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Bill Maher Slams ‘Barbie’ Movie: ‘Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie’
Frank BergmanAugust 8, 2023 - 9:31 am0 Comments


Liberal talk show host Bill Maher has slammed the new Barbie” movie as “preachy, man-hating, and a Zombie Lie.”

HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” host explained that the “woke” film is a “Zombie Lie” because it perpetuates “something that was never true.”

After watching the movie, Maher blasted the director for ignoring the world we currently live in.

67-year-old Maher took to Twitter on Monday and panned the Greta Gerwig-directed movie to his 10.8 million followers.

https://slaynews.com/news/bill-maher-slams-barbie-movie-preachy-man-hating-zombie-lie/
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It was a movie, about a doll.

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It was a movie, about a doll.

That kind of attitude is why conservatives have lost the culture war.
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That kind of attitude is why conservatives have lost the culture war.

Welp, if Maher's thinks it I'm sure a lot of other's do. Also not sure if Maher is a conservative.

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That kind of attitude is why conservatives have lost the culture war.

Have you seen the movie?  I have.  It's a movie, about a doll.  It's pretty critical of the rigid feminism of the past, and the most that it does in terms of character development of actual human characters is to use Barbie IRL as a vehicle to reunite a mother and her disaffected, alienated teen daughter.  At movie's beginning, the daughter is spouting the typical stereotypical feminist nonsense, calling Barbie a "fascist" and wearing all black.  By the end of the movie the same daughter is no longer estranged from her mother, supports her mother's continuing connection with her memories of Barbie, and Barbie - the doll - has decided to become a "real" person, and is excited about her first visit to the gynecologist.

Zombie man-hating it's not.

Bill Maher must have seen some other movie with the same title.
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Welp, if Maher's thinks it I'm sure a lot of other's do. Also not sure if Maher is a conservative.

If you don't trust Maher, try The Critical Drinker's review:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7aJtGphVs
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If you don't trust Maher, try The Critical Drinker's review:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7aJtGphVs

I trust my own eyes and time spent in the theater more than I trust someone else - no matter whom - with an ideological axe to grind.

It was a movie, about a doll, whose greatest joy at the end was going to see the gynecologist for the first time.

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Have you seen the movie?  I have.  It's a movie, about a doll.  It's pretty critical of the rigid feminism of the past, and the most that it does in terms of character development of actual human characters is to use Barbie IRL as a vehicle to reunite a mother and her disaffected, alienated teen daughter.  At movie's beginning, the daughter is spouting the typical stereotypical feminist nonsense, calling Barbie a "fascist" and wearing all black.  By the end of the movie the same daughter is no longer estranged from her mother, supports her mother's continuing connection with her memories of Barbie, and Barbie - the doll - has decided to become a "real" person, and is excited about her first visit to the gynecologist.

Zombie man-hating it's not.

Bill Maher must have seen some other movie with the same title.

Or, you just weren't paying attention.
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Or, you just weren't paying attention.

:mauslaff:

It was a movie, about a doll, who wanted to go to the gynecologist.

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:mauslaff:

It was a movie, about a doll, who wanted to go to the gynecologist.

As I said, it is no wonder conservatives have lost the culture war. You are so clueless you didn't even realize a war was happening.
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As I said, it is no wonder conservatives have lost the culture war. You are so clueless you didn't even realize a war was happening.

Did you see the movie?  Yes or no.  Answer, or STFU.

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Did you see the movie?  Yes or no.  Answer, or STFU.

I didn't, because I don't watch feminist propaganda. There are enough clips available to show what the movie is to those who are paying attention. Not my fault if you don't get it.
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Sure, it's all fun until your five year old boy says he wants to be a girl.

I wonder where he got that idea from?
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I didn't, because I don't watch feminist propaganda. There are enough clips available to show what the movie is to those who are paying attention. Not my fault if you don't get it.

In other words, you're content to regurgitate someone else's talking points, without actually checking out the source material yourself.

Got it.

How pathetic.

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In other words, you're content to regurgitate someone else's talking points, without actually checking out the source material yourself.

Got it.

How pathetic.

No, I saw trailers like this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9Y

and I decided the movie probably wasn't for me.

But I guess a movie with a scene of little girls smashing baby dolls to pieces on the ground is just a movie about a doll.

Does the word "subtext" mean anything to you?  I can provide a link to a dictionary definition if you need one.
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Ted Cruz says a part of the movie pushes Chinese propaganda.

