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I know they're pushing "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" for Oscar consideration. It would be cool to see Efron get some Academy recognition, he really was good, even if the rest of the movie was debatable, although I liked it. I'd like to see Malkovich get a nom out of it also.
@dotell Dead to Me makes me so happy. Linda and Christina Applegate!!! I also think that Christina Applegate is so underrated. She is phenomenal actress.
Do Tell....ZAc was great in the movie but as someone who has seen the real documentary of Ted Bundy with all the graphic photos and videos, i did not like the movie at all. THe netflix movie made him look like he wasn't that bad of a guy and actually,to me, tried to come from a sympathetic view. Ted bundy was the devil, and they made him look like a misunderstood ladies man. If you don't know the real story of the horrific sick murder he was then you'd probably think he wasn't that bad by watching the Netflix movie. If my loved one was a victim i'd be livid
I worked in the crime lab in Tallahassee, and I agree. They keep and entire wall of his evidence. He was a pure monster, and there's no misunderstanding about it. That movie made him seem like a victim.
@Regina. My wife, who isn't really in to serial killers and all that, was watching it with me and near the end said, "So did he do it or not then?" I tactfully told her, "Of course he fucken did it, ya daft cow! What the fuck have you just been watching for the past two hours?!"
But it did try to make him look, if not exactly sympathetic, then slightly hard done by.
@Vic ... sooooo, after you called your wife a daft cow, did she box your ears? Just seems like a very British-wife way of letting you know she’s displeased with your verbiage. 😉
@kelli, Irish women aren't as easily triggered as US women when it comes to casual cursing, they just curse back. It's one of the things that generally makes them superior ;)
@ Do Tell- I cannot believe they cancelled Santa Clarita Diet either! I hope the public outcry gets heard and we get a season 4- at least to tie up the loose ends. In a perfect world, it would find a forever home somewhere. I understand Netflix’s 3 season business model, but it’s been proven to be a popular show.
"Extremely Wicked" was based on the book by Ted Bundy's girlfriend. The whole movie's aim was to show people why and how Bundy was able to fool Liz for so long and seduce all these victims. All they saw was the facade he wanted them to see, dressed up in a cleancut, handsome, fairly charming package. This is what made Bundy so dangerous and what the film was aiming to get across, which a lot of people don't seem to get. It never painted him as a saint or a good guy, or was begging people to sympathize with him. it was trying, clumsily, to show the audience how Bundy came across to the people he wanted to fool.
I saw a printed reaction to the movie that was from either a survivor or a relative of a Bundy victim (can't remember) who agreed that the movie didn't need to focus on the violence, and thinks it would have cheapened the movie. The TV move, Deliberate Stranger", didn't show much violence either.
What might have helped the movie would have been putting up a slate at the beginning of the movie, explaining who and what Ted Bundy was, and the number of women he murdered over X span of years. Then the audience could have had that in mind as they watched him put up the charming nice guy front he did to the people closest to him and the people he abducted. They also could have shown at least two of the times that Bundy snapped and threatened Liz, both times because she asked him about some suspicious items she'd found. That would have helped a lot.
I'm from Tallahassee, too. Ted Bundy was a vicious serial killer who beat women to a bloody pulp with a log while they were sleeping. Was this in the Netflix movie that you want Zac Efron to win an award for? No. Ted Bundy seemed like a great guy in that film and you want it to get an award? Hmmm. I hope a vicious serial killer never terrorizes your town and then a movie comes along and paints them sympathetically and strangers want the actor to be rewarded for it.
If you left the film with the impression that it showed Bundy as a great guy, then it did what it set out to do. The whole point, as I said, was that Bundy put on a facade that fooled everyone, looks like it still is, especially if you didn't pay attention to the scene where he wrote Hacksaw on the prison window to explain how he decapitated his victim, or the scene where he whacked a woman across the head with a crowbar. The audiences did not need to be spoonfed violence. But it seems that a lot of people still missed the point that the movie was making.
Unknown, you can throw whatever irrational tantrums you want, but Efron did a spectacular job with the role, and his performance deserves recognition. He did not write the script. Learn to differentiate between the performance and the actual criminal. Perhaps you should write a letter to the Academy asking that they revoke Anthony Hopkins' Oscar for playing an insanely violent cannibal.
Netflix?
ReplyDeleteHow do you become a voter? Asking for a friend of course, duh!
ReplyDeleteHah
DeleteNetflix is on my shitlist after they cancelled Santa Clarita Diet. However, I do so love Dead To Me.
ReplyDeleteProbably Netflix since they produce more movies that the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteI know they're pushing "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" for Oscar consideration. It would be cool to see Efron get some Academy recognition, he really was good, even if the rest of the movie was debatable, although I liked it. I'd like to see Malkovich get a nom out of it also.
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ReplyDeletehold up...Enthusiastic Quotes?? WHERE DID AMAZING QUOTES GO?? Amazing, is that you? We can’t have any impostors in here!
@dotell Dead to Me makes me so happy. Linda and Christina Applegate!!! I also think that Christina Applegate is so underrated. She is phenomenal actress.
