WEBVTT - “She Definitely Gets Her Steps In”: Our Take on Seeing “Melania” 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.880 Hey there, folks, we just saw the movie that so 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:12.319 many people were talking about Millennia. This is our very 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.800 carefully worded review with that, welcome to this episode of 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.960 Aiming and TJ. Road. I say, everybody was talking about it, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.759 the President, the big premiere they had at the Kennedy 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.200 Center and all that, and then it wasn't expected to 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.760 do well, and let's give it it's do. It performed 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.560 beyond expectations, made a little lower seven million dollars opening weekend. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:36.919 That's a big deal for a documentary. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.199 It's a huge deal for a documentary, even one with 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.480 the hefty price tag that this one had. But yeah, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.479 they were expecting between three and five million at best, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.640 and it was north of seven million. Correct, There were 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.519 some astermates to say closer to eight million. So that 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.920 is a wild success for a documentary. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.880 Yeah, I put that in right context. You hear that 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.840 seven million dollars If it was an Avengers movie, that's 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.480 total bust. This is gangbusters and one of the best 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.600 documentaries we've seen perform in a decade at the box office. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.480 So that let's give it it's due. Now. The other 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.440 part of it is that in ropes, you have it 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.080 up right now, what's the current Okay, so it has 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.240 been just skewed by the critics out there, and the 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.600 Rotten Tomato scores are hilarious. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:26.880 Yes, so the critics score is five percent, that's about 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.759 as low as I've ever seen, and the popcorn meter, 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.959 which is the audience verified reviews or ratings, are at 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.560 ninety nine percent. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.920 That's why I say it's hilarious, and that makes perfect sense. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.080 You go, okay, why is this possible? I don't see 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.959 that kind of We see discrepancy. Sometimes the critics are 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.640 at forty five and the audience is at seventy. Stuff 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.559 like that can't happen. This doesn't happen, and it makes 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.560 sense when you think about it. Maybe don't have to 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.200 think about it that long. Why that be such a discrepancy? 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.280 Well, look, yes it makes sense, But I also thought, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.120 you know, what are all of these critics? And yes, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.560 you might think people who work in the mainstream media, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.160 according to our president at least, are all left of 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.440 center and anti administration and anti Trump, and so you 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.320 could start to think, Okay, those critics had an agenda, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.760 and we obviously leave space for that as well. So 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.840 we wanted to go see for ourselves to have the 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.919 audience love this movie and rave about the movie as 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.000 much as they have, and to see the critics not 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.640 just say this isn't a good film, don't go see it, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.799 but just disparage it, call it a horror movie, call 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.000 it an abomin nation. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.680 I mean, they went off on this film. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.240 Okay, some of that was a little much, and it 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.520 certainly you can understand robes. The people who are in 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.600 the theater, in all likelihood at least who aren't critics 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.640 citizens are probably already fans of Donald Trump and Milania Trump, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.840 so that would make sense predisposed to like Milania a lot. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.920 But ninety nine percent versus five percent is just not 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.480 something you see. And this this is the biggest disparity obviously, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:07.600 I've ever seen one. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.120 And it was I think that was really the driving 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.200 reason behind why we knew we had to see this 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:14.200 movie for ourselves. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.280 So we had to see it, and we did some 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.560 context here. You've seen a lot of headlines and some 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.600 places a lot of critics say I went to a 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.200 theater and it was empty, Oh, nobody was there. And 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.800 then they say, yeah, I went to the one at 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:29.520 Lincoln Center on the Upper West side, okay, like duh okay, fine, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.920 but then you had reports of places like Dallas at 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.280 whatnot that did have larger crowds in those theaters. We 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.120 went full disclosure in the daytime, in the middle of 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.120 the week and a weekday, so you wouldn't expect the 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:43.960 full theater anyway. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.240 Every time we go to the movies, and it could 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.840 be the biggest blockbuster ever, we always go at like 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.480 the eleven thirty am showing on a Monday, and guess what, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.320 we're almost always one of the only people in the theater. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.400 So it was not an exception that the theat was 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.800 mostly empty for us, because that's always what it looks 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.040 like when we choose to go to the movies. There 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.760 were I think I counted for women, and we'll get 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.520 into some of the demographics because they're very interesting. But 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.440 they were all women, and they were all I believe 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:15.320 age forty. