She got her bribe. I doubt it the rest of it matters to her.
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.
I dunno how you get a whole movie out of her story. What is there to tell?
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Eastern European model
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Sleeps her way into the family of a rich asshole
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Has baby to secure long term seat at the dinner table
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The end
That’s a story everyone has seen play out 1000 times already.
Illegally worked in the USA too.
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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.
Isn’t it an Amazon film, not Netflix?
Netflix is streaming it.
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.
That commenter just says things assuming people won’t check. Note the name and you’ll start seeing inane takes regularly.
really?
No.
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?
Melania’s early career as a queer-baiting wannabe porn star?
Wouldn’t those films sell better? Assuming she actually did any.
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 do remember a nudity scene involving Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not money laundering, it’s a corrupt bribe.
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.
Why would someone be humiliated that their money laundering scheme is laundering money?
And why is there wall to wall clickbait headlines about the Melania movie to begin with?
Please tell me you all aren’t that fucking blind.
I read she made $30M from the film - that’s pretty shockingly obscene compared to all the big tech innaguration bribes - of “only” $1M.
You’re forgetting: 1. The ballroom, and 2. Trumpcoin.
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.
Fair enough!
It can be both.
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.”
40M is nothing to Bezos, and it’s a good investment if it wins him a few favors from Trump.
Really depends whether Trump can handle the humiliation.
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.
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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
Melania has been treating him like garbage for years.
Not sure if serious.
If true, then she’s right because he is absolute garbage
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
Trump gets doctored reports that say it’s a tremendous success
His brain is so mushy that he’ll either hallucinate its success or completely forget the movie exists by next week.
He can always just throw her under the bus. He’s had plenty of practice.
With narcissism, I think their goal is always both. They deserve the bribe and the adoration, in their minds
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.
She should be despised too, she’s not a victim.
Easy there. Reform dipshits love him.
What about the far right though?
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.
What’s an L10?
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.
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.
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.”
Apparently you can just give him a Rolex and a gold bar and it’s all good.
He’s half right. Bezos is getting what he paid for. He couldn’t care less if anyone sees that movie.
That’s because it’s a bribe
You misspelled, “public money laundering”.
Yeah. Get an idiot, add a full set of tools and chatgpt, and they will still do idiotic things.
Surely the only people buying tickets are teenagers who want to have sex in an empty theater?
“Paradise Alley” was pretty good for that, back in 78.
Don’t ask how I know.
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.
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.
Probably. The movie is so damn repulsive I wouldn’t be near a cinema playing it.
Well said.
Now that’s a shirt that goes hard!
On the movie’s (real) IMDb page
Have you noticed that Melania has no displayed star rating or reviews. Has any movie had those things hidden before?
Well now they did 😂
Some people are so poor all they have is money.
Rotten tomatoes reviews… totally not bots.
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.
teriffic
Guess who wrote that one
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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
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
Trump purchased her from Epstein
I’d believe you if she wasn’t so fucking old
Oh that made me laugh
