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galagazombie posted:I’m halfway convinced all the right wing “outrage” over Barbie is astroturfing by the studio simply bribing them to hype it as some grand political manifesto instead of the soulless corporate glop of “Lego Movie: Pink Edition” it so obviously is. Because I’m only seeing it from hoity toity YouTube ecelebs. Compare to the organic free range bigotry of say.. the black The Little Mermaid where you saw the hoi poloi of vileness on image boards and forums coming out of the woodwork. Barbie looks real fun and not soulless at all?
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galagazombie posted:I’m halfway convinced all the right wing “outrage” over Barbie is astroturfing by the studio simply bribing them to hype it as some grand political manifesto instead of the soulless corporate glop of “Lego Movie: Pink Edition” it so obviously is. Because I’m only seeing it from hoity toity YouTube ecelebs. Compare to the organic free range bigotry of say.. the black The Little Mermaid where you saw the hoi poloi of vileness on image boards and forums coming out of the woodwork. Barbie is by all accounts a fun movie that a lot of people are enjoying but it is really annoying how obviously astroturfed all the hype around it is, especially the whole "Barbieheimer" thing. And yet for all the breathless "what does it mean that Barbie is now a feminist icon???" thinkpieces I've seen there's been very little commentary on the obviously artificial nature of the phenomenon and what it means for toy tie-ins going forward.
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galagazombie posted:I’m halfway convinced all the right wing “outrage” over Barbie is astroturfing by the studio simply bribing them to hype it as some grand political manifesto instead of the soulless corporate glop of “Lego Movie: Pink Edition” it so obviously is. Because I’m only seeing it from hoity toity YouTube ecelebs. Compare to the organic free range bigotry of say.. the black The Little Mermaid where you saw the hoi poloi of vileness on image boards and forums coming out of the woodwork. The right wing stuff is genuine, but it's also a case of the influencers in that sphere churning out content that's very similar to stuff they've done before (and very recently) for sake of getting content out and they've reached the point where the performativeness of their outrage is beginning to show a bit more. And at the moment their audience seems more worked up about Jim Caviezel's Qanon-curious Taken-alike than Ben Shapiro burning dollies for children. Also, Elon is loving over one of the Right's digital battlegrounds of choice. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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You know I reckon Failed Screenwriter Ben Shapiro is secretly seething about The Sound of Freedom because it's making money and has a fanbase unlike all the movies he's tried to distribute
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/thr/status/1681997940901007360?s=46&t=lbKxPpxJyMeDN0i-nFAg4A The face you make when you’re arrested for terrorism after calling in a bomb threat on a train because a woman turned your drunk rear end down.
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Professor Shark posted:I thought TJ Miller’s career was dead It is, this is further evidence
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Professor Shark posted:I thought TJ Miller’s career was dead What about that tweet says otherwise?
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Professor Shark posted:I thought TJ Miller’s career was dead It's at death's door. Fortunately, here comes web3 to help him pull through!
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Kinda rhymes with Quibi quibi + aviato = quijibo
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galagazombie posted:I’m halfway convinced all the right wing “outrage” over Barbie is astroturfing by the studio simply bribing them to hype it as some grand political manifesto instead of the soulless corporate glop of “Lego Movie: Pink Edition” it so obviously is. Because I’m only seeing it from hoity toity YouTube ecelebs. Compare to the organic free range bigotry of say.. the black The Little Mermaid where you saw the hoi poloi of vileness on image boards and forums coming out of the woodwork. nah people like that try to stir up outrage over every movie that comes out in hope that lightning strikes and a culture war breaks out over it
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Len posted:Barbie looks real fun and not soulless at all? Barbie is soulful corporate glop. It’s basically doing Pixar in live-action so, if you’ve seen Inside Out or Wreck It Ralph 2, you know pretty much exactly what to expect.
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Srice posted:nah people like that try to stir up outrage over every movie that comes out in hope that lightning strikes and a culture war breaks out over it It’s not so much the right wing coverage of Barbie that is baffling—as you note, this is just their usual grift—but the liberal hype. Like I thought that even the most MSNBC-brained girl boss libs would exhibit a little more critical thinking than that.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Neither of the Wreck It Ralphs were Pixar. Disney-Pixar, whichever. Inside Out and Soul, if you prefer.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m just making sure you stay accurate. I’m referring to Pixar as, like, a genre. Like how an Xbox is a Nintendo.