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.120 And up, and that goes exactly in line with the 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.200 demographics you're going to be talking about. So that sets 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.400 it up. We get in there with our popcorn, literally 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.359 a bucket of popcorn, diapepsy diapeps in the water, and 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.920 let's take this thing in now, robes let's go before 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.800 we get into some specific details that stand out your 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:42.919 general initial first response to it are initial thoughts upon 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:43.800 seeing Millennia. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:50.039 Well, she looked perfect. She was perfectly curated from head 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.480 to toe. And look, I know that if you've read 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.200 the reviews, you know this is true. But the I 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.919 think it's it definitely was disappointing for a lot of 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.520 people who wanted to actually get to know Malania. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.080 That was the whole point of the film. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.040 She started out saying, you know, you all want to know, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.480 so here it is, and you think, okay, great, We're 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.400 going to pull back the curtains. We're going to see 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.880 twenty days in the life of Malania Trump leading up 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.880 to the inauguration. This is going to be fantastic. Finally 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.640 I'm gonna get to see Milania not perfectly curated and quoifed, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.440 and I'm going to get to hear her talk and 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.880 see her interactions with President Trump, and maybe even get 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.840 to hear Baron Trump's voice. I've never even heard his 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.960 voice before, so I was hoping for all of those things. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.799 And none of them happened. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:40.920 None. So before you even I mean, content wise, it 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:46.480 was fairly shocking from what you were expecting to what 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.280 you actually got, and this wasn't. I felt it never 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.279 felt like a documentary, and the feeling of it to 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:58.320 me was a reality show. A reality show where certain 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.480 things are it's supposed to be real, but it certainly. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.920 Feels staged without any drama. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.239 There was zero drama conflict of any kind. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.920 And that's what make reality shows good and interesting and entertaining. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.240 I think you pointed it out. There was something that 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.680 one of the designers was stressing for a second, and 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:17.919 that felt like drama. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.320 I was like, is this like in the film? 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.920 This was perfectly packaged presentation of Milania And they didn't 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.760 want you to see a flaw and. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.800 We didn't, and that is but that was the flaw 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.640 of the film for. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.000 Me, because I went in genuine I am fascinated by 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:43.160 this woman, and I walked away still fascinating, fascinated. You 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.719 don't actually feel one way or another because you don't 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.560 get anything to react to or feel. Of course, she 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.640 is a fashion icon, and we see it repeatedly and 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.320 repeatedly and repeatedly in this film. But romees it gave. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.640 I was fairly sunned. We were stunned at how little 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.960 we see in a documentary. There are times robes they 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:12.640 played long stretches of the inauguration like film footage we 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.760 have seen plenty of times before. Why do I need 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.080 fifteen minutes here when I'm trying to learn about her 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:24.960 beautifully shot great right? All that, I was stunned at 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:25.760 how little we got. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.240 I yes, agreed, because we knew going in obviously the 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.960 bad reviews. We had a level of expectation about what 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.360 we weren't going to get, and still it fell even 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.760 further short than those expectations. And I look at it 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.080 as a missed opportunity. There was a real opportunity to 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.440 show us Malania Trump as a human, as a woman, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.480 as a mother, as a wife. And all I saw 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.840 was that she knows how to hem, She knows where 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.160 the hemline should go and address, and she knows how 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.000 she likes her collars, and she likes you know, she 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:01.680 has a very specific way of designing and curating herself 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:02.320 in the White House. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.040 That's what I got. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.280 That's not sarcasm. What you just said was accurate, what 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.000 the highlight was. And I'm just making sure nobody heard 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.800 you and thinking you were in some kind of way 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.880 being facetious there no no, no, no, no, we learned 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.800 this about her like that is what she is skilled at. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:25.320 I'm saying how they were highlighting things robes that I 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.600 didn't want to know about her. I know she is 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.600 perfectly curated, and I'm sure she has tailors around and 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.680 I see all that. I wanted to know what she's 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.880 like as a mother, what if she is in handling 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.960 and taking care of Donald Trump? I And maybe it 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.960 wasn't supposed to be that type of personal intimate thing. