This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.

The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

  • Swoggles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    Without spoilers, they broadly bring up the idea that equality for the sexes isn’t in effect at present moment.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Ah, thank you. I know literally nothing about it and wasn’t sure how people would be upset.

      I was thinking it was like the Lego movie or something.

      • Nataratata@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I wonder why people didn’t lose their mind over that Lego movie being political. Why is “average Joe is the real hero when he just lets go of restrictive norms” not a political statement? But “Barbie is the hero in her own movie by abolishing restrictive norms” is woke/political?

        • Derproid@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I feel like it might be because those movies contain a lot more than just that.