"Melania" packed house 😂

[DoBW]

MeidasTouch sent a reporter to look for waste, fraud, and abuse behind the Melania movie. Here’s what we found.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-02-03T19:50:46.134Z

[niyad]

1. The replies on bluesky were hilarious.

[malaise]

2. Hilarious

😀

[sop]

3. Brett Ratner, Director, 'Melania'...

[Dave Bowman]

11. He looks demented and ultra creepy. 🤮

[Jacson6]

4. Recently I went to see Avatar. Including me there were only 3 people in the theater.

Movie houses are dying. They probably won't exist in another year. Streaming is where all the movies are.

[Traildogbob]

5. Bring back

Drive in’s and stream sound to the vehicle sound systems again. Not those metallic medal sound boxes.
Not so much fun in winter though.
My grand dad owned one and we had to clean up the parking area the next day. Traumatic for young boys.
Ya don’t wanna know. And that was way back before society got this freaky.

[Jacson6]

7. They have a drive in theater in San Luis Obispo City.

On Friday & Saturday night it is packed with partiers screaming at the movie screen WILD!

[Dave Bowman]

12. Just reading the word "drive-in" brings back great memories. 🙂

[Traildogbob]

14. Sure does!

Acrobatic positions that can only be accomplished by young people in love.

[Traildogbob]

15. Remember sneaking

Friends in, covered up in the back floorboard, or the trunk? Because $3.00 was too expensive to get in.
Damn, now you need a small loan for two tickets popcorn and at least some theaters serve beer now. If you can afford one beer for the price of a case.

[PatSeg]

6. That appears to be true

An era is ending.

[Wiz Imp]

8. Movie cinemas have been dying for decades.

It was significantly exacerbated by the pandemic. However, the idea that they will all be gone in a year is insane. They're not remotely close to disappearing anytime soon.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/02/domestic-box-office-2025-movie-theaters

By the numbers: The domestic box office brought in roughly $8.6 billion last year, slightly above 2024's haul but down 3% from 2023 and down significantly (27% and 24%) from pre-pandemic highs of $11.9 billion and $11.4 billion in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

[Torchlight]

9. Quite the difference between the reported gate and what our eyes tell us

nt

[Emile]

10. So funny 😁

[Dave Bowman]

13. Aaand another failure on the long list of failures of the Dump family.

[Smilo]

16. But somehow they always manage to make bank out of their failures.

n/t

[Dave Bowman]

17. I hope that they'll eventually lose everything,

[niyad]

18. Depends on one's intent. Per several treads here on DU, the actual

purpose of that piece of crap was an ad campaign rollout to launch the slovenian sex worker's "brand". baldy the jobs slasher spent 75 million* on a 2 hour ad.

* per peter baker's figures in the wapo layoff thread, that 75 mil could have cobpvered the losses at that once-decent paper for 9 months (losing 100 million per year).

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Brings up the age-old question

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"