I’m honestly not surprised. It’s one of those rare movies that has mass appeal (which guarantees it at least half a billion) and also a surprisingly good story that had critics and audiences raving about it.
I was only forced to watch it because I didn’t want to wait in the mall that long for Oppenheimer to start while the wife finishes Barbie. I haven’t been more satisfied and entertained by a blind watch since… Burning.
I made this comment somewhere else earlier… the only time I ever heard about it was from my physical therapist that I saw for a couple weeks
she was like “you see all those ads and previews for the barbie movie that’s coming out?” “No. I don’t usually see any ads or anything and I haven’t seen a movie preview in… years”
Also didn’t notice any “organic” posts about it on reddit (where I was at the time) or here (I joined at the start of the blackouts). only since opening weekend did I start seeing posts here about oppen/barbie
Don’t wanna pull the “are you living under a rock?”-card but I’ve seen tons of promotional material about it. I read about it when production started he took note because of the director and cast, then nothing for a while but in the months and weeks leading up to the release I saw an increasing amount of ads and press.
As reported by Variety, the marketing budget allocated to Barbie was a staggering $150 million
The technocrats continue to lose to the jingoists. Jingoistic propaganda is a problem because it makes your population demand what you promised. When you don't, you get shit like Tiananmen square or a world war that you never wanted in the first place (and I promise you, the leaders don't want this war).
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, who achieved ignition for the first time last year, repeated the breakthrough in an experiment on July 30 that produced a higher energy output than in December, according to three people with knowledge of the preliminary results.
The laboratory confirmed that energy gain had been achieved again at its laser facility, adding that analysis of the results was underway.
“Since demonstrating fusion ignition for the first time at the National Ignition Facility in December 2022, we have continued to perform experiments to study this exciting new scientific regime. In an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition at NIF,” it said.
“As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.”
Probably, that’s why we’ll see another simple word that the mouth breathers can say like a magic spell. A spell that will make all the smarter people that constantly tell them they are wrong go away
Some “church” pulpits are helping spew that stuff, too. (Not all churches, and I’d go so far as to say not real churches. Political campaign theaters masquerading as religious institutions.)
Yeah, there’s absolutely nothing new about the war on “wokeness”, they just swap out the names every now and then
The PC Mob
The radical left
Antifa
SJWs
Socialists
Communists
They all mean the same thing in this context, but they know that people tire of specifics quickly, so they keep changing labels. I guess this study means that they’ll likely pick a new word for the boogeyman soon
In this specific event, adjusting for inflation on older movies might show that there was precedent where a movie directed by a single woman was more successful than this one.
If that happen, that achievement should also be celebrated. If that didn’t happen, this movie should be even more celebrated.
Asking for more data isn’t the same thing as attacking a claim.
Maybe I’m just naive, but I like to assume good intentions.
If someone actually say something sexist, calling them out is important. But I don’t think assuming sexism first is a good thing either.
I also used to be niave, but the decades have taught me that it is almost always sexism (or racism) even if it is subconscious. Now I just assume good intentions if that has no negative consequences.
That does not answer the question, relative to WHAT exactly? Precisely?
Relative to last year? When Avatar 2 and Maverick pulled in over a billy? Relative to 2018 when Black Panther did? Relative to 2008 when The Dark Knight did?
Exactly which one of these achievements is suggested to be the benchmark by which to desperately downplay the current achievement?
Inflation adjusted for SOME time period, shouldn't ALL these movies receive some discount and skepticism? It's funny how you only hear about how inflation is a big deal when it's a movie made by a woman for a primarily female audience. It's almost like there's some other motivation in this "just asking questions" 🤔
InfInflation adjustment is carried out using the Consumer price index for advanced economies published by the International Monetary Fund. The index is uniformly applied to the grosses in the chart published by Guinness World Records in 2014, beginning with the 2014 index. The figures in the above chart take into account inflation that occurred in 2014, and in every available year since then, through 2022.
Basically they are adjusted so that 10 $ in 1939 is equal to what it’s worth today. Seriously it’s basic economics.
And no, inflation is mentioned every single time someone somewhere brings up a film from the highest grossing films list. Because Gone with the wind is the highest grossing film ever.
At the end of the day, highest grossing is a worthless metric to measure in except that it’s just a bit interesting. Don’t take it too seriously.
Edit: oh and to be clear, she is still the first solo female director with 1B$. Adjusting for inflation doesn’t change that (except if there is a movie with another solo female director that goes above 1B if adjusted)
No one said highest grossing. They said IT MADE A BILLION DOLLARS, WHICH IT DID
I know what fucking inflation adjustment is. Of course I know that inflation adjustment is a relevant metric that gets brought up when discussing "did this movie make the most money ever"
But the report is not "Barbie is the highest grossing film in history." It's "Barbie made a billion dollars" which is just...a fact
Christ it's not that hard to understand. Everytime a woman achieves something in public, a whole bunch of people have to figure out SOME way to say it's not that impressive.
Christ it’s not that hard to understand. Everytime a woman achieves something in public, a whole bunch of people have to figure out SOME way to say it’s not that impressive.
I was not referring to that. I was thinking about your weird ramblings about inflation.
I'm not the one who brought up inflation! Is this conversation hard to follow? I wasn't even talking to you. I was talking to the person who brought it up.
I'm so confused on what you were trying to accomplish with all this. Inflation isn't relevant to the conversation. That was my point
With that information, I don’t believe Barbie is in the 50 if you adjust for inflation.
Unadjusted isn’t entirely useless. It’s interesting to see how a movie compares to more recent ones and it also filters out movies that were released in a time where TVs, home media or streaming didn’t exist or were not as common.
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