I’ve been sick of the marketing push about this for months by now. Just let it be over punished-bernie

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    11 months ago

    Extremely obvious attempt at viral marketing that people have nevertheless fallen for and will continue to fall for when the even more obvious attempt at viral marketing happens again.

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      I think people have just accepted that they have to participate in viral marketing stuff now because it’s the only way to relate to half their friends, families, and coworkers. Like, did anyone believe for a second all these zoomers were that into Grimmace?

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        Idk. At a certain point, complaining about this stuff feels on par with the scalds who were angry over jokes about the Titanic Sub.

        Yeah, a lot of the shit in the news is a marketing gimmick. But what else is new? Getting worked up because people made Grimace memes for a few weeks after some McDs ad guy spent too much money to force the subject to trend gets us what, exactly?

        People like movies. Both these movies appear to be well received. So people are piling on a thing that looks fun.

        Nothing wrong with that.

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          11 months ago

          Ah forgive me comrade I didn’t realize I wasn’t allowed to express my frustration about being saturated with astroturf marketing, and that I especially couldn’t do it on a communist website

          I will promptly return to the pod and eat the bugs

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    11 months ago

    I hope they keep expanding the Barbie Cinematic Universe (BCU) and it completely takes over and it’s just Barbie movies and shows and fandom everywhere for a decade

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    Libs: the 2 hour toy commercial is based because it recuperates and co-opts feminism

    Conservatives: the 2 hour toy commercial is cringe because it hates men

    Everyone else: I’mma smoke some weed and go laugh at the 2 hour toy commercial with my friends

    debord-tired

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      11 months ago

      I enjoyed the Barbie movie for the slop it was I-was-saying

      That said, I totally understand and do not blame anyone for being tired of the hype wave and being annoyed at hype in general.

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      11 months ago

      Nolan stans here already tried to defend the latest BWAAAAAAAAAAAAM but I feel vindicated that it’s been identified as yet more reactionary shit from a reactionary shithead. sicko-yes

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        11 months ago

        A 2 hour toy commercial about an Aryan children’s toy with blonde hair and blue eyes that was created to give little girls body dysmorphia so they would grow up to be obedient housewives

        versus

        a movie about a famous scientist with friends in the CPUSA who gave money to leftist causes and helped defeat fascism and was suspected of communist sympathies himself.

        But Chris Nolan made the second one so it’s reactionary. Forget about death of the author

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          You’re blissfully ignoring the Nolan spin on the story. It isn’t some magically nonpolitical presentation; it is yet another Nolan spin, this time on Oppenheimer, complete with anticommunist bullshit mixed in which downright warps the biographical story. Clearly you’re stanning for Nolan movies and made an entire alt account just to reactively rage at me to defend the good name of your favorite cryptofascist movie treat man, so I don’t know what else to tell you except better get your next alt account made soon, you silly superfan. sus-soviet

          Forget about death of the author

          Yes, I rather would because it’s used by reddit-logo types like yourself as a thought terminating cliche to excuse your own failures of literary comprehension.

          EDIT: I may have been mistaken about how this particular Nolan film plays out compared to all the ones I saw before and disliked for similar reasons, and I am willing to believe the testimony of one person replying who explained how the film plays out. That’s nice, and I’m glad. On the other hand, the standard issue frothingfash toxic fan that showed up in the below comment chain (and made another alt account specifically to go frothingfash at me as of only ~30 minutes ago) reinforces why I like to steer clear of Nolan movies and especially their fandoms in general.

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          an Aryan children’s toy with blonde hair and blue eyes that was created to give little girls body dysmorphia so they would grow up to be obedient housewives

          There’s a scene where a middle schooler virtually quotes this to Barbies face and calls her a fascist which makes her cry