I see they're doubling down on Wendy being a bitch early on.
This might have been the best season so far. Absolutely phenomenal.
And what an ending. I was thinking about a million ways they might resolve this but that took me completly off guard.
Amazing episode. Simply amazing. Hearthbreaking, sad, exciting, thought-provoking... It left me dumb-founded for quite a long time, not cause of the surprise of it all but how heavy it weighs on the soul.
I never liked Wendy and I like her even less now. Give me the cold calculated emotional void of Marty over the manipulative, backstabbing sly fox that is Wendy.
Excellent acting from all of them though, especially Tom Pelphrey who will be missed.
Yikes, this is going to come back to bite them. Crazy or not, Ben still isn't wrong.
Tom Pelphrey's (Ben) character arc - his bioplar swing - in this episode was just an insanely good piece of work. Dude should get a nomination for this episode.
The fight with the marty and wendy at the start was so funny XD
The acting. I need to start at the acting before anything. Every single person on that screen was every inch of believable. Even that dog, the dog, amazed me with its acting skills.
Next up is the cinematography, it was filmed almost like a documentary and I think that's what makes this different from most movies for sure. I loved feeling like these characters were real.
The story and the dialogue are both top-notch, and the ending is very controversial, I'd say. Also, the soundtrack is both soothing and chaotic. I love it.
The only reason I'm not giving it a higher level is because I didn't feel connected enough to any of the characters to care enough. The case itself is interesting, but the answers are too thin.
'One thing no man can resist. Himself.'
Ugh, Ming-Na Wen nailed Madame Kaji.
It's hard not to love Ringo
I didn't expect the amount of genitals in this episode :joy: I can't stop watching, it's so good!
The meanest thing I could say about this movie is ‘Has extreme Don’t Worry Darling energy’.
I have never seen a movie more desperate to justify itself. It’s trapped in this endless neurosis over what it is- a blockbuster Barbie movie in 2023 by an acclaimed art house director that is fun but also deep but also earnest but also self aware but also but also but also. Every point it raises it brings up a counterpoint to before the audience can, every frame is trying to prove it’s not just product but art. It’s never just Barbie. It’s never confident or even comfortable in its skin. You cannot for a second be immersed in Barbie because it’s not a story so much as a visual dissertation without a central thesis, it’s a student film riffing on the big dogs hoping it’s underdog audacity will carry it but given a budget in the millions. It so desperately wants you to like it, to know it’s in on the joke too.
Everythng is an ouroboros here: an endless loop of argument and counterarguement feeding itself. Isn’t it shitty how the Mattel boardroom is full of men? Ah, but isn’t it cool how Mattel’s acknowledged it with this niche? And it’ll mythologize Barbie’s creator but uh don’t worry she did tax evasion we know that, now let her impart into Barbie the experience of all women. Barbie helps women, Barbie hurts women, Barbie is told to be everything so isn’t she just like women, but it is better to be a creator than the idea, and in the end, hasn’t Barbie helped all these women? Oh uh why is this blonde white Barbie the centerpiece of it all and helping not only her diverse Barbie friends but a Hispanic woman and her daughter? Don’t worry we’ll have the daughter call her a white savior! But don’t worry we’ll have the mom say she’s not! It’s fascinating to watch, honestly. It’s a film that wants to prove to you so so bad that it works but it doesn’t and it knows it doesn’t and it knows you knows. It’s Gerta Gerwig wrestling with taking this job for an hour and a half.
The cast is more than game and able. Margot Robbie is doing her damndest to find the heart and soul in this role, and there’s one scene with an old lady near the end of the first act/beginning of the second that actually works, for just a moment, more than any of the big third act soliloquies or montages with emotional ballads. And as someone who’s seen Blade Runner 2049 and Drive, this is the best Ryan Gosling performance I’ve seen. The man commits and delivers a surprisingly compelling and entertaining antagonist. The movie can’t quite reconcile what he’s done with his ending, or tie it into the themes- is Ken letting go of Barbie and the need to define himself for or against her symbolizing the need for men to do the same, and if so, why play it so lightly and sympathetically?- but that’s not his fault. And the supporting cast are entertaining, but you just can’t have big laughs with a movie that feels like it’s constantly checking in the corner of its eye after every joke to see if you’re laughing, grin stuck in place. It’s not as funny or as smart as it wants to be, and the sad thing is, it feels like it knows that too.
There is some great set design, cinematography, dazzling choreography, popping colors, and some fun high points. But I can’t imagine many kids liking it. And we’ve seen how conservatives have taken this movie. And anyone’s who’s progressed beyond the politics of. Well. A feminist blockbuster Barbie movie will find it cloying or condescending or just incredibly basic. It’s aimed at a very specific crowd who will buy what it’s saying, the liberals who see corporate feminism as progress, who agree that it’s just about a little change sometimes, who are ready for something just a little more complex than a SNL sketch. I don’t regret seeing it, because I was deeply engaged the whole time seeing it struggle at war with itself, in pain for its whole existence. It’s not a boring movie by any means. It wants to say everything before the audience can say it first. It’s the endpoint of The Lego Movie and Enchanted- the corporations interrogating and justifying themselves, and the cracks in this formula are too large to ignore. It wants to be so much, and the attempt is as darkly mesmerizing as a fly thinking it can somehow and someway metamorphize into a butterfly and suffocating and struggling in its makeshift cocoon, but this is one Barbie that fundamentally just cannot break out of its box.
I should not have tried to watch this. I knew it would not be for me - but people said it was good - and there’s what’s his face and Robbie - I love them - and there are so few movies coming out - I was desperate :sob:
This show has changed me. it really has. it changed my way of thinking and it changed my view on the world. this is all i can say, i'm too speechless to express my feelings.
I'M JUST... SPEECHLESS!! and crying
George at his own birthday. "Leave him alone Frank, you're killing him" LMAO
"you kept making all the stops?!"
"well people kept ringing the bell!"
This episode is so powerful. It's only when one sees visuals such as this, do you realise the gravity of what happened. Terrible genocide......
This episode is fucked up. The atrocities of war. Really hits you hard seeing the scene with the concentration camp.
DIdn't expect Jimmy Fallon to appear in WWII, but here we are.
7/10
Holy shit, that really was Jimmy Fallon delivering the ammunition at the end. LOL.
I'm so excited to see where this is going! Great cast - all these actors fit the vibe of the show so well.
this belongs to that weird category of thriller/horror stuff that's rooted entirely too much in the banality of day to day life that gives me anxiety and yet catch me starting the second episode already
Don't get me wrong, I love that show is sweet and has a lot of positive messages. At some point there has to be some character development. The first season was excellent but ever since then this show has devolved into the characters becoming caricatures of themselves. The dialog is so bad that it feels like someone had an AI bot watch the first season and then write future episodes. If you tell me which characters are in a scene I could tell you pretty much exactly how the interaction is going to go. Rinse, repeat.
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They managed to bring it back in the end. Felt a little cheated A-ri wasn’t the one streaming but her being alive in the end is what mattered
"Oh I get it. You're friends with the urinator, aren't you?"
Seeing Monica brought some nostalgia
Enjoyed the take on social media influencers and how they do everything under sun to get more followers and likes.
Chet Hanks haha, makes sense