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

00:05The HBO real-time host posted his critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig's summer sensation,

00:10going on a bit of a rant on X, formerly known as Twitter, stating,

00:14I was hoping it wouldn't be preachy, man-hating, and a hashtag zombie lie. Alas, it was all three.

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

00:25cringy, overall referring to the film as a hashtag zombie lie. Now, what is a zombie lie? Well,

00:32allow Maher to explain in painstaking detail. What is a zombie lie? Something that never was true,

00:37but certain people refuse to stop saying it, i.e. tax cuts for the rich increase revenues,

00:42or something that used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it's still true.

00:47Barbie is this kind of hashtag zombie lie. Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the patriarchy,

00:52right up to the Mattel board who created her, consisting of 12 white men. The patriarchy.

00:58Except there's a Mattel board in real life, and it's 7 men and 5 women. Okay, not perfect even,

01:03Steven, but not the way the board in the movie, which takes place in 2023, is portrayed. And not

01:09really any longer deserving of the word patriarchy. Yes, there was one, and remnants of it remain,

01:14but this movie is so 2000 late. Maher later continues in his so-called 2000 late movie rant,

01:21I know, I know, how could I know about the patriarchy? I am a man. That argument is so old

01:26and so silly. Of course, none of us can know exactly what others go through life, but I can see the

01:31world around me, and I can read data. The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country,

01:36where 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women. Truth is,

01:42I'm not the one who's out of step. I'm living in the year we're living in. Barbie is fun,

01:47I enjoyed it, but it is a hashtag zombie lie. And people who don't go along with zombie lies

01:52did not take some red pill, just staying true to current reality. Let's live in the year we're

01:57living in. Maher is the latest male media pundit to take issue with the film, alongside several

02:02conservative voices, ranging from podcaster Ben Shapiro to billionaire Elon Musk. But it looks like

02:08Barbie is the one with the last laugh. With all the chatter, good and bad, the film just crossed the

02:13$1 billion global mark at the box office, and has become the biggest box office haul for a live

02:19action film by a female director in cinema history. Sorry, Bill, no zombie lies there. For more on the

02:25story, hit to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching

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