Yet it still looks absolutely shite.
Correct. Should have ended your post there.
In the wolf of Wall Street she was as smooth as a barbie doll down there. Perfect casting really.
My only hope for this is that Margot Robbie's genitalia receives the same spotlight.
Yep, really loved Frances Ha.
It’s easily explainable though. It’s all about opinions. People have opinions about something and about other people’s opinions on that thing. So if you hang out on a place where opinions are shared…
My thoughts too. The clamour from grown caftards is a surprise to me
Lots of average movies have great trailers. How many great movies have shit trailers?
But you've convinced yourself that a two hour movie will definitely be utter crap based on a 90 second trailer whereas others are just optimistic based on the filmmaker's previously impeccable taste. Hardly equivalent.
The only clamour is coming from those for whom it's apparently very important to show how stupid other people are for wanting to watch a movie made by incredibly talented people.
I thought it would be utterly crap based on the premise from day one. Everything I’ve read about it since has done nothing to alter that. The trailer was just the nail in the coffin.
As someone that isn't much into movies and saw the trailers, I genuinely can't find any valid reasons for anyone to be interested in it. Now I realize that I'm lacking in cinematography culture and that these trailers are maybe good but it's not what I feel.
Watched Little Women? None of the mumblecore roots (which there clearly isn't in Barbie either so not sure why that'd be relevant), just a pitch-perfect, subversive adaptation of soapy, sugar-coated source material. Which would seem like a pretty good omen. (I agree that Lady Bird, for all its undoubted qualities, was slightly annoying in parts).
It's weird for me being on the other side with Mockney et all...
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are absolutely household names among people interested in movies, both respected for making clever, witty, well-written movies, with Gerwig in particular one of the most interesting young filmmakers at the moment. Besides, there's a bit of a "how dare they make a movie with women as the primary audience" vibe to this thread.
I watch more movies than most and I've never heard of them. I watch mainly mainstream movies though tbf (had to look up what mumblecore was and was half expecting a type of porn), and that's the point I'm making. As for the rest of your post, are you really that shocked that a Barbie movie isn't being universally lapped up on a football forum?
Give me another word for your average person (that makes up the majority) that's never heard of them? Couldn't tell you what the last few years Oscar nominations/wins were I stopped watching years ago.... I'm not claiming to be a film expert.
If you've never heard of them, then I struggle to believe you watch more movies than most. Little Women by Gerwig was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture, leading actress, screenplay. Same with Marriage Story by Baumbach. These are not some obscure indie filmmakers (anymore).
To be fair the only reason I looked at the thread was because it was a Barbie movie. The reason it's not lapped up is because the trailers are genuinely terrible which could be unfortunate if the movie happens to be good.
I watch tonnes of films, never heard of em either. Think it depends on the type of films you watch.
This is crazy, only on the internet would I be getting push back on this. If I asked the question on all my socials and stipulated do not Google.... A handful of people out of hundreds would probably know who they were. People really struggle with picturing something outside of their own reality...
It's more accurate to say people who read about movies are more likely to know who they are.
In the sense that most people don't know ANY directors outside of Spielberg, Tarantino and Scorsese, you are right. But when you mention the filmmakers not being well-known, then surely you are moving into the terrain of "by people who would know filmmakers". And these two are.
I think well known is always about the average person and not about a minority of people that have a strong interest in something. Otherwise everything is well-known and the term becomes pointless.
