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[–] 140 points 9 months ago (1 child)

These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

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Even before the rights to “Melania” were revoked, the Lake Theater & Cafe had received emails from the community asking why the film was being shown at all, according to theater General Manager Jordan Perry’s blog post.

“Mostly, I thought doing so would be funny. For some of you, that’s enough. Great! Otherwise… Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert… So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president’s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?” Perry wrote.

This is hilarious, I love it! That Perry dude is a riot.

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

    The book is ALWAYS better anyway.

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago

    And nothing of value was lost.

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

    Doubtless they're all broken up about that. On the plus side, it frees up the theater to screen something that'll actually sell tickets.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    If you read the article it says they were showing it as a joke because there was nothing else to show at the moment. I doubt it was ever going to make them much money though, so perhaps they can just give the employees next week off instead.

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

    which is directed by a sexual predator, brett RATNER.

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

    Didn’t know Project Hail Mary is also an Amazon production. That sucks.

    I’ll still see it, probably multiple times, but I’ll grumble silently about it each time I do.

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

    We need a #CancelPrimeMembership day. Prime membership is just giving Amazon free money.

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

    Man, I've seen that place.

    Lake Oswego is a really nice area (more expensive than I can afford to live) and I thought it was so cool they still had this old school theatre.

    Good for them to spout off. Don't see those people avoiding Whore Foods any time soon though.

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

    I was looking at that area a while back (I'm out of state). Seems beautiful. I later heard that it's kinda a whites only / racist enclave. Don't know how true that is.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I'm not white, I lived there for many years, it's fine. You won't encounter any issues, it's insanely safe with the only issues being white collar or drugs sold to stay at home moms.

    There isn't much character though. Food choices are...fine. Grocery options...fine. It's just...fine.

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

    The people asking why they're even showing the film have a point, I'm not entirely sure why they had it myself. They don't seem particularly enthusiastic about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The manager pretty much said they could show this ironically or have an empty screen for a week. From a business point of view it really doesn’t matter “why” people are buying tickets; it just matters that they “are” buying tickets.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    All four people must be devastated.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    They're never gonna financially recover from this.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    How fragile can you be? These jokes are incredibly tame.

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    [–] 57 points 9 months ago

    Not a single ticket sale was lost

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

    Frees up the screen for something useful. Like a stream of paint drying.

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

    Theatre Owner: Oh thank fuck.

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

    Sounds like they did it for the lols, made light fun of it in their promo material, and Amazon pulled the licensing.

    “Mostly, I thought doing so would be funny. For some of you, that’s enough. Great! Otherwise… Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert… So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president’s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?” Perry wrote.

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

    The loss of the theatrical rights is attributed to the Lake Theater’s marquee messages for the documentary. These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

    Really not funny, offensive, or even interesting, but I guess that's enough these days.

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

    The Prada one is mildly clever, implying Melania is the devil.

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  • [–] 57 points 9 months ago

    The jokes that made the snowflakes angry:

    These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

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

    Oof. Lost out on a whole $30 in revenue.

    They'll never financially recover from this.

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    Is Barbra Streisand involved?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    So they lost the right to have several empty theaters? And they consider that a bad thing?

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

    Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert

    Uh, Iron Lung? It's doing very well for an indie movie.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    O_O

    WTF @ everything associated with this timeline…

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    "I am Melania, Bride of Trumpella, and I have only known da feet."

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    oh no, they will lose tens of dollars.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    And nothing of any value was lost.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    portland for anyone else that has a lake oswego in their area. did not realize how popular a name that was.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Hope they gonna stop showing every Amazon production in the future like James Bond

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

    My take is the theatre owner was screening the film primarily for mockery purposes?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I love this theatre - it's a mini Draft House and it is awesome.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    There's a theatre near me that posts political messages. I wonder if they'd do one about that shitty docu if I sent them this.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    They should replace it with a screening of 1984.

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Lake Oswego is a rich conservative white woman sanctuary just west of Portland.

    I'm not buying that this theater owner was playing the movie as a joke.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Why? Are you unable to read? it was stated on their website

    "MELANIA (we don’t like her either!) starts here Friday 1/30 to play daily at 5:00* 7:45 🙇🏼 in the main auditorium 🙇🏼 * 5pm Sunday & Thursday shows subtitled for the hearing and/or accent impaired"

    Sounds like they were having a giggle to me.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    The loss of the theatrical rights is attributed to the Lake Theater’s marquee messages for the documentary.

    These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

    Maybe they wanted to make money but they still did make jokes against it.

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

    Then why did Amazon pull their rights to screen the movie because they made fun of it so much?

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

    The theater owner can just order a different movie on Temu.

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