of liberation: not being held down by a society nor a single person, going out to seek your own path. That lovely ending with the founder was very powerful. Otherwise... The beginning was pretty funny. That's it. When I saw Ken becoming an "alpha-chad" patriarc I was really excited to see what they did with it. It was such a great opportunity to set light on what *both* extremes of female and male (literal) empowerment and the antagonization of the other side can cause (that's how Ken fell down the rabbit hole). I wanted to see this film in a good light. I even tried to observe it through a "it's a movie for girls" lens, and yet, as a young woman, I really fail to see how this movie is not misandric given that, not figuratively, literally, all men on it were idiots while all women were benevolent and capable. Doesn't leave a good taste in the mouth.

[@olly_lmao]

uh you got it the wrong way round

[@jamiegreenberg8476]

cillian murphy literally said the fact that both movies came out on the same day is amazing he said something like you can spend all day at the theater that's awesome- he also said he was def gonna see barbie the casts are so supportive of each other is so great to see

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

Imagine you're in a cinema, about to watch barbie. You look to the left and see *Cillian Murphy*

[@Mr_bukowski4435]

I love that people weren’t viewing both movies as being better than the other cause well they’re not. They’re both extremely well directed films that are extremely different but everyone recognizes that and appreciates them separately

[@Draqua]

Oppenheimer died in 1967 and Barbie launched in 1959. Vis the "rules" of the Barbie universe, Oppenheimer could have played with a Barbie doll and transferred his psychological torment onto her lifestyle.

[@tetrachart4156]

I hate that you're probably right but also the fact the situation of the 1960s probably wouldn't make Oppenheimer want to play with one.

[@samblasco2359]

Imagine if they made a Barbie in the Barbie movie that was actually played by him

[@issanghessi5661]

"This Ken Are Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds! 💕"

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Why would an old man play with barbie dolls..

[@jeffreygao3956]

@@Based_Gigachad_001 Who knows? Nobody's going to argue with a nuclear physicist!

[@aravoltgaming740]

Movie theaters NEEDED these movies. I work at a theater myself, and we went from a good day being like 400-500 people, to averaging 700-800.

[@Bute803]

Fast like

[@siriuspope3552]

yeah at ours we went from 400 for a busy day to 2300 a day for 5 days straight; i wish i was joking we have been in *hell* lol

[@diegeticfridge9167]

Glad I quit my job 😭

[@TheRibottoStudios]

frfr I haven't seen the movie theaters THIS full since I worked the Jurassic World premiere holy sht. THAT was insanity. Like the Avengers movies were big, no way home was full house, but nothing like THAT weekend and that was back in the mid 2010s. We needed this. And we need more movie events LIKE this; because that's what going to the movies SHOULD BE-an event and a good time. Not "oh another one" like it has been ever since the pandemic, with a FEW sprinkled in good ones.

[@spaceghostcqc2137]

as a lifelong movie fan it was so great seeing the theater crowded, it's just a lot of fun to watch movies with big groups of people

[@terrarizer766]

You know what I love? It's that the Barbenheimer trend has happened once before. It's the case of two complete opposite things releasing on the same day and the fans just combining the two together. Eternal Horizons (Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing Horizons) and now Barbenheimer which is Barbie and Oppenheimer. It's cool to see 2 cases of thing releasing on the same day, and no matter how opposite the things are, the fans will find a way to combine them lol.

[@gwyngwyn_2416]

Isn’t Isabelle and the guy from doom canonically married? 🤣 (sorry I don’t play doom)

[@terrarizer766]

@@gwyngwyn_2416 I think so

[@FragglevisionReturns]

don't forget Dark Mamma, which is when The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia released on the same day.

[@SomeoneThatIsHappy]

@@FragglevisionReturns gimme gimme gimme a smile on that face

[@fijiguy759]

​@@gwyngwyn_2416NO

[@nerdygem8620]

I've loved seeing so many women from teens to middle aged (and probably older) dressed in all pink, walking around the city centre to or from the cinema. You know EXACTLY what they went to see.

[@christianvisperas7438]

Oppenheimer definitely.

[@rayjohnson67]

I saw men in pink also, it was world wide trend to go to the Barbie movie in pink, all genders participated.

[@shroomish6462]

@@rayjohnson67 both*

[@midori7217]

@@shroomish6462 You really thought you did something

[@FlatAssTruther]

​@@midori7217Bro thought he ate smh

[@Adam-xf6sq]

Those who think the message of Barbie is “Enslaving Men is good” must also think the message of Oppenheimer is “Bombing people is good”

[@SkitGaming]

“People”

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@SkitGaming I know, it's a really weird word. Why the heck is "people" pronounced like that? Why is "people" the plural of "person"? It's one of those anomalies of the English language I'll never be able to wrap my head around.

[@almightysapling]

Id argue that "persons" is the appropriate plural of person and that "people" has a different, more collective, connotation. As for its pronunciation vs spelling, you right, that's whack.

[@CaptCool88]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Yeah I don't think OP was talking about pronunciation

[@LjuboCupic1912]

The nuking of Japan was justified and I will die on this hill if I have to

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Barbie and Oppenheimer sharing the same spotlight together has the same energy as that of Dexter and Dee Dee.

[@Pirateman493]

That’s the first time I have heard that similarity. Actually on point.

[@onepresence9460]

Great comparison. This is so true. Dexter’s Laboratory is a classic.

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

“BARBIE! Get out only lab-or-a-or-y!” “Ooooh what does THIS button do?!”

[@olgagachaphoenix9130]

And Doomguy and Isabelle

[@CapitanJorge24]

this works so well

[@TierZoo]

I just wanna know what Matchbox Twenty did to deserve all the shade

[@gokuananta2480]

lemme fix this

[@Beau-Bo]

@@gokuananta2480shut

[@mishmosh7381]

Hi Ke- TierZoo!

[@jadeknowsbest1674]

I mean... Young people won't remember this but Rob Thomas is no angel.

[@synthetichumangaming4634]

I mean, the song used in Barbie was supposed to be about how hurt people hurt people and how Rob Thomas' abusive relationship hurt him, but a lot of people miss the point

[@topbananafrosty8739]

When I say that Ken's Arc is one of the most inspiring things I've seen in a film, he truly made me feel like I need to be the best version of me for no other reason than being me, what I'm saying is he's literally me.

[@Yuh_zhimmy]

He’s a driver

[@jadeknowsbest1674]

"Ken is me" ... Truly this should be a rallying cry for men across America.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Barbie is the best “literally me” story in that there are men that on the outskirts of society that are disgruntled and seek alternative antisocial actions, but that some of those disgruntled men realize they can be better than just memetic explosions that alpha men latch onto to prove their manliness.

[@mackielunkey2205]

He is Kenough.

[@eliasmg9144]

Your kenough 😊

[@theiammike123]

*"I don't know how you can possibly think this story is anti-men when it gives us such a compelling portrait of how isolating manhood can be and ultimately ends with the Kens finding fulfillment in being their own people instead of existing in the orbit of Barbie."* You read my fricking mind, Schaffrillas.

[@paulydune7418]

Yeah I think overall the message of the movie is actually pretty good. For once actually touched on toxic femininity even a tiny bit which you basically never see highlighted in any medium. It was a shame to see a lot of women on twitter still trashing all men and making vast generalisations. That stuff definitely continues to ostracise young men who already feel purposeless and not valued in society. I’ll never understand men and women creating this divide between the genders at the moment, it’s truly sad to see and the most logical view to have is to be sympathetic of other peoples issues and to wish for everyone to prosper in this bleak world. I feel I’m crazy for these views but I don’t know anymore. Been on incredibly thin ice for a long time.

