Ruben Ostlund "bashes" Barbie

I don't think his opinion will be reflected in the way the industry sees this: they'll love it and will nominate it aplenty. I'm actually afraid it can get overnominated, getting into stuff like Sound or Cinematography

I think Barbie is more of a commercial film rather than an art film. It plays its card safe, and tried to play both sides. It's neither pro or anti Mattel. I see it in the same way, I view Top Gun: Maverick.  Quite frankly, I don't think it was meant to be a deep, thought-provoking film.

Agree. I can see Gerwig being left out of the good ole' boys club aka the director's branch. Glazer or Triet could very well replace her for Best Director. 

I don’t think Gerwig is safe for Director. While I still think she gets nominated I can easily see her missing and wouldn’t be surprised by it.

But saying she'd be a victim of "the good ol' boys" club while listing another female director (Triet) as a possible replacement doesn't quite work.

Gerwig and Barbie are doing so well but she doesn’t feel like a directors branch choice to me

Then you clearly weren't paying attention. I don't think it was always successful at it, but it 100% without question was meant to be a "deep, thought-provoking film." Social satire/critique, deeply feminist, dismantling the "patriarchy"? Check on all 3 boxes. The ONLY reason it's doing so well with critics/awards is precisely because it clearly tries to be something far more ambitious and bold than a mere commercial film.

I'd be shocked - shocked I tell you! - if she missed Director .........the film is a smashing success on so many multiple, pretty complex levels (narrative, thematic, metaphorical, cultural - there's A LOT going on) - commercial and artistic (even though I didn't think it worked apart from the first 1/3rd setup). I don't think it's like Top Gun Maverick much....I think it's closer to Don't Look Up or Bo Burnham's Inside (didn't like those either, thanx4asking) - works that are often commenting on themselves and in a way - removing a discernible contrary audience reaction like Ostlund says.

Also Ostlund is obviously crazy because their is nothing good about Capitalism. j/k - this is an interesting POV and he isn't wrong - but this is actually the argument for why his reaction to the movie matters very little for its nomination tally tbh.

One of the positives about capitalism is that as there is competition, we create more products. And we try to make them better than the last ones. And for that, we need word of mouth between audiences. But a film like “Barbie” pirates this process by putting a ton of money into marketing, and there is barely any word of mouth.

Bravo to Ruben Ostlund and may God protect Kelly Reichardt.

Doubting Greta gimme-a-break's nomination (and possible win, why not) is almost as unreasonable as me thinking Murphy might miss some months ago.

Villenueve too

1. There's nothing wrong with a brand trying to realign its place and its meaning in the world, though it's certainly unfair if they do that by spending millions of dollars on a blockbuster movie that will bury any chance of competition being able to organically plug those gaps, but that's the fucking world.

2. Barbie was 'about statements, quotes, constantly taking a stand against something, etc.' out of service to Mattel, and so the Great Gerwig could get her foot in the door of the big time. This guy just makes his brain-thuddingly simplistic sledgehammer-subtle prosaic lecture movies because he chooses to. His way, nobody wins.

Well twitter is mad about everything constantly so that hardly matters.

Let's throw in another one though, Cameron for Avatar 2 (who also hit Critics choice and the Globes), a BIGGER hit than Barbie, he didn't make it either.