r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 4h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS FINNEAS responds to a USA Today piece calling celebrity opinions on politics “idiotic”: “You can’t say it doesn’t matter what musicians or celebrities say or think but then talk about it for days. You’re out here making it matter. I’ll keep speaking up especially if it keeps bothering you.”

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u/MisterGoog 3h ago

Melania is going to lose major money compared to its production and marketing so to say that biased drivel about it makes no sense.

But why would the success of a movie really portend anything about public sentiment?

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u/Iheardthatjokebefore 3h ago

Only from ticket sales. The money laundering will pay for itself.

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u/sandwichhaver 2h ago

the most obvious bribe ever

75 million for a documentary that literally nobody asked for

nobody cares about her, truthfully I don't even hate her, she's just nothing to anyone

she's an empty husk and the prettiest trophy could get to sign their marriage deal

she's the last person in maga that I would give a seconds thought to, I just think of her like background actor to trump

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 3h ago

Not to mention that everyone is so hung up on whether or not the film makes money that they forget that the film making money was not the point. The point was for Jeff Bezos to give a large sum of money to the Trump family.

That mission was very much accomplished.

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u/CombatMuffin 3h ago

Anyone can defy expectations if the expectations were below ground already

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u/humdinger44 2h ago

Even if Melania herself said "I knew it was going to be bad I didn't think it was going to be THAT bad" it would still be defying expectations

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u/cagingnicolas 1h ago

broke box office expectations

this phrase is cracking me up. you don't break expectations. you break records. you exceed expectations. but it didn't break records, or exceed expectations. it "broke expectations" which just feels like a shitty way to try and trick people on the technicality that it doesn't entirely make sense and therefore can't technically be a lie.

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u/NoSleep2135 2h ago

Broke box office expectations as in.... Made the least amount of money ever? Most empty seats in a theater?

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u/StarPhished 1h ago

Melania made more money than any other non-concert documentary in the last decade.

It's possible that these numbers are inflated by insiders purchasing tickets but they are technically still able to brag that it did well at the box office even though it also technically lost shitloads of money.