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.200 It was something else, and maybe they did exactly what 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:46.840 they wanted. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.200 I just wouldn't it have been amazing though, to have 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.120 seen her and relate and be able to relate. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.679 To her she wanted to look. I can't see what 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:57.079 she wanted. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.440 It seemed as though, based on the film and what 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.840 they present to audience members, they wanted her to appear 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.840 almost like royalty queen like and up on a pedestal 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.840 above us all and focused on her role taking care 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.560 of us and taking care of her image. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.280 And it just fell so far below. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.280 Or beneath what I was hoping for, because I just wanted, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.960 like I think all of us, regardless of politics, I 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.079 want to like the first lady. I want to root 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.360 for her. I love seeing women, and she's gorgeous. Like 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.720 the thing is what I. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:36.360 Saw in the film. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.120 I already knew she's beautiful, she's stunning, she was a model. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.960 You don't need to prove that to us. You are gorgeous. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.200 You were given incredible DNA and you've done really wonderful 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.960 things with it. But I didn't need to know that. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.520 I already knew that. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.920 That's it what I saw, I already knew that's it. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.840 That's the review. You could probably write that and keep 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.640 it pushing and don't have to say much more. And 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.120 that's fine if that's what they wanted to put out. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:03.800 But we were just saying what we saw with our 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.520 own eyes, that we are fans. Robes of All's Fair, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.920 Kim Kardashian's show on Hulu. I bring that up because 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.280 that's another show that was horribly reviewed, But I say 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.240 it in this way. Robes, it had the documentary at 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:27.240 least had this over the top fashion opulence at times. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:33.560 Feel to these introductory shots, these big opening it felt 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.480 this over the It really did feel like that showed 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:36.960 me at time. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.160 Yes it you know, the look of it just and 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.360 by the way, as you pointed out earlier, the shots 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.160 and the cinematography were gorgeous, but most of the time 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.439 I felt like I was watching an out of touch 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:55.880 with reality fashion like almost a music video, because there 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.240 was just there was wonderful music of my favorite songs, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.560 from Michael Jackson to I Forgot. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:03.760 They just had a bunch. I was like, oh, I 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.000 love the song. Oh I love this song. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.400 But basically that is what the director had to put 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.480 because all we saw were I think you said fifty 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.600 to eighty percent. I think it was seventy five percent. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.440 Foreshore of the film, and this is not an exaggeration. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.600 Is her walking, and the only thing that changes is 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.160 either the cameras behind her, so you see her gorgeous 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.760 hair as she's walking in her stilettos, or maybe you 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.400 get a thing from the front and you see her 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.200 holding Donald Trump's hand but she's walking like a model, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.959 or sometimes the camera was off afar, like maybe behind 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.760 the scenes and you're seeing her walking. But literally it 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.200 was just from one walking shot to the next, to 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.079 the point where our jaws dropped. I was like, you've 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.600 got to be kidding me. She's still walking. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.800 Okay, you all this is one This is not a criticism, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.120 it's an observation, and you can call the criticism, but 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.839 this is an observation. To the point it got comical. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:04.520 We were laughing, could not believe how it's You're right, folks, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.920 it's an hour and forty four minutes. And every time 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.760 you see her, seventy five percent of the time she 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.240 is in motion, she is walking. You need to see 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.440 a close up of the shoes. We see everything going up. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.080 How many times do we see her hair and not 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.760 see her face? Kind of that too many times? 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.960 Too many times, it was it was comical. And the 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.240 other shots were her getting in and out of vehicles. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.440 Those are the other shots. And then when you did 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.559 have Trump, and by the way, when Trump did come 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.840 onto the screen, it made it finally somewhat interesting. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:41.880 He spoke a little bit to the camera. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.360 We got to see a few little exchanges, but sometimes 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.120 when they were actually talking and walking and music was blaring, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.600 those are the moments I actually wanted to hear what 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.440 was he saying to her? What was she saying to him? 