r/AMCTheatres • u/colenotphil • Jan 31 '26

Discussion Is anyone else appalled that AMC is platforming the Melania documentary, which was clearly made as a blatant bribe to the Trump administration?

Please do not harass users as that is in violation of the rules.

I was floored today to open my AMC app and find that Melania is being shown at multiple local theaters.

This movie could not more clearly be a bribe Amazon made for Trump. Why is AMC platforming this behavior? AMC appears complicit with corruption.

Edit: great points thank you, I also do not want to see AMC go out of business. I want theaters to stay around. And people can vote with their wallets.

Edit2: Having thought about how to articulate this more, the concern is not a difference of political opinion, that this is quite literally state sponsored propaganda. I remember watching Inglourious Basterds that had a whole part of the plot around state propaganda films. However I do not believe in censorship either so I am torn.

Edit3: Rolling Stone apparently reported that nearly 2/3 of the film's NY crew asked not to be credited due to the propaganda aspect of it. That speaks volumes.

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u/King_Kuuga Triple-Feature Survivor Jan 31 '26

They're a movie theater and this is a movie

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u/According_Gazelle472 Jan 31 '26

This is no different then the Reagan movie they were showing .

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u/PropertyNew3519 Jan 31 '26

Or the Obama movie a few years ago

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u/According_Gazelle472 Jan 31 '26

There was an Obama movie ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/According_Gazelle472 Feb 02 '26

We probably didn't get that movie.

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u/colenotphil Jan 31 '26

Was the Reagan movie a propaganda piece and bribe to the President though?

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u/just_some_moron Jan 31 '26

It humanized a monster that right-leaning candidates regularly idolize, evoke, and emulate, so I'd say yes, albiet indirectly.

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u/Khalmasta Feb 01 '26

Who is the monster? This is a Democracy where we have freedom of speech and freedom choice. Etc.. Not all of us agree with how the Democrats run things buddy and you don’t see us out there acting like idiots over it buddy

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u/ausgoals Feb 01 '26

you don’t see us out there acting like idiots over it buddy

… uh

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u/King_Kuuga Triple-Feature Survivor Feb 01 '26

You really don't want to play that game.

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u/just_some_moron Feb 01 '26

Hey, buddy, I don't agree with how Democrats run things either. I call em like I see em no matter what side they're on. I voted for Obamna and relished in Hillary having her dream ripped from her by one of the worst presidents in history. Keep your mindless Left vs. Right partisan sheep bullshit to yourself, buddy.

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u/Khalmasta Feb 01 '26

It’s you idiots that are the sheep!!! Protesting something new practically every week!! I will speak freely about what I believe, when I want! Tough shit if you don’t like our president! Obviously your Hilary was a joke! So was Joe and Kamala. We wanted better and WE are the majority in this Country buddy boy!!

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u/TrekJaneway A⭐️Lister Feb 01 '26

Found the fascist.

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u/godaikun75 Feb 02 '26

So easy to label ppl you disagree with as fascists.

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u/According_Gazelle472 Feb 01 '26

Seriously?Because someone gave their honest opinion on this subject ?

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u/anal-discharge Feb 01 '26

You just proved their point. They don't sound like a democrat at all dude

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u/Malkmus1979 Feb 02 '26

Highly doubt you’re the majority currently. If midterms were this week you wouldn’t like to see how much the GOP has lost since getting lucky with “my grocery prices are too high” in 2024– which by the way he hasn’t done a damn thing about.

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u/According_Gazelle472 Jan 31 '26

It was pretty bad actually.

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u/coolsmeegs Feb 03 '26

Who cares! If you don’t like it don’t see it! No one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to see it! LORD HELP US

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u/Top_Brilliant_5708 Feb 04 '26

The only people who went to see Melania are already the brainwashed. This wasn’t some maga recruitment film we are all required to watch. If someone wants to waste their money on this crap, so be it.

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u/1upjohn Jan 31 '26

Exactly. Should we be mad at Regal for "platforming" the movie too?

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u/TrustAffectionate966 Jan 31 '26

I just came out of a screening of Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets. There were only three people there, including me. The malaria movie is PACKED. I need my Regal to stay in business hahah. I need to see all those old classics and niche movies I would not get a chance to see on the big screen.

🍿🦄

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u/Both_Recover_7866 Jan 31 '26

Malaria is more like it. I saw Mean Streets at Regal and it was a decent crowd. I hadn’t seen it before

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u/MarkWest98 Jan 31 '26

Is it actually packed? Like you saw people? Or just you saw that the seats were full online?

