Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie

in the end when everyone says "I'm gonna beach you off", it sounds a lot like "beat off"

Can't beat off without genitalia

yeah that's what confused me about it

Greta Hedwig

that doesn't seem like a coincidence esp bc "beach you off" isn't something people say?

this movie looks enjoyable imo, from the trailer

They're saying they're going to beach each other off because they don't want each other on the beach. So they would be off beach if the characters follow through on their threats.

I presume because they are being jerks? So why don't they say "Jerk, off!!" ??

sorry i have never heard of this term before
when you want someone off the beach you say "i will beach you off"? no
it's clearly a joke?

Joey Ramone and his brother Mikey Leigh to thread!

in the end when everyone says "I'm gonna beach you off", it sounds a lot like "beat off"

― frogbs, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:48 PM (forty-four minutes ago)

I...think that's the joke!

this looks awful but I stan for greta so I will withhold judgment

Greta hasn't stepped a foot wrong this decade.

So this is going to be a Barbie escaping her fantasy world and entering the real world sort of thing, right? Like those Smurfs movies?

hmm, what if it takes place in the extended Smurf universe?

I...think that's the joke!

― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:34 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

but the thing is none of them have genitals, so none of them would think "I'm gonna beach you off" is a suggestive thing to say, except for Michael Cera's character whose reaction implies he's the only one with a dick?

Last dozen posts are giving me "Sleep, that's where I'm a Viking" deja vu.

Gonna unbookmark if you all keep this up

-_-

Maybe you should beach out of this thread

Maybe they grew genitals when they appeared in the material world

And the movie is about trying to figure out wtf they are

"What do these do ... ?"

That sort of happened in Pleasantville, from a certain point of view

its a "haha it sounds like men are going to jack each other off" joke you dinks. but its about having a "beach off" which must be a common thing in this stupid universe. its a very bad joke. its to signify that THIS AINT YO GRANDMAS BARBIE MOVIE BABY!

rip frogbs death by obvious joke

Beach, please.


(is an easy joke that is surely in this move)

The beach is back.

I feel like frogbs was being droll as fuck here

beaching a dead horse

is also an obvious dumb pun

to beach their own?

itt people who've never been involved in a beach off

Beach/Off is my second favorite Nic Cage movie.

The vibe reminds me a lot of the '90s Brady Bunch (and other '90s post-mod reboots of beloved pop-culture properties).

Big ol' feature. Still convinced this is going to be a musical.

https://www.vogue.com/article/margot-robbie-barbie-summer-cover-2023-interview

Uh, yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBk4NYhWNMM

HELL YES IN GRETA WE TRUST GIVE IT TO ME

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)

barbie driving singing along to the indigo girls >>>>>>>>>>

I'm in

I don’t really want to see this, but I love gerwig enough that I probably will anyway

^^^ where I am basically

That cotton candy color scheme, if it pervades the entire film, would be extremely painful to sit through.

That god The Real World in this movie is simply technicolor, not universal fluorescence.

Can't wait for the discourse on this one tbh

I don’t really want to see this, but I love gerwig enough that I probably will anyway

― k3vin k., Thursday, May 25, 2023 7:33 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

for real

It's easy to see how the premise of the film and the constraints of completing its narrative in two hours would require that its version of The Real World become a series of hugely simplified billboards you can see coming from a long way off. Much harder to see how Gerwig can avoid duplicating the Disney feature-length cartoon formula, but from a slightly side-angle view.

But Disney-formula films are usually very satisfactory pieces of storytelling, so this one could also be a pretty entertaining two hours, too. Makes no sense to anticipate some kind of intellectual and emotional masterpiece.

Yeah, I dunno, I like Gerwig a lot, and I'm sure that this movie will feature a few surprises, but isn't it kind of a familiar conceit? Lego Movie, Toy Story, Cool World, etc. Bad sign that Will Ferrell is holding drumsticks, because that means they will have him play drums (again), which is kind of a lazy gag. Also, advertising this as a movie for people who love Barbie seems like a self-limitation. I thought it was going to add something like "or even if you don't!"

Uh...the trailer specifically indicates it's also for people who don't!

Some soundtrack details

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/barbie-soundtrack-announced-dua-lipa-lizzo-more-1234741923/

I thought it was going to add something like "or even if you don't!"

it did

oops ned said that already

Josh you really need to start asking yourself if you were mostly looking at the screen or mostly not looking at the screen before posting these criticisms. Even for trailers apparently!