That's because it's a bribe, and not a documentary that's supposed to make money, lol.
"I’d be amazed if box office gets reported on this title," one industry insider told The Mirror, adding that the film’s distributors might be paying a fee to cinemas to screen the movie, an established practice known as “four-walling.”
Documentary filmmaker Stefano Da Frè, who was not involved in the film, told CNN that "data-driven" Amazon would not have invested that much expecting to lose money.
“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” Da Frè said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”
Personally, I was eager to see it and super pumped to finally learn more about this fascinating and enigmatically beautiful woman. But while I was waiting in line with hundreds of other culture lovers, George Soros came strolling along and paid each of us a thousand quid to go and watch something better instead. So I went and saw The Smurfs and got pie and chips. I hear he's going to all the cinemas with these bundles of cash. Him and Obama, who was doing the cinema on the next street.
Some on the far right praise him, yeah. That's true. "Universally" was my use of hyperbole.
The vast majority of UK residents despise him though, to the point that any political leader coming out in support of him would effectively be killing their career. Hence why Nigel Farage is dancing around the topic like maypole.
If it gets them a new tax bill or something, it'll be worth billions. Trump is the cheapest presidential bribe of the last 100 years, and that's just because of inflation.
“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” Da Frè said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”
Having worked at Amazon for a couple years this is the most hilarious thing I've read.
If someone L10+ wants something to happen its gonna happen metrics be damned. Lemmings will fudge numbers and just make it work. For all the bluster about LPs and such it's a very top down culture and what VPs and above want they fucking get it.
TL;DR it’s a way of indicating VP level positions at Amazon. It’s someone really high up the chain. To put in perspective Andy Jassy is an L12.
Longer answer. At Amazon every position has a level. I was a software engineer so that’s what I’ll speak to here but these apply to non engineering positions as well.
L1-3 are non engineering positions.
L4 is junior engineer
L5 is mid-senior IC (individual contributor) and the lowest rung for Engineering management.
L6 is Senior IC and middle rung for managers.
L7 is Principal engineer and Senior Manager. For context only about 1-2% of the company ever get this high.
L8 is Senior principal and Director level management.
L9 you skip because that was Bezos’ level and everyone just doesn’t use it.
L10 are VP level management. You occasionally get an IC this high when Amazon wants to poach talent from another company but generally this is reserved for management.
As you said, it's only worth that amount as a bribe. Paying Trump directly would definitely be a problem if we had a functioning Supreme Court and Congress (or if he were a Democrat), but why not make sure that bribe has a thin veil of deniability by wrapping it up in a pretty package that's labeled "Movie."
They're really not. It's just now being released in a theater. Not only that but it was paid for by Jeff bezos and Amazon. So why in the world would you think that they're streaming it on Netflix? When in all reality it's going to be streamed on prime video and not watched by a single person except for bots trying to raise the view count.
Yes, it is. When I read about it, it was the fifth result as per the comments, when I searched for it to "buy" it, it was already the second result, so, it actually was working :)
Amazon didn't care if it lost money. They gave 25 million for the rights to melanias story right to trump. A legal payout. So they spent a few more million on a failed movie.bribe was payed
I'll be in the wheelie bin out back. I'll tell you how much fun I had when they emptied the hairy food scraps that'd been trampled into the floor (collected from other film screenings of course) onto me and you'll be jealous.
Why would someone be humiliated that their money laundering scheme is laundering money?
You people don't honestly believe she gives a shit, right? And you certainly must recognize this movie as just being a grift, and that it wasn't made with the intention or expectation of being successful, right?
Yep, it's just like all of the "bestselling" books the right "writes". Real people don't actually buy them; the PACs buy them to funnel money into the pockets of the subject of the book.
I also believe that above all else, this was a money laundering scheme.
That being said, I feel like there was a part of her that was hoping this documentary about her life would be revered as incredibly interesting and a work of art. Like, single digit ticket sales is incredibly bad... I don't care who you are - that's gotta sting. And that's hilarious.
I'm certainly not forgetting, but in the interest of brevity, I decided not to detail out the hundreds of different ways Diaper Don has been bribed or otherwise fleeced his loyal idiots.