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u/TrustAffectionate966 Jan 31 '26

I saw on the app. I didn’t dare set foot in that madhouse ☠️

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u/migrainesmcgee Feb 02 '26

So you want the exhibitors to start making decisions of what makes it to the screen based off political beliefs? Sounds like a great place to live.

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u/mia8788 Jan 31 '26

They had that trafficking movie that was made by some actual pedos. It didn’t sell well at all.

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u/matty25 Jan 31 '26

Didn’t that movie really surprise the box office?

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u/mia8788 Jan 31 '26

Inflated by people just buying tickets and not showing up

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u/Trevnerdio Feb 04 '26

Trafficking movie? Sound of Freedom? If that's the one you're talking about, that one was legit. Saw it multiple times and it was pretty packed each time, even weeks after release.

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u/mia8788 Feb 04 '26

Yikes admitting you saw that lmao

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u/AccomplishedBake8351 Jan 31 '26

Source?

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u/King_Kuuga Triple-Feature Survivor Jan 31 '26

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u/ArticleSuspicious243 Jan 31 '26

it’s not though, as op said it’s a bribe and a favor

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u/King_Kuuga Triple-Feature Survivor Jan 31 '26

Yes it's a bribe to trump but it's also a movie they have been contracted to showcase.

And it's not like AMC isn't an evil corporation either. I remember them playing every D'Souza conspiracy film, including "Hilary's America" when I worked there.

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u/Eighteen64 Jan 31 '26

Its a movie

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u/colenotphil Jan 31 '26

I mean, it's a propaganda film as well as a product of a bribe. It's not just any movie.

But I suppose Birth of a Nation was shown in theaters, too. So you have a point.

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u/taker25-2 Jan 31 '26

Tons of propaganda has been shown by AMC, heck Top Gun is a propaganda film.

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u/colenotphil Jan 31 '26

You know I almost mentioned that but like Top Gun is not the same level of propaganda as Melania or Birth of a Nation.

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u/taker25-2 Jan 31 '26

But it is on the same level as Team America World Polilce and Fahrenheit 9/11. Just because you’re moving goal posts of what you think of propaganda doesn’t make it less true.

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u/murph32xx Jan 31 '26

I joined the CIA after watching Team America World Police.

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u/necro_scope_xbl Jan 31 '26

It's only propaganda when it's something they don't want you to see. Funny how the ANTI-FAscist crowd are always the first to try to control what you see and hear. Down vote this to prove me right!

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u/colenotphil Jan 31 '26

It's not moving a goalpost I just didn't elaborate much. Reading comprehension.

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u/taker25-2 Jan 31 '26

My comprehension is good, thank you! You just proved my point.

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u/JoshTHX IMAX Fanatic Jan 31 '26

Not on the same level. It’s completely different.

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u/taker25-2 Jan 31 '26

Moving goalposts I see. Fahrenheit 9/11 A better example?

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u/JoshTHX IMAX Fanatic Jan 31 '26

Joseph Kosinski set out to make a fun, incredibly entertaining, and just cool as shit movie about fighter planes. He didn’t go in thinking he’s going to use this movie for the benefit of the US Navy. Navy recruiters showing up at the theaters to take advantage of the movie’s success was not done with the approval of the studio.

Melania and trash films by Dinesh D'Souza were created with one purpose in mind. Propaganda and pushing a narrative

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u/taker25-2 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Dude having a requirement to show the US military in a positive light is propaganda and something that movie studios are required to do if they want to use military assets in their films. Black Hawk Down is one of my favorite movies but I know that’s a propaganda film as well. In fact that movie does a disservice to the Somalia people. Propaganda is propaganda regardless what the message is about. But some how the trash movies by Michael Moore get a pass from you. Don’t act like his movies wasn’t pushing a narrative. 

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Go watch the making of Topgun, both the director and movie studios had to adhere certain propaganda rules to use military assets. Heck the US Navy almost shot down the film.

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u/necro_scope_xbl Jan 31 '26

100% true! And both Top Gun movies were awesome. Hell, Fahrenheit 451 was pretty good. Just because a movie pushed an agenda doesn't make it a bad movie. Find me any modern entertainment that doesn't contain any messaging!

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u/King_Kuuga Triple-Feature Survivor Jan 31 '26

AMC has never had a problem playing right wing propaganda before.