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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2023 19:16:00 GMT -5
Not that I saw the movie, I went to see Oppenheimer at the IMAX theater like the science nerd I am. Sat transfixed for the full 3 hours. Maybe the best movie ever, Cillian Murphy is maybe the best leading man ever. Two protests against it - an Irish guy playing a Jew and two characters having sex while holding and reading from a Hindu religious book. Was their an exorcism in the movie? Some of my Facebook friends are very religious and found fault with the exorcism. |
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 24, 2023 19:19:54 GMT -5
Not that I saw the movie, I went to see Oppenheimer at the IMAX theater like the science nerd I am. Sat transfixed for the full 3 hours. Maybe the best movie ever, Cillian Murphy is maybe the best leading man ever. Two protests against it - an Irish guy playing a Jew and two characters having sex while holding and reading from a Hindu religious book. Was their an exorcism in the movie? Some of my Facebook friends are very religious and found fault with the exorcism. Do what now? Exorcism? I think they might have stumbled into the wrong movie. Or did they mistake a sex scene for an exorcism? |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2023 19:30:27 GMT -5
Was their an exorcism in the movie? Some of my Facebook friends are very religious and found fault with the exorcism. Do what now? Exorcism? I think they might have stumbled into the wrong movie. Or did they mistake a sex scene for an exorcism? I'll have to go back and look at the post. BBIAB. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2023 19:37:09 GMT -5
Do what now? Exorcism? I think they might have stumbled into the wrong movie. Or did they mistake a sex scene for an exorcism? I'll have to go back and look at the post. BBIAB. Okay. I misread her post. She went to see Oppenheimer but the movie previews before Oppenheimer began contained what she thought might be an exorcism. |
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 24, 2023 20:00:45 GMT -5
No, I haven't seen the movie. I can only guess that the GOP is offended because although Barbie is a "girlie girl" (likes fashion, wears a lot of pink, etc.) she has worked a lot of different professional careers, and has chosen her own destiny. check her post if you want to have the movie spoiled for you  The GOP is screaming’woke.’ Damn happyhoix , you should have put that behind a spoiler alert. I was so looking forward to seeing it. There are so few movies made these days for an old straight white guy target audience.  |
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 24, 2023 20:06:22 GMT -5
Adding to the discussion: Research by Developmental Psychology, a peer-reviewed academic journal, revealed that girls from ages three to eight who were given the “original Barbie” had lower self-esteem and more body image issues than girls who had no Barbie at all. While such expectations can fade with time when girls become women and realize that the Barbie body is entirely unrealistic and unattainable for anyone, those standards often imperceptibly linger. link That’s interesting. I never had a Barbie doll, which wasn’t a big deal because I never really wanted one that I recall. I never had one because I was only allowed to have brown dolls. I don’t think Barbie dolls came in different shades of color back then. I never really thought about the specific reasons why that was important to my Mom, I just always knew it was. I remember when Cabbage Patch Dolls came out. Leading up to Christmas, my Mom was spending countless hours shopping, but I didn’t know why. Well, I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas and all that shopping was her running around trying to find a brown one. Which she finally managed to find, and I got my Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas, and all was well.  I hadn’t thought about any of that in many years. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2023 20:23:37 GMT -5
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 24, 2023 20:34:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the warning. I will likely see the movie months down the road when it is streaming at no added cost on something but not actually worried about it being "spoiled". |
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 24, 2023 20:48:28 GMT -5
I'll have to go back and look at the post. BBIAB. Okay. I misread her post. She went to see Oppenheimer but the movie previews before Oppenheimer began contained what she thought might be an exorcism. Ok - Ha! I thought wow, I really felt like I was paying attention, but I missed the exorcism |
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 24, 2023 20:55:16 GMT -5
check her post if you want to have the movie spoiled for you The GOP is screaming’woke.’ Damn happyhoix , you should have put that behind a spoiler alert. I was so looking forward to seeing it. There are so few movies made these days for an old straight white guy target audience. You’re joking but you’re right - I went back and fixed it. I don’t want to go see it but other people might want to, and don’t want it spoiled. Thanks. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2023 21:43:41 GMT -5
Okay. I misread her post. She went to see Oppenheimer but the movie previews before Oppenheimer began contained what she thought might be an exorcism. Ok - Ha! I thought wow, I really felt like I was paying attention, but I missed the exorcism I couldn't figure out how an exercise would be in Oppenheimer in the first place. Like what did an exercise have to do with the atomic bomb! |
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jul 25, 2023 0:45:17 GMT -5
Adding to the discussion: Research by Developmental Psychology, a peer-reviewed academic journal, revealed that girls from ages three to eight who were given the “original Barbie” had lower self-esteem and more body image issues than girls who had no Barbie at all. While such expectations can fade with time when girls become women and realize that the Barbie body is entirely unrealistic and unattainable for anyone, those standards often imperceptibly linger. link That’s interesting. I never had a Barbie doll, which wasn’t a big deal because I never really wanted one that I recall. I never had one because I was only allowed to have brown dolls. I don’t think Barbie dolls came in different shades of color back then.I never really thought about the specific reasons why that was important to my Mom, I just always knew it was. I remember when Cabbage Patch Dolls came out. Leading up to Christmas, my Mom was spending countless hours shopping, but I didn’t know why. Well, I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas and all that shopping was her running around trying to find a brown one. Which she finally managed to find, and I got my Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas, and all was well. I hadn’t thought about any of that in many years. There was a TV show when I was a kid in the 70s. I do not recall the name of it, but there was an African American character named Julia (I think that was her name) and she was a nurse. They made a “Barbie” of the character and I was happy to have Julia in my group of 4 or 5 dolls. That was well before the makers of Barbie realized the dolls needed to be more representative of our multicultural society. |
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 25, 2023 1:15:56 GMT -5
I played with Barbie dolls, never thought about the sex stuff. Non of my dolls had anything like real people either so no problem. It was just fun.