I mean, she's a fashion model by trade not a stage actor. She can still sorority girl posse with the best of them. But then she opens her mouth, and you get a sorority girl tier of conversation.
Oh she did, I'm referring to various things in this post but yeah she did some queer-baiting photo shoots as a model.
No shame in being gay or even being "gay for pay" or a sex worker or any of these but she and her husband are vile, trashy hypocrites and are trying to dismantle rights for LGBTQ+ people. So, I think it's worthy of ridicule.
I won't ask. I was of the generation that still had drive-in movies, and if I did some extra work on the house, my dad would lend me his late-50s Cadillac, with a back seat the size of a double bed. Cinemas were a distant second-best. The only challenges were keeping the seat clean and dissipating the smell of pot smoke.
UK cinema chain Vue's will premier "Melania" at 3:10 p.m. at its flagship Islington theater in London, but so far only one person has bought a ticket and just two tickets have sold for a 6 p.m. showing – undercutting President Donald Trump's hype claims
"MELANIA, the Movie, is a MUST WATCH," Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social. "Get your tickets today — Selling out, FAST!"
Lmao, one person… probably a critic who has to watch it too.
He probably doesn't even understand that movies in theaters are not "while supplies last" and there is no need to act fast. "Sold out" doesn't mean you won't be able to watch it next week, it even increases your chances to do so.
Why wouldn't anyone want to know the story of a vapid, valueless, and brainless model who married a mentally deranged piece of shit who wants people like her (Not "born RIGHT-WISE") violently removed from "his" country? MADNESS
Honestly do not understand why it’s in cinemas. At least if it was streaming only they could just lie about it’s viewership figures and stick it at no 1
Probably not from the theater (would be hilarious though) but since I would imagine they were online reviewers they may have been paid to watch it, which is close!
His name is STEWART and he is NOT a bot. Real guy, terrific guy, he does a lot of great stuff. Does a LOT more than some of the other people there, you know the other kind. DONT buy into the Left's brainwashing! THANK YOU for your Attention to this MATTER!
Jeez, I sure hope they are bots. She has been a complete non participant when it comes to doing the tasks a First Lady does. Outside of her "I don't care..." bullshit, she's just done nothing. Well, except consistently try to weasel out of all attempts by her husband to touch her, anyway.
UK is doing Denmark and the rest of Europe a solid here. They're being the black cop at the Capitol that baits the MAGAs away from the congressional chambers.
Pffft, she lost the capacity to feel shame or humiliation decades ago when she got involved with the orange child rapist.
Christ, Melanomia could shit herself on live TV, then rub it over her face and that would still be less humiliating than marrying that obese tangerine toddler.
Typically, documentaries do not do well in the theatre. Still though, this makes me happy. There are almost 8 billion people on the planet more deserving of a documentary about their lives and thoughts than this woman.
Epstein traffic victim who came out of the collapsing Eastern Bloc and got passed around Paris/Italy high society for a few years before being turned out by NYC real estate tycoon Paolo Zampolli to sell high end Manhattan units?
She was the fly on the wall and the floozy in the sheets for a parade of corrupt plutocrats. If you wanted a real tell-all about the seedy back end of high society in one of the world's richest cities, you could do a lot worse than produce a Melania biopic.
Not what this movie is about, of course. But she's definitely had an interesting life. How many US/EU presidents do you think this single woman has fucked?
Lazy of amazon to bribe trump with a dumb movie and then fail to ensure some tickets were bought to pretend anyone showed. Its one thing for the right to be corrupt, but they go on to always try to be corrupt and do a bad job in executing the grift. They even suck at sucking.
Yeah, seat-fillers aren't that expensive relative to the cost of the film. Unless someone in Amazon wanted to get the message out that the only reason they did it was to kiss the ring.
This could be the perfect first date movie though. Assess your compatibility with prospective companion(s) by the quality of their roasts and, if nothing else, have a good time while ruining the evening for MAGAts who are there to worship their idol's crush's stepmother.
But then again, it could feature Trumps dick pics and the name of the real Luigi, and I'd still not bother watching it, because Melanie is soo despicable boring.
