This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.

The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

  • Nataratata@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Why is it woke when female or “minority” characters are this way but not when white male characters are this way? Your points describe the majority of movies featuring a male white protagonist.

    And how is Galadriel not the way she is described in the original IP?

    • Derproid@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Why is it woke when female or “minority” characters are this way but not when white male characters are this way?

      Not OP but both are bad movies for the same reason, the term woke just only applies to those that seem to have been made this way to promote some idea that minority women are amazing and white men suck. That’s just how the term woke evolved since it’s a politically charged term.

      And how is Galadriel not the way she is described in the original IP?

      I don’t know much about this but is this the dwarf queen who was supposed to have a beard but didn’t? If so then yeah definitely not as described in the original IP. If not, well yeah no idea then.