He said his dislike of the film had nothing to do with the politics but of the structure of the film.
Lol. What a joke. Shapiro's review was a failure.
For a movie sucking up to women relentlessly, I am sure his disinterest is understandable.
Or is a man not allowed to dislike this particular film?
I don't know what more funny about Shapiro Review. People claiming he was throwing a hissy fit, when he really wasn't. Or the people who are throwing a hissy fit over his hissy fit. You have people making reviews of other people reviews. Its f$$$ing retarded.
shareWhat is it called when someone reviews the review of someone's review? π€π€π€π€
shareSeems odd. The politics were certainly "problematic" to steal a phrase. The structure? I will have to get around to watching his review at some point.
sharewhat were the problematic politics in the movie?
shareStandard anti-male feminist politics. Very bad. Very harmful to men, women, children and society.
shareThere's an online cottage industry of male snowflakes crying about toxic feminism and they thought targeting Barbie as " baaaad movie" would result in a box office bomb.
These same types flood other movie media message boards praising movies like Alien's (1986) as a good feminist movie because Ripley went Chuck Bronson on the Xenomorphs, yet they overlook the fact that 99% of the men in the movie are either conniving bastards or buffoons who end up killed. Only the passive android and Lt. Hicks survive the ordeal, but are pretty much useless during the film's climax
There's a mighty big difference between a film simply portraying a woman in a leading role as being strong, intelligent, resourceful, and capable, and a film that is transparently pushing the notion that the system in the real world is actively holding women back, that men hate them and are working against them, and that a significant percentage of real world males are their enemies (all the while making caricatures out of these males for their alleged "toxicity"). Something like T2 or the Alien films, whether consciously or not, is telling females that they can do anything if they put their minds/bodies to it and they have the will for it. Something such as Barbie, however, is telling them that they're victims and that their government, society, and male counterparts are actively working against them. Granted, obviously, it's just a Barbie movie, which is insignificant in the big scheme of things. But little stuff like this nevertheless piles up in the collective unconscious, adding to the already troublesome normalization of negative beliefs that are debatable to say the least. So I don't think it's particularly out of line to make the claim that there's "problematic" elements to the film.
shareAlien and Alien's propagates the concept that male corporate overlords are always looking to exploit and discard women, families, and working class humans in general. You observe reality with a skewered filter.
shareNeither Alien nor Aliens say or imply squat about women being victimized in the real world or their fictional one. Heck, the first film was literally written as all-male, where the sex was interchangeable. It wasn't until after the plot already existed that Ripley was made female. And in the second film, our brief look at the room full of "male corporate overlords" included a couple of women; one of whom Ripley even debates with. The "evil corporations" trope being utilized in these films has nothing to do with men victimizing women or corporations, in general, victimizing people because of any particular sex. It has to do with this one specific fictional corporation just being greedy. One sex was never singled out in these movies for any reason. Sex was not a character's defining characteristic any more than their hair color was. They were showing equality in both good and bad in that regard. It seems as if maybe you viewed these films from a "skewered" filter lol.
Heroines in the Alien films, T2, Kill Bill, Contact, Silence of the Lambs, etc., etc., managed to say to females "see, we can be strong, intelligent, and capable" just by showing strong, intelligent, and capable women as examples. This is a positive empowerment that doesn't require negativity towards the male sex, society, government, or anyone else in the real world.
Barbie, on the other hand, while cutesy and well-intentioned, requires all of that. It repeatedly makes direct comments about the real world and vilifies our real society, system, and male population while simultaneously pushing the negative notions that real females are "hated", looked down upon, generally oppressed, and should be paranoid about people (men, in particular) who are allegedly out to victimize them due to their sex. It's propagating hate, resentment, fear, victimhood, and already out-of-hand conspiracy theories about a system that's out to get them.
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It's a wonder anyone takes this guy seriously. To support Home Depot for refusing to succumb to the "Woke Left," he went in and bought a plank of wood. He triumphantly showed it off, holding it half-wrapped in a plastic bag.
Attention needing nerd. I've never seen him or heard him just noticed those talking about him. Good ethnic backgronud for occupation.
shareHe has a 9 year old daughter. Only part of his review that should matter to anyone is whether she liked it or not.
shareSomeone wanted him to father their children? yikes...
shareHis wife is a doctor, if you hadn't heard. He's quite proud of the fact, its almost a running a joke at this point how many times he brings it up. And yet he doesn't like seeing women empowered for some reason, not even his own daughter. Coz what if she grows up and wants to become, idk, a doctor or something lol
shareI like Ben Shapiro, but his takes on arts (music and film) are usually garbage
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