Submitted 1 month ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.commondreams.org/news/melania-trump-movie-reviews
One particularly brutal review came from Nick Hilton, film critic for the Independent, who said that the first lady came off in the film as “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness” who leads a “vulgar, gilded lifestyle.”
Hilton added that the film is so terrible that it fails even at being effective propaganda and is likely to be remembered as “a striking artifact… of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly.”
ew her nails
Ew her
Lizard fingers
$45m bribe*
The 28 was just the advertising part iirc.
No. the 28M was for her per reporting. They still had to make the movie and advertise it.
That head would look great on a pike outside the city walls.
I hate that our country has become so fascist that this dumb bitch’s movie failing feels like a victory.
This is shocking 😲 /s!
Honestly I am shaken, if something this good could fail what is the meaning of anything?
I wish it was nothing, but for Canadians, America is a big scowling dictatorship of pure evil.
Take your fucking country back.
I love Canada, but this holier than thou mindset I keep seeing is getting tired. Remember Poilievre was polling ~20 points higher than Carney, until Trump started his 51st state horse shit. The entire world seems to be swinging right, and Canada just got lucky this time.
We are all in this together whether you want to be or not.
Indeed. All of europe will fall if we don’t get popular reform to challenge the far right, now backed by the US and Russia, running themselves as reform and all other major parties captured by the establishments/oligarchies.
this holier than thou mindset
It’s totally okay not to project. It’s okay to just be concerned and worried and insignificant like the rest of us without alienating your best refugee destination.
Not with these democrats and these dumb motherfuckers still trust them. They are quite vicious about it too.
I love that this quote applies to both the movie and the actual person.
i assume some kind of hollywood accounting where they can write the unprofitable movie off their taxes
This is half of it. The other half is the $30M bribe rendered to the Trump family, effectively laundered under the guise of making a documentary.
The old story. Churches and other MAGA groups are buying blocks of seats. It’s playing to “sold out” empty houses.
Can someone explain to me how this movie has a 99% user rating?
the same way the Trump family obtains most things they want, fraud.
I did my part rating this movie appropriately.
The only people that would go see this are Trump cultists, who are going to approve of it regardless of quality
Because the only people who’d ever see ot are either members of the cult or reviewers being paid to see it.
1% of the audience being reviewers and the rest deciding that it’s amazing before seeing it and not changing their mind when proven wrong sounds pretty plausible 🤷
They might be filtering out the deluge of bad reviews as anomaly or political.
Selection/volunteer bias, no one who would give it a bad review would pay to see it
Beep boop.
At least Eva Braun was interesting
Mel brooks should do a Producers about Maga. Too soon?
We’ll finally get to see “Hitler on ICE”
These dumb shits don’t get it. It was never supposed to be good. It was a bribe. Even wasting a second watching it to do a review is a waste of human effort.
No, insulting is absolutely worthwhile, do you think their goal was to get universal scorn?
Nick Hilton… said that the first lady came off in the film as “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness” who leads a “vulgar, gilded lifestyle.”
He’s saying it’s accurate then?
Remember when people tried to frame her as a victim? What stank of a person.
The funniest thing about this is she isn’t even hot. She looks like every soccer mom in every suburban town everywhere.
I wouldnt insult soccer moms like that, but I see what u saying.
It’s not an insult. I didn’t say soccer moms are all-encompassingly unattractive, just that she ain’t anything special. She’s a “super model” who looks like every lady in front of me at the super market.
Way worse. Those vapid all american soccer moms have that MILF next door vibe, Melania looks like a possessed lizard.
She looks like every soccer mom in every suburban town everywhere
More like every self employed sex therapist hanging around hotel bars.
Currently on Rotten Tomatoes:
%11 Critics %99 Audience
What’s the point in review-bombing when it’s so obvious?
It’s not review bombing if it actually sucks
Why would movie critics go to see a money laundering attempt?
Because it’s their job? They can’t just watch what they like.
It’s a movie critics job to launder money?
They don’t pay to go see it. They get paid to see it.
To dunk on it obvs
That’s also an accurate description of narcissism—a void of nothingness. Those people only live on the outside, because they don’t exist within themselves
There’s no way this thing cost $75 mil to make. It’s a documentary.
The bribes for “access”.
75 million dollars. 75. Million. Dollars.
How much of it went to the crew and other people who actually made the damn thing?
Or even used for their benefit in other way, for that matter - I’m asking because apparently the crew did overtime hours with no food while the director lorded over the underlings and stuffed his face. (Don’t do overtime if your boss isn’t personally ordering a ton of pizza, guys.)
I read somewhere that about $24 million of it went straight to Melania.
A scowling void of pure nothingness
Sounds like a sick video game summon.
You cannot fast travel to Epstein Island.
I mean…
You have to be at least level 1 Billion to enter this area.
-War of the World 2025: 4% RT
-this propaganda: 10% RT
The heck
I mean, both are cult propaganda written by and for deranged members of the cult.
I guess the Mango Mussolini cult is just two and a half times as popular as the Tom Cruise cult 🤷
War Of The Worlds probably got MAGAed for having a Black protagonist.
Oh NO! We NEED to Pass a Bill to Quickly Rectify THIS!
-Chuck Schumer!
I loved the one from the Guardian comparing it to Zone of Interest. Utterly boring but makes you think about the of screen horrors of the Trump regime
They beat up that film like it owed them money.
I hope she ends up like Mussolini’s girlfriend
What does this mean for amazons relation with Trump?
Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was just a 75mil payment from Amazon to trump. Movie was just the means to do the transaction.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Coincidentally, Ratner just got greenlit for Rush Hour 4, which had been in development hell since 2018.
hector@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Jackie Chan is the best. Must be a little long in the tooth now.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Even so, they had a massive budget, a competent director, and they didn’t manage to produce something that paints her in a good light.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Oh he’s competent alright.
yahoo.com/…/director-melania-trump-film-pictured-…
ferrule@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The best way to launder money is to have a front that is legit. This way it pass the smell test if you just plug your nose a little.
I would assume bribes work the same way.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Malicious compliance?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t understand the spending of millions on marketing.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Money laundering opportunity?
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As usual, people are giving way too much credit to Trump. The money wasn’t given to him, it was spent on making the shitty movie.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
The film industry is just one massive money laundering scheme.