Sweet 🍬
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lol ok this movie is stupid but i really liked it and so did my mom. it definitely is pro-baby in a way that the book is not, which i do not appreciate
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This was awfully slow but I felt so nourished by the gothic visuals. Thank you god and Dracula
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I love this movie bc it knows exactly what it is
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I don’t like the dad
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Broadway walked so Hollywood could SLAY 😈
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shes just like me fr
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plastic surgey, girls with evil dads <3
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Triggering! They should let me try the substance, I’d use it CORRECTLY
Update: I went to sleep feeling ashamed of my 5 star review and wondered if it was really earned. The movie was too long and totally unhinged, should have ended 5 different times, but I really appreciate the commitment to the insanity. I like when someone just says fuck everything I’m going to do whatever I want here. At a certain point I was fine with wherever it was taking me. I maintain my 5 star review
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i want to live in this movie
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I actually think there’s more depth to this than ppl are giving it credit for. Very “Insidious” ending
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I wish I wasn’t so dumb
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Niecy Nash's daughter is a star.
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I’m so triggered because there’s a new waif in town and it’s Mysterious Tornado Bitch, she’s not interested in any man, only in Weather
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I love Glen Powell idc idc idc idc idc idc
Also this whole story is just about pretty privilege, and it made me realize I’ve worked very hard my whole life to be pretty exactly because of movies like this where pretty girls don’t get punished
I can definitely understand the wide appeal I mean it was still fun even though low key propaganda for marriage/monogamy
It also just reminded me a lot of the kind of wholesome democrat that I hate who has family values, owns a home, and isn’t even a little bit bisexual
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Remake but it's just the girls getting chopped cheeses dir. by Mandy
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Sex with straight men is a literal curse
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What happened to her friend????
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Haha I liked it
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When are we going to just let things exist in their original mediums!!! Not meant to be a movie!!!!!!!!!
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Extra star for the fact that I overheard 2 teen gals in the bathroom after talking about how bad and unhinged this was and I just thought, ladies someday you’ll grow to appreciate Diablo Cody
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What the hell
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Haunting and insanely effective in its quiet, delicate imagery and confronting soundscape. My god hedwig and rudolfs hairstyles were so obnoxious just absolutely so grotesque, definitely added to the overall uneasiness
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Really good and cold
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Way too fucking long but loved the costumes by Anthropologie
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So lovely, just exquisite. And made me my heart ache for New York City. It’s dumb that it took me so long to watch this
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Not nearly as disappointing as Promising Young Woman, but that’s mostly because we know who Emerald is now. We know better than to fall for this again. I think not having expectations allowed me to enjoy the emptiness for what it is: a five course meal made entirely of cotton candy. At least she didn’t kill her protagonist
Anyway please let literally anyone else make a movie
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Wow I never thought I would care about men
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This film is everything I stand for
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Okay
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If you wanna fuck a man’s wife just say you’re an angel, then leave before any conflict happens
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“I wasn’t gallivanting, I was in jail”
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Why do I keep wanting to call her Amy Carlson Romano
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My period was late but then I got it after watching this movie. Coincidence?
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I'll be metabolizing this for a while and I'm not sure what to say yet, but my god, how devastating and fun, and what a perfectly interpreted script. thank God for Todd Haynes, who makes me feel like my own weird ideas could possibly be understood and worth something
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Very clean cut and compact, some stuff didn’t make sense but whatever, I loved the Smiths soundtrack
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I expected to love this, but Priscilla Presley is unfortunately just a v boring girl. Unclear what her “own life” was supposed to be, beyond dinners outside in LA? I found this really hard to sit through once all the glamour and beauty close-ups were over.
loved all the Sofia affects though, obviously
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Deliciously overwrought and overwritten. At its best when Poe's words are integrated into long, winding, tragic monologues. If you are mentally ill and love blackbox theater, you'll love this
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God I love how much cronenberg knows he’s a freak
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She’s just like me
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I love the commitment to unreality! So fun
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okay ummm terrifying! my compliments to the screenwriter!
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Idk why I needed to watch this lmao. Face your fears ttyl
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Not the best movie but certainly not the worst!
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honestly, a really good use of cinema
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Bodies are fucked and stupid
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Have been looking forward to this for a long time because I had a feeling it would satisfy my bottomless need for hyperfeminine frivolity, and it absolutely did! The most fun I’ve had seeing a movie in a long time. It is delightful the whole way through, playing into delusional idealized feminism and the absurdity of humankind (even if the sincerity is a little squirmy). It intentionally does everything you want it to do and confirms the struggles of existence while also being a good time. I melted for the dream ballet sequence. The movie makes really clear nods to touchstone films and absolutely slays in utilizing familiar style, technique, and composition from the studio era; even if you’re not conscious of it, it makes you consider the form in which it’s being delivered, which is a healthy way to consume media IMO.
I can’t deny that it’s insidious to have indie directors at the helm of big blockbusters, doing the work of production giants and corporations instead of producing completely new and original work—and the potential repercussions it has for writers in an industry that is already a bastardized machine for recycling ideas. However, I’d argue that Greta Gerwig takes a billion dollar idea that would be poorly executed in anyone else’s hands, and makes it feel original—keyword being feel. It is knowingly artificial, but as such is an incredible success in making niche ideas work for the biggest platform imaginable. In some ways, movies like this make the weird girl shit more accessible and more known to wider audiences. The delivery may be problematic, but it’s still giving us something.
Of course I wonder what it means for me, an unrepresented screenwriter hoping to produce original work while people make movies about toys and subsequently create exorbitant amounts of money and capital for problematic corporations. But this is also exactly what Barbie itself invokes: having so much enthusiasm for a product that you’re willing to temporarily suspend your core values. It’s a dark omen, but one I embrace willingly because, admittedly, it feels good.
Greta chose to do the cringy thing of embodying a corporation while also making fun of the corporation, which in turns fools us into believing the corporation is not that bad because it has self-awareness. It does mean very bad things for our world, and its scary how the film's acknowledgment of this makes it easier to swallow. But I still enjoyed the movie, and I will still continue to consume delicious trash.
When the Barbies talk about cognitive dissonance, for me it was an acknowledgment that the film is itself a form of cognitive dissonance, and the existence of things like Barbie has created a collective cognitive dissonance from which none of us will ever recover. I actually enjoyed this movie so much it hurt — it hurt partly because I know there’s something a little evil under the surface of every blockbuster and every time I laughed I knew I was putting another dime in Mattel’s pocket but did that stop me from laughing? No! I didn’t care because I was having so much fun seeing all of this reflected back to me by a movie. There is perhaps no experience more sublime!
Anyway, we are all just frogs boiling in Barbie water and I’m ok with it as long as I have fun along the way
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Some of this didn’t make sense but it’s still a slay!
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Like all Stephen King stories, this is actually a lesson about writing and the lesson is always have a backup but the lesson behind the lesson is you probably needed to rewrite the whole thing anyway
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Cute and then goes off the rails which I’m always a fan of, will follow Jessica Lange into the depths of hell
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