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 224 pts · 202d
That's because it's a bribe, and not a documentary that's supposed to make money, lol.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 110 pts · 202d
40M is nothing to Bezos, and it's a good investment if it wins him a few favors from Trump.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 202d
Really depends whether Trump can handle the humiliation.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 85 pts · 202d
Personally, I was eager to see it and super pumped to finally learn more about this fascinating and enigmatically beautiful woman. But while I was waiting in line with hundreds of other culture lovers, George Soros came strolling along and paid each of us a thousand quid to go and watch something better instead. So I went and saw The Smurfs and got pie and chips. I hear he's going to all the cinemas with these bundles of cash. Him and Obama, who was doing the cinema on the next street.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 43 pts · 202d
I bet if you posted this on truth.social, orange monkey would re-tweet you.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 202d
Do it!
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
There is a downside. You would have to sign up for truth social.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 202d
SOOOORRROOOOOOSSSSSSSS!! gestures angrily at sky
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 202d
Without an /s tag I wasn’t sure if you were serious or not. /s
regedit@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 202d
It's our resident @floofloof@lemmy.ca. A bastion of sarcastic wit that only a true Canadian can provide in our time of need!
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler This is not /s. floofloof has like a +75 upvote rating from me! All love for our peace loving neighbors to the north! :::
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
Trump gets doctored reports that say it's a tremendous success
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 202d
His brain is so mushy that he’ll either hallucinate its success or completely forget the movie exists by next week.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 202d
I like to think that Donnie knew it would bomb.
Melania has been treating him like garbage for years.
This way he could get a little money and have petty vengeance
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 202d
Not sure if serious.
If true, then she’s right because he is absolute garbage
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 12 pts · 202d
Back in 2017 she refused to leave New York and join him in the White House.
It's widely reported that her bedroom is on a different floor.
On January 6 she was as far away from him as she could get.
There are plenty of photos of her refusing to hold his hand in public.
Rumors abound that she was sleeping with her security staff
I don't consider her a 'victim,' because she'd met him before they got married. Two terrible people who hate each other
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 201d
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 202d
He can always just throw her under the bus. He's had plenty of practice.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 202d
With narcissism, I think their goal is always both. They deserve the bribe and the adoration, in their minds
HamFistedVegan@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 202d
It shows a really quite astounding lack of self awareness to even think that it's worth having a premier in the UK.
Had she been even remotely aware of how we (I'm from the UK) feel about her husband over here, she would know that this was inevitable.
Her husband is universally despised in this country. Even by the Right.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 202d
She should be despised too, she's not a victim.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 202d
Easy there. Reform dipshits love him.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 201d
What about the far right though?
HamFistedVegan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Some on the far right praise him, yeah. That's true. "Universally" was my use of hyperbole.
The vast majority of UK residents despise him though, to the point that any political leader coming out in support of him would effectively be killing their career. Hence why Nigel Farage is dancing around the topic like maypole.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 202d
If it gets them a new tax bill or something, it'll be worth billions. Trump is the cheapest presidential bribe of the last 100 years, and that's just because of inflation.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 202d
Having worked at Amazon for a couple years this is the most hilarious thing I've read.
If someone L10+ wants something to happen its gonna happen metrics be damned. Lemmings will fudge numbers and just make it work. For all the bluster about LPs and such it's a very top down culture and what VPs and above want they fucking get it.
JuBe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
What’s an L10?
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
TL;DR it’s a way of indicating VP level positions at Amazon. It’s someone really high up the chain. To put in perspective Andy Jassy is an L12.
Longer answer. At Amazon every position has a level. I was a software engineer so that’s what I’ll speak to here but these apply to non engineering positions as well.
L1-3 are non engineering positions.
L4 is junior engineer
L5 is mid-senior IC (individual contributor) and the lowest rung for Engineering management.
L6 is Senior IC and middle rung for managers.
L7 is Principal engineer and Senior Manager. For context only about 1-2% of the company ever get this high.
L8 is Senior principal and Director level management.
L9 you skip because that was Bezos’ level and everyone just doesn’t use it.
L10 are VP level management. You occasionally get an IC this high when Amazon wants to poach talent from another company but generally this is reserved for management.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 202d
They believe they’ll get something back out of this via corruption for sure.
