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Why Did ‘Barbie’ Bomb in South Korea? (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film
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A lack of cultural nostalgia attached to the toy and wariness of the film's feminist messaging may have kept the Korean audience away from the Hollywood mega-hit: "There is no real fan base for 'Barbie' in Korea.”

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[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the Ken's care about are Patriarchy, horses, and mini-fridges, because they were given no rights or ideas of their own before Ken went to the real world, and he was only there for a few hours.

It's not a critique of men in general.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Any dude getting personally upset about the portrayal of the Kens is telling on himself

[–] Stanwich@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be an argument if they men in the real world weren't portrayed the same way. They shit on men in both worlds.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Some of the men were, others were shown to be normal. They really only showed a handful of real world men anyway, and Ken got all his inspiration from a few corporate suits (and honestly, a lot of male suits do act like that).