[@JJ-yn4cj]

Yeah...i really wish people would stop saying every powerful female role model or female driven movie is feminist. Feminist is not synonymous with pro-woman or woman's rights. It is an ideology based extremely basic surface level understands of our world. In the same manner that women are restricted in jobs they can take and have limited reproductive rights - men are forced to fight in wars regardless of their political affiliations. BOTH women AND men were forced into gender roles with very little options. It is a misconception that the average guy is privileged over the average woman. They are both victims of violence, neither have reproductive rights, neither are protected from genital mutilation (in countries that women are not protected from GM), the literal only thing is men are allowed to have shitty physical jobs because they HAVE to earn the resources to support his family. That is the extent of his privilege over women.

[@friendlyghost9766]

It portrays the men as villains and tries to show a matriarchal society as better. It absolutely is anti men in some aspects. It does a good job showing that you can still be "your own man" without having a partner but that's undermined by the fact the Kens are still second class citizens

[@arnaldocosta-uh4um]

​@@friendlyghost9766idk, the way everything was shown, the ending of barbieland (forgot the name) doesn't seem like a real good ending but more of a bringing back the status quo, it's not the best for EVERYONE, it's the best for BARBIE, it's said that the real world counterpart was better off when selling mojo dojo casa house's instead of dream houses, and the movies ends with "the kens will now have a place in society, and in a few years they might be treated as barely human :D". Not a good ending, just a good ending for barbie, some people might see it as "woman better hur dur" but as i see it, it's going for true equality while using barbie as an amoral main character and feminism as a mean of taking control over men. which i just found genius

[@khfanboy666]

@@friendlyghost9766 Does it show that a matriarchal society is better? There's a joke about how the Kens don't have houses and Barbie doesn't know where they sleep. Barbie leaves Barbie society in the end because she'd rather be her own person than symbolic of an idea like the other Barbies are. Ken is treated sympathetically. The joke at the end where the Kens end up with the same amount of power as women have in the real world is self deprecating about how this isn't a perfect solution.

[@ayo_danni]

I swear the Barbie team knew what they were doing releasing this movie the same day as Oppenheimer

[@someguycp]

funny thing is that they did, or more specifically warner brothers did. christopher nolan left WB on bad terms and out of spite, they released barbie on the same day as oppenheimer.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

It happened ever since the WB Studio got caught on fire.

[@i.d.9754]

​@@someguycpwow, WB is pretty petty lmao

[@TheRibottoStudios]

@@i.d.9754 and yet it only did nothing but help Oppenheimer get more traction lol

[@mikefromco]

@@TheRibottoStudiosI firmly believe that Barbenhimer helped Oppenheimer more than it helped Barbie. Which is funny because that’s so on WB

[@heckheck5679]

It's funny, I saw Barbie with my mom in theaters and I think it hit her harder than it hit me *because* of how heavy handed the feminist writing is in it. For me, it was hearing things I've already known and talked about before be told back to me in a bit of a clumsy way. But for her? That was one of the first times she saw media that explicitly voiced the struggles and double standards of what it means to be a woman in the world, and it deeply moved her! When we talked about the movie afterwards, she had mentioned that the speech was the part of the movie where she actually started crying because it hit her so hard. So, aside from the fact that it ultimately is a comedy movie with a bombastic scale and so that sort of heavy handed writing is fitting, I think it also has a place as necessary still for a lot of women, especially from older generations, who haven't seen mainstream media fully embrace and talk about the struggles of womanhood. There are other media out there with subtler, more nuanced feminist writing, and that's ok! But there is also value to how explicitly and unabashedly Barbie talks about it, and seeing the way it impacted my mom cemented that to me in full

[@sweetesteph]

I had a similar opinion to yours, I didn't feel like I came out of the movie a new woman (though I absolutely loved it!) because I have been exposed to feminist theory for years, but then I saw so many stories of women finally feeling validated and heard in their struggles that I realized maybe this is more for them, and I'm really happy Barbie could give them that 🥹

[@grapes4832]

When I left the theatre after barbie, there were a good 20-ish people of all ages and genders talking about what they thought of it. All of them complete strangers, but the movie was so fun and lighthearted that almost everyone left feeling happy in some way and more willing to socialize :]

[@josepharmstrong1788]

When these two movies came out, they were not enemies but friendly rivals wishing each other the best of luck knowing that all that matters was being the best version of themselves possible.

[@fashionablechangeling1988]

Which is funny when you realise that WB originally put Barbie out on the same day as Oppenheimer to spite Nolan

[@Mrnotpib]

Then they kissed.

[@bobtheball5384]

​@@Mrnotpib And made love for the first time...how romantic

[@jeckjeck3119]

@@Mrnotpib OMG, They are roommates!?

[@AresHoax_9]

@@jeckjeck3119 no they live across the street from each other but they dug a tunnel underneath the street to be with each other, for their love is forbidden

[@Dyyrlysh]

Things that Barbie & The Lego Movie share in common: - Characters from toy brand are alive - Dumb, timeless, hilarious humour (that sometimes references toy brand's history in a nostalgic "i did/had that!" way) - Both protagonists catch a glimpse of the "Real World" - Will Ferrell - Learning to be someone for yourself, not others

[@danielarputharaj9918]

It's really impressive that Barbie movie is able to be compared to the Lego movie, as the Lego movie is one of the most creative and wild animated films ever and the fact that a live aciton film can come close to the Lego movie in that regard is amazing

[@motorwayt-s628]

both are also unexpectedly moving

[@15Candles]

Don't forget, both are Warner Bros movie. You can say that WB and Will Ferrell's share in common might confirm that Lego Movie and Barbie are in the same universe 😂

[@simplebutpowerful]

Agree with that seeing as Will Ferrell is the exact same character in both movies lol

[@dannys8014]

Also they're both Warner Brothers movies

[@TryinBin8889]

As a woman, the take-away message I personally got from the barbie movie is that men deserve understanding and compassion too. They're already hard enough on themselves and it's hard for them to live in a world where they're constantly expected to be a certain way and villainised when they step out of line even a smidge, ironically the same issues women go through but in a different way. And that these issues are often ignored. I got the message that it's important for men to be their own person instead of just an item to women as a boyfriend, and I thought that was a good message. Everything else in the movie was shits and giggles for me and it was awesome. Ken out of Ken

[@hoau1406]

😊

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

That’s good to hear

[@deliriousgeorge2879]

I got that message as well except my critic of the movie is that it felt a little rushed and squeezed in so the women issues could be prioritized on screen

[@TryinBin8889]

@@deliriousgeorge2879 fair enough, if that's how you felt. I mean, it is kind of a movie whose target audience is women who grew up with barbies so the message will feel more in-your-face for guys who didn't grow up around the same narratives women did (and that's ok, it's just a notable difference). I guess because I'm a woman I already understand the issues I go through so that didn't stand out too much to me, and was kind of cartoon-ly emphasized (like, HOW many times did they say patriarchy and who irl says it that much) so while it was at the forefront of the movie, since it was so cartoonish and used for humor and bits a lot of the time I saw it more as a "yeah this happens and we have to learn how to deal with it" than a super strong commentary about anything. Perhaps except the mother-daughter relationships and self-realization Barbie comes to as an individual with feelings, not just as a cartoon-cutout of a stereotypical woman doll. So more of an "I'm an individual" than "I'm just a woman"

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

That’s something I noticed too (also fem). I love how if anything it was a reverse of the “scorned woman” villain who hates love/men bc of it. KEN had a “let it go” moment where he realized his SO wasn’t his identity-much like so many “capable women behind the men” that sit back and allow men to take their spot in the sunlight and take credit for their work bc they fear being alone if they express themselves.

