Here's what my first Barbie looked like. Her name is Fluff (presumably because of her fluffy blonde hair). She wears ballerina flats for shoes, and came with a skateboard.
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I still have mine, though she's been damaged over the years of being played with.
Not exactly "German hooker" material, in my view.
(I don't think this photo is of a first edition, as my doll's skirt is orange, not pink.)
My second Barbie was Talking Christie:
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This isn't quite the same outfit mine had, though the orange shorts are the same. Pull the ring, and she says things like, "Hi! I'm called Christie!" and "I love to try on clothes." and "I want to be a fashion model." and so on. Christie was
obsessed with fashion. I still have her, as well, though the talking mechanism doesn't work anymore and she had some rough treatment over the years. Some of the things I put my dolls through...
I also had Living Francie:
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She came with a variety of things like a suitcase, TV, tray with dishes on it, and I don't recall what else. She had low-heel shoes - between the stiletto heels and the ballerina flats.
Then came Walk Lively Ken:
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There was a wheeled stand to put him in, and when you pushed it, his arms and head would move; this would also happen if you moved his legs like he was walking. I've still got him, too.
Finally, the last of the Barbies I regularly played with, was Quick Curl Kelley:
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She came with a comb, barrettes, and plastic curling iron-shaped gadget so you could style her hair (it was more bristly than normal Barbie hair so it would hold its shape). I have two of these dolls. One has her hair in braids and the other one has a Farrah Fawcett-type hairstyle (hey, it was the '70s...).
No "German hookers" here.
Why shouldn't it be a gay love story? I haven't seen the movie, but whatever... all I ask of movies and stories is that the characters be well-written and that the story makes sense. When it comes to fanfiction and same-sex pairings, keeping the characters
in character is also important.
Example: That scene in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where Sirius Black and Remus Lupin share a brief hug was the catalyst for a
huge subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction that has its own name: Wolfstar. My take on this is that Remus and Tonks had NO chemistry. Tonks was actually a pretty boring character most of the time, so there are very few of those stories I care to read. Whether the story pairs Sirius and Remus with women or with each other, all I ask is consistent, well-written characterization, an engaging story, and that it not just be a too-detailed play-by-play of smut.
So... Brokeback Mountain. Haven't seen it. If it ever turns up on Saturday Night Cinema on PBS, I might.
What does this even mean?
LOL. I haven't seen Passion of the Christ, but I've seen The Ten Commandments... maybe a couple of dozen times? Maybe more. It used to be an annual tradition for my grandmother and me, that on Easter Sunday, ABC would run this movie and she'd let me stay up late to watch it with her.
I've seen it so many times over the years and honestly, the more I watch it, the more preachy it seems, to the point where older Moses is basically a caricature.
It's still a fantastic piece of filmmaking, though. That 'hounds and jackals' game that Nefertiri plays with Pharaoh is like Senet - which is available on Steam, and I enjoy playing it now and then.
There are Native American Barbies (though marketed as "Eskimo Barbie"; that's a problem nowadays as 'Eskimo' is considered a slur and the correct term is 'Inuit'). I've got one. No, she did not come with an igloo and sled dog.
Have you read the Villeneuve Dune arguments recently? The new fans are...
disrespectful, to put it politely.
I thought they already did some Snow White remakes? I've only ever seen the Disney cartoon. The Little Golden Book version gave me nightmares when I was about 8.
Mind you, when I was 8, I also thought about how Snow White looked more like a child than a woman, and wondered why the dwarfs were going to make her sleep outside in the forest, and then put her into a crystal coffin where she wouldn't be able to breathe. Addressing these points might make sense to a modern audience.
I don't think so, though the critics and certain emphatic individuals (some on this forum) throw Rotten Tomatoes stats in my face as though that's supposed to validate what is, after all, merely an opinion. It's not like gravity or the Laws of Motion.
The more people talk about something, the more likely they will want to see it.
I remember the hullabaloo over
The Last Temptation of Christ, with church groups picketing theatres. I decided to see it for myself, to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out, it wasn't really worth the fuss, and if the picketers had actually watched for themselves, they'd have realized that the "temptation" was successfully resisted, and the ending actually reinforces their beliefs.
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The Handmaid's Tale showrunner made the decision to have a diverse cast rather than adhere to the blatant racism of the Sons of Jacob.
Of course. Mind you, I could easily have my own version of "Hijab Barbie" if I wanted. There are patterns online, I have fabric in my craft collection, plus scissors, needles, thread...
I've found that when something is dumbed down, it's usually because the showrunner doesn't understand it.
So Villeneuve, when he dumbed down Dune, did it for worldwide audiences, and not North American audiences? Mind you... Villeneuve has shown multiple times that he doesn't actually understand some parts of Dune anyway.
Whatever this is, it's geoblocked in Canada.