Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me.

• GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really to the point I was trying to make here.

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  • FoxBJK@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I understand your point, but a movie that is itself a 2-hour advertisement doesn’t lose any of its value by showing other brands.

    What’s bleak is that a movie about a toy grosses over a billion at the box office. Not that BMW or Samsung want you to look at their stuff.

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    • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This critique irks me for some reason. Consider this: Imagine the latest Top Gun had some scene where Tom Cruise literally high fives Uncle Sam, then slowly whispers “Freedom” and winks into the camera. You’d rightfully find this jarring, a poor aesthetic choice, weird.

      But then someone online tells you why you’d expect anything else from a franchise that’s heavily subsidized and supported by the military industrial complex, and demanding a sort of artistic consistency from such a franchise is pointless to begin with.

      Tldr: I think you can critique the art even if you’re aware of it’s ideological confines.

      (This reply hinges on such a scene not being in the latest Top Gun movie, which I haven’t see yet to be honest)

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      • Gaybees@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It might not be as obvious as literally winking into the camera, but Top Gun had substantial monetary investment from the U.S. military, and they definitely tried to make being in the military look cool and fun and attractive.

        They definitely don’t show what it’s really like to be a service member, and that’s for good reason.

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      • FoxBJK@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A fair point, but in your original example we’re talking about a cell phone. That’s a significantly more subtle inclusion than Tom draping himself in an American flag and riding off on the back of an eagle.

        I don’t remember the scene we’re talking about, so if it was a cell phone in the real world I see no issue. If it was in Barbie’s world then it should’ve been plastic. That would be my only complaint.

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