[@cakeheart.]

having seen all the men online that hate the barbie movie and have designated it as "woke, man-hating trash", seeing a man, especially one with such a big platform, understand and empathize with it is SO comforting. you are Kenough! thank you

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

I was really surprised to see how much of it happened when searching just “Barbie movie” into the KZbin search. Of course the algorithm probably knows I’m a guy and on top of that I shouldn’t be surprised that the Republican Media Industrial Complex *TM* churns never endingly and it’s stooges are never far behind

[@danielarputharaj9918]

​@@JohnSmith-og1xqthis is a stupid argument, the barbie movie was just a straight up good film

[@NoReplyAsset]

@@JohnSmith-og1xq damn, you just revealed everything about your thought process. no need to project your own insecurity onto everyone else.

[@CEDEREL]

@@JohnSmith-og1xqi think breaking up w your partner because they’re unable to empathize with the message of the movie and instead getting pissed that it’s ‘mean to men’ (it isn’t) is fair

[@ezelfrancisco1349]

(Just watched Barbie) Which is weird since Barbie is for men too. The movie focused on Ken as an antagonist but not a villian.

[@jeromevaleska2014]

I love how everyone’s dipping into the meme in creative ways. My favourite is Ryan George’s Barnenheimer Pitch Meeting.

[@sentientmustache8360]

Ryan George is tight!

[@jeromevaleska2014]

@@sentientmustache8360 Yeah yeah yeah!

[@yeah_definitely]

Watching the Barbenheimer pitch meeting was super easy barely an inconvenience

[@ocaaaa]

tight

[@theplushiecrew1486]

Putting two movies in one Pitch Meeting is TIGHT!

[@y2klove581]

Barbie telling the old woman she’s beautiful was my FAVOURITE scene it didn’t add much to the plot but added a lot to movie imo and it’s overall message I luv it sm 💕💕💕

[@irrelevancepersonified]

The woman in the scene was Ruth´s real daughter that she named Barbie after

[@wtnv]

@@irrelevancepersonified ..? no? shes played by ann roth, a prominent costumer designer irl, and her character is just a random lady lol

[@irrelevancepersonified]

@@wtnv oops

[@Mole-Esther]

​@@wtnvno she plays the woman who created barbie

[@eugenekrabs6400]

@@irrelevancepersonifiedwhat an odd thing to just pull out of your ass and state so confidently

[@BrendonPatrickWatts]

I'm a Ken, and I'm tired of acting like I didn't like the Barbie movie. I LOVED IT

[@mhawang8204]

You're kenning right.

[@themoviecritic1092]

I 100% understand that compared to Barbie, Oppenheimer just isn't a film that everyone will like. The attraction comes from either history buffs, people who are aware of Oppenheimer and his achievements or people who are fans of Christopher Nolan's films (that's a-me!). Barbie has a message that speaks to everyone and has something for everyone to take away from it. This is why most of the comment section speaks about how Barbie makes them feel and it does make me happy; as someone who has watched the film a few hours ago, I can say that I loved the film and I would definitely put it in my favorite films of 2023 so far... as for Oppenheimer, I have never been so impressed by a film and if I had the chance, I would watch it again for the first time. The writing, the acting, the direction, the cinematography, THE SCORE... OHHHH MYYYYY GOODNESS THE SCORE ISN'T GETTING TALKED ABOUT THAT MUCH (Besides this review) AND IT'S CRIMINAL. It's a three hour film but man I was captivated by everything that I really didn't feel the runtime for most of the film. I think Schaff was joking (hopefully) but the bomb testing scene was one of the most intense things I have ever seen in the theater and it paid off extremely well after such a build up. The movie is amazing and it is for sure in my favorite films for the year and... maybe for the decade? But we're only 4 years in so I'm not so sure yet. I love both Barbie and Oppenheimer and I am glad that these movies came out at the time it did. I'm not sure how the industry will be after this year but if it does go downhill, I can proudly say that 2023 gave us good content despite what others have said. If this comment happens to be read by anyone, I will be making reviews for both Oppenheimer and Barbie separately because I have so much to say about both with Oppenheimer coming out first. Stay on the lookout and have a great day or night wherever you are moviegoers!

[@matthew8505]

I have heard several of my male friends say that they were moved by Ken's story arch. They all said that they needed to improve themselves based on his story

[@nsmit907]

That is so refreshing to hear. I have heard a lot of men say they won't even go watch it because 'that's how all this starts, next thing you'll be painting your nails and then you'll turn gay'. It's infuriating that some men's masculinity is so fragile they think a movie can change their entire sexuality

[@powmod]

​@@nsmit907I can't seriously belive that you know men that think that watching Barbie will turn you gay.

[@johankiwii]

You have some really weird male friends ngl

[@monotromatic2951]

@@nsmit907 don't they know wearing pink and painting your nails is the most masculine thing any person could possibly do? Imagine punching a guy and they'll remember your multicolored nails and grovel at any person with multicolored nails

[@calarquist3617]

To be honest i couldnt help but feel a part of me being represented in Ken, mostly the last part

[@nerdgeekman]

If “I’m Just Ken” doesn’t get nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song, i will become The Joker.

[@mariaantoniajosephajohanna]

REAL

[@portobeIIa]

UP

[@onepresence9460]

“I’m Just Ken” and “Peaches” were the best 2023 original songs imo.

[@diggydumbo9294]

Indeed

[@errwhattheflip]

Agreed

[@sjins1poolboy698]

I love how Barbie resolves the issues between her and Ken by not just highlighting what he did wrong but recognising he's not perfect and got it wrong AND she apologises for where she got it wrong. When do we ever see that on the big screen? As a teacher who spends a lot of time hoping for students to see past their differences and forgive each other when they hurt each other, it is so awesome to see this in a blockbuster movie, especially as the final resolution between the pair. (and they didn't even have to get back together to do that! plutonic relationships 😱)

[@drnanard9605]

Correction : the black and white bits in Oppenheimer are not meant to show "objective truth", they show that the scene takes place from Strauss' point of view. If you rewatch it, you'll see that everytime there's black and white, Oppenheimer isn't even there, or he's in the background. There's even a scene that plays twice, each time focusing on a different character (Oppenheimer or Strauss) but showing exactly the same events and dialogues. So, in other words, black and white doesn't show objectivity, it shows Strauss' own subjectivity. Oh and Cillian is pronounced with a hard C, like Celtic.

[@trialconesiaur1638]

Thank you for mentioning this.

[@JamieNoah638]

So happy someone mentioned the name cuz it was annoying me so much cuz you really only need to watch the beginning of an interview to find out how you pronounce Cillian.

[@Me-xo5tw]

Are you sure about celtic

[@JamieNoah638]

@@Me-xo5tw yeah you pronounce the c in Celtic and in Cillian the same. Like a k (/hard c). You can Google the pronunciation.