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.199 So it was actually frustrating because the one time you 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.000 might actually get to see some intimate exchanges that weren't performative. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.960 They were masked with music. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.120 One of the funniest. He did have some moment and 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.080 you even mentioned like nice moments, sweet moments. It seems 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.240 like he's been disarmed to a certain degree. The only 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.600 time I've ever been around him, she was next to him, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.400 and he was charming, He was fun, and there was 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.440 something that she adds some element of warmth to him 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.760 in those moments, and you see that nice. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.520 Yes, he seemed to soften when when he was around 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.160 Malania in a way that I appreciated. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:34.240 It was nice seeing that. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.800 I would have liked to have seen her just in 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:43.480 sweatpants or in anything other than high fashion and stilettos, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.160 Like give me a little like she was sitting on 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.680 her couch watching the news in stilettos. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.280 No woman does that. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.040 She does. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.520 No, she does not, not when the cameras aren't there, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.280 She is not sitting in her living room watching the 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.840 news in stilettos. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:01.760 I guarantee it. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.920 We did mention that, to the point you pointed it 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.800 out to me about the shoes. I don't know. Halfway 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.040 through the movie, so I'm staring. I say, oh, yeah, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.400 we're gonna see her in some tennis shoes, some fashion 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.200 shoot something. There was a slipper. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.680 Shot for like a half a second. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.440 It really was. In an hour and forty four minutes 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.080 of this movie, it was less than five seconds in 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.080 two different shots that you see her in something other 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.120 than five inch heels. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.760 Yeah, that's true. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.720 That was it. So what sure if that's what she 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.200 wants to present? And I don't need you to see 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.320 me casual. I don't want you to see me casual. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.000 That's cool, But I was hoping for those moments and 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.480 every time, even at home, right she's walking just in 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:51.360 and out of hallways, through golden doors and golden walls, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:58.120 and it never looks chill, ever looks chill. And her 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.400 fittings when you're seeing in side the home were happening 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:06.120 in the same like boardroom with glass behind them to 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.840 where those went on for a. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.880 While, and there was what will happen? 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.840 Will her lapel be wider or thinner? Where her neckline 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.040 go get tighter and crisper? Will the lines be the 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:23.760 way she wants them come Inauguration day? Sorry, I'm sorry. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:29.160 In this one, however, Melania did have what I think 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.320 and I think we might agree, robes was her most open, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:38.840 her sweetest, her most authentic, even moment, we'll explain what 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.520 that was, and we'll explain the demographics of Milania. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:54.160 Stay here, Welcome back everyone. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.640 As TJ and I talk about our time in the 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.840 theater watching the film Milania, and we mentioned, look, this 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.000 was a highly curated and I'm again this is not 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.640 me looking to criticize. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.960 It was just, babe, can I say this? It was 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:15.600 just really really boring. It was boring, like there's only 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.520 so many shots of her walking with no dialogue, and 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.720 the only time you hear her voice, she's speaking in. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.640 A way that appeared to be so forced and so contrived. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.200 It was poetic even it almost some of the it was. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 It wasn't natural, it wasn't authentic, it wasn't off the cuff. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.240 It was again, like everything in the film, so highly 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:40.560 curated and orchestrated. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.880 Again, if that's what they were going for, they succeeded. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.720 It's not maybe not our cup of tea. I just 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.480 want to reserve that for everybody else who this was for, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.160 or like this, or is looking for something like this. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.280 I was just looking to know, what did you say? 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.360 You just used a great line before the break I 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.960 just it didn't give you anything. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.760 I wanted to know. I wanted to know who she 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.640 was when the cameras aren't rolling. