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'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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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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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Can someone explain to me how this movie has a 99% user rating on rotten tomatoes?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the same way the Trump family obtains most things they want, fraud.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I did my part rating this movie appropriately 👎

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

The only people that would go see this are Trump cultists, who are going to approve of it regardless of quality

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 🤷

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

They might be filtering out the deluge of bad reviews as anomaly or political.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Selection/volunteer bias, no one who would give it a bad review would pay to see it

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Beep boop.