[@alexh2947]

Appatently in an interview nolan stated that the coloured scenes were "subjective" and the black and white scenes were "objective" Given that the senate hearing is apparently just exerpts from the actual hearing and its possible theres a transcript of the conversation between strauss and the aid, i think this is backed up textually And youre right about the name.

[@nicsgemini]

I think the point of the Barbie film is ultimately about the human condition. The shots of Barbie watching other humans go about their lives, show a couple laughing together, a couple arguing with each other, families at the park, kids running around, all while Barbie sits next to a older woman waiting for the bus. She is a witness to multiple stages of life all happening within her vision. After Barbie looks around at all of the life going on around her, that's when she begins to realize she can't go back to Barbieland. And later on when she holds hands with Ruth and sees the lives of all these women (the videos came from people who worked on the film, which was Gretas way of thanking them for their work) Barbie realizes she WANTS that. The highest highs and the lowest lows that life has to offer. Sure, there were very overt feminist lines in the script, but ultimately, this film was about the human condition. The good and the bad. I agree with the your take on how the over the top feminist points was FOR the characters and not meant to be taken super seriously. I also mildly disagree with Barbies apology to Ken. I think there definitely should have been apologizes from BOTH parties. But of course, like America's character states in her monolog, "You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining." I think an apology from Ken was left out on purpose to emphasize that point. He literally "stole her house, brain washed her friends and tried to overthrow the government" Can you tell I really enjoyed Barbie?

[@edun4513]

The dynamic of ken and barbie is a reversed role of what sex norms used to be not too long ago, the same way that women had very little rights and agency and their worth was based on the men they were with, its that but reversed. Now its the kens who are that way, hence why at the end of the movie they give the kens roles in barbieland and the narrator explicitly says “they’ll work to get just as much power as women have today”. Hence why Barbie had to apologize to ken, since she had neglected him and treated him like an object, so she had to fix her wrongdoings since it was the Barbies faults that the kens were the sewer rats of Barbieland and made such a radical change to get out of it

[@sefatsilverlake3816]

I also liked how it mocked a shallow view of feminism and patriarchy theory with Ken's perspective. We see Ken thinking that just because he is a man he can work as a surgeon or a high rank white collar. That felt like it was mocking pseudo-feminists that think priviledge men have makes their lifes perfect.

[@imetators]

@@sefatsilverlake3816 This! Great point! I personally laughed as hell when Ken was going around telling people that he must get this job purely due to him being a man and how every time he got rejected. And even in the "business building" when he said to the guy in suit that isnt this a patriarchy and guy replying "it is, we just hide it better" is such a funny take on the reality. To me personally, this joke is so out of proportions of how real world works that it makes it absurdly funny. Never have I ever encountered a man who was in his position purely due to him being a man. But maybe it is because of my backrground and country I was born in.

[@austindrinksfanta]

Incredible review my god you summed it all up well

[@Person-zc1yv]

This is the part of Barbie that I really hope gets talked about more… the movie described the experience of being a woman really well, but more importantly in my opinion, it showed the experience of being human. The scene of Barbie looking around at the people around her and the scene of her feeling what it means to be human are easily my favorite scenes. I feel like Barbie captured the message that humanity is beautiful in all stages of life, and I really appreciate that message.

[@marimecham]

My bf and I have wildly different interests and tastes in movies, so of course we were going to do barbenheimer. I made my barbie outfit and he wore his oppenheimer outfit but with pink accents (and we did oppenheimer outfits because I fucked up and booked barbie on a different day than oppenheimer ☠️) Anyways, we absolutely loved both films. He was dying at all the barbie jokes and I now want to read American Prometheus. He got to live his pink fantasy and now I've got existential dread. Truly the most experience of all time.

[@ThePracticalPacker]

Right because we all had time to dye our Oppenheimer suits pink. That's what you do when there's an important movie out that bashes masculinity. I believe you. Press 420 if you believe!!!

[@thepug475]

​@@ThePracticalPacker You clearly haven't watched the movie OR this video

[@ThePracticalPacker]

@@thepug475 Seen both. Did you have a point? Let's see your "boyfriend" comment and back up your story. Can you post a picture of his pink suit on your channel to prove it? I won't hold my breath

[@thepug475]

@@ThePracticalPacker Bro why are you being so confrontational lol

[@ThePracticalPacker]

@@thepug475 This entire thread is fake

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

As Quinton tweeted, any criticism about the Barbie movie’s pacing and structure I had basically dwarfes in light of the movie being so, without any better words to describe, epic. Yeah on one hand, the pacing felt just a bit weird, hell, they pretty much say “Wait we didn’t give Barbie a conclusion” which is haha meta i guess. On the other hand, I have never seen such a movie. This film made me dress up, leave the house and go to the theater with my friends, and I’m not a frequent visitor of theaters. God damn, my MOM said she’s excited to see it.

[@Crzypengu]

Barbminheimer gotta be one of the most historical events to happen in our lifetime.

[@rachelthornton4442]

Honestly, Barbenheimer has been such a bright light in such a slog of a year for movies. Seeing two great movies by two great directors about the human condition is just…wow. What started out as a meme has become such a wonderful celebration of what cinema can be.

[@me-myself-i787]

Seriously? These two movies, plus Across the Spiderverse, GotG3, and Sound of Freedom make this a great year for cinema. Add onto that Elemental, which is probably Pixar's best movie since Luca, and maybe also Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, which was a good movie in spite of its similarities to Across the Spiderverse (namely it's long runtime, abundance of action, sci-fi elements albeit different ones (the Entity (an AI) is completely different to interdimensional travel), and it being a part one.) And in every way which that movie is different to Across the Spiderverse, Across the Spiderverse is better. Better visuals, better music, more recognisable (and compelling) characters, and a better villain (the Spot is way better than the Entity). But even excluding MI7, 5 great movies plus some more good ones is not in any way a weak movie year.

[@aten9962]

This year ain't a slog. Ari Aster, Dennis Villeneuve, Martin Scorcese, Ridley Scott, Wes Andersen, Greta Gerwig and Chris Nolan all released or will release movies this year. Not to mention franchise movies like Evil Dead Rising, John Wick 4, Creed III, M:I Dead Reckoning, and GotG3 being critical successes. Taika is going back to his roots releasing a non marvel movie, "Past Lives" by Celine Song is getting great reviews as well as "Black Barry" and the newly released Indi Horror "Talk to Me". And we still got the Festival and Award season before us.

[@ezelfrancisco1349]

To quote BBC Sherlock, contrast is God's way of showing beauty. I really love how Barbenheimer just complements each other.

[@randompromises1038]

​@@me-myself-i787and with Five Nights at Freddy's coming up after years of development hell, I'm kinda thinking this year really produced some great milestones in cinema.

[@aeris143]

how dare u, the mario movie was the pinnacle of cinema 😤

[@carelessdreamer]

You joke about Ken being the “literally me” guy but I’m a woman, and I’m ready to buy my own “I am Kenough” shirt and raise my Kenergy after seeing the film.

[@mrsirgiy]

“Literally me” guy is now ascending to not just the men but the women and the children too

[@thegoatcarnival]

I already bought the exact sweater design he wore in the film lol.

[@CelloGamerMatt]

@@mrsirgiyreal prequel hours

[@myanoel0]

i want a kenough hoodie too lol

[@carelessdreamer]

@@mrsirgiy You shouldn’t make that reference. Ken’s job is beach, and you know how we feel about sand.

