Barbie (2023)

speedboatchase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTFdCeP4Dw

Looks fun!

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Fysh

That is a cracking trailer! :D

johnny_ultimate

That logo reveal gag… I’m in, Greta (who is two for two so far as far as I’m concerned)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I tried to delete my thread on this but can't seem to 🤷‍♀️

Anyway.... I hated Lady Bird, loved Little Women. No idea what to expect from this one, but that teaser is fantastic.

JP Liz V1

That is an interesting teaser

pixelburp

Uh.

The Black Oil

So strange. 2001 homage to start things off. Still, it'll get people talking.

CastorTroy

Now will Aqua profit from this film in any way? Or will there be a remixed or slow version of their song?

Dial Hard

Studio couldn't secure the rights to it, apparently.

Which is ironic, considering Aqua didn't have Mattel's permission to release the song in the first place.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I bet they're just pretending they don't have it so when it's actually included everyone will be delighted.

peteeeed

https://twitter.com/MatthewGaydos/status/1603810520003317761?s=20&t=UCj1wn64rtRHx5CaF6evSg

https://twitter.com/MatthewGaydos/status/1603810520003317761?s=20&t=UCj1wn64rtRHx5CaF6evSg

CastorTroy

Hmmm, which is which?

FunLover18

Great trailer, very excited about this. Saw a Tweet that showed the very first Barbie doll which came in the black and white swimsuit

JP Liz V1

Posters

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Ken again! 😄

I can't wait for this. It's either going to be amazing or pure trash.

pixelburp

I still have no idea what to make of this: just another exercise in Brand Management Cinema, or subversive genius? Both, probably, with a larger aftertaste of the former ... but it's certainly commiting to the bit.

2smiggy

watched starship troopers again at the weekend. hopefully something similar to that !!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120439881#Comment_120439881

I love that its going up against Nolan's Oppenheimer at the box office. Some people are just going to lose their minds that week.

johnny_ultimate

I’d honestly rate Greta Gerwig above Nolan in my own personal ‘great modern directors’ pantheon, so there’s going to be an interesting weekend this summer :)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

New short trailer.....

https://youtu.be/GRyt3Ov4zz0

Basq

The more posters I see, the more insane this cast is becoming!

https://www.ign.com/articles/barbie-movie-posters-reveal-more-barbies-kens-and-humans

pixelburp

A thought occurs: is This generation's Speed Racer?

I'm not entirely sure western audiences can or want, to handle live action cartoons. Though it's a stronger pre-existing brand mind you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440117#Comment_120440117

Ach, you would, lol 😂

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440430#Comment_120440430

My understanding of the basic plot is that Barbie is exiled from BarbieLand so I'd assume that happens early on and the vast majority of those other Barbie and Kens will just be in scenes like we see in the trailer, where she's waving at people on the street or at the beach or similar. Maybe the occasional scene of what's happening in BarbieLand while Margot Barbie is in the real world.

I can't see that entire cast having legitimate speaking roles in the film, right?

I hope it plays the real world scenes like The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. Like they're all playing it deadly serious.

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440454#Comment_120440454

100% track record vs a not 100% track record - smaller sample size though 😁

Seriously though, I think both Lady Bug and Little Women are genuinely outstanding films. It’d take a rare director indeed to convince me to go to see a Barbie film, but here we are!

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440593#Comment_120440593

I think this film might be lurking in the grass over your 100% track record. If this is "just" Brand Management and nothing else I could see a bit of a Gerwig backlash incoming from those expecting something "more". Reality of Hollywood today is this might be the film she needed to make to allow <something else> happen. It's kinda how things have gone.

speedboatchase

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440454#Comment_120440454

No, it will be a massive success.

2smiggy

their advertising campaign has been a spectacular success online it seems. no fear going up against oppenheimer either. really looking forward to seeing it to be honest

Mr Crispy

The latest trailer delves much deeper into the plot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzCR5YKWUk

silverharp

Getting a Brady Bunch plot point

CastorTroy

Bit of Elf in there as well with the travelling. And it has Will Ferrell.

And Barbie Girl at the end of the trailer. When talking about the album.

