Greta Gerwig's movie based on the world's most iconic fashion doll keeps dancing past one record after another.
If the movie is still making $6 million on a Tuesday, this movie is going break a lot more records.
‘Barbie’ Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating ‘The Dark Knight’
Submitted 8 months ago by realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’ve seen it three times. I’m going this week which will make four. It’s a fun movie
clobubba@kbin.social 8 months ago
I enjoyed it, but I'm not paying that ticket price again.
DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The movie is awesome, but it gets me down thinking about how many shitty toy “but with grown-up humour” we’re going to get after this, just because now every studio in the world is going to join the bandwagon.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was a good movie and I enjoyed it at the the theater once but there is no way in hell I’m laying to see any movie in theater again, you’ve seen it once, just remember it to enjoy it again lol
favrion@lemmy.film 8 months ago
Put a batsuit on her in the sequel and the ticket sales will double.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a rubber suit and gets really sweaty…
I’d rather do the Wolf of Wall Street thing again.
BrokebackHampton@kbin.social 8 months ago
Joker: Folie à Deux, now starring Margot Robbie as Batman
gabe@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I’m at the theaters to see this right now and the theater is packed, never seen a movie that was this packed outside of opening day
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 8 months ago
Same. I think enthusiasm for films is up this year, the audiences for both Barbie and Sound Of Freedom were the biggest audiences I've ever seen, and I've been going to theaters for years.
gabe@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I think people just miss the movies since the pandemic honestly. I missed the movie going experience a lot
Lauchs@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s wild! I’m stoked to see it but keep waiting for the crowds to die down… Which seems like it may never happen.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unless you’re waiting for saftey reasons, I say go now. It’s sort of a cultural phenomenon right now, a Moment, kinda like endgame and batman trilogy. It will lose just a bit of magic if you go when everyone is done talking about it imo.
FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hmm, the article says the ticket revenue wasn’t adjusted for inflation, so batman actually made over 760 million in 2023 dollars. I haven’t seen the movie but my partner really wants to, can’t wait to see what the hypes all about.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If you can clear your head of the hype going into the movie, you’ll have a better experience.
It’s a good movie, but the hype is killing the expectations.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You won’t know until you see it! 🥰
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 8 months ago
It's good. If you're a man, I'd say don't take it seriously and you probably won't end up getting too offended.
girl@lemm.ee 8 months ago
There’s nothing about the movie that should be offensive to a man. It is critical of how the patriarchy impacts both men and women.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing!
Randyy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder how many men went to see the movie just for Margo Robbie.
Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Shit, I’m a man and I went for Ryan Gosling.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
His ending outfit was cool.
Plus those abs have to be airbrushed… Right?
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At least spell my name right.
It’s “Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie” to you.
Moohamin12@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If I am going to a movie jusg to get my peepee excited, I would rather Oppenheimer.
Apparently there are better scenes.
drekly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Everyone I know hated it so that’s a surprise! Sounds like it was a bait and switch from the trailer, great job to the marketing team!
YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
White People trash will always do good at the movies, no one wants to see people of color star in anything these days
So much for Black Lives Matter
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 8 months ago
White People trash will always do good at the movies
This is so hilariously wrong that it's hard for me to take this seriously. I don't know of a recent movie that bombed that didn't have a predominantly white cast.
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
And a non-white, an outsider and onlooker on the American sociopolitical scenery, I can attest that I also regard the non-white people as perceptually racist, and sometimes even worst. It’s been many occasions where they don’t say a word regarding all-non-white-casts movies. But when people made all-white movies (or if none of them won any awards), they will throw tantrums for being left out. Quite typical scenarios.
girl@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My parents have seen this movie three times, I’ve seen it twice, might go again lol. I’m in a deficit of movies marketed toward women that dont revolve around romance, I can only watch legally blonde so many times (who am I kidding, I will watch it a dozen more times at least)
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Giiirl! Love legally blonde! Before seeing barbie I realized women kind of get like one super great kinda cult following comedy movie a decade. (Not a hard rule or anything) Clueless, legally blonde, mean girls. The stuff we still quote and watch today. My prediction was that Barbie is going to be that movie. After I first saw it I thought maybe not, but I keep thinking about it and like it more and more as I sit on it, the flaws became more acceptable/tolerable. Sorry for ramble I’m just excited to see another woman say it hits that niche for them too!
girl@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes!! There are flaws with all of those movies, but it’s hard to be choosey when there are so few movies that feel like this. Everything Everywhere All At Once also kind of scratches this itch for me, though in a more broad sense due to the wide range of ideas it covered. I’m super glad to talk about Barbie with other women! It has been great seeing all the women I work with embracing a side of themselves that has historically been shit on.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wow. Marketing on Lemmy has been a resounding success.
girl@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes, my 50 year old parents went because they frequent lemmy so often 🙄 I went again for the reasons I described, there are very few movies that feel the way this movie does. Comments from randos != marketing
dimeslime@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It felt odd, marketed as a female movie, It had a female lead, women that talk to other women, but half way through I commented to my partner that this feels like a movie about Ken.
My only take away as a dirty male is I can t wait to see it again for Ken, but when it’s streaming.
girl@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’ve seen this opinion from a lot of men, about 80% of the top comments on the Reddit mega thread we’re about how Ken “made the movie”. I’ve talked to a lot women about this, and the every one of them has said “of course they think it’s about the man”. It’s a bit frustrating, honestly, to see this opinion everywhere. I do not see how he could be seen as the focus of the movie. I loved Ken of course, but you missed a big point of the movie if your main takeaway is how great Ken was.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree it was a lot of Ken.
It was a female movie, we had the sort of history of progress that barbie either helped bring or at least reflected the change of times. We had our relationship, memories, references, inside jokes, and love of barbie. It is also a VERY feminist movie. I’d argue the best depiction of what feminism is about I’ve seen. It shows how the patriarchy hurts everyone too, and the answer isn’t a matriarchy. It was just done in a way it could easily be ignored if someone wanted to just enjoy the surface level fun. What bothered me about it was the Mattel dicksucking corporate bs I suspect was forced to be included and portrayed a certain way. They did a decent job trying to make it work but if felt obvious and gross to me.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you’ve never seen it, watch ‘A New Leaf’ with Walter Matthau and Elaine May. May directed it. It’s a rom com for people who really hate rom coms.