[@jayerickson4369]

I'm a guy more leaning right, but I found Barbie to be so great and heartwarming, and especially the last 20 minutes, and I didn't find it to be man-hating at all. I thought it spoke to women empowerment, but it also spoke to how men can share their emotions and don't have to remain isolated. The last scene with the montage of life really spoke to me. I really enjoyed it, as I did oppenheimer

[@epaomirimiri]

Hey man, good for you. :) I haven't heard a lot of right-leaning folks who are willing to watch it, much less right-leaning guys who don't lose their minds over the movie being too woke. Personally, I was really surprised that they treated Ken with so much compassion and care. It would have been so easy not to let him get an apology or learn to find himself. Glad you got to enjoy it for what and how it was.

[@elijahattieh1952]

I'm in a similar position but what pisses me off is that the end conclusion was reverting back to the Barbie-running society as opposed to having a society where both men and women (Barbies and Kens) have an equal say and status. It would've made for a much better resolution since it's not a case of one's better than the other, but that both can work together for the benefit of each other.

[@nettaina7580]

@@elijahattieh1952 I see what you mean but I must point out that that's exactly the point of the ending. It's quite literally stated in the film too: in the end, Kens hold as much power in Barbieland as women do in the real world. Obviously equality would be the best for everyone, but we just aren't quite there yet. There is still work that needs to be done.

[@jayerickson4369]

@@epaomirimiri Yeah I didn’t get the “woke”(people just throw that word around so much now that it’s kinda lost it’s meaning) impression at all I saw it as empowerment for both genders in different ways, albeit it was much more apparent with women which I didn’t have a problem at all with. Women deserve their own movie once in a while 😅

[@natnuss98]

​@@elijahattieh1952yeah that disappointed me too. (I'm a left-leaning woman btw.) I know it's meant to be the flip side of reality and mirroring it but to me it was a let down that even in a fictional world of play there wouldn't ever be equality

[@ange.shimmies]

As a woman who grew up without Barbie dolls because of a mother who was against their meaning, the Barbie movie touched me to my core. From the tongue-in-cheek references to real world feminism, to the heart-wrenching moments of Barbie realizing how beautiful life is. And overall, just the experience of being a woman - being assigned duty from the beginning of your existence, which is portrayed so beautifully in “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish. The line that touched me the most was, “mothers stand still, so their daughters can look back and see how far they’ve come.” Not to mention, in the initial introspection scene that Barbie has in the real world, she talks to the old lady at the bus stop, who is actually the daughter of the creator of Barbie - the one who inspired the meaning and name of Barbie. And Barbie sincerely tells her that she is beautiful, while Barbara replies “Oh, I know it.” It’s just a work of art and outlines the experience of girlhood, of growing, of how we’ve evolved in the modern world to disassemble the meaning behind a woman’s duty. I just loved it. I loved the ending with the clips of young girls playing with Barbies. How it symbolized the possibility that little girls dream of, and perhaps the struggle that many of them have to achieve that possibility in the real world, like America’s character. How the clips symbolized how difficult it is to just exist as a woman. I just really loved the film as a whole. I hope someone relates to my perspective here!

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

That was Barbara?!?! 😮

[@ange.shimmies]

@@spazzyshortgirl23 yeah! It’s awesome isn’t it?

[@mandybultemeier2204]

@@ange.shimmies That wasn't Barbara Handler. It was costume designer Ann Roth

[@megandeng25]

As a woman- You are the first male content creator I’ve seen have good things to say about this movie. It genuinely means a lot to hear a man understand why something would matter to us and just have fun without complaining that the movie’s anti man. It means a lot.

[@joaquincasascortes624]

The ""anti man"" parts of the movie can get annoying at some point, since it's pretty much the main message of the movie, but idk. I guess it's better to really not think about it and just take it in as silly fun, because I don't exactly expect goddamn Barbie to teach about how men make the world terrible and how we would be living in a real utopia if only women had education and jobs 🤷‍♂️

[@thatrantinggirl7376]

@@joaquincasascortes624you didn’t understand the movie unfortunately

[@joaquincasascortes624]

@@thatrantinggirl7376 Didn't stop me from thinking it wasn't that bad of a movie. I genuinely think it's an okay, if not a good movie. Maybe I don't agree with some scenes and parts of the overall message it tried to convey (from what I have managed to gather in a single watch at the very least) but hey, at least I spent more time with my relatives. That is all that matters at the end of the day, regardless if a movie is good or not 🤷‍♂️

[@thatrantinggirl7376]

@@joaquincasascortes624 no I’m not commenting on your enjoyment of the movie, I’m saying you straight up just didn’t understand it. To call it anti man at all shows is genuinely insane. The Barbie movie was weirdly intensely pro man if anything. Like the movie outright says that the matriarchy presented in it was bad and that men deserve to feel loved and fulfilled, I don’t know much more clearly pro man it could’ve been

[@joaquincasascortes624]

@@thatrantinggirl7376 I never said it was a purely anti-man movie, because it wasn't. I said it had some anti-man scenes/moments that made me feel slightly annoyed at times. A small example I could give would be talking about the men shown from the real world, which mostly consisted of either horrible people (that would slap a random girls ass in the public at broad daylight for no reason 🤷‍♂️) or completely incompetent. And, like I have said, this isn't something that bothers me that much, since it's what I kinda expected from the movie.

[@tgs9929]

Ken learns it’s not your partner/GF, your house or a horse that makes you (k)enough as a man and I think that’s so rewarding to hear as a guy.

[@jimmytrex0920]

You know how some movies have that "one part" that makes you realize just how good of a movie you're watching is? The leap of faith from into the Spider-verse, the final act of The Usual Suspects, Jennifer Saunders' I Need a Hero. That's what I felt watching the nuke scene in Oppenheimer.

[@pineapple9068]

Holy shit same

[@alexh2947]

For me in oppenheimer it was probably hill testifying

[@mrkat8137]

Barbies set and art direction goes so hard. It’s crazy that it didn’t take more than $150 million.

[@TheMeGuy1]

The Barbie movie was what I wanted Cocaine Bear to be. A movie that just embraces how silly it is and therefore doesn't take a majority of itself seriously, escalating further and further into absurdity and using that absurdity for so much humor. Cocaine Bear had a dreadfully slow beginning, and played itself very straight,. It had humor throughout, but they were mainly banter-based, and kinda grounded, and never really fully embraced the absurdity of the fact that it's a movie about a bear high on cocaine killing people in its humor. Meanwhile, the opening scene of the Barbie movie establishes it as something completely silly and whacky when the little girls start beating the shit out of baby dolls before a giant effigy of Barbie. It manages to keep that absurd tone and momentum throughout the film with cartoonish characters, and TONS of visual humor like everything involving the Mattel CEO and his entourage.

[@NinjaLobsterStudios]

Also the first day in Barbieland is bizarre and hilarious, but also deeply dystopic. Like, everything is shallow and nobody ever experiences anything. It's a world where everybody goes through motions because that's what you are supposed to do. I think there is definitely a power to unsubtle messaging, it's basically impossible to consciously acknowledge all the bad things one experiences in life and what was once a fleeting acceptance of discomfort can eventually become enmeshed and suppressed mentally. Acknowledging those things in the least subtle way possible can bring those thoughts to the forefront and maybe progress can actually be made

[@osmanyousif7849]

Come to think of it, a white guy with a mob-related father and a black friend, who must find a bag of illegal contrabands, only for it to be taken by an animal, and must survive the wildlife….. Yeah, Cocaine Bear is basically the plot of Kangaroo Jack, except with a more Tarantino and Sam Raimi vibe.

