OMG 🤣🤣🤣 The Hollywood Reporter review of 'Melania"

[sheshe2]

The headline alone was enough to crack me up...then I continued to read.

'Melania' review: Brett Ratner's Melania Trump documentary is an unabashed, fly-on-the-gilded-wall fawn job

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To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it. Fittingly, it was directed by Brett Ratner, whose feature film career was derailed in 2017 after numerous sexual assault allegations that he has denied. But like many unsavory people associated with Donald Trump, he's apparently received a pardon.

The documentary, which chronicles the 20 days before the 2025 presidential inauguration, begins at Mar-a-Lago, where we first see Melania's high heels, then the back of her head, before her face is finally revealed (it's quite a tease). She boards a Trump-branded private jet to the strains of "Gimme Shelter." Which seems a strange choice, since the lyrics refer to murder, rape and war. It's but the first of several odd needle drops in the documentary, including "Billie Jean" (about false sexual allegations), "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (self-explanatory), Ravel's "Bolero" (forever associated with sex), and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (yup). You get the feeling whoever compiled the soundtrack has a wicked sense of humor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/melania-review-brett-ratners-melania-trump-documentary-is-an-unabashed-fly-on-the-gilded-wall-fawn-job/ar-AA1VlR4n?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[underpants]

1. This is dripping with Let Them Eat Cake

[dflprincess]

2. So.....

did the Stones and other artists (or their estates) give permission for their songs to be used?

[sheshe2]

3. Melonia: Do you know who I am!?

[UTUSN]

4. K&R for, predictable HAH!

[struggle4progress]

5. Maybe if somebody paid me $50 I could pretend to have heard of Melonballs or whatever

[AllyCat]

6. Whoever wrote this deserves a medal and witness protection.

Hilarious!!

[sheshe2]

7. They sure do!

[Native]

8. It really is terrific.

[edbermac]

9. The Oscars are going to be held in five weeks.

You just know the jokes about this movie are going to be classic.

[Cha]

11. lol Hope so... What will Sly Stallone &

Jon Voight think?!

[Cha]

10. Mahalo, she.. I can't get enough of

these Bad reviews.. Music to my eyes..

This one from The Guardian is the best one I've read..

"Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest" One Star.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220984487

I looked up "Zone of Interest"... Not good.

[Swede]

12. Be interesting so if they actually paid for the rights to use those songs?

[sheshe2]

13. However, we all know the answer.