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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 13 points 35 minutes ago

The book is ALWAYS better anyway.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

And further below:

Even before the rights to “Melania” were revoked, the Lake Theater & Cafe had received emails from the community asking why the film was being shown at all, according to theater General Manager Jordan Perry’s blog post.

“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.

This is hilarious, I love it! That Perry dude is a riot.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 hour ago

This is definitely peak Portland humor. I could see myself doing the same thing n his position specifically for the marquee jokes.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 3 points 34 minutes ago

They're never gonna financially recover from this.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 26 points 1 hour ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Man, I've seen that place.

Lake Oswego is a really nice area (more expensive than I can afford to live) and I thought it was so cool they still had this old school theatre.

Good for them to spout off. Don't see those people avoiding Whore Foods any time soon though.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The people asking why they're even showing the film have a point, I'm not entirely sure why they had it myself. They don't seem particularly enthusiastic about it.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 15 points 1 hour ago

To make fun of it on their marquee.

[–] Zonefive@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Didn’t know Project Hail Mary is also an Amazon production. That sucks.

I’ll still see it, probably multiple times, but I’ll grumble silently about it each time I do.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Arrrrr, matey.