Ouch…
I will likely be forced to decide whether seeing my neice ecstatic is worth a few hours of personal torture…
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Aw c’mon I’m pretty sure it will be absolutely hilarious! Don’t be a negative Nancy!
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Im desperate to see barbie. Yes. I said it.
I like films that really commit to doing a good job of making a film and not a cash grab done cheap.
Plus you know…margot. 
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Same. Same. Aaaaand same.
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It might be… If I had even the slightest interest in Barbie, the Barbie lore/culture or Margot Robbie, who I tend to think of as a so-so actress that people like looking at…
As a kid, my sister had all the bright pink stuff, and my reaction to it, then and now, was indifference trending towards disdain. It was all just too over-the-top, (and nowadays it can be damned expensive!)
and the movie trailers make it look like thats been dialed up to 11.
Barbie sales (as intended) will probably go through the roof.
Yuck.
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Look, I’m not saying it’s going to be your favourite movie ever- but the synopsis is brilliant and definitely it’s not going to be a movie version of the Aqua song “Barbie Girl”
Don’t worry about preconceptions and all that- just watch it as if it was the LEGO movie. You’ll have a much better time.
And above all, liking “girlie-movies” is not going to put your masculinity at risk. It’s just a movie.
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Perfect! Thats absolutely perfectly what i was thinking but didnt articulate.
Now i thought the same, until i watched wolf of wall street. I genuinely thought she was fantastic in that (not for the obvious nudity etc) i thought her accent, mannerisms and scene stealing absolutely rocked. I gained a lot of respect for her in that. She was bloody awful in suicide squad, but I don’t think that was totally her fault on reflection
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Couldnt care less about “girly” (Though I resented the color purple, which I felt was mysoginistic in the opposite direction)
I just dont involve myself with stuff that strikes me as gaudy/kitsch. (Which doesnt mean I begrudge other people having fun with whatever it is)
In anything like a movie or book, or even music, there has to be something that speaks to you as an individual, and thats the thing that sparks your interest and draws you in.
Barbie has never had anything to say to me, and certainly in this instance nothing I couldnt happily wait a few years to accidently see on cable, if I’m ever that bored.
I could imagine myself enjoying my little neices enjoyment/excitement, but many reviews make the film sound like it edges (slyly) toward feminist/woke, which effects me only in that I generally avoid getting preached at on anything, subtly or not.
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This part of your post I can respect, but then for all the rest of it… Don’t go with your niece to the theater if you’re not willing to put up with the movie. You really risk make her experience miserable and I don’t think you want that.
If you do something for someone you have to do it with a smile. Nobody’s forcing you and she deserves an enjoyable time.
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I drove her to the mall two weeks ago to drop her off to see a movie with her friends (a parent was chaperone)
It was a horror movie, which she has no interest in, but she wanted to be with her friends. When I asked her how it was, she said she didnt know, she fell asleep.
She just wanted to hang out, eat and wander the mall. The movie was the price she paid for the rest of it.
Stuff happens.
I was raised that we make sacrifices to make the ones we care for happy, in my case because adults, some now gone, did it for me, and you pass that on.
I’m sure the alternative of possibly not seeing it at all, would affect her far more than me being just as bored as she was at the horror movie…
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I’m not judging you for what you did in the past- all I’m saying is I remember my father saying the same things and yet always making me feel miserable every time.
You at least seem to know what you’re doing. 
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Wellllllllll…
Considering our recent trip to New york (she and her brother for the 4th of July) where she went on a mission to buy $50 of candy, after having a $100 meal at katz’s Place with $30 pastrami sandwiches, followed by a whirlwind tour of the city, and a new Cheonsong dress, followed by a huge fireworks display, not to mention the State Fair this weekend, the exclusive state police (youth) training camp she will be at directly following…
Then her school track and basketball teams, and her continuing Eagle Scout progression (we are working on star scout) all our fishing trips, Hikes, Bike rides, and then our upcoming trip to Disney…
If she doesnt think of me at least a little kindly when I’m gone…
Well dang! 
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As a father of three girls, I know there’s not much you wouldn’t do for them…
Good on ya HiFlyer!
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You been working out, @HiFlyer? 
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@HiFlyer
Then I was right when I said:
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I for one am actually quite interested to see the new barbie movie. I think it’s an important bit of pop culture that not only depicts, but also shapes the way our kids view issues of gender. I rather not be too much in the dark concering such matters.
@HiFlyer bro, that kid is awesome, so happy. You’re doing a bang-up job at the dad game. My pro-tip to you: move those pics to the closed portion of our board, the Lounge . Rather not see some godawful bot scraping those images and see them end up in all the wrong places. Or worse yet, in a car commercial
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Well… The lounge is kind of an odd place for me. I was allowed there once, then a while later I had no access, then I had access, now I have no access again’ and was not sure it even still existed.
Strange since I think I only ever posted there once.
I assumed I was persona non grata for some reason.
I have the best post if the movie Oppenheimer does bad at the box office. You guys are not going to believe how clever it is!
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