Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record-breaking audience scores

[eatcasserole@lemmy.world]

0% chance that's legit.

[headfullofsoup@kbin.earth]

Is rotten tomatoes not own by amazon the same company on which half the AI review ( sometimes not even about the product where the review is posted ) show verified purchase?

[artyom@piefed.social]

They're not supposed to. It's just shameless bribery. I bet the whole thing is just about DJT from her POV anyway.

[tburkhol@lemmy.world]

I saw a clip of...maybe Jordan Klepper...interviewing people going into a showing. All of them just full-on fan-girl with anticipation, and completely upside down from the entire rest of the world. All older white people, fancy dress, clearly wealthy; might have been a premier.

It left me thinking that someone should follow some of these people around for a while to see where their special reality comes from. Study them, like Jane Goodall with the apes.

[blattrules@lemmy.world]

The only people buying tickets for this are maga morons, so this makes sense.

[sirhaxalot@nord.pub]

Exactly, and it doesn't mean that Rotten Tomatoes is somehow involved in the review manipulation. It is obviously possible for an external party to influence the audience score, they just need enough money to buy tickets that can verify. It's probably a much easier way than pressuring RT to manipulate the reviews if you have the money (and maybe even an interest in funneling that money into movie earnings)

That most people wouldn't even think of buying a ticket and thus can't post a review almost definitely plays a part as well.

[adarza@lemmy.ca]

and bots.

and when you look at who owns the sites, you have to also throw in the very real possibility of manipulation of the data itself from within, too.

[edgemaster72@lemmy.world]

We need tariffs on imported prostitutes, support the domestic sex worker industry!

^/s^ ^but^ ^kinda^ ^not^

[eternal192@anarchist.nexus]

Trump would probably support the sex worker industry but they are all too old for him.

[prove_your_argument@piefed.social]

for boston they had a craigslist post asking for people to go and be paid for launch night

[captdust@sh.itjust.works]

RT owned by Fandango, mostly NBC. You might be thinking of IMDb where the film has been listed as #1 movie in america all week, with a 1.3/10 rating.

[captdust@sh.itjust.works]

I'd watch a true story documentary on her life, I think that would be intriguing and unique. How many mail order brides find themselves in the white house, ya know? What happened in her life to get to that point? But this film is not that, only covering the month of January 2025.

[ohulancutash@feddit.uk]

No, it’s owned by Fandango, which itself is mainly owned by Versant (formerly the NBCUniversal cable network business) and WBD.

[teft@piefed.social]

The users commenting appear in the overwhelming majority to be first-time posters, for whom Melania is their first review.

Critiques in the “all audience reviews” section tend to derive from accounts with a deeper prior engagement on the site, and include assessments such as “I thought it would have been based on her actual life, good and bad. There was no emotion, drama or depth. It’s just a bad reality show,” and “Hot garbage. Don’t waste your time or money.”

Gee, that doesn't scream bots at all. /s

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

I saw that too. They were all a bunch of rich Republicans. The screening was at the Kennedy center so it wouldn't surprise me if basically everyone watching that screening was a government worker (or their friend/family) who probably moved to DC specifically to work for their favorite fascist.

I also wondered how those people could be real and studying them wouldn't be a bad idea.

[prettybunnys@piefed.social]

Sure.

[crackhappy@lemmy.world]

Man, this looks very bad for RT. If they don't course correct on this, they are going to lie any remaining trust or faith.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

My partner said this also, but personally I find her the least interesting person in history. I really doubt there's much to her life besides her using her looks to manipulate her reality. She randomly met the right rich loser and used him for his money. Then his psychopathic personality led him to the white house. If they did make that documentary I would watch it, but I feel pretty confident I would be disgusted by a terrible person getting humanized and being reminded by the awful destruction of the United States that weighs literally zero on her conscience.

There is no way to square her actions with anything but a soulless money-hungry void where a human is supposed to be. She may be most remembered by her explicit choice to wear a jacket reading "I really don't care, do you?" When visiting a prison for immigrants. And if that turns out to be the case, it would be fair. She's a fucking monster, and every day she doesn't kill or divorce Trump is a day she proves that

[hubertmanne@piefed.social]

They had a round table of reporters who watched the movie talking about it on npr. One guy said he stood up before the movie and asked anyone in the audience who was not a reporter to raise their hands and two people did. Later he was asked if it was propoganda and he was like. It was more like an informercial. He also pointed out they had a scene of trumps inaugural which does not line up with actual video of his inaugural.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

RT critic score always was shite, they would push expensive shit projects in the 90+% range constantly.

The audience score usually has been more reliable but as this instance shows, it's super easy to manipulate as well.

IMDB scores are much more reliable