SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

wvbonds This film is worth watching just to get a heads up on the time-share business. I saw this movie just before I went to Las Vegas. When I got to Las Vegas, I got caught in a sales pitch for a time-share. Well, I knew just what to say to fend them off and collect $100 without passing Go. This film shows how the time-share people do not respect the buyers (marks). Watching this film made me appreciate my life. This is a good example that Gordon Gecko can be wrong. In this film, greed is not good, particularly when you are not happy. This film gives an insight into conspicuous consumption, an unhappy dysfunctional family and proves that money is not everything. I would say, before you buy a time-share watch this film.

bpw-94652 Yesterday I found myself watching, "The Queen of Versailles". In the beginning I thought that this was all a joke… a 74 year old rich man (David) is married to a 43 year old woman (Jackie) and no one saw a problem with this? She's a gold digger –is all I kept thinking in my head. They were living a dream that people would kill for. Having a huge house and building an even larger house; the biggest house in America to be exact. This house contained 30 bathrooms, yes I said 30, 10 kitchens, a sushi bar, a tennis court, and a ballroom. Who needs 30 bathrooms? This house or shall I say mansion was built as a replica of the top 3 floors of a hotel in Paris. The Siegel's also bought 5 million dollars' worth of marvel from China to put into the house to fit the theme. I certainly don't have 5 million dollars just lying around and if I did I would put it to better use. Seeing that they have eight children, they could have started them a college fund that would have gotten each of them a doctorates degree and possibly have some money left over. Seeing how loosely she spent money and had eight kids by him I again thought that she was being a gold digger. Usually when a younger woman dates an older man it is all for the money. It was until she explained how her ex-husband misused and abused her that I began to see why she loved David so unconditionally. It seemed as if everything was okay until David was sued for unpaid bills and began having problems with his company. The banks began trying to foreclose on his home and resorts. Due to this David was forced to lay off seven thousand employees and 19 of his nannies, and the building of Versailles also came to a standstill. This gave a lesson: no matter who you are or how much money you have you must take care of your responsibilities or everything can crumble. The children took sacrifices such as transferring from private to public schools, losing friends in the transition, and as Jackie said, "they may have to go to college now." This is my problem with parents with money; they feel like their children are too good for public school! You learn the same material, require a diploma upon graduation, and you still meet friends. My best friend attended a private school while I attended a public school and I'm actually smarter than her! Just because it's private doesn't mean their IQ score will tremendously increase, I actually would say it decreases. I say this because when kids are in private school they feel as if they can do what they want because their parents fund the school. Just as one of the Siegel kids did; when he started public school he immediately began getting into trouble and serving detentions for attendance or behavior problems. Whether I'm rich or not my child will go to college. I did something with my life so that my child could live a good life and it is up to them to do the same. My child will not live off of me forever. While everyone, David, the kids, David's employees, and business partners suffered, Jackie did not. She continued to throw parties, spend uncontrollably, and have face-lifts. The money that Jackie was spending could have been used to help pay some of the bills or put aside for future use in case they lost everything. David became depressed and began pointing out ways in which his family was being ungrateful, and soon Jackie did too. The kids had pets that they had never taken care of that died once the nannies were laid off. When I was a child and asked for a pet it became my responsibility, not anyone else's. The Siegel kids knew nothing about responsibility and that is a major problem! This film shows major life lessons for everyone. I would not categorize this film to a specific audience, because everyone young or old can learn something from it. What you have today can be gone tomorrow. Stop taking things for granted. In my opinion, "The Queen of Versailles" is a very good film. I would rate this as a five star documentary and advise everyone to watch it. Jackie is being referred to as "The Queen," but the film does not just focus on her. The film also gives you a glance at the lives of those around her. There are pros and cons in this film and that surprised me. Normally, when watching something like this it's all good, but not this time. Now that you've read my review I would advise you to go watch it and give me your feedback.

evening1 The most amazing thing about this documentary is that the principals, David and Jaqueline Siegel, allowed so much access into their homes and unraveling lives. When the film begins, the May-December pair is sitting on top of the world -- she quite beautiful and happily managing a brood of eight children, he building a palace with a view of Disney World's fireworks that would be the biggest house in the world. He still seems to appreciate his hyper-sexy wife, who boasts obvious breast implants that she displays in clingy, low-cut dresses.By the end of the film, David Siegel is looking much worse for the wear. He sits alone in a disheveled home office, eating dinner from a tray, griping about petty wastes of money, such as when a family member leaves a door ajar. Due to crises in the economy, he has lost a lot of his fortune and is working to stave off bank creditors and foreclosure. This saturnine figure who freely admits he cannot separate business from family won't even give his wife a kiss.The film paints a highly poignant portrait of Jackie, who says she married a man 30 years her senior strictly for love. Apparently suffering from a need to shop compulsively, despite her family's financial woes, she is often shown gamely approaching her husband and trying to humor him or make a vain stab at chat.A great sense of sadness seems to pervade this clan, whose children nevertheless appear to have come through it all pretty well. One feels for the tunnel-visioned David and hopes that Jackie will somehow find some peace.

CentralStateProductions "First off I would not call this Film a real Feature Doc." I would call it a very strong pilot for a Cable Reality Series. I left this screening completely empty and void of any strong feelings emotionally speaking. I know nothing more about the traditional Timeshare schemes that take place and that is what I was looking for with The Queen of Versailles. I wanted and wished for more employee interviews and testimonials from neighbors and friends.This film does do a great job of taking you inside the lives of the Timeshare King and his so-called Queen but leaves you empty with everything else going on. When the Film came to Orlando where I live my local news interviewed the male subject of this film and he said he was sad, disappointed and would sue to have the film taken out of theaters.First I thought this was a Miramax publicity stunt as long lines were forming at my Local Art House. But now after Screening the Film on CNBC (the Financial Cable Network of NBC) I see the disclaimer at the tail of the Film which states that it is basically Business as Usual and in other words "we as Filmmakers are sorry we made you look so bad! Now do you think this would ever happen with a Errol Morris, a Pennabaker or a Michael Moore Film? Its a disaster because you as a Doc Filmmaker has to apologize for just having spent months, years shootings these folks lives and now all of a sudden everything is hunky dorrie? I'm appalled at this disclaimer, it destroyed the entire context of the Film.Well that eyesore is still unfinished and neighborhood protests have increased to have the mess torn down. The timeshare biz in Orlando is at a all time low and who would actually write a check to this joker especially after seeing the Film? I tend to believe some kind of deal outside of court was done here to please both parties. I pray the Filmmakers or Distributor did not have to pay them a cent."David states; "Everyone wants to be rich! Underhandness by a scam artist with his poor wife caught in the middle. But she ain't so poor and with a mess of kids running wild whilst she buys out Wallmart, it makes interesting and entertaining Reality based mainstream high gloss HD Video.But where are the therapists, where are the fired employees and where is someone to explain exactly how the scam works? Not in this Film. The Filmmaker decides along with more Producers in the History of a Film to take the safe road and make a killing at the box office in limited release of course. So therefore before you go with the flow of all the rave reviews, be careful.You are walking into a so-called Feature Doc that should be called a Reality TV Series Pilot.Good luck on the next one... JV, Apopka FL.