‘Preacher Man Hates Movie’: 3 Hollywood Prominences Who Didn’t Like Margot Robbie’s $1.4 Billion Barbie

The film is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie Barbie It created a storm at the box office. Now she’s signaling her strong Oscar claim. The film grossed $1.4 billion worldwide, the highest global gross ever for a live-action film by a female director.

But not everyone is enamored with this popular puppet movie. Sure, there are some Hollywood figures who didn’t like the movie. But what makes them hate this blockbuster? Let’s find out.

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Robin Östlund

Award-winning director sadness triangle, Ruben Östlund is one of the key figures in Hollywood who has been criticized Barbie. In an interview (trans the first show), the current president of the Cannes jury described the film as satire disguised as optimism. He said:

“I’ve seen Barbie, yes. For me, it’s cynicism disguised as optimism. It perfectly describes the craziness of our times. A toy manufacturer (Mattel) finances its own movie and buys an American film director to make their old dolls more stylish… Completely crazy, in my opinion.“.

In Östlund’s view, the film’s focus leans too heavily toward the virtual world over the tangible world.

“The film is more about the virtual world than the real world. It’s about statements, quotes, taking a consistent stance against something, etc. I didn’t like that. One of the positives of capitalism is that with competition, we produce more products. We try to make it better than the last. For this reason, we need oral communication between audiences.”

However, according to the Swedish director, this film, with its huge marketing budget and minimal organic conversation, feels like a potential hijack of that crucial process.

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Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt, Certain women The director was also criticized Barbie along with Oppenheimer. Back in September, Reichardt lashed out Barbie like “Marketing over art“.

Talk to HSThe director was asked about the two films that received the most attention this year. She did not hesitate to describe films as a huge marketing machine, but rather sold them as art.

“It’s part of a huge marketing machine, but it’s being sold as art. And all of this is just being celebrated. As a director, I wonder what this will do to people’s expectations for future films“.

Kelly Reichardt is the director of eight feature films: Grass river (1994), Old joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Mick snapped (2010), Night movements (2013), Certain women (2016), The first cow (2019) and show (2022).

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Bill Maher

Bill Maher, television personality and political commentator, could not stand aside from criticizing the film. Join the fightBarbie crowd, the podcast host claimed Barbie he “The man-hating preachy zombie lie…”

“What is the zombie lie?“Maher was taken to his country Xformerly known as the Twitter account, requested.

“Something that has never been true, but some people refuse to stop saying (e.g., tax cuts for the rich increase revenue); Or something that used to be true but is no longer true, but some people pretend it is still true,” It is to explain.

Maher criticized BarbieDepicting the Mattel palette as “It consists of 12 white men“in clear holes in”Patriarchate“.

Despite everything, barbimania is real.