The Melania movie reviews are in! (they're not good)

Y’all have sure been serbing up some terrible puns here. Color me serbprised at just how far you’ll go to serbpass one another in awfulness.

As someone who just read the film’s wikipedia entry, I would recommend avoiding that, too.

Heh. Film. Movie. Whatevs. :zany_face:

When I heard about ASF, it reminded me of a review of “Pink Flamingos” that said, “John Waters must have gotten an idea that he wanted to make movies so bizarre, the critics would look like perverts for having sat through them.” Having seen “Pink Flamingos”, it’s TBH satire from start to finish. ASF appears to be gore and disgust for their own sake.

Nah, the director has stated the political meanings behind A Serbian Film and how it relates to the censorship of the Serbian film industry. Whether or not you agree with his reasonings, it not just gore with nothing else. (It’s also very well-made and acted.)

I’m highly amused that a thread about Melania is now discussing A Serbian Film. :laughing:

Hmmm… would they have more sales if they had called her movie A Slovenian-American Film?

Or The Serbians Take Manhattan?

Melania’s box office was 7.1 million during the first weekend and 2.3 million the second, a fall of 67%. Figures were inflated by an unknown amount by bulk ticket sales from mysterious benefactors (quite possibly the movie’s marketing budget, but also possibly various Republican outfits). Cumulative gross worldwide is now $16.1 million, with $279,000 coming from outside of the US.

Full cost paid by Amazon was $75 million, which is a pittance relative to past and potential governmental contracts for Blue Origin, one of billionaire Bezos’ other companies.

Data from here:

Who didn’t want their music included?

That article is terrible. It seems to be siding with the filmmakers. “Why won’t people be in our movie? trump is barely in it!” Pobrecito!

I checked the local theaters. In one, the exact same four seats are still being bought. But a lot of showings have no seats taken.

“For example, the guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically. There was a beautiful song we wanted to use, and one of the guys – I don’t want to name, it’s not fair – said, ‘You got it. Go.’ And the other one was basically like, ‘There’s just no way.’”

Now I’m curious. My instinct is that Axl Rose was the first guy and Slash was the second, but Axl has spoken out against Trump and forbidden him from using their music, while Slash has always played his politics close to the chest. So which was which?

Which one needs the royalties more?

The band has been doing stadium tours for the past decade. I don’t think any of them really need the cash.

A lot of older artists don’t own the rights to their early songs, like the Rolling Stones. The fact they used “Gimme Shelter” (Rape! Murder!) as the theme song for Mar a Lago is hilarious.

Yeah, that was my reaction. Like, guys, are you even LISTENING? And it’s even in English, come on…

Their constant use of “Born in the USA” would point to no.