I think ultimately Trump will blame Amazon for messing up the movie defeating the whole point of the exercise though.
Amazon should have let Ellison’s companies make it because the backlash won’t have been worth it.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 202d
As you said, it's only worth that amount as a bribe. Paying Trump directly would definitely be a problem if we had a functioning Supreme Court and Congress (or if he were a Democrat), but why not make sure that bribe has a thin veil of deniability by wrapping it up in a pretty package that's labeled "Movie."
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 202d
Apparently you can just give him a Rolex and a gold bar and it's all good.
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 8 pts · 202d
He’s half right. Bezos is getting what he paid for. He couldn’t care less if anyone sees that movie.
primalmotion@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 202d
rayyy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
You misspelled, "public money laundering".
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 159 pts · 202d
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 202d
Well said.
regedit@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 202d
Now that's a shirt that goes hard!
knighthawk0811@lemmy.world · 135 pts · 202d
this comment has more viewers than her movie
Zier@fedia.io · 13 pts · 202d
Worldwide even.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 202d
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 201d
Isn't it an Amazon film, not Netflix?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 201d
Netflix is streaming it.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 201d
They're really not. It's just now being released in a theater. Not only that but it was paid for by Jeff bezos and Amazon. So why in the world would you think that they're streaming it on Netflix? When in all reality it's going to be streamed on prime video and not watched by a single person except for bots trying to raise the view count.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 201d
That commenter just says things assuming people won't check. Note the name and you'll start seeing inane takes regularly.
Ton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
really?
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 201d
No.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 111 pts · 202d
The book is ALWAYS better.
xorollo@leminal.space · 62 pts · 202d
https://a.co/d/iR1SqNh
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 10 pts · 202d
It's that the one the writer made free for a few days to make it show up when ppl searched melania?
Dentzy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 202d
Yes, it is. When I read about it, it was the fifth result as per the comments, when I searched for it to "buy" it, it was already the second result, so, it actually was working :)
xorollo@leminal.space · 2 pts · 201d
Yep
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
Wait is she supposed to be a floating torso?
xorollo@leminal.space · 6 pts · 201d
It's so you can't grab her by the pussy.
Soup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
It’s a Manananggal, a Filipino monster.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 202d
I read it yesterday, don't regret it.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d
Melania is a manananggal? Melananggal?
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 202d
This movie was just a trump bribe.
Amazon didn't care if it lost money. They gave 25 million for the rights to melanias story right to trump. A legal payout. So they spent a few more million on a failed movie.bribe was payed
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 202d
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 202d
You can choose the seat yet take one on the side??
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 202d
I think that might literally just be a broken seat.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 202d
I would take one closer to the exit.
Redfox8@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 202d
I'll be in the wheelie bin out back. I'll tell you how much fun I had when they emptied the hairy food scraps that'd been trampled into the floor (collected from other film screenings of course) onto me and you'll be jealous.
addie@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 202d
If you think you might want to leave early, more polite not to disturb the other patrons. If there were any other patrons, of course.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 201d
I dunno how you get a whole movie out of her story. What is there to tell?
Eastern European model
Sleeps her way into the family of a rich asshole
Has baby to secure long term seat at the dinner table
The end
That's a story everyone has seen play out 1000 times already.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 201d
Illegally worked in the USA too.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 202d
Why would someone be humiliated that their money laundering scheme is laundering money?
You people don't honestly believe she gives a shit, right? And you certainly must recognize this movie as just being a grift, and that it wasn't made with the intention or expectation of being successful, right?
Please tell me you all aren't that fucking blind.
limelight79@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 202d
Yep, it's just like all of the "bestselling" books the right "writes". Real people don't actually buy them; the PACs buy them to funnel money into the pockets of the subject of the book.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 201d
It's not money laundering, it's a corrupt bribe.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 201d
I also believe that above all else, this was a money laundering scheme.
That being said, I feel like there was a part of her that was hoping this documentary about her life would be revered as incredibly interesting and a work of art. Like, single digit ticket sales is incredibly bad... I don't care who you are - that's gotta sting. And that's hilarious.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
And why is there wall to wall clickbait headlines about the Melania movie to begin with?
