Submitted 21 hours 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.”
It was just a 75mil payment from Amazon to trump. Movie was just the means to do the transaction.
Coincidentally, Ratner just got greenlit for Rush Hour 4, which had been in development hell since 2018.
Jackie Chan is the best. Must be a little long in the tooth now.
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.
Oh he’s competent alright.
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.
Malicious compliance?
I don’t understand the spending of millions on marketing.
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?
To dunk on it obvs
Remember when people tried to frame her as a victim? What stank of a person.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The old story. Churches and other MAGA groups are buying blocks of seats. It’s playing to “sold out” empty houses.
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.
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?
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
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”
I hope she ends up like Mussolini’s girlfriend
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
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…
There’s no way this thing cost $75 mil to make. It’s a documentary.
The bribes for “access”.
-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 🤷
The 2025 version didn’t have Tom Cruise
War Of The Worlds probably got MAGAed for having a Black protagonist.
They beat up that film like it owed them money.
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
Oh NO! We NEED to Pass a Bill to Quickly Rectify THIS!
-Chuck Schumer!
We need to give her more money! That’ll teach trump a lesson!
This has to be propaganda
I have zero doubts that MAGA money is being spent on buying out showings and that the propaganda machine is running at 110%. I also do not doubt that a lot of boomer and older Gen-X/Jones MAGA women in are going to see it. These are not.mutually exclusive things.
You’d like to think so, but my hardcore maga step mom and sister are all over fb singing it’s praises on high. Some people are so invested in this shit, that they cannot admit the truth.
It’s like those religious movies where people buy up tickets en masse but no one actually goes to the movie. Or those political books where the party buys up boxes and boxes of them to get the book on the best seller list, but no one actually reads it.
Just for giggles I checked my local theater yesterday afternoon. There were 6 seats purchased for the 6:30 show, and, as of 9:15 none for the 9:30 showing. On a Saturday night.
Its official budget was $40 million (presumably before marketing), so I'm not sure that this can be called a hit on an $8 million box office
I wonder it’s like book sales, where a publisher or other entity buys a ton of copies to make it a “Best-seller”. Are the seats being filled, or are the tickets just bought out to make it appear more successful?
Yes. Conservative groups are buying out whole theatres that then show the movie to empty seats.
There’s Craigslist ads paying people to go see it
What does this mean for amazons relation with Trump?
chris@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
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