Just saw it today with my daughter… great great movie. Definitely deserves the hype.
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But is it Kenough?
I thought it was pretty fun and enjoyable. My GF thought it was a bit boring though. Not for everyone surely, and I think it could have been better but still a solid 7/10 by me
Just finished watching it maybe ~2 hours ago. I agree with the 7/10. There were parts that were boring (and imo cringey), but overall it was interesting. Nothing game breaking and could be better, but still a good watch.
6/10 for me, but yes, it's fun and gets uneven, with said cringey bits.
Go woke, go ~~broke~~ rich?
It turns outs "woke" doesn't have a definition nor really a unifying theme, and that marketing a film to 50+% of the population can actually work.
I’ve asked dozens of republicans and not one of them can answer the question: “what is woke?”
Yeah, Greta Gerwig just completely invalidated that right wing slogan.
Would like to see that gross adjusted for inflation. But either way, incredibly solid box office.
Have to admit I kind of want to see it.
Adjusted for inflation it still made over $1B.
I mean so we can compare it to box office of all time. Haven't seen a source though.
Wonder Woman would have grossed over $1B if adjusted for inflation. Barbie has already passed its total inflation-adjusted gross, though.
Look at the last movie that broke a record. The inflation conversion probably hasn't changed much since then.
Nothing's cracked the top 10 lifetime interest adjusted grosses in a long time. Our last top 20 film was in 2015.
If @moobythegoldensock is right, this sounds like this could be a new top 10 entry, will have to wait and see.
Is anyone surprised?
Every time the was a movie that appealed a lot to women, it broke all box office records. Just look at Titanic.
As of last year, Gone With the Wind was still the highest grossing film ever made once we factor in inflation.
And that's a melodrama with a female protagonist.
I plan to see it as soon as it comes out of cinemas 🚢🧲
Thankfully haven't seen any spoilers or memes yet, unlike with some of the Marvel franchise movies
Well it’s not something I like so what arbitrary metric can I use to dismiss this accomplishment?
Well it’s not something I like so what arbitrary metric can I use to dismiss this accomplishment?
Ugh, there's that mean-spirited, "let's assume the worst about people" attitude I hoped we left at reddit.
I'm a cinephile with an interest in film history and I want to know where the new film stands on this list.
If it knocks out Gone With The Wind, that has real implications not just for cinema history, but as an indicator of the health of the movie theater industry.
I also stated that I want to see the film, so assuming I'm trying to "dismiss" it isn't reasonable.
I thought it was very mediocre, even disregarding how gross it is as a transparent advertising vehicle that tries to lampshade its intent with a few throwaway lines about capitalism being bad.
The acting and set design and visuals were super well done and I liked how irreverent and tongue and cheek it could be. That said yeah it definitely gives this vibe of "wow heehee look how progressive we are" and the story is kind of all over the place. Overall it was alright and kinda fun but it also had a lot of mixed messages and while it had lines criticizing consumerism and such it is still very blatantly a big multimedia joint venture to sell a ton of stuff.
At the same time I understand that as a child growing up in the US that a lot of our nostalgia and childhood memories are intrinsically intertwined with marketing, IP, and big business. I'm a guy so my barbie experiences were only when I was playing with at the house of a friend who was a girl or a cousin or something, but I know how ingrained in my youth my old gi joe toys, transformers, powerrangers, superhero stuff, and etc is.
strange that two weeks ago the opening was like 150 mil a giant success, but maybe that just goes to predict or correlate with this number in some way. Giant opening means great buzz, means more sales. etc. guess it worked out. I need to watch it but probably will just do so at home.