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    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…

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        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.

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          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.

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

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          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?

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            Lol.

            In an Attenborough voice:

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

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      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”?

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    Wonder how streaming will do. Free, maybe you’ll get some watchers. I’ll never watch it personally. I would rather watch Outlander for the 3462nd time with the wife. I fucking hate Outlander

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    A slovenian hoe who keeps getting paid for doing God knows what who’s slept her way to the top. Yeah just the kind of “filum” I want to watch! JFC!🙄

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    Amazon paid a staggering $40 million to acquire “Melania” and a follow-up streaming docuseries. Then the company shelled out $35 million on the theatrical marketing spend

    Bezos makes about 80 million per day; this is literally just a rounding error to him.