There were LOTS of pre-ticket sales for the first weekend of Barbie. Everyone thought that it was a light-hearted family event. Now that we know that was all bullshit, the pre-ticket sales and actually attendance SHOULD be disastrous for any future weekends.
I hope it dies a quick and painful death.
If the right wanted to make the woke culture industry’s head explode, they should have embraced and co-opted the Barbie movie, particularly Ken’s enthusiasm for patriarchy and his ‘Fight Club’ style attempt to overthrow the Barbieland matriarchy—an ingenious and surprising subplot in the movie, actually. Could you imagine the Vice and Atlantic articles bemoaning the “alt-right embrace of Barbie”? It could have been made toxic and a retrospect embarrassment for the left, like ‘Juno’ which has been correctly reevaluated as a pro-life classic and disowned by its leftist writer for exactly that reason. As it stands, Ben Shapiro, for example, is being mocked for his fist-shaking hatred for the movie, and his reaction has actually galvanized support for the movie. He should have shocked everyone with a conservative re-interpretation of the movie and a wholesale endorsement. Imagine the meltdown! Has no one read “The Art of War”?