I may go this weekend just to have some time alone.
Yeah, the perfect movie for introverts to once go out for a change.
No doubt this will get its own thread, but just the first complaint in the list is revealing (emphasis mine):
Response:
“If you’re hoping Melania will have a ‘so bad it’s good’ energy, I’m afraid it does not. Melania is not Cats. Melania is a bad movie, made by bad people about bad people and under no circumstances you should not go and see it.”
“No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.”
“To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it.”
This was my favorite part of that review.
Well I see that rotten tomatoes has a 99% audience score for Melania. Viewers are impressed by the behind the scenes access to the fashionable elegant First Lady. The critics OTOH are at 8%. I am calling it now. Donald goes ballistic when the film fails to get an Oscar nomination for best documentary and blames the biased, woke liberals in Hollywood.
I must say, the reviews savaging Melania are far more entertaining than the movie could ever be.
Product reviews for ironing boards are far more entertaining than the movie could ever be.
Well, they’re very good at being incompetent. It’s kind of a meta thing.
Oh, no! The dreaded double negative which bids me to see a terrible movie.
A film blogger (well known in cinema circles) did a live-tweet from a Melania screening on Blue Sky. Public thread (no sign-in required). Fewer than twenty posts, and half of them are about the lunatic morons in the audience. Hilarious.
Highlight of the thread;
That, there, is a classic British take-down.
Polite but brutal.
I know she has made a few fashion gaffes, including that “I don’t care” jacket, and that UFO hat, but if there is one positive thing I can say about the woman, she is usually quite stylish.
She’s a rich model. Being stylish is her job.(I liked the UFO hat myself)
It is iconic, to the point it will forever save cartoonists time in drawing her face: you’ll just need the hat and the chinline and we will always know.
Interestingly there was a style choice some months ago no one seems to be objecting to, unlike the last time a DC big shot tried it:
She totally failed the Annie Hall look, I’ll give you that.
And my god, a TAN suit? Is she trolling?
For me: Brett Ratner is no LenI Riefenstahl.
Aren’t they all? Trolling is government policy at this point.
He may be no Riefenstahl, but for the Guardian “Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest”:
The Zone of Interest is a film that focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their five children in a home in the “Zone of Interest” next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Anyone but Ratner and I would have thought “Gimme Shelter” played over scenes of Mar-a-Lago was subversive trolling, but he’s such a scumbag I think he just didn’t even make the connection.