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Bill Maher is not pleased with 'Barbie', joining the small but loud Anti-'Barbie' hate train. The HBO Real Time host posted his critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig's summer sensation going on a bit of a rant on X formerly known as Twitter.

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00:00 Bill Maher is not pleased with Barbie, joining the small but loud anti-Barbie hate train.

00:05 The HBO Real Time host posted his critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig's summer sensation,

00:10 going on a bit of a rant on X, formerly known as Twitter, stating, "I was hoping it wouldn't

00:15 be preachy, man-hating, and a #zombielie.

00:18 Alas, it was all three."

00:20 Maher then went into his extremely lengthy post, which was rather hard to follow and

00:24 frankly a bit cringey, overall referring to the film as a "#zombielie."

00:29 Now what is a zombie lie?

00:31 Well, allow Maher to explain in painstaking detail.

00:34 What is a zombie lie?

00:36 Something that never was true but certain people refused to stop saying it, i.e. tax

00:40 cuts for the rich, increased revenues, or something that used to be true but no longer

00:44 is, but certain people pretend it's still true.

00:47 Barbie is this kind of #zombielie.

00:50 Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the patriarchy, right up to the Mattel board who created her,

00:55 consisting of 12 white men.

00:57 The patriarchy.

00:58 Except there's a Mattel board in real life, and it's 7 men and 5 women.

01:02 Ok, not perfect even, Steven, but not the way the board in the movie, which takes place

01:06 in 2023, is portrayed, and not really any longer deserving of the word patriarchy.

01:11 Yes, there was one, and remnants of it remain, but this movie is so 2000 late.

01:17 Maher later continues in his so-called 2000 late movie rant, "I know, I know.

01:22 How could I know about the patriarchy?

01:23 I am a man."

01:25 That argument is so old and so silly.

01:27 Of course, none of us can know exactly what others go through life, but I can see the

01:31 world around me, and I can read data.

01:33 The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country, where 45% of the 449 board

01:38 seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women.

01:41 "Truth is, I'm not the one who's out of step.

01:44 I'm living in the year we're living in.

01:46 Barbie is fun, I enjoyed it, but it is a #zombielie, and people who don't go along with zombie

01:52 lies did not take some red pill.

01:54 Just staying true to current reality.

01:56 Let's live in the year we're living in."

01:58 Maher is the latest male media pundit to take issue with the film, alongside several conservative

02:03 voices ranging from podcaster Ben Shapiro to billionaire Elon Musk.

02:07 But it looks like Barbie is the one with the last laugh.

02:10 With all the chatter, good and bad, the film just crossed the $1 billion global mark at

02:15 the box office, and has become the biggest box office haul for a live-action film by

02:19 a female director in cinema history.

02:22 Sorry Bill, no zombie lies there.

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