[@user-aeb87825]

Should've given the cocaine bear guns

[@onepresence9460]

Barbie and Oppenheimer releasing in the same day was the exact feeling we had when Doom: Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the same time. What a crazy world we live in. And i love it 🤣

[@Isuream6331]

The world needs more of these strange pairings

[@krishacz]

and in september we're getting Saw X and Paw Patrol

[@bluesolace9052]

These iconic dynamic duos are so wholesome and interesting to see. I like the contrast and surprise of it.

[@William_Nowin]

​@@krishaczsaw patrol 😳

[@Ceoofsonic06]

One thing I liked about the Barbie movie is that while they hit home the women empowerment moments they also hit some men empowerment beats but show how both sides have clear flaws with how they act or treat one another instead of being in unison

[@nayarimartinez8131]

Barbie saved movie theaters... my local movie theater is always EMPTY with me and my fam being the only ones watching movies but when barbie came out the theaters were filled to the brim with people in pink. And while watching the movie it was such a good vibe, everyone laughed at the jokes, everyone was loving the characters, everyone was crying (that one scene at the end about being human iykyk) it was a unifying experience I never felt before. It was the movie the united man kind... and i love that

[@HeisenbergFam]

Barbenheimer saying "Im a barbie girl in a barbie world, its fantastic" changed my life, golden character

[@PunishedKrab]

Ikr, i was Barbied away when that happened

[@dscrib2492]

nah, imma barbie my own thing

[@glendarjj3991]

Now I am become barbie. Destroyer of worlds.

[@idk_863]

​@@dscrib2492you're just a barbie who has no idea what you're doing!!!

[@WigglyTurdMan]

bot

[@Sharpe1502]

I actually liked Emily Blunt’s portrayal because it seemed to me like she had Postpartum Depression, but back then they wouldn’t have really known about it and most women probably self medicated in some way. And omg, I looked around the theater when they were preparing the test and assembling the bomb. Everyone was STRESSED! Hands were on faces, people were literally gripping their chairs. The theater was SO quiet. Meanwhile, everyone at the Barbie screening was so positive and everyone was wearing pink and it was adorable. Such a fun day.

[@cortomaltese5206]

When the bomb exploded you couldn't hear a fly in my theater

[@luciusisdead]

i didn’t even bother to look around bc my eyes were so glued to the screen. the slow count down to them dropping it was AGONIZING

[@jamiegreenberg8476]

i obviously knew what happened with the trinity test but the movie legit had my heart pounding and thinking everyone was going die everyone involved in that movie did an amazing job

[@itzkingcringe]

I feel like Barbie wasn’t anti men. It addressed the unique struggles of women and of men. I liked watching Ken’s arc and seeing how he was happier in the end and Barbie actually acknowledging she did him wrong.

[@avacornthelastponybender8583]

I love that Barbie isn't straight up "Girls Rule, Man Drool" The most important part of Gender Equality is Equality Men shouldn't be the only ones to get ALL opportunities in life, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't get ANY opportunities in life

[@Gonzas97]

But the movie doesn't do that, girls rule over boys in the movie. And at the end is just like nothing changed. You guys really find this movie that good? Very extreme low standars i guess

[@impasta1682]

@@Gonzas97 That's savage, you know? I wasn't all that big on the movie either, but quit judging others who disagree.

[@Gonzas97]

@@impasta1682 you are right. But hey, i had to take that comment out of my mind somehow hahaha.

[@alexpatrick3333]

I've just realised that Oppenheimer has: - A lot of scenes of people sitting and talking that is eventually followed by action - A huge chunk of screentime devoted to senate meetings - The guy who played young Han Solo Are we sure that it's not a Star Wars prequel?

[@officialmonarchmusic]

The Star Wars prequels have hardly any screen time devoted to Senate Meetings. It's like, 3-4 minutes for each film

[@Yusseditzstuff]

I love how barbie is serious and historic where as Oppenheimer is funny and comedic

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Wonka: "Strike that, reverse it."

[@user-ut6gr1wq7g]

You mixed it up lol

[@Yusseditzstuff]

@@user-ut6gr1wq7g lol yea

[@jesusothe3rd847]

I loved it when Barbie said “it’s barbin time” and barbied all over the Kens

[@drunkenrenaissance187]

The end scene of Oppenheimer sent shivers down my spine

[@freshcupofangst]

I've never played a pikmin game in my life but Schaff's doing a better job promoting it than any of the very few ads I've seen

[@FragglevisionReturns]

not to mention all those people putting Pikmin memes on the Times Square TSX billboard for $40 a meme

[@dakaramotto.]

lEtS uSe OuR pIkMiN bUt tHeYrE sO cUtE

[@KatieLHall-fy1hw]

Agree, never played but he makes me consider playing

[@dellumyfilms]

Nice pfp

[@highdefinition450]

Lol yes didn't even realize it was out for a while lmao

[@gulfcoastgaming6034]

Thank god Barbenheimer happened during the writers strike I can’t imagine the SNL sketch they would’ve made

[@ezelfrancisco1349]

Imagine the cynicism that SNL would've said about Barbenheimer instead of a wonderful contrast of each other

[@Kebbie_Hamon]

Even if the writers strike didn't happen SNL wouldn't make a sketch about it because SNL ends there seasons in May. The only time they ended it after May was in 1976

[@reaperking2121]

IN regards to the Oppenheimer score what I love most about it is the extreme use of violins which half the time sound like the screetch of sirens. It really helps add to the unsettling nature of what oppenheimer was working on as modern audiences have learned to associate that wail with the apocalypse.

[@Deemee-ed]

I haven't seen the Oppenheimer movie yet (because it's not out where I live yet), so I'm just gonna give a quick opinion on the Barbie movie: I LOVE how they made the settings. It genuinely feels like a land made for toys! And with all of the "toy mechanics" being shown, such as the shower not having any water, or the food not being actually eaten, or the Barbies floating down their houses... It's just so good and creative

[@jjjunipa]

I am SO INSANELY GLAD you loved Barbie. This was my most anticipated Schaff video of the year.

[@SugarcideAnimations]

Same!

[@onepresence9460]

I’m glad too. And the Oppenheimer review was beautiful. This review was so fun 👍

[@lamcb.9476]

I was blown away by the costume and set design in the Barbie movie, like I got such a need to go thrift Barbie outfits after seeing that movie

[@mothmallow]

I had SO MUCH FUN seeing the Barbie movie. I was smiling and enthralled every moment, I never wanted it to end. When I was there, there happened to be a tween girl birthday party with like 20 young girls dressed in pink dresses celebrating with each other. It was beautiful.

[@ianwilkes435]

I was in line to get popcorn at the movies and the women in front of me was watching Openheimer for the 3rd time because there was so much in it

[@yvni_prfm]

that was me I was that woman

[@ConnorTheOne_]

Before I saw Oppenheimer, I figured Oppy would clearly carry immense guilt and dread from what he did, but this movie really made me understand the sheer magnitude of that guilt and dread in a way I just couldn’t when just imagining it beforehand. Like, this movie really makes you understand that this is a man who, after the “success” at Los Alamos, NEVER had a peaceful moment for the rest of his life. This is a man who truly never had a moment of internal rest or calm for the rest of his days, and if you believe in the afterlife, for all eternity. But what really got me is that he has to resume being a normal member of society with that impossibly crushing weight on his back Thinking about that gives me chills in the most horrifying way possible

[@mr.whatevermann3199]

and especially that ending line man, gave me the biggest chills

[@high.level.noob.]

