Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me.

• FoxBJK@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I understand your point, but a movie that is itself a 2-hour advertisement doesn’t lose any of its value by showing other brands.

  What’s bleak is that a movie about a toy grosses over a billion at the box office. Not that BMW or Samsung want you to look at their stuff.

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  • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This critique irks me for some reason. Consider this: Imagine the latest Top Gun had some scene where Tom Cruise literally high fives Uncle Sam, then slowly whispers “Freedom” and winks into the camera. You’d rightfully find this jarring, a poor aesthetic choice, weird.

    But then someone online tells you why you’d expect anything else from a franchise that’s heavily subsidized and supported by the military industrial complex, and demanding a sort of artistic consistency from such a franchise is pointless to begin with.

    Tldr: I think you can critique the art even if you’re aware of it’s ideological confines.

    (This reply hinges on such a scene not being in the latest Top Gun movie, which I haven’t see yet to be honest)

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    • FoxBJK@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A fair point, but in your original example we’re talking about a cell phone. That’s a significantly more subtle inclusion than Tom draping himself in an American flag and riding off on the back of an eagle.

      I don’t remember the scene we’re talking about, so if it was a cell phone in the real world I see no issue. If it was in Barbie’s world then it should’ve been plastic. That would be my only complaint.

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