Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen ‘Melania’ after marquee jokes
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Lake Oswego is a rich conservative white woman sanctuary just west of Portland.
I'm not buying that this theater owner was playing the movie as a joke.
Why? Are you unable to read? it was stated on their website
"MELANIA (we don’t like her either!) starts here Friday 1/30 to play daily at 5:00* 7:45

in the main auditorium 
* 5pm Sunday & Thursday shows subtitled for the hearing and/or accent impaired"Sounds like they were having a giggle to me.
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The loss of the theatrical rights is attributed to the Lake Theater’s marquee messages for the documentary. These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”
Really not funny, offensive, or even interesting, but I guess that's enough these days.
The Prada one is mildly clever, implying Melania is the devil.
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“Mostly, I thought doing so would be funny. For some of you, that’s enough. Great! Otherwise… Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert… So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president’s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?” Perry wrote.
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Then why did Amazon pull their rights to screen the movie because they made fun of it so much?
The theater owner can just order a different movie on Temu.
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Frees up the screen for something useful. Like a stream of paint drying.
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The loss of the theatrical rights is attributed to the Lake Theater’s marquee messages for the documentary. These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”
Really not funny, offensive, or even interesting, but I guess that's enough these days.
Amazon got mad over a DOT-level joke
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The theater owner can just order a different movie on Temu.
IN THIS ECONOMY?!?
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Oof. Lost out on a whole $30 in revenue.
They'll never financially recover from this.
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I kinda like the second one, about defeating them you must know them.
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I kinda like the second one, about defeating them you must know them.
Welcome to Sun Tzu Theater.
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Its a wealthy suburb of Portland just FYI.
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Lake Oswego is a rich conservative white woman sanctuary just west of Portland.
I'm not buying that this theater owner was playing the movie as a joke.
Just because the residents are wealthy, white, Conservative women doesn't mean the theater owner or the person who put up the marquee is too.
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My take is the theatre owner was screening the film primarily for mockery purposes?
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Shop Like a Billionaire and import one made overseas. Like a mail order bride of success, because you're a total badass theater owner. Hugely.
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My take is the theatre owner was screening the film primarily for mockery purposes?
Yup the general manager stated they did it for the lols
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I love this theatre - it's a mini Draft House and it is awesome.
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Yeah. I don't wear Prada.
False economy. -
Is it a cinema, or theatre? I am confused. I thought it was a movie.
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Oof. Lost out on a whole $30 in revenue.
They'll never financially recover from this.
Well boys, looks like we have ourselves an optomist!
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So they lost the right to have several empty theaters? And they consider that a bad thing?