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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

Apparently spending $40M to make a movie, $35M to market it, and needing it to make $150M to break even on it is all worth it to bring in a whopping $8M on opening weekend.
 
I took the opportunity on my NY trip to watch 3 movies that Dr. Mrs. would hate in the wee hours.

1. Shin Godzilla. The first excellent Godzilla movie since the first one. Some wonderful artistic touches I won't spoil. Solid A.

2. Chronos. Guh, so much BLOOD! No this is not the 50s SF classic, it is the 90's Mexican horror movie that is always mentioned as a classic. Certainly a good movie, with amazing performances by Ron Perlman who keeps getting his nose broken, and Tamara Shanath as one of the greatest most unflappable child heroes in cinematic history. A-.

3. Blue Velvet. I'm going to need a couple more viewings before even attempting a decent analysis. Lynch is a genius, duh, and this is leaps and bounds beyond Eraserhead but still has miles to go before Mulholland Drive. A-. Laura Dern is really funny looking.

TBF the wife likes Blue Velvet although like many here thinks Lynch is overblown (which, okay, fair) and only sees each of his films once (a crime against art).
 
Just saw The Voice of Hind Rajab.

Of all of this year's nominees, this one is the best, and it's only nominated for Best International. Which will probably be won by The Secret Agent- since it was nominated for Best Picture. The Secret Agent was good, but it wasn't that good. I thought it was better art than all of the Best Pictures nominees.

If you don't want to increase your anger over Gaza, maybe skip the movie. But it's so very well done- a very tiny cast in a very small office, and it really makes you use your imagination (of a real event).
 
French Rage said:
Apparently spending $40M to make a movie, $35M to market it, and needing it to make $150M to break even on it is all worth it to bring in a whopping $8M on opening weekend.
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Apparently so. Especially when you get great media like this:

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Forbes (@forbes.com)

“Melania” beat projections, but still finished behind two other big theatrical premiers this weekend. http://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/02/01/melania-movie-blows-past-projections-grossing-7-million/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Has it been decried as antisemitic yet?
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It would be tough, since maga's have zero imagination, and the movie never shows Israel actually doing anything- you have to imagine it via the sounds. And even at the end, it doesn't actually accuse anything other than a collective failure of humanity.
 
One of the more positive reviews.

No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.
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Some of the less so.

Melania is shambolic, putrid, pitiful garbage: A brazen, awkward, irredeemable infomercial that ignores truth and scrutiny in favour of performative humility. It’s not just wretched – it’s offensive to the collective intelligence of the human race.
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It’s fascinating to see so pure and naked an instrument of graft and propaganda deployed to great effect on an audience happy to lap it up.
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I'd rather rewatch January 6th.
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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.
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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.
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At least Leni Riefenstahl could frame a shot.
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And my favorite Audience review:

This movie does not scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie is not below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.A disaster of epic proportions… an insult to women, filmmaking, and possibly human evolution.
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If you go to the Audience reviews, don't sleep on the 5-star ones. Life's Rich Pageant.
 
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