OUCH!
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross Looks like a script for the Bond villain of our times: vapid, more vapid and carelessly destructive in OTT white and gold.
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This guy is delusional. This was a bribe to curry favour.
"Documentary filmmaker Stefano Da Frè, who was not involved in the project told CNN that Amazon would have done their homework before making that kind of outlay, explaining that Amazon “is a data-driven company.
“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” he said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”
@elasticsoul
Just to rub it in, I want to contrast that with Michelle Obamas book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_(book)
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@wriggly @Corax42 @UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross It is now a number 1 bestseller on amazon de. I think the site is having a stroke and needs help.
@confuseacat "Saugroboter für jeden Bedarf"
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interestan elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch
It is rare for any piece of art to so fully capture the spirit of its subject.
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@wriggly @Corax42 @UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross It is now a number 1 bestseller on amazon de. I think the site is having a stroke and needs help.
@confuseacat @wriggly @Corax42 @UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross The ad "Saugroboter für jeden Bedarf" - "Sucking Robots (German for Robovacs) for all needs" wrt Melania is :chefskiss:
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross So, I get this right, all these reports of "Only one ticket sold for the opening night" actually just refer to fhe local film critic?
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OUCH! "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"
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@UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross Congratulations, it's #1 now. For both "Melania" and "Melania Trump". We did it!
@UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross It's still #1 for "Melania", but it seems to have fallen back to #3 for "Melania Trump"
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross The comparison to Zone of Interest is very clever. The banality of everyday life while the horror is right there.
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross omgwtfbbq
@diazona @AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross
That cracked me up, too
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OUCH! "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"
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Ok, Monsterdon fans, are you willing to allow a spyware visible search on Amazon for a novel titled *’Melania: Devourer of Men’* in the interest of the greater good?
It’s currently selling for $6.53 on Amazon.ca if you really want a paperback copy but the ebook download is free.
Reddit has proposed an effort to get this trending.
️️️️️️️@AlsoPaisleyCat darn. The ebook is not available in the Belgian store.
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross You can't make a movie about a person that has nothing to say.
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross "Designer taxidermy" - yikes
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That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.
Please share!
UPDATE:
IT'S WORKING. This book is now the EIGHTH result on Amazon when you search for Melania Trump. We are going UP!!! KEEP SHARING!I did my part and downloaded the free ebook copy!
Melania, Devourer of Men is my next read.
Now to go see what more than 1K reviewers have to say before I add my input.
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OUCH! "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"
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@Thumper1964 @cstross @_L1vY_ Couldn’t pay me to watch it, not even w/the MST3K treatment
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OUCH! "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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross It's like when you go to see a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE in an IMAX theatre, and the previews are all rattles, swooshes, and wooshes before the movie begins, with dark, soulless visuals and muffled, indecipherable vocals that leave you craving subtitles like a villain in a particularly bad Batman movie... but it's just your First Lady.
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@cstross It's like when you go to see a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE in an IMAX theatre, and the previews are all rattles, swooshes, and wooshes before the movie begins, with dark, soulless visuals and muffled, indecipherable vocals that leave you craving subtitles like a villain in a particularly bad Batman movie... but it's just your First Lady.
@KraftTea I have never seen a motion picture in an IMAX cinema. In fact, I haven't been to a cinema in going on 20 years.
