@cstross It's like when you go to see a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE in an IMAX theatre, and the previews are all rattles, swooshes, and wooshes before the movie begins, with dark, soulless visuals and muffled, indecipherable vocals that leave you craving subtitles like a villain in a particularly bad Batman movie... but it's just your First Lady.

@cstross "Designer taxidermy" - yikes

@cstross You can't make a movie about a person that has nothing to say.

@cstross @_L1vY_ *gasp* Quelle surprise.

@cstross The comparison to Zone of Interest is very clever. The banality of everyday life while the horror is right there.

@cstross So, I get this right, all these reports of "Only one ticket sold for the opening night" actually just refer to fhe local film critic?

@cstross

an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch

It is rare for any piece of art to so fully capture the spirit of its subject.

@cstross Looks like a script for the Bond villain of our times: vapid, more vapid and carelessly destructive in OTT white and gold.

@cstross I see we've found the one person who bought a ticket

@cstross Whew, thanks for the heads up.

LOL. I wasn't going to see it.

@cstross
this is the opposite of the hooker with a heart of gold trope, i''m guessing

@cstross "White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles... Lickspittles!

@cstross "Triumph of the Shill"

@cstross
“designer taxidermy” seems appropriate… 😐

@cstross Nice comparison here to The Zone of Interest.

@cstross
reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_search

Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results
This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop.
But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller novel Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. {MORE}

@cstross
However, if we assume the purpose was to give Ms Trump $30M (a contribution to her Running Away Fund?) then it presumably counts as a success.

@cstross
The review attributed to Variety seemed helpful:
If it was shown on an aircraft people would still walk out.

@cstross 😂

@cstross

The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417

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