Conservatives Predicted Barbie Would Flop. It's About to Make $1 Billion

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  1. AARguy

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    Sound of Freedom is a wake up call to warn us of the evils of the Biden administration. From killing people in Afghanistan, to killing Americans with fentanyl coming across Biden's open borders, to human trafficking, to all the horrors Biden supports from Ukraine to the Uyghurs... we need to wake up.... and we have less than 15 months to do it.
     
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    I can imagine why its satire would get under the skin of some conservatives, but I’m not surprised it’s done well at the box office. It can be consumed at different levels—entertain kids and adults. The creators definitely found the appeal sweet spot.
     
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    Human trafficking and raping kids is funny to you?
     
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    The thread is about Barbie movie.
     
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    I responded to the thread, “Conservatives predicted Barbie would flop. It’s about to make $1 billion.”
     
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    That's the thread... but your subject was "The Sound of Freedom"
     
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    "Qanon claims..."

    You're speaking as if qanon is an organization. Where did they claim anything?

    I'm going to keep asking. I'm assuming I won't ever get an actual answer.
     
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    Before Greta Gerwig’s critically acclaimed Barbie movie even hit theaters with a wave of sold-out, hot-pink-filled screenings, plenty of conservative commentators proclaimed that it was destined to fail due to its inclusion of queer and trans talent and its overall messaging.

    In June, a video of a Christian pastor condemning Barbie for being full of “transsexual and transgender and homosexuality” went viral on Twitter. Then, shortly before the film’s June 21 release, the Christian movie site Movieguide slammed it for forgetting “its core audience of families and children” and instead “pushing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender character stories,” although none of the site’s staff writers had seen it at that point.


    And who could forget professional troll Ben Shapiro, an adult who spent 40 minutes of his one and only life attempting to “destroy” Barbie in a YouTube video in which he falsely claims that “all the Kens are gay,”


    Apparently, this is "Republicans".

    What partisan tripe.
     
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    well. Just for fun ..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

    I googled Qanon and got the above description

    Below is a definition of underground

    adj Underground groups and activities are secret because their purpose is to oppose the government and they are illegal.
    ADJ n
    They are accused of organising and financing an underground movement.
    5 adv If you go underground, you hide from the authorities or the police because your political ideas or activities are illegal.
     
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    So just like every single other time I've asked, no lefty has a clue who/what qanon is.

    If you're just going by what wikipedia says then it's not an organization which means your phrase beginning with 'qanon claims' is bogus.

    Or if you believe it's the few people making the original posts, then feel free to post where they claimed the sound of freedom as their own movie.

    Either way, lefties act like qanon is the massive group, movement, etc and when pressed on the issue nobody actually knows anything at all.

    Time to move on.
     
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    My quickie review of Oppenheimer....

    Piece of Garbage... 3 separate plot lines were all over the place, was near impossible to tell timelines or people apart. Edited (and written) like a Nolan super hero movie.

    And WHY did Nolan play music under almost EVERY scene?? Talk about distracting. Felt like I was watching some 40's crime noir story.

    Very poorly done... I cannot off the top of my head think of many worse movies I've seen in a theater in my life (The Color Purple, War of the Worlds)..... and I'm NOT a frequest theater guy

    Stay away would be my 2 cents... My wife used the phrase "overhyped". Maybe I was expecting too much?
     
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    8kun fka 8chan is where these morons hang out, last I heard. There's also 2 seasons of QAnon documentary series which I believe was on Vice channel.
     
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    I watched Oppenheimer in 70mm. I'm gonna watch it again in a couple of weeks in 70mm Imax. Not interested in Barbie because it's not directed by Christopher Nolan. Though, I have no hate for Barbie. I'm happy for it's success.
     
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    Some conservatives take issue with Barbie movie and some liberals take issue with the latest Harry Potter game. I think people need to lighten up. I loved the Harry Potter game and hear the Barbie movies is good and will watch it when it is streaming.

    Personally I am getting tired of this petty culture war bullshit.
     
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    No it wasn’t. Your message wasn’t quoted in my response.
     
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    I had suspected it would flop not because it was woke, but because it starred Margot Robbie who was coming off a string of major flops, even in big releases with huge stars like Amsterdam (Taylor Swift, Christian Bale, Rami Malek).
     
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    MAJOR donor? Recheck your facts. You fell for that crap?? Hehe. He was one of 1000s who donated/crowdfund it essentially. It’s not like he was a producer or had any input into the movie like these STUPID articles LIED to you about.

    You got SUCKERED:)
     
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    wrong ..

    the people that got suckered were the people who put up the money expecting a return on their investment.

    the movie could be considered a blockbuster by todays lame ass movie standards ,,it has made millions in profits

    but again..IT IS JUST A MOVIE!!

    I paid the money and watched the movie..it was a typical action thriller movie..nothing more, nothing less

    the good guy saves the girl from the bad guys...that is the oldest plot in hollywood..

    it is not some cryptic message from the Qaloons,,Qaloons dont go to movies..they watch the WWE and think it is real
     
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    They are very consistent.
    The more they cry about an issue, the deeper they are involved with the issue.

    They cry pedophile on all LGBT people while their priests and leaders assault kids.
     
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    Not the future generations. Just the boomer generation.
     
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    The desperation is thinking woke is a fad.
    While it is renamed as woke, it's been around since people started accepting other people.

    Slavery ended.
    Women vote.
    Gays marry.
    Mixed color married.
    Jim Crow laws ended.
    Redlining ended.

    Woke has always been around.
     
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    Just like the Little Mermaid movie was a success and gaia whole new generation of kids a boost to be who they are.

    https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt5971474/
     
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    You have no clue where most of fentanyl comes from.
    So why derail the thread.
     
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    No. It's funny that's what MAGA voters believe.
     
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    WHICH "conservatives" are you talking about? Specifics, please. Something out that the "them.us" site please.
     
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