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
I read she made $30M from the film - that's pretty shockingly obscene compared to all the big tech innaguration bribes - of "only" $1M.
witten@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
I'm certainly not forgetting, but in the interest of brevity, I decided not to detail out the hundreds of different ways Diaper Don has been bribed or otherwise fleeced his loyal idiots.
witten@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 3 pts · 201d
It can be both.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 202d
Breaking: Hitler's bride isn't popular
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
No shortage of Chuds who were horny for Eva Braun. But I've seen far more slashfic of Sarah Palin than Melania, even now.
Idk what it is about this generation of MAGA, but they're way less into jerking it to their (female) fascist overlords than they were 16 years ago.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
It's because she's an immigrant and speaks as if she landed here fucking 2 weeks ago.
Be best.....
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
I mean, she's a fashion model by trade not a stage actor. She can still sorority girl posse with the best of them. But then she opens her mouth, and you get a sorority girl tier of conversation.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Melania is way below sorority girl tier.
pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 201d
It's not that they wouldn't goon for the modern Eva braun, the problem is that melania is 40 years too old for the MAGA incels
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Did the shitbag Hitler make a film for Eva?
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 201d
What the fuck is possibly the content of this movie?
How to pretend to have a headache so you don't have to sit on the mushroom again?
Melania's early career as a queer-baiting wannabe porn star?
The story of the first mail order bride to become first lady?
The story of the last occupant of the East Wing?
Where to find Dick Tracey's haberdasher?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 201d
Wouldn't those films sell better? Assuming she actually did any.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 201d
Oh she did, I'm referring to various things in this post but yeah she did some queer-baiting photo shoots as a model.
No shame in being gay or even being "gay for pay" or a sex worker or any of these but she and her husband are vile, trashy hypocrites and are trying to dismantle rights for LGBTQ+ people. So, I think it's worthy of ridicule.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 201d
I do remember a nudity scene involving Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
It'll be 90 minutes of her servicing guests at Epstein Island, then 30 minutes of legal threats that she is not now, and never has been a prostitute.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 202d
Some people are so poor all they have is money.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 201d
vegeta@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 202d
Sure. Humiliated all the way to the bank.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 202d
And luckily she didn't even have to have sex with a monster this time to make these millions
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 202d
That you know of
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 202d
Hi, I'd like to withdrawal the $38 from my ticket sales please?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 201d
Surely the only people buying tickets are teenagers who want to have sex in an empty theater?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 9 pts · 201d
Probably. The movie is so damn repulsive I wouldn't be near a cinema playing it.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 201d
I'd agree if I didn't think that every single part of the movie would vaporize every bit of libido in a 2km radius.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
"Paradise Alley" was pretty good for that, back in 78.
Don't ask how I know.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 199d
I won't ask. I was of the generation that still had drive-in movies, and if I did some extra work on the house, my dad would lend me his late-50s Cadillac, with a back seat the size of a double bed. Cinemas were a distant second-best. The only challenges were keeping the seat clean and dissipating the smell of pot smoke.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 33 pts · 202d
Single? As in <10??
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 202d
Yeah, its reported to be a whole 3 people in Londons "flagship" theater venue
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 202d
Easy there. It’s the Vue Islington, hardly the Odeon Leicester Square.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
i am absolutely giddy. i have seen middle school film festivals sell better.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 202d
Lmao, one person… probably a critic who has to watch it too.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 202d
He probably doesn't even understand that movies in theaters are not "while supplies last" and there is no need to act fast. "Sold out" doesn't mean you won't be able to watch it next week, it even increases your chances to do so.
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 201d
Supply might not last long, though. I wouldn't be surprised if theaters pulled it early.
On the other hand they're probably getting paid to show the movie anyway...
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 201d
Yeah sure, he's probably right that those who wanna see it should hurry to get their tickets. Just not because they risk sold out screenings.
daannii@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 202d
Let's be honest. The only people who are seeing it are people who want to make a video about how awful it was.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 201d
Who would have thought?!?!