When they were being fingerprinted and since was reminded of Elf, I was wondering what film was it that Santa or maybe was an elf had a star shaped fingerprint?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I actually laughed out loud several times watching that trailer. I am genuinely getting very excited about this.

pixelburp

The hype over this remains baffling to me. I'm still totally confusticated about this; though some of the gags did make me laugh.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640492#Comment_120640492

I genuinely have no idea why I'm so excited for it. I have no affiliation with Barbie, and I had polar opposite reactions to Gerwig's previous 2 films (hated Ladybird, loved Little Women) so it's not even like I'm just excited for new Gerwig. I think, for me anyway, what it boils down to is that it just looks like it could be a fun time in the cinema. I assume it's the feeling people who like Marvel films get every 6 months.

JP Liz V1

I'm getting Tim Burton vibes as in Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands mixed with Truman Show but damn I'm excited for it

pjcb

Ryan Gosling seems to be being Ryan Gosling in this rather then Ken, he seems to be laughing at the film in the film.

fluke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120643910#Comment_120643910

Yeah I kinda felt he was off compared to Margot Robbie's sincerity

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I didn't think that about Gosling, he just seems like he's being Ken, tbh. He's a little bit arrogant, very sure of his role in life, at least as far as life in Barbie land goes. I'd assume they're just playing up the comedy aspect for the trailer and not giving too much away.

Slydice

From that new trailer, it doesn't look like it'll be taking itself too seriously outside the Barbie world.

I did have a laugh at the dudes doing the jump across aisles while they were trying to catch her 🙂

pixelburp

A headline that basically speaks for itself. In case anyone was wondering if the sets were real?

"Barbie film required so much pink paint it contributed to worldwide shortage"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/05/barbie-film-required-so-much-pink-paint-it-contributed-to-worldwide-shortage

2smiggy

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1675981349289615360

looking forward to this !!

Mrs Shuttleworth

This looks brilliant and that it might fit into the genre of movies trying to decipher what's real and what isn't

Only gripe is Margot Robbie looks too old for the part reminding me of Diana Ross in "The Wiz"

pixelburp

Continuing this film's weird trend of headlines: it has been banned in Vietnam cos a doodle seen in the trailer looked too close to the disputed area in South China Sea, Vietnam not liking the implication from this crayon drawing 🤭 ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/07/studio-defends-barbie-movie-after-controversial-map-prompts-vietnam-ban

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

First reviews are in, all very positive so far. Run time is just shy of 2 hours.

2smiggy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120828220#Comment_120828220

😳 I think you could not find a better Barbie than her !! She is only 33 (and a very fresh 33 at that)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Literally can't imagine anyone else doing it.

I shudder at the thought of the previous planned version with Amy Schumer.

bnt

Is there more to life than being Just Ken?

https://youtu.be/Y1IgAEejvqM

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120838173#Comment_120838173

I hope this gets Oscar nominated for best song for him to perform

~Rebel~

Major Johnny Lawrence vibes there 😅

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I know the Barbie v Oppenheimer things were mostly just people having fun but I found it hilarious that someone asked Nolan if he'd seen Barbie yet and he just answered "No" in a kind of grumpy way.

Meanwhile Robbie and Gerwig were posting pictures of them with cinema tickets beside the posters for Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible, and Indiana Jones. I think Tom Cruise did the same but with Barbie instead of his own film.

Oppenheimer definitely the least fun of the summer blockbusters.

Agent Coulson

Cruise is the ultimate pro on the red carpet, However I do believe him when he say he will watch both on the same day.

He has them in the right order too I think myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWH50EpTHc&ab_channel=TalentAgencyGuide

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I mean he's clearly a cult leader, but I believe nobody loves movies as much as Tom Cruise loves movies.

Side note - My local cinema has 5 showing of Barbie on sale since last week for opening day. 4 in their fancy old fashioned screen, and 1 in their biggest screen. There's lots of tickets sold for all 5 showings already. They've only got Oppenheimer in their other fancy recliner screen for 1 showing, and nobody has bought tickets yet.

I don't think anyone really thought Oppenheimer would outsell Barbie though.