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.”

I think we can officially conclude 2026 is The Year Of The Scowling Void Of Pure Nothingness

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[–] 108 points 9 months ago (19 children)

It was just a 75mil payment from Amazon to trump. Movie was just the means to do the transaction.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Coincidentally, Ratner just got greenlit for Rush Hour 4, which had been in development hell since 2018.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Jackie Chan is the best. Must be a little long in the tooth now.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I don't understand the spending of millions on marketing.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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    I hate that our country has become so fascist that this dumb bitch's movie failing feels like a victory.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (9 children)

    $75m bribe*

    The 28 was just the advertising part iirc.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    No. the 28M was for her per reporting. They still had to make the movie and advertise it.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Why did they have to advertise it?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Made God breath through his nose a little harder than usual.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    breathe*

    This is becoming the new word that people just seem unable to get right and it is just as easy to understand as all the other common ones. It's seriously like there's a conscious campaign to make more and more people forget more and more basic words and grammar, and most of those that make those mistakes are American. You gotta be so dumb to not get this right.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    What does that mean? I remember something on it's always sunny about that. I presume it's a smiting.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    You know. Like that, almost laugh thing you do when something is just. Barely, funny enough.

    Personally. I'm hoping when we fly these wax wings all the way to the sun and everything works out so great that a true artist and historian team up to make a mockumentary about the "Melania" production.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I love that this quote applies to both the movie and the actual person.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    i assume some kind of hollywood accounting where they can write the unprofitable movie off their taxes

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    The old story. Churches and other MAGA groups are buying blocks of seats. It's playing to "sold out" empty houses.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    At least Eva Braun was interesting.

    Mel brooks should do a Producers about Maga. Too soon?

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Currently on Rotten Tomatoes:

    %11 Critics
    %99 Audience

    What's the point in review-bombing when it's so obvious?

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I wish it was nothing, but for Canadians, America is a big scowling dictatorship of pure evil.

    Take your fucking country back.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Remember when people tried to frame her as a victim? What stank of a person.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months 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

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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 you a ton of pizza, guys.)

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    -War of the World 2025: 4% RT

    -this propaganda: 10% RT

    The heck

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The 2025 version didn't have Tom Cruise

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It had Ice Cube, and I can't, for the life of me, understand why the fuck people keep giving that man work.

    Ghost of Mars, that horrible XXX sequel, War of the Worlds, shit... they are remaking Anaconda? That's going to suck, too.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    True, but it was still based on some bullshit Hubbard wrote iirc

    I sit corrected

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don't mean to keep correcting you, but the author was HG Wells...

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    Because the only people who'd ever see it 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 🤷

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh NO! We NEED to Pass a Bill to Quickly Rectify THIS!

    -Chuck Schumer!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago*

    I loved the one from the Guardian comparing it to Zone of Interest. Utterly boring but makes you think about the off-screen horrors of the Trump regime

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Why would movie critics go to see a money laundering attempt?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Because it's their job? They can't just watch what they like.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    The funniest thing about this is she isn't even hot. She looks like every soccer mom in every suburban town everywhere.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I wouldnt insult soccer moms like that, but I see what u saying.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    They beat up that film like it owed them money.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I hope she ends up like Mussolini’s girlfriend

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    A scowling void of pure nothingness

    Sounds like a sick video game summon.

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    What does this mean for amazons relation with Trump?

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