Why wouldn't anyone want to know the story of a vapid, valueless, and brainless model who married a mentally deranged piece of shit who wants people like her (Not "born RIGHT-WISE") violently removed from "his" country? MADNESS
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
Trump purchased her from Epstein
Reygle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
I'd believe you if she wasn't so fucking old
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
Oh that made me laugh
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 202d
I almost feel bad for her, then I remind myself she's a terrible person
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 202d
She’s an Einstein Genius™ Visa holder!
fox2263@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 202d
Honestly do not understand why it’s in cinemas. At least if it was streaming only they could just lie about it’s viewership figures and stick it at no 1
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 201d
I hope they both got refunds
Sarmyth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
Probably not from the theater (would be hilarious though) but since I would imagine they were online reviewers they may have been paid to watch it, which is close!
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 201d
That be great if the were paid to watch it and still asked for a refund.
kalistia@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 201d
On the movie's (real) IMDb page
Nurgus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Have you noticed that Melania has no displayed star rating or reviews. Has any movie had those things hidden before?
kalistia@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 199d
Well now they did 😂
Nurgus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
Hilarious.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 201d
Rotten tomatoes reviews... totally not bots.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 201d
Guess who wrote that one
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
His name is STEWART and he is NOT a bot. Real guy, terrific guy, he does a lot of great stuff. Does a LOT more than some of the other people there, you know the other kind. DONT buy into the Left's brainwashing! THANK YOU for your Attention to this MATTER!
--JOHN
Kite@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 201d
Jeez, I sure hope they are bots. She has been a complete non participant when it comes to doing the tasks a First Lady does. Outside of her "I don't care..." bullshit, she's just done nothing. Well, except consistently try to weasel out of all attempts by her husband to touch her, anyway.
madde@feddit.org · 21 pts · 202d
So Barron is in London right now?
Karoline Leavitt has got a new job then I reckon?
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 201d
The world would rather watch paint dry than watch a documentary about a pedophile protector like melania. Glad it failed miserably.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 201d
Why would anyone in the UK want to see that film. Even the biggest right wing flagshaggers don't seem to care.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Does she have family there?
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 201d
Not that I know of, but right-wing flag shaggers can be very strange
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 202d
UK is doing Denmark and the rest of Europe a solid here. They're being the black cop at the Capitol that baits the MAGAs away from the congressional chambers.
whitecollarcry@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 202d
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 202d
Pffft, she lost the capacity to feel shame or humiliation decades ago when she got involved with the orange child rapist.
Christ, Melanomia could shit herself on live TV, then rub it over her face and that would still be less humiliating than marrying that obese tangerine toddler.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 201d
And next a documentary about the non-release of the Epstein files…
notso@feddit.org · 15 pts · 201d
Just another grift... She got 28 million dollars from Amazon for this. I'm willing to bet she doesn't give a fuck about ticket sales.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 201d
The loser, Nigel bought one of 3 tickets.
Decq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
He probably bought all 3 to fit his inflated ego.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 202d
Typically, documentaries do not do well in the theatre. Still though, this makes me happy. There are almost 8 billion people on the planet more deserving of a documentary about their lives and thoughts than this woman.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
They made two different Steve Jobs biopics that both flooped
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 201d
I hope it makes no money, but becomes a sort of Rocky Horror Picture Show esc group viewing phenomenon with audience interaction out of pure mockery.
Nurgus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Arrr be sure to give as little money to the creators as possible me hearties
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 202d
As everyone expected but her
Pikseli@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 202d
She's one of the least interesting people I've seen, so no wonder nobody is interested lol
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
Epstein traffic victim who came out of the collapsing Eastern Bloc and got passed around Paris/Italy high society for a few years before being turned out by NYC real estate tycoon Paolo Zampolli to sell high end Manhattan units?
She was the fly on the wall and the floozy in the sheets for a parade of corrupt plutocrats. If you wanted a real tell-all about the seedy back end of high society in one of the world's richest cities, you could do a lot worse than produce a Melania biopic.
Not what this movie is about, of course. But she's definitely had an interesting life. How many US/EU presidents do you think this single woman has fucked?
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 201d
Wow. The fact that she's so evil and distasteful that no one even knows or cares about that is another kind of impressive.
