Fragile masculinity detected

I dunno, I kinda agree with Zwack there. Barbie's advertising has been all about "she's everything, he's just Ken" or, something that supposedly happened on the French posters "she's good at everything, he's just good at fucking." I'm hoping the movie will be more complex than that as it compares a fantasy world run by women to the real one run by men, but who knows?

My interest is 100% to see what Greta does with the material though. If this was directed by Jessica Schmo, starring Jane Schmo and John Schmo, I doubt I'd bother. It also helps that the rest of the summer is weak af. After Barbenheimer, the only other thing I wanna see until late September is a shark movie.

pretty sure there are straight males who are fans of Margot Robbie and will watch anything she's in

....especially as a HOT ASS BARBIE!!!

I still have a hard time believing guys are that jacked for this so it has to be getting like every woman. It just goes to show how under-served female audience is for 50% of the population.

I'm sure plenty of guys will show up with their significant other or what not. (and... maybe tons of young adult gay males will see this) Demo breakdown should be interesting.

My straight guy friends have no interest in this. I do think demographics will be similar to Twilight.

I'm a straight guy heading to the theater for it.

I'm a straight guy and I have no interest in Barbie.

So I guess interest in seeing it doesn't have much to do with your sexual preference or gender.

I am a straight guy and do want to see it, but honestly, my interest is primarily primed by my wife.

I want to see it because it looks funny, and has talented people working on it

Just rereading this thread. LOL but no one saw this being a $600m+ grosser. Thought it would be a hit at grossing like $150m.

MadGez meant opening day gross.

And even then he still missed the mark.

Yes yes I meant Opening day!

What a terrible take. I'm ashamed

BTW guys, that was in December 22.

I did redeem myself a little in April this year with :



Though 2 days later I gave advise that would have killed the Barbenheimer phenom...

I think I predicted Barbie bomb at one point as well after seeing Robbie was ice cold, this was definitely a boom/bust project.

My favorite post in this thread, mostly because of the mention of WB going all in on The Flash and seeing what happened there too.

Not a knock at Keyser, of course. We all make bad calls, and he quickly picked up the potential when presales started and predicted huge when the release came along.

Just always funny to see how the vast majority can be wrong on a film early on sometimes.

To be fair, the marketing was very confusing up until the "This Barbie is a..." poster meme. Pretty sure we were all operating under the belief that this would be a movie for kids and the combo of Gerwig, Baumbach, Robbie and Gosling didn't make any sense for that type of film. Once it became clear this would be a gals night out type of movie I think most of us came around, though obviously nobody was able to predict just how high it would go.

I thought this will bomb based on some reactions on reddit to some screening early this year. I was on board this movie only after its trailer in May and social media reactions to it. I realized this is going to breka out. Otherwise I was in Margot Robbie is a BO poison camp considering recent performances of her movies including high profile ones.

WOW. Greatest call made on KJ for sure. You predicted Barbenheimer before it happened.

I did worldwide

Yeah if the third wknd is somewhere close to $55mil i'd say this has a shot at $650mil

I’m just hoping it does $50m + this weekend