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High Warlord Zog posted:The right wing stuff is genuine, but it's also a case of the influencers in that sphere churning out content that's very similar to stuff they've done before (and very recently) for sake of getting content out and they've reached the point where the performativeness of their outrage is beginning to show a bit more. And at the moment their audience seems more worked up about Jim Caviezel's Qanon-curious Taken-alike than Ben Shapiro burning dollies for children. The right-wing and liberal griftospheres have been symbiotic astroturf for like a decade at this point.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I’m referring to Pixar as, like, a genre. Like how an Xbox is a Nintendo. I’m honestly disappointed in you.
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MeinPanzer posted:It’s not so much the right wing coverage of Barbie that is baffling—as you note, this is just their usual grift—but the liberal hype. Like I thought that even the most MSNBC-brained girl boss libs would exhibit a little more critical thinking than that. Not sure why you would expect that out of MSNBC.
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Jesus, I'm trying to watch They Cloned Tyrone on Netflix, but someone pulled the Add Noise slider all the way to the right. This looks like poo poo. edit: movie's fun, by the way. But drat, this is like deliberately scratching up the film afterwards. davidspackage fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m honestly disappointed in you. Au contraire, "xbox is a nintendo" is almost exactly the kind of ridiculous declarative statement their Posting Brand is built upon.
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High Warlord Zog posted:You know I reckon Failed Screenwriter Ben Shapiro is secretly seething about The Sound of Freedom because it's making money and has a fanbase unlike all the movies he's tried to distribute It is? Professor Shark posted:It’s actually impressive how they shopped that turd of a movie around for years and landed on the Right Wing grift angle and made it a hit It is?!
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ruddiger posted:It is? I mean, something that would have been straight to dvd years ago/ New Release (on Tubi or Roku channels) has people buying out theatres that sit empty while the movie plays, so that’s pretty (dumb) impressive imo
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ruddiger posted:It is? It almost beat Indiana Jones and if these legs continue it actually might in the long run.
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Gonz posted:Finally, a possible answer to the question “Can a TV show or movie make negative money?”. Entirely appropriate given the subject.
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Alan Smithee posted:my movies would beat Avatar if they were astroturfed by churchies It wasn’t even meant for chuds originally, it’s just being hyped up for them. A lot of them are mad because they (accurately) feel they’ve been scammed because they don’t see Hillary and Pelosi drinking the adrenochrome at the Dem convention
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davidspackage posted:Jesus, I'm trying to watch They Cloned Tyrone on Netflix, but someone pulled the Add Noise slider all the way to the right. This looks like poo poo. Yeah I really liked it (and the end credits song had me hooting and hollering) but they sure used a bunch of neon lights that could have looked really cool just to waste them
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MeinPanzer posted:Barbie is by all accounts a fun movie that a lot of people are enjoying but it is really annoying how obviously astroturfed all the hype around it is, especially the whole "Barbieheimer" thing. And yet for all the breathless "what does it mean that Barbie is now a feminist icon???" thinkpieces I've seen there's been very little commentary on the obviously artificial nature of the phenomenon and what it means for toy tie-ins going forward. There's been a few articles around - some in The Guardian of all places - that have called bullshit on the whole "Barbie is empowering" and "meta is clever" thinkers that have been everywhere. I especially enjoyed the piece from someone who did the hyped "Barbieheimer" double and returned to warn everyone else what a terrible, misconcieved idea it was.
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I can't imagine doing a double feature where either of the two movies is over two hours long. It's just too much movie!
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My wife has cornered me into doing an early afternoon Oppenheimer, 35mm then tacos, then Barbie, then Barbie karaoke. It's probably gonna be fine, maybe I can sneak in a power nap. Really looking forward to Oppenheimer now. I'll probably also end up getting a flight to another city partly to catch the closest IMAX 70MM showing, in the next few weeks
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Failed Imagineer posted:35mm then tacos, some small tacos
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Alan Smithee posted:some small tacos They're special Barbie -sized tacos
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