ReplyDeleteDo Tell....ZAc was great in the movie but as someone who has seen the real documentary of Ted Bundy with all the graphic photos and videos, i did not like the movie at all. THe netflix movie made him look like he wasn't that bad of a guy and actually,to me, tried to come from a sympathetic view. Ted bundy was the devil, and they made him look like a misunderstood ladies man. If you don't know the real story of the horrific sick murder he was then you'd probably think he wasn't that bad by watching the Netflix movie. If my loved one was a victim i'd be livid
ReplyDeleteI worked in the crime lab in Tallahassee, and I agree. They keep and entire wall of his evidence. He was a pure monster, and there's no misunderstanding about it. That movie made him seem like a victim.
DeleteApplegate was underrated on Married w Children too.
ReplyDelete@Regina. My wife, who isn't really in to serial killers and all that, was watching it with me and near the end said, "So did he do it or not then?" I tactfully told her, "Of course he fucken did it, ya daft cow! What the fuck have you just been watching for the past two hours?!"
ReplyDeleteBut it did try to make him look, if not exactly sympathetic, then slightly hard done by.
I enjoyed it though.
Sounds like standard fare, voting and democracy are built on booze and hookers.
ReplyDelete@Vic ... sooooo, after you called your wife a daft cow, did she box your ears? Just seems like a very British-wife way of letting you know she’s displeased with your verbiage. 😉
ReplyDelete@kelli, Irish women aren't as easily triggered as US women when it comes to casual cursing, they just curse back. It's one of the things that generally makes them superior ;)
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ReplyDeleteBrayson, from the description you gave, sounds like I’m probably part Irish. 🍀😆
ReplyDelete@Kelli, it was all said in a good humoured way. She gets it. And is probably slowly poisoning me in revenge anyway.
ReplyDelete@Vic, That's every wife, it's no coincidence that most wives outlive their husbands. 😧
ReplyDeleteI can vouch for what Brayson said!
ReplyDeleteI'll admit to watching that Zac movie and getting excited when James Hetfield showed up playing a cop.
ReplyDelete@ Do Tell- I cannot believe they cancelled Santa Clarita Diet either! I hope the public outcry gets heard and we get a season 4- at least to tie up the loose ends. In a perfect world, it would find a forever home somewhere. I understand Netflix’s 3 season business model, but it’s been proven to be a popular show.
ReplyDelete@lucky13 - WHOA had no idea James Hetfield is in this movie...need to watch now!!! He has the sexiest speaking voice.
ReplyDelete"Extremely Wicked" was based on the book by Ted Bundy's girlfriend. The whole movie's aim was to show people why and how Bundy was able to fool Liz for so long and seduce all these victims. All they saw was the facade he wanted them to see, dressed up in a cleancut, handsome, fairly charming package. This is what made Bundy so dangerous and what the film was aiming to get across, which a lot of people don't seem to get. It never painted him as a saint or a good guy, or was begging people to sympathize with him. it was trying, clumsily, to show the audience how Bundy came across to the people he wanted to fool.
ReplyDeleteI saw a printed reaction to the movie that was from either a survivor or a relative of a Bundy victim (can't remember) who agreed that the movie didn't need to focus on the violence, and thinks it would have cheapened the movie. The TV move, Deliberate Stranger", didn't show much violence either.
What might have helped the movie would have been putting up a slate at the beginning of the movie, explaining who and what Ted Bundy was, and the number of women he murdered over X span of years. Then the audience could have had that in mind as they watched him put up the charming nice guy front he did to the people closest to him and the people he abducted. They also could have shown at least two of the times that Bundy snapped and threatened Liz, both times because she asked him about some suspicious items she'd found. That would have helped a lot.
Netflix because they have their FYSee stuff (https://events.fyc.netflix.com/) going on now (Amazon had their’s last month).
ReplyDeleteHitchcock was once asked why he made his villains so attractive. "How else", he answered, "could they get close to their victims?"
ReplyDeleteI'm from Tallahassee, too. Ted Bundy was a vicious serial killer who beat women to a bloody pulp with a log while they were sleeping. Was this in the Netflix movie that you want Zac Efron to win an award for? No. Ted Bundy seemed like a great guy in that film and you want it to get an award? Hmmm. I hope a vicious serial killer never terrorizes your town and then a movie comes along and paints them sympathetically and strangers want the actor to be rewarded for it.
ReplyDeleteIf you left the film with the impression that it showed Bundy as a great guy, then it did what it set out to do. The whole point, as I said, was that Bundy put on a facade that fooled everyone, looks like it still is, especially if you didn't pay attention to the scene where he wrote Hacksaw on the prison window to explain how he decapitated his victim, or the scene where he whacked a woman across the head with a crowbar. The audiences did not need to be spoonfed violence. But it seems that a lot of people still missed the point that the movie was making.
ReplyDeleteUnknown, you can throw whatever irrational tantrums you want, but Efron did a spectacular job with the role, and his performance deserves recognition. He did not write the script. Learn to differentiate between the performance and the actual criminal. Perhaps you should write a letter to the Academy asking that they revoke Anthony Hopkins' Oscar for playing an insanely violent cannibal.