I liked Oppenheimer more than Barbie, but again it is impossible to compare these movies. Often number scores are great for the overall quality of a product, but at the end it all comes to preference. I personally like deep characters, stunning visuals, a great score and just deep themes in movies. That doesn’t mean a comedy/light weight entertainment movie can’t be good if it doesn’t deliver on that goal. Edit: Point being that we can’t just compare art objectively every single time. What makes a critic good is the consistency of their voice. You gotta find your own critic and your own taste.

[@linkaj12]

I love how Oppenheimer comes off as such an impressionistic film, one you don’t get to see much these days

[@15Candles]

Comparing Barbie and Oppenheimer is like comparing Taylor Swift and Eminem, one is a talented singer in the pop genre and the other one is talented rapper. Taylor can't rap like Eminem neither does Eminem can't sing pop like Taylor therefore there's no need to compare both talented people who are capable at their own music genre the same way both Barbie and Oppenheimer is. Barbie succeed in the fantasy comedy genre, Oppenheimer succeed in the historical biopic genre, so who wins? The answer is cinema, simple as that

[@Moonmoon-ws6jo]

so many movie reviewers butcher the actual message of self discovery in barbie. it did it in such a creative way it felt like a breath of fresh air and even had a powerful song from billie eillish about self purpose that somehow went above people’s heads. i made me enjoy movies again. it was lighthearted but touched on serious topics in the best ways that isnt overwhelming.

[@TetsBL]

I, for one, can’t believe that people settled for the portmanteau Barbenheimer when Open Bar was RIGHT THERE

[@toboe99]

I worked on the Barbie movie as an Art Department Assistant - it's my first movie credit and I'm really happy everyone is loving it as much as I do too!

[@ajseker]

Congratulations! You all did so well

[@RawReviews.]

Cool! I’ll try to look through the credits for it lol.

[@upside_you_mop]

Yall did really well

[@PeachFlavoredKaiju]

Can you tell me what your experience is?

[@moonbunny24]

Congrats!

[@BrI120000]

Thank you for being the only reviewer I’ve seen to mention how funny Alan was in Barbie. Legit my favorite character

[@TheTsaqif]

Watching your review of Barbie after watching charlie's moist meter on oppenheimer is a really interesting experience lmao. Just like the movie, at first both of them seems like the complete opposite of the other, barbie telling us the meaning of life, and oppenheimer with the meaning of taking said lives, but in truth both of them has the same theme of "the appreciation of life itself" and i personally loved both of them, these two holds a special place in the different corners of my heart. Or maybe it's due to the fact that i watched them both back to back

[@FemaleFullmetal]

I cry a lot in general, but I cried more than I usually do watching Barbie. That movie really made me feel the feels. All of them. I loved it so, so much and I definitely plan on seeing it at least once more before it leaves theaters.

[@Alex_From_Florida]

You know a history biopic movie is good when it somehow manages to successfully have a twist villain

[@edgarleft]

I have seen the movie and to be clear, the twist villain you're refereng to is Lewis Strauß, right?

[@absolutezerochill2700]

This is literally the first person I've seen call the Barbie movie anything better than "fine" and honestly, both takes were pretty convincing to me. It's.... bizarre. Like Barbie and Oppenheimer releasing on the same day, causing lots of people to literally watch them back to back in theaters.

[@Bute803]

Fast like

[@jameshorn6284]

I have seen plenty call it great

[@mookchie]

watch them yourself and form your own opinion

[@riograndedosulball248]

Those were some good five hours well spent in the dark looking at a big fuck off screen

[@absolutezerochill2700]

@@mookchie well I haven't seen the movie yet so I haven't So maybe I'll see it Idk, still not very interested in Barbie, even if it was probably decent

[@stardust1815]

I just saw Barbie and it was the most fun I've had in the theaters in such a long time. It was hilarious with just the right amount of emotional depth to it.

[@KrimsonKracker]

Fantastic reviews! Good work with editing too.

[@rachelthornton4442]

The bench scene in Barbie is pure cinema and that is the hill I’m dying on.

[@mhawang8204]

And Greta Gerwig had to fight to keep that scene in the movie. How can these studios hoarding billions of dollars when they're so bad at their jobs? Pay the writers and actors!!

[@alexvaughan1013]

Despite what you may think if you haven't seen the movie, it's not a scene of Ken bench pressing! 🤣

[@Alberto9Herrera]

Barbie was seriously an amazing time at the cinema. It was cool watching it in a theater that had different age groups from small kids to elderly people. I cried twice during the movie too. Now I’m more curious about the Narnia movie that Greta Gerwig will direct.

[@Nortarachanges]

Narnia???

[@sfuikm]

IT WAS SO BORING

[@snoopy_poopy]

I laughed and cried constantly through the movie , it was FANTASTIC! Long time barbie fangirl and i watched it with my mum. Going to watch it a second time ! It made me so unbelievably happy

[@Hiphop618]

I’m a woman who played with Barbies as a child and I really don’t understand the other grown-ass women who said they cried during the Barbie movie

[@Nortarachanges]

@@Hiphop618 , it reminds me of time with my sister and mother. The nostalgia and sentiment was strong in this one. It’s okay if you don’t feel that way too. But there’s nothing wrong with a good cry ^_^

[@Handington]

This video was truly fantastic, and a testament to how wonderful of a youtuber you are. keep up the great work!

[@neo-luddismrules]

Barbie actually taught me to stop defining myself by other people and what they expect from me, instead of being a girl's perfect Ken, I'll be just Ken

[@untitledjunk03]

Barbie was an incredible movie. It’s rare to see a studio comedy with THIS high amount of production design nowadays, and I just hope we get more of it again in the future! As for Oppenheimer, I haven’t seen it yet. So therefore, I can’t comment on it.

[@BatAmerica]

Agreed. Also, Oppenheimer is an engrossing portrait of regret made for the silver screen. Hopefully, you give it a chance.

[@justagalwhocomments]

@@BatAmericaI rlly wanna see oppenheimer

[@spaceghostcqc2137]

@@justagalwhocomments It was so good, imo. Really sophisticated and compelling film both thematically and as an audio visual experience. Saw the 70mm imax print and the sound about knocked me out of my seat! Untitledjunk's comment about Barbie's production design was spot on, lots of production creativity on display with clever visual gags baked into the set designs.

[@mhawang8204]

Yes! Genre films like comedy and horror don't get the respect prestige dramas do, but they're so hard to do well.

[@Helycon]

it really does feel like we were blessed this year with two summer blockbusters being not only good but also inventive, creative and visually interesting (more so for barbie). It truly is a great send off before the drought that is destined to follow the ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED writers and actors strike (seriously how can anyone be mad at the strike?)

[@Bute803]

Fast like

[@Mr_bukowski4435]

In an era where cinema is slowly decaying it’s great to see 2 great movies not only come out recently, but on the same day

[@HorsesIC]

Unfortunately this review by Schaffrillas is quite literally strike breaking. SAG/WGA have said over and over that reviews like this are strike breaking. He will never be able to join either union after this.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

Only people who are anti-union and apparently hate having rights are mad at the strike

[@oneofthepeoples]

@@HorsesICI mean, he isn’t going to join them either way, he’s not an actor/writer

[@cherrybomb1095]

i went to the barbie movie high, and as someone afab, i cried during several points in the movie, as well as sobbed at the scene near the end. the movie just hits so many of the right beats, and felt so real even through the fun campiness. it was just such a fun and genuine movie. also loved allen, such a great casting.