And a movie about a doll who wants to go to a gyno sounds like a period piece. Not interested.
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No, I saw trailers like this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9Y

and I decided the movie probably wasn't for me.

But I guess a movie with a scene of little girls smashing baby dolls to pieces on the ground is just a movie about a doll.

Does the word "subtext" mean anything to you?  I can provide a link to a dictionary definition if you need one.



:mauslaff:

And now you've simply demonstrated that one of the most effective methods of lying is to take something out of context and crop it, so that viewers are missing necessary information.  You were lied to.

That scene is camp.  It is about how when Mattel first introduced Barbie, it gave girls another type of doll to play with - the rest of it is a campy reference to Stanley Kubrick's opening sequence in 2001:  A Space Odyssey, which itself was fraught with the double-edged issues of human freedom, liberation, and violence.


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Did you see the movie?  Yes or no.  Answer, or STFU.

I watched the full movie. It was woke crapola... from the smashing of a babies doll head at the beginning. It was a  stupid woke leftist garbage IMHO. I didn't see one male role worth reporting positive about.
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I watched the full movie. It was woke crapola... from the smashing of a babies doll head at the beginning. It was a  stupid woke leftist crapola IMHO.

Then we'll have to agree to disagree, because it most certainly wasn't woke leftist crapola.

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And now you've simply demonstrated that one of the most effective methods of lying is to take something out of context and crop it, so that viewers are missing necessary information.  You were lied to.

That scene is camp.  It is about how when Mattel first introduced Barbie, it gave girls another type of doll to play with - the rest of it is a campy reference to Stanley Kubrick's opening sequence in 2001:  A Space Odyssey, which itself was fraught with the double-edged issues of human freedom, liberation, and violence.

It's just camp. It's just a toy. It's just a movie, a game, a TV show, a song.  OK, if you feel that way it's fine.  I'm certainly not going to be able to change your mind, since I didn't watch the movie and I take stuff out of context by showing the actual trailer for the movie. The trailer made from the opening scene of said movie.

But for other people who may read this, if you ever happen to wonder why leftists control the movie industry, the TV industry, the music industry, the publishing industry, why leftists make the toys and games your kids play with, I would suggest that maybe it is because of attitudes like @Kamaji 's here. "It's just a movie about a kid's toy".

But what do I know, I didn't see the movie.
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It's just camp. It's just a toy. It's just a movie, a game, a TV show, a song.  OK, if you feel that way it's fine.  I'm certainly not going to be able to change your mind, since I didn't watch the movie and I take stuff out of context by showing the actual trailer for the movie. The trailer made from the opening scene of said movie.

But for other people who may read this, if you ever happen to wonder why leftists control the movie industry, the TV industry, the music industry, the publishing industry, why leftists make the toys and games your kids play with, I would suggest that maybe it is because of attitudes like @Kamaji 's here. "It's just a movie about a kid's toy".

But what do I know, I didn't see the movie.

Exactly, what do you know, because you didn't see the movie.  Quite literally, you do not know what you're talking about.

The movie actually rejects precisely the sort of rigid feminism that has led to many of the current social ills, as well as rejecting the rigid masculinism that feminism claims to be against.

At the end of the day, the point of the movie is to figure yourself out, and figure the world out for yourself, rather than being chained to someone else's reductive ideology, whether that be of the "patriarchy" variety or the feminist variety.

And no, it's not about forcing your personal sexual preferences and fetishes on the rest of the world.  As the mother puts it toward the end of the movie, she just wants "Ordinary Barbie" - “She just has a flattering top and she wants to get through the day feeling kind of okay.”

And the rigid, comical "patriarchy" espoused by Ken is ultimately rejected by him, in part because “Once I realized the patriarchy wasn’t about horses, I kind of lost interest.”

It all takes place in the context of a doll mileu, which is necessarily childish, and thus everything is two-dimensional and stereotyped - the protagonist doll herself is labeled as the "Stereotypical Barbie".

At the end of the day, rigid orthodoxies are rejected, a mother and daughter who were alienated by the daughter's adherence to a rigid, primitive feminism have been reunited, with the daughter rejecting that rigid feminism, and the only piece of unfinished business - other than Barbie's visit to the gynecologist - is that the real-life daughter's father needs to stop being a woke beta-cuck - he is not held up as a model for men - and needs to find himself out for himself as well.

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In other words, you're content to regurgitate someone else's talking points, without actually checking out the source material yourself.

Got it.

How pathetic.

Lighten up Francis don't go getting your silk Barbie panties in the knot.
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Lighten up Francis don't go getting your silk Barbie panties in the knot.

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