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.
This is definitely peak Portland humor. I could see myself doing the same thing n his position specifically for the marquee jokes.
The book is ALWAYS better anyway.
I don’t know when this reference gained traction, but watching this movie now is like finding those sunglasses. Suddenly, the memes are everywhere. “They Live!” (1987 I think). Just watched it last year fir the first time
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.
The manager pretty much said they could show this ironically or have an empty screen for a week. From a business point of view it really doesn’t matter “why” people are buying tickets; it just matters that they “are” buying tickets.
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.
Arrrrr, matey.
Yarhar twiddle de dee…
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.
I was looking at that area a while back (I’m out of state). Seems beautiful. I later heard that it’s kinda a whites only / racist enclave. Don’t know how true that is.
I’m not white, I lived there for many years, it’s fine. You won’t encounter any issues, it’s insanely safe with the only issues being white collar or drugs sold to stay at home moms.
There isn’t much character though. Food choices are…fine. Grocery options…fine. It’s just…fine.
Doubtless they’re all broken up about that. On the plus side, it frees up the theater to screen something that’ll actually sell tickets.
If you read the article it says they were showing it as a joke because there was nothing else to show at the moment. I doubt it was ever going to make them much money though, so perhaps they can just give the employees next week off instead.
We need a #CancelPrimeMembership day. Prime membership is just giving Amazon free money.
Or sail the high seas.
All four people must be devastated.
How fragile can you be? These jokes are incredibly tame.
They’re never gonna financially recover from this.
