Film Greta Gerwig's BARBIE (Margot Robbie/Ryan Gosling)
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Hah, looks great. Little Women was one of the best adaptations I've seen in a long time and Gerwig is generally brilliant so this should be a hoot. Looking forward to it.
Ordinarily I'd run a mile from this, but it's Greta Gerwig, so is bound to be good.
Which one is playing Barbie?
Gosling appears to be Fred from Scooby Doo
We need those protesters from the UK.
Not to halt movie production, but to make it a silent black/white film, with the camera focused on Margot the entire time
Not to halt movie production, but to make it a silent black/white film, with the camera focused on Margot the entire time
Ryan Gosling looks cursed.
I’m actually really looking forward to this. Director and cast suggest it’s going to be brilliant.
I can see the attraction of watching this....
Definitely interested in this one. It's already having a big cultural influence (Barbiecore) and it has some great meta/postmodern potential as a classic.
If Blade Runner 2049 was made for dudes who have onlyfans subscriptions then it’s only fair we get a film for women who have live, laugh, love tattoos and take citalopram.
Yikes.
Hollywood need to leave that dope alone.
Thought this was a satire? They originally had Amy Schumer lined up to play Barbie
I think it's going to be great. Gerwig is not playing this one straight.
Yeah, think it will be grand.
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That was before Greta Gerwig got involved. She will have had her own ideas and her ideas are usually good. Besides, it still looks satirical.
Ryan Gossling looks like Leslie Nielsen.
Gerwig and Baumbach ,yeah, you're in good hands.
Looks absolutely shite. Cannot for the life of me work out why any grown adult would pay money to watch this in the cinema. But ho hum, there’s obviously a market. Twitter is giddy as feck about it.
They did White Noise which was shit.
I like them generally though but not feeling this one.
Because it has two excellent witters, a great director and a stacked cast.
Ryan Gosling doesn't really do bad films so I expect this to be good.
Everyone assuming Gerwig & Baumbach are going to make the great subversive stealth indie, but at this point the most subversive thing they could do is make a completely straight sell out Barbie movie about a funny little doll…
Agree wholeheartedly with you here.
It looks absolutely shallow as feck.
It's almost like they have people hoodwinked into thinking it will be this subversive multi layered onion of a film, when in reality it looks like it's just a shallow, flat SpongeBob squarepants story, one dimensional film.
Exactly. The subversive thing to do would be to make a straight faced Barbie movie. Everyone and their dog knows it's going to have some hacky subtext commenting on Barbie's role in society.
I think people are underestimating Greta Gerwig.
So the best way to undermine or weaken the established film art of selling out is to sell out??
We've finally come full circle....to the Hypernormalisation thread...
We've finally come full circle....to the Hypernormalisation thread...
Now I'm not a film buff, most of the films I watch wouldn't ever grace the big screen, they are more atune to an extremely niche dvd collection,
So explain to me the greatness that Gerwig has Directed?
And how what she has directed would be relevant to a film about a doll?
Watch Ladybird and Frances Ha, for starters.
Pre-90s rehashed Barbie takes over post ironic toy-hocking sentimentalism. Tepid corporate slop masquerading as metatextual appreciation, from self-satisfied, gurning mumblebrats.
It’ll be excruciating but the mob will tell you it's the thing. The cultural landfill is perfectly placed to receive this crap gleefully.
Aqua will age exceptionally well next to it.
It’ll be excruciating but the mob will tell you it's the thing. The cultural landfill is perfectly placed to receive this crap gleefully.
Aqua will age exceptionally well next to it.
When it comes to hyping up shite movies, caf is no worse than facebook crowd who suddenly all turn into big Greta Gerwig fans despite not mentioning her 7 times in total (by all members, and 2 out of those 7 times were for her acting, not directing) during previous 20 years, and that's mostly for one film.
Not trying to underrate her, but this is completely different movie to anything she has done before, and it's not like she has done ten great movies anyway.
Not trying to underrate her, but this is completely different movie to anything she has done before, and it's not like she has done ten great movies anyway.
Her two previous films, Lady Bird and Little Women, were both incredibly witty and clever, there's reason to think this will be as well.
It's not entirely different to what she did with Little Women, though.
I've seen Little Women, and I don't think I'll ever watch this. I am not gonna be avoiding it, but that trailer and surrounding looks like poor and satirical version of Truman's show, and Truman's show was 25 years ago.
Real cinema 
That looks dumb