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feedmyleg posted:Also the Barbie media, apparently—my 5 year old niece threw on a Barbie video while she was staying with me and I was pretty impressed with the messaging. It's still tied to decades of antifeminist damage, though. True, but 21st century Barbie is wild compared to where it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ahiHpM3yQ
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FlamingLiberal posted:So Greta Gerwig of all people is going to direct that Barbie movie with Margot Robbie. I'm really struggling to imagine what this is going to be like. Cowritten by Noah Baumbach too holy poo poo.
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so if the barbie movie does well are we gonna get an American Girl movie made by Chloe Zhao
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feedmyleg posted:Also the Barbie media, apparently—my 5 year old niece threw on a Barbie video while she was staying with me and I was pretty impressed with the messaging. It's still tied to decades of antifeminist damage, though. Hasn't that been a thing on and off for decades? IIRC there was a President Barbie in the 80s. Also, apparently the original Toy Story wanted to have a Sarah Connor/Ripley inspired Barbie but Mattel wasn't interested. (yes, they changed their tune quick for for the sequels) Barbie and Ken in Toy Story 3 were... interesting. They almost stepped right out of a more family-friendly Robot Chicken short.
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Mattel got dragged a bit semi-recently because there was a book where she was developing a video game, but just coming up with ideas while a couple guys did the programming. Bit of an implication there. That’s all I know about Barbie. I haven’t seen Ladybird, but I did watch her version of Little Women back at Christmas. I guess some people didn’t like the interwoven time periods but I felt like the story might have dragged if it was in chronological order.
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Mattel's historically been pretty poo poo on gender. The most notorious case that sticks to me was their disinterest in releasing toys of the women from Avatar: TLA (a wildly popular show where women make up an huge chunk of the main & supporting cast). [Last I checked] Barbie sales have been slacking for a while with the loosening of gender roles though; more and more girls want to play with dinosaurs and superheroines, less changing a fake babies' diaper or 10 copies of a lady whos defining features are wearing clothes & having hair. Not that surprising that they're trying to shake things up and get with the times. Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jul 11, 2021 |
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The Modern Leper posted:True, but 21st century Barbie is wild compared to where it was: As a Canadian this video left me confused, angry and scared.
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Come And See posted:As a Canadian this video left me confused, angry and scared. Sorry  ... wait 
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The Modern Leper posted:True, but 21st century Barbie is wild compared to where it was: I am a man so I am clearly not the target audience but I definitely do this. I am very hesitant to stop however, mostly because I utterly despise the current culture of never apologizing and doubling down whenever you are wrong. “Confidence” is destroying humanity.
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https://twitter.com/FANGORIA/status/1412782144968142850?s=19 It's apparently based on an old Malaysian film featuring a were tiger, may be fun? And I assume they would do a bunch of practical effects, I think that what the fangoria fan base likes
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Neurolimal posted:Mattel's historically been pretty poo poo on gender. The most notorious case that sticks to me was their disinterest in releasing toys of the women from Avatar: TLA (a wildly popular show where women make up an huge chunk of the main & supporting cast). Do Mattel also make DC Superheroe Girls toys? Because those probably sell better. Barbie also saw heavy competition from Bratz, which more openly promoted their diverse racial lineup, and Monster High which does that and also be cool vampires and werewolves.
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Baron von Eevl posted:He has low offense, sure, but his defense is through the roof. I saw it too, I figure it's never a good sign if half the trailer for the third movie of a franchise is just footage from the first movie.
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AceOfFlames posted:I am a man so I am clearly not the target audience but I definitely do this. I am very hesitant to stop however, mostly because I utterly despise the current culture of never apologizing and doubling down whenever you are wrong. “Confidence” is destroying humanity. Same. I'll reflexively apologize if I inconvenience someone, even if they're clearly in the wrong. Or at least say "are you okay?"
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My son recently had a phase of watching Barbie shows, and Life In The Dreamhouse is actually a surprisingly amusing postmodern piss-take filled with for-the-parents jokes where the characters are all aware that they're dolls in a ridiculous cartoon satire on reality TV. (The other shows are bland as hell, though.)
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AceOfFlames posted:Rasputin really has this hold over the public consciousness because of his legend as the apparent mystical puppeteer behind the czar and his wife whereas the truth is that he was just a two bit con man who somehow managed to convince the royal family that he was the only thing keeping their kid from dying of hemophilia. In Hellboy he’s an immortal wizard who summoned the Cthulhu that a rogue Satan created to destroy the universe and also the son of a rogue prince of hell who has the arm of a somewhat less rogue Satan that is the most powerful artifact in creation. He mainly did this to be an rear end in a top hat
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/FANGORIA/status/1412782144968142850?s=19 I thought I, Zombie was the first Fangoria film.
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AceOfFlames posted:I am a man so I am clearly not the target audience but I definitely do this. I am very hesitant to stop however, mostly because I utterly despise the current culture of never apologizing and doubling down whenever you are wrong. “Confidence” is destroying humanity. Barbie has secretly been John Wayne all along.
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Come And See posted:Barbie has secretly been John Wayne all along. Exactly. THAT attitude is what makes me sick. gently caress John Wayne and people like him for perpetuating it.
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ruddiger posted:I thought I, Zombie was the first Fangoria film. Shhhh, we don't talk about any other previous films that had Fangoria slapped on the cover because they were vaguely involved.
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davidspackage posted:American soldier, smiling sardonically: "never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a terrorist." He said soldiers from armies that won only.