Back at age 18 I was 5'9" inches, weighed about 118 to 120, was thin, had a very small waist and decent boobs, so I was one of the skinny ones. Well until I had kids than was heavier for most of my life.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Jul 25, 2023 2:55:03 GMT -5
My barbie's baby was actually a little troll doll, but she leaned to love him. She was married to action man (I think you call GI Joe) and there was a big ceremony in the garden with flowers and live frogs as guests. Action man died in combat and got buried (then dug up again when that game was finished) I grew up ok  |
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Post by kadee79 on Jul 25, 2023 16:46:27 GMT -5
I was too old when Barbie came out. I had a Betsy Wetsy...and I already knew that babies wore diapers & had to be changed since I was already doing that with my nephew. I already knew the difference between boys & girls...and I was about 7 at the time.
It was also about that time that Dad took me to watch a calf being born. That was a neat experience.
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Post by hurley1980 on Jul 26, 2023 12:01:19 GMT -5
I had no intention of seeing this movie any time soon, but since its pissing so many right wingers off, I've decided to go see it in theatres. lol Plus, good for Greta Gerwig! She's from my area, and is breaking the glass ceiling for women directors.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jul 26, 2023 12:28:19 GMT -5
I had no intention of seeing this movie any time soon, but since its pissing so many right wingers off, I've decided to go see it in theatres. lol Plus, good for Greta Gerwig! She's from my area, and is breaking the glass ceiling for women directors. Now I am envisioning these right-wing households in which Barbie dolls are being confiscated from their children and the kids are being told the dolls are evil.  |
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Post by hurley1980 on Jul 26, 2023 12:57:34 GMT -5
I had no intention of seeing this movie any time soon, but since its pissing so many right wingers off, I've decided to go see it in theatres. lol Plus, good for Greta Gerwig! She's from my area, and is breaking the glass ceiling for women directors. Now I am envisioning these right-wing households in which Barbie dolls are being confiscated from their children and the kids are being told the dolls are evil. Oh you KNOW this is happening in some households. And then the parents burn the dolls just like Ben Shapiro! They sure are sticking it to us woke folks! lol |
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jul 26, 2023 13:08:02 GMT -5
I pity those children.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Jul 26, 2023 14:27:40 GMT -5
That’s interesting. I never had a Barbie doll, which wasn’t a big deal because I never really wanted one that I recall. I never had one because I was only allowed to have brown dolls. I don’t think Barbie dolls came in different shades of color back then.I never really thought about the specific reasons why that was important to my Mom, I just always knew it was. I remember when Cabbage Patch Dolls came out. Leading up to Christmas, my Mom was spending countless hours shopping, but I didn’t know why. Well, I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas and all that shopping was her running around trying to find a brown one. Which she finally managed to find, and I got my Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas, and all was well. I hadn’t thought about any of that in many years. There was a TV show when I was a kid in the 70s. I do not recall the name of it, but there was an African American character named Julia (I think that was her name) and she was a nurse. They made a “Barbie” of the character and I was happy to have Julia in my group of 4 or 5 dolls. That was well before the makers of Barbie realized the dolls needed to be more representative of our multicultural society. It was called "Julia" and starred Diahann Carroll. I watched a couple of episodes on Youtube recently. |
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Post by laterbloomer on Jul 28, 2023 18:50:54 GMT -5
I saw Barbie today. I loved it and totally get why Fox News heads are exploding. 😁
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 2, 2023 16:45:32 GMT -5
Barbie is a great movie - funny all the way through (except that one little part that drags), tackles an issue, not overtly sexual, no cursing, doesn’t take itself too seriously while talking about something pretty serious. So good.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 6, 2023 19:39:32 GMT -5
I saw Barbie today. I loved it and totally get why Fox News heads are exploding. 😁 I haven’t seen it - why are their heads exploding? They decide at the men and women are equal? |
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Post by laterbloomer on Aug 6, 2023 20:12:23 GMT -5
I saw Barbie today. I loved it and totally get why Fox News heads are exploding. 😁 I haven’t seen it - why are their heads exploding? They decide at the men and women are equal? It's very critical of the patriarchy and at the end the Ken's are working towards equality in Barbieland like women are in the real world. It's a very woke movie. In all the best ways. Which makes Fox heads explode |
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 6, 2023 20:47:26 GMT -5
Highest box office for a film directed by a woman. |
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 6, 2023 21:05:44 GMT -5
I think it did a good job at pointing out that a pure matriarchy won’t be perfect either. Conservatives missed that point.
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