[@caliperstorm8343]

I have zero idea how I missed all the hype for Barbie. I walked into the theater with absolutely no idea what the movie would be about.

[@EzioMonty117]

Same here. I only knew that it was a Barbie film directed by Greta Gerwig and that was pretty much it.

[@the_seer_0421]

​@@EzioMonty117oh hey

[@BowPennykettle]

Loved that scene where Barbie dropped a nuke on the Real World. True cinema.

[@PunishedKrab]

Don’t forget the part just before that where she said “It’s Barbin time”

[@redpanda6497]

@@PunishedKrab It's the next "no one:" meme, isn't it?

[@fantasticbirdblue]

I loved it when she said, "I have become Barbie girl; destroyer of Barbie worlds"

[@meowmeow3532]

lmfao these comments are killing me

[@onepresence9460]

I can just picture her riding the nuke, Dr. Strangelove style 😂

[@rayd_384]

Im gonna be honest, I went to watch both movies w/ some friends just bc “haha funny barbenheimer” and actually sit still for 5 hours to watch a movie that made me happy a bomb was finished for some reason and to tear up bc some old lady said some lines, it’s a really great experience and I really hope more studios get to do really good movies instead of lazy money grabs (also Michael Cera fighting out of nowhere is like fan service for any Scott pilgrim fan)

[@eirianwenstudios2379]

Ken and the other Kens are canonically inner horse girls and I love them for that

[@mediameowz]

It's amazing how much depth a seemingly light-hearted film can have

[@ScribbleSpirit]

As a fellow Pikmin fanatic who acts exactly like Schaf does, it always makes me so indescribably happy to see him spreading word on the franchise more for his audience!! It's finally starting to get more of the recognition that it deserves and I'm *thrilled*

[@Person-nf6dj]

i haven’t played any pikmin games, it makes me so happy that a huge fan like schaff loves it so much. nintendo still can do pikmin, even after all these years

[@RyouShi98]

@@Person-nf6dj Pikmin is Nintendo's "we make it because we want to" series

[@NrettG]

Dude I can't stop playing Pikmin 4. The game is too damn good.

[@chrisonic241]

Yeah I’m a beginner too, played for the first time this series, I like it, so I’m will try the other ones as well

[@bizbug2687]

The thing is, Ken *was* literally me. I didn’t really care about any of the movements until I was 13 years old and saw videos of the most misandrist of feminists. I was angry, really, truly, angry at the whole damn movement. I started watching Tucker Carlson videos on the subject at night, and even got into an argument with my mom about the wage gap. Despite her telling me that she personally experienced I tried to tell her that it was probably due to overtime or some other stupid excuse. I am much smarter now, and realize that yeah, this shit does happen, but indoctrination on both sides can be extremely damaging

[@TheRedHaze3]

Did she not know that paying your employee less because they're female is a crime, or was this in like the 50s? There is literally no evidence that women are paid less than men for the same work in the current year. All the wage gap statistics are just comparing the average male to the average female.

[@Leadlight280]

@@TheRedHaze3 someone is still in 2016 huh

[@TheRedHaze3]

@@Leadlight280 Was the wage gap proven to be employers paying their female employees less than their male employees for the same work and same amount of work after 2016? I'm pretty sure no serious academic ever even made that claim. It was about how male-dominated jobs (like maths professor) are valued more than female-dominated jobs (like music professor). That's still a misleading framing, because it has nothing to do with one's gender, but I digress. Edit: edited for clarification.

[@gpollen7712]

​@@TheRedHaze3I can't believe you called 'math professors' a male job

[@TheRedHaze3]

@@gpollen7712 Calm down, I just meant that 'math professor' is a job that is made up of mostly men.

[@phi1105]

The first night I went to see barbie was on opening day. My boyfriend and I dressed like barbie and ken, and unfortunately my ken forgot where he parked the car and we missed the original time we were going to see it. But I said "Doesnt matter, buying new tickets right now." We entered the theater at 10 pm and left at 12 am. We had so much fun watching it, and my ken still talks about how it got genuine laughs out of him. (Im also buying him that I am Kenough sweater!) The second time I saw it was when I took my younger sister to see it. Fresh out of therapy, so I was still a bit vulnerable. Near the "What was I made for?" Part, i began to sob. Ive been struggling with what it means to be a human on recent times. Barbie reminded me that i dont have to be perfect all the time, and i should take pride in my sensitivity. I fucking cried so hard. This is genuinely one of my favorite movies.

[@olly_lmao]

i am become pikmin, destroyer of bulborbs

[@kiamckenz]

the way everyone was talking about how they should’ve got a different actor to play Ken because Gosling is “too old looking” and then Ryan Gosling just comes and SERVES and carries the entire movie on his back is the plot twist I needed >>>

[@disneyvillainsfan1666]

I would honestly argue that Barbie's message on Feminism and Gender Roles was better executed than in any other movie. The speech America Ferrera gave was over-the-top and realistic, without feeling preachy, and The Kens get to learn how to be their own people without being overshadowed by The Barbies. It did a surprisingly good job at showing that whether your a feminine Barbie or a masculine Ken, neither gender needs to be superior to the other.

[@minatorres5261]

And the Ken’s still were treated as second class citizens with no job and relevance at Barbie world without being overshadowed by the Barbie’s

[@valentins.905]

I just that the Barbies would have offered the Kens a home and voting rights etc. to highlight the message you just mentioned

[@solus8685]

​@@minatorres5261that's literally what Kens were though. Ever seen a Barbie movie? The women are usually the main characters. And anyway, most girls played with barbies, not with Kens. It only makes sense to have them portrayed like that.

[@minatorres5261]

@@solus8685 hmm let see. Barbie and the nutcracker, the Ken was a prince, Barbie swan lake, the Ken was an adventurer and a prince, Barbie dream house, Ken fixed stuff and worked at the beach, Barbie 12 dancing princess, Ken was a cobbler. He made shoes. I could go on and on to show that Ken wasn’t just made for Barbie as y’all love to claim. He has personality himself . So it made sense to portray them like that to preach that matriarchy is good when in the real world we have women and men ruling over the people and doing major occupations? It made no sense . Are you saying that your father stayed at home and had no job while your Mother did the major job? Because when kids play with dolls, they play with them from the adult points of view

[@solus8685]

@@minatorres5261 I said the MAIN character. Aka the protagonist. Of course Ken was in the movies, I never claimed he wasn't, but he was never the main lead. My parents both worked the same amount, at a point my mom actually worked more. In society the majority of people in power are MEN, not men and women. That's what the whole movie is about. That it's the opposite in the Barbie universe because it's from girls' POV. The Kens had the personality that girls were giving their Ken dolls (if they even had any) in the real world. It's a movie from a female pov.

[@baq8533]

I guess as someone who wants to be an engineer, the making of it intrigued me more and more about what they were actually doing. The movie showed Oppenheimer as a person that was more focused on what he could do, and not if he should do it at all. It was a perfect movie that, for me, didn't feel like 3 hours at all. The star power of acting, directing, and story telling was far more stellar than anything I could have ever imagined. Also, I heard there was no cgi, don't know if it's true, but hey, it was amazing nonetheless.

[@sofiapollack6943]

Such a wonderful video!!