Pikseli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 201d
Each to their own I guess
kreskin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
Lazy of amazon to bribe trump with a dumb movie and then fail to ensure some tickets were bought to pretend anyone showed. Its one thing for the right to be corrupt, but they go on to always try to be corrupt and do a bad job in executing the grift. They even suck at sucking.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 199d
Yeah, seat-fillers aren't that expensive relative to the cost of the film. Unless someone in Amazon wanted to get the message out that the only reason they did it was to kiss the ring.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
She says the movie shows her philanthropy.
Now I'm really curious about watching the movie. Philanthropy and Trump are mutually exclusive words so... How?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Maybe she snuck onto a boat to destroy some giant robots.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 202d
Why is that documentary in theaters? When was the last time a documentary was in the theaters? This whole thing is strange... Oh, it's just a bribe.
dhork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
It's in theaters so that it would be eligible for an Academy Award, which opens up a different avenue for bribery
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 201d
There are documentaries in theatres, they just aren't marketed much. I saw a holocaust documentary in theatres a few years ago
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 202d
This could be the perfect first date movie though. Assess your compatibility with prospective companion(s) by the quality of their roasts and, if nothing else, have a good time while ruining the evening for MAGAts who are there to worship their idol's crush's stepmother.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 202d
Maybe when it hits prime. Rather not give them the money in theaters.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 201d
Watch Rocky Horror instead
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 9 pts · 202d
“Doh-naeeeld. I vant a movby abvaut me. “
Cargon@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 202d
Her life is a joke so that tracks.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 202d
I would have humiliated her for FREE.
Where is DOGE when you need it?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 202d
It got a whole digit? I'm surprised...
emmanuel_car@fedia.io · 6 pts · 202d
A hole digit, 0.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 202d
Vanity project that nobody wanted.
Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 202d
I don't care, do u?
m3t00@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
humiliation. must get off on it. pattern seems to follow her ever since she answered the ad for epstein island modeling opportunity.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
I don't think someone can humiliate you, you can only let yourself feel humiliation.
And I don't think I've ever seen Melania feel anything except disgust with her husband and general malaise.
Novis@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 202d
She's married to Donald Trump. She doesn't know shame.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
This movie can contain the Epstein files and we wouldn't know about it.
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 201d
That would've been great advertising.
But then again, it could feature Trumps dick pics and the name of the real Luigi, and I'd still not bother watching it, because Melanie is soo despicable boring.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
Even that was a waste of time and money
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
Not for her. As "writer", "producer", actress and for right for use her image she made $30 mil in 20 days from this
lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Oh no, boo hoo. Get fucked, people have real problems.
arc99@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Attention whore finds out.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Humiliated my butt. This was a payout.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
I saw that Wired had some article about "here is where theaters are sold out" for this movie...
digredior@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 202d
So, is it like… is it a documentary on how to fuck your way to the top?
raynethackery@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
She's no Eva Peron.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 199d
She got her bribe. I doubt it the rest of it matters to her.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Trump declares war on UK in 3 2 1....
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
If trump were able to count backwards, we'd be in trouble.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 201d
I saw Craigslist ads wanting to pay people to go watch it, 50 bucks.
I would to get 50 bucks, but since it's required to actually stay and watch that crap, I won't
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
You could take a book with you I guess.
ok_effect@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 201d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 201d
Lmao
architect@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 201d
Sure. That’s what we are calling blatant money laundering.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 202d
Those ticket buyers are probably only going in the hopes that it includes scenes from here modelling days.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
Let them eat popcorn.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
not into bondage but want to see all those coconspirators perp walk in leg irons and ball-gags.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Shit. I was looking forward to a new Stargate.
ikies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
I saw the movie, it's basically 90 second clips of her peeling away old people's Depends©, wiping off the excrement from their limp diks and going to town, cleaning up, and attaching a new Depends©. Fk this white house hore
antonamo@feddit.org · 0 pts · 202d
Let's sail the high seas. Already paid for it with tariffs 🏴☠️
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 202d
I dunno, that free price seems pretty steep for that shit. Pretty sure I'd need to be paid to subject myself to it.
gaymer@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 202d
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 202d
Some people are so poor all they have is money.
gaymer@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 201d