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.320 That's what a documentary typically typically is for, so you 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.800 actually get to see and get to know someone and 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.600 you know, you literally pull the curtains back. That did 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.679 not happen in this There was one moment when she 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.600 and President Trump came down off of one of the 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.840 balls on the inauguration night and she had that beautiful 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.080 white and black dress. You'll get to see how it 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.639 was made and everything that want into making that dress, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.280 if you're interested. And when she came off the stage, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.240 they were playing Ymca and she was doing the little 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.119 dance and shaking her hips and giggling, and it was 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.960 the only time that we saw her actually kind of 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.479 let her hair down, so to speak, and show a 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:49.040 little personality that wasn't thought through and perfectly executed. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:50.920 Well, you're right, it was cute. It was you said 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.080 she was giggling a little bit. She was cute, Well 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:54.960 like she was the first time in the film, having 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:55.440 a good time. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.719 And I think that's when I thought, what a missed opportunity. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.480 Not that you want to have your first lady and 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.919 being silly. I'm not suggesting that, but just getting to 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.320 see and know her personality beyond this. I have a 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.120 speech and I'm reading exactly what the speech writers told 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.920 me to say. I wanted to see the person behind 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.360 the first lady, and that was one small glimpse, you know. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.560 What the other if that was one small glimpse the 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.439 other highlight for me Robes And I don't know if 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.520 this story had been out there, but during the inauguration, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.720 there was a moment that happened between President Trump and 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.679 Malania Trump as he was making his speech. Now, if 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.399 you caught it, he's just kind of paused for a 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.720 moment and looked back at her and kind of pointed 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.000 after he had delivered a line, and she kind of 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.479 smiled back. We see in the documentary Robes where that 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.880 came from. I thought that was kind of cool. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:45.680 It was really cute. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.040 They had a rehearsal basically of the President giving his speech, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.840 and she suggested a change in one of the lines, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.600 and so she kind of interrupted and said, I think 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.040 you should say this, and so you see him then 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.320 cut to his speech and he says the phrase that 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.720 she suggested, and he looked back at her appointed. That 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.280 was sweet, and I just that's what. If there were 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.679 more of those moments that it would have carried the 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.240 film to a completely different place. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.160 That was cool. I just that was sweet. She got 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:22.119 something into his all important inauguration speech, and he acknowledged 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.919 in that moment he stopped and gave her credit. It 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.280 was two words, I think something. Yes, it was like unifying, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.439 unifying peace or something. Yeah, and gave a credit. So 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.240 that was something at least that we got. Now, we 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.119 talked about folks try to report that they're empty theaters. However, 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.280 theaters in places like Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, Phoenix, West Palm Beach. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.520 I think those were the top five markets and robes. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.600 We said, not a lot of people in our theater, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.159 but the ones that were in there seemed to go 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:50.880 along with the demographic information. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.040 Yeah, with white women over the age of forty, you 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.119 were the only man and the only black person in 0:19:55.160 --> 0:20:01.080 the theater. Seventy two of theatergoers were women, three percent 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.920 were over the age of forty five, and seventy five 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:04.720 percent were white. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.320 That totally reads. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:11.040 So we mentioned the cities in which this film has 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.440 done gangbusters. I did want to point out because I 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.520 thought this was quite funny, because sometimes you just have 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.600 to be able to take a joke. But an Oregon, 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:26.119 there is a theater that look and it's Oregon, right, yeah, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.640 just you know the state and where they typically stand politically, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:36.480 and so so a theater there decided to try and 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.120 draw people in with some creative marketing and knowing their audience. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.119 So one of the messages on the films or the 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.560 cinema's marquee said, does Milania wear Prada? Find out on Friday? 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.720 That's funny, it's not bad. That's funny does not mean 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:57.520 that's not bad. And then another message to advertise the film, 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.840 to defeat your enemy, you must know them. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:01.320 Malania starts Friday. 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:02.800 It's somebody I had the sense of humor. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.720 It's okay, so it's funny, but guess what, it was 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.560 not funny to Amazon's studio Amazon. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.000 So Amazon pulled the film, pulled the film from. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:16.480 That cinema, and then so this was then what they 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.160 put up on the marquee. Amazon called our marquee made 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.679 them mad. All Milania's showings canceled. Show your support at 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:24.680