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‘Melania’ Could Lose Tens of Millions in Theaters, but Amazon’s Goal Wasn’t to Make Money (variety.com)

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago (3 children)

moviegoers, most of whom were older white women, liked what they saw on screen. “Melania” earned an “A” grade on CinemaScore and 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a vast discrepancy from the 8% Rotten Tomatoes average it received from critics.

Nothing suspicious about that at all...

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's possible that the kind of people who would choose to watch this movie actually do like it.

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe... but It's only 99% from "verified accounts", when you include non verified reviews it drops to 30%.

Additionally, all these verified accounts have usernames with either their first name, or their first name with the last initial (Jane or Mark F for example), many of them also don't go into detail with their reviews, it's just shit like:

Great movie! A must see.

Beautifully done! Sophistication and class. Amazing First Lady!

Great overall movie.

And so much more...

I am sure some magats loved it, but these reviews are total BS.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Barely need Russian troll farms anymore; just trained bots will handle a lot.

And then, pointing that stuff out doesn't make nearly the difference one might hope, as the message is primarily geared towards non-thinkers / binary-thinkers, anyway.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll never understand people that jump through so many mental hoops to try to justify what are obviously lies.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well then, since you've seen the movie yourself rather than baselessly speculating like the rest of us, what can you say about its appeal to its target audience?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Lol.

In an Attenborough voice:

"Angry and resentful at being so perfectly clocked the resentful forum poster resorts to strawman attacks."

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

I hear you. They should've pointed that out.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

What do you mean? Only one of the old white ladies that actually went to watch it, gave it a bad review. The other 99 loved it. How is that "suspicious"?