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DeimosRising posted:In Hellboy he’s an immortal wizard who summoned the Cthulhu that a rogue Satan created to destroy the universe and also the son of a rogue prince of hell who has the arm of a somewhat less rogue Satan that is the most powerful artifact in creation. He mainly did this to be an rear end in a top hat This is substantially more interesting than ehat happened in the movie. Rasputin had the magical arm??
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Shageletic posted:This is substantially more interesting than ehat happened in the movie. Rasputin had the magical arm?? Well he had a magical arm 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well he had a magical arm
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Payndz posted:My son recently had a phase of watching Barbie shows, and Life In The Dreamhouse is actually a surprisingly amusing postmodern piss-take filled with for-the-parents jokes where the characters are all aware that they're dolls in a ridiculous cartoon satire on reality TV. (The other shows are bland as hell, though.) Life in the Dreamhouse is the series I recommend all the time whenever Barbie talk arrives, it's hilarious and spoofs Barbie and reality shows, it's amazing they let it go on as long as they did. It is the measuring stick I will judge the Barbie movie against. Some of the various Barbie movies are okay but there are so many I haven't see. LOL Surprise is another girl doll line that is big and I'm expecting a movie deal any day now, iirc the company behind Bratz owns them as well
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well he had a magical arm Bury me with my magical arm
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Does remind me that I wondered if Hellboy came with a big right arm because of that big gauntlet thingy Rasputin wore while summoning him. Or possibly vice versa.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Bratz get shut down because of some copyright kerfuffle with Barbie? One of the creators of Bratz used to work at Mattel so there were lawsuits back and forth for years as to whether or not there was any sort of infringement. Originally MGA was ordered to give literally everything including profits and IPs to Mattel, but then the verdict ping-ponged between courts until Mattel was ordered to pay $350 million to MGA instead. Problem was that the Bratz dolls kept getting pulled off the shelves every time a pro-Mattel verdict was reached and MGA eventually tried a complete redesign. Between that and the public perception that "Bratz stole from Barbie" because of the publicity surrounding the initial lawsuit, they last attempted to relaunch the line in 2016 and it failed. Oh, and they wasted money on a movie that had nothing to do with the toys.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Does remind me that I wondered if Hellboy came with a big right arm because of that big gauntlet thingy Rasputin wore while summoning him. Or possibly vice versa. The gauntlet is Rasputin trying to imitate Hellboy’s power to open a door between worlds, which we see at the end of the movie uses his big stone arm.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Oh, and they wasted money on a movie that had nothing to do with the toys.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Oh, and they wasted money on a movie that had nothing to do with the toys. I wouldn't call it a total waste https://youtu.be/UmK0noqlnoQ
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Bratz get shut down because of some copyright kerfuffle with Barbie? Yes but then they came back then were discontinued again and then returned again. Bratz, definitely not herpes! Pope Corky the IX posted:Oh, and they wasted money on a movie that had nothing to do with the toys. I will go on record and say the movie is okay, definitely better than the animated Bratz features, and also the four leads are still friends and still hang out all the time Tars Tarkas fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Shageletic posted:This is substantially more interesting than ehat happened in the movie. Rasputin had the magical arm?? Rasputin was summoning him to get the arm, or to convince him to use it, whichever. The movie is different in a few ways from the books, which are very long and evolve a lot over the ~25 or so years they were coming out. But the basic idea in the movie is the same. Hellboy’s father Azzael stole the arm, which imprisoned the Dragon of Revelation, and fused it to his half human child, who was supposed to use it to conquer Hell and begin the End. Which he does. Sort of.
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Tars Tarkas posted:I will go on record and say the movie is okay, definitely better than the animated Bratz features, and also the four leads are still friends and still hang out all the time But that shitbag Jon Voight is in it, which makes it terrible by default.
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Nickelodeon movies newsquote:Now, Robbins hopes to replicate the franchise strategy he employed to better position Nickelodeon to compete with Disney and Netflix in the ultra-competitive kids programming space. The exec, who developed Netflix’s To All the Boys franchise, Hulu’s PEN15, The CW’s Smallville and MTV YA pic Varsity Blues, plans to bring Nickelodeon back into the feature film business with new movies from LeBron James (Fantasy Football, starring Black-ish‘s Marsai Martin) and genre drama Hush, Hush set to bow in 2022 as part of a planned slate of a dozen features. While Fantasy Football and Hush, Hush are earmarked for Paramount+, Robbins says others — beyond the upcoming Paw Patrol and Seth Rogen’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — will get a theatrical debut. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fairly-oddparents-revival-blues-clues-movie-nickelodeon-brian-robbins-1234979714/ There is already a trilogy of live-action The Fairly OddParents movies starring pedophile Drake Bell
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Tars Tarkas posted:Nickelodeon movies news I can't believe Blues Clues has been on TV for 25 years 
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The blues clues host did some Npr or standup bit where he talked about some milf taking him out to dinner but it was a bait and switch to pitch some script and he got recognized by an older couple the next table over who thought he was with a prostitute So yeah hard Blues Clues when
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Alan Smithee posted:The blues clues host did some Npr or standup bit where he talked about some milf taking him out to dinner but it was a bait and switch to pitch some script and he got recognized by an older couple the next table over who thought he was with a prostitute "OK. First we draw a square. Then we draw a long line going all the way through it, making sure it comes out of both ends of the square. Now all we need in a small line along one of the ends of the long line and there we have it! Out first clue! A syringe full of heroin!"
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Detective No. 27 posted:It was off the air for a decade or so before the current revival. Okay, my point was more the shock that the property is that old now. Which in turn means I am getting old 
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