Melania (PG13) review

[MajGenl.Meade]

"if they showed this on planes, people would still walk out".

[BoSoxGal]

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda

[Bicycle Bill]

I read one reviewer who claimed this was the worst thing to happen in a theater since Lincoln was shot.

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

I read that Lincoln said it was the worst thing that ever happened to him in a theater.

[BoSoxGal]

DAMN, critics gave Melania one of the worst ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of ALL TIME [12%]. Enjoy the BRUTAL lowlights:

I’d rather rewatch January 6th. –Adam Olinger, Adam Does Movies (YouTube)

I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here or throw you off your balance when I inform you that the Melania documentary, now in theaters, is terrible. –Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast

To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers. –Nick Hilton, Independent (UK)

Ratner seems desperate to find action, but there is none. The pace is stultifying. –Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic

The fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell. –Xan Brooks, The Guardian

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. –Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

A documentary that never comes to life. It’s a portrait of the First Lady of the United States, but it’s so orchestrated and airbrushed and stage-managed that it barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial. –Owen Gleiberman, Variety

…it’s impossible not to feel that the real purpose of this portrait is not insight, but rather distraction from the awfulness and corruption of her husband’s regime. –Karl Quinn, The Age (Australia)

Look, Leni Riefenstahl was a terrible person, but at least she had some style. Accused sex pest confirmed hack Brett Ratner, meanwhile, captures the proceedings with all the flair of an HGTV show. –Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy. –Simon Foster, Screen-Space

The significance of Melania isn’t the contents of the film so much as the fact that it happened. It’s not impossible that it might be evidence in an impeachment trial. And in any case, it is an important document in the decline of American public life. –Robert Hutton, The Critic

Not active, forceful propaganda in the school of Leni Riefenstahl’s films about the Nazis. Melania: The Movie appears keener on inducing narcolepsy in its viewers than energising them into massed marching. Triumph of the Dull, perhaps. –Donald Clarke, Irish Times

[ex-khobar Andy]

OK, I won't go then.

[BoSoxGal]

[MajGenl.Meade]

Cripes, even more competition for irrelevant shit . . . first Melania and now the Grammys . . . is there no end?

[BoSoxGal]

Cripes, even more competition for irrelevant shit . . . first Melania and now the Grammys . . . is there no end?

I watched the first third of the Grammys last night until it got too late for me and I had to go to sleep.

Found a few new artists to add to my Apple Music downloads for my commuting pleasure - really liked Sabrina Carpenter and Lola Young, still have others to look up today. Thought little Justin Bieber gave a great performance in his boxers, he’s really grown up. Was very happy to see Benito say it like it is.

Sadly as I was watching I couldn’t help thinking of my mother who is the reason I love award shows - we watched them all when I was growing up. At the outset of the show with the first award for rap album it occurred to me that if my mother was alive she likely wouldn’t be watching anymore - too many darkies hosting and singing and winning, my father wouldn’t stand for it.

Someday all the racists will be in the ground, gone down like all the fascists. I have to believe it to get through the days.

[BoSoxGal]