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Never heard of this case. They interview the ones who lived.

The main focus was on one person who was only 16 at the time. Christopher Wilder released her, after kidnapping her and holding her hostage for a week.

This may be odd, but I found her, even though she was a victim and I believed her story, not particularly likable.

She came across older than her years. And in a way didn't give much in detail. She was recruited to lure in another girl. Claimed she mouthed "sorry" to her, but the other lady doesn't mention that.

Anyway, I had a hard time with her going into a crowded Mall and recruiting another young girl, knowing what he would do to her.

This young lady was also raped and tortured with electrical cords and was taken out into the woods to be stabbed and left for dead.

Oddly, the other young lady who was the longer kidnapped victim just didn't seem to be curious as to whether the other young lady was dead or alive.

Now maybe a psychologist can explain that she knew how to shut off her feelings and the cops would say that you did everything right because you lived.

But maybe it's her matter of fact demeanor, but I didn't find her particularly sympathetic or likable.

She made zero attempt to save herself but she does take care to explain that he constantly had a gun on her and a knife on him and made it clear that he would shoot her if she did.

It was a point when she was in a restaurant and he allowed her to go to the bathroom by herself and I was just thinking, why didn't you just flip the table on him when you came back and started screaming and running he's a killer he's a killer.

Maybe that would have gotten her shot or other innocent people killed - I don't know. I know, I'm being critical of a victim. And I'm sure she's been asked multiple times, why didn't she fight back or why did she do this or that. The other young lady was also asked those questions. So maybe it's not fair to ask them.

Stars are reduced because this production really didn't have anything entertaining about it, if I can use that word. Kind of blah. I don't think I'll watch any more episodes.

.... Isn't the win that Spacey apparently imagines it is. I believe the men.

Apparently, they were somewhat traumatized by his advances, but the fact is, yes, they kept going back.

Several admit that they kept going back, because they were hoping that they could, in the end, get something from it until they realize that there was no quid pro quo.

The stories are eerily similar and a lot of the things that he said to them is what predators often tell their victims - it's no big deal, it's okay that I have my hand where it shouldn't be. This is a lot of what Harvey Weinstein told his female victims.

Kevin spacey's sexual abuse is pretty skeevy if I can use that word, seemingly devoid of anything resembling pleasure.

And so I'm hard-pressed not to imagine that he was repeating childhood experiences where someone violated him and didn't care anything about him and his feelings.

His detachment recounted by nearly all of the victims seems to be pathological. So he's either a sociopath or such a deeply damaged person, emotionally, that he continues to reenact....something.

By his brother's account, they were abused and at least the older brother was sexually abused. And like a lot of cases like this, mom did...nothing.

Yeah, so I believe he did sexually assault many males and the fact that he was acquitted just meant they didn't find him guilty under the restrictions of what the law requires, but that doesn't mean he wasn't guilty.

I see a lot of comments are being downvoted and I don't know if those are Spacey fans, but I am/was a Spacey fan because he was a good actor. But I don't let that blind me to the fact that, where there's smoke, there's fire

I've always known he was gay, it was so obvious. I can understand why an actor would deny being gay but most of the parts that he played were never really leading man parts. IDK

Anyway, like a lot of people who reject their own people and then want to come back when they get their wake up card, Kevin Spacey has not been embraced by the gay community.

He ruined his own career and it's really creepy to watch interviews with him when he talks about being an example and elevating the next generation, all the while sexually assaulting people; and much like predators Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, he used his money and power to go after people, they knew they could use.

Anyway, the industry and the victims alike need to stop protecting these predators - go to the police, report what you know, stop going back in the hopes that you'll get something from them -you won't.

They don't give a damn about you.

High production values held my interest. I found the men very believable.

... Needed money for his cable bill.

OMG, where to start?

Script was awful and nonsensical. Made little sense. We had no idea who the killer was and he had no connection to anything that happened before (except the murders). No hints. No red herrings. Just some random dude. There was no twist and the reasons for the killings were silly and over the top.

No suspense. No intrigue.

Really bad ending. The lines the actors had to speak were g-d awful. It was like the hack scriptwriter was copying grade B movies about hard-boiled cops and detectives from the fifties.

Al Pacino attempting a Southern accent! OMG! Why? What did it add? The movie isn't even set in the South! Like I said, really bad writing!

The young actress couldn't act and had zero reason to be there. The script actually had her attacking a suspect! WTF?! This alone would have gotten her off the detail. No cop investigating crimes has time to protect a civilian.

Her backstory was silly and ridiculous and didn't have the dramatic impact one silly scene was supposed to have. But she got to cry. (eyeroll)

Then like a lot of crappy movies, they try to use music to get the audience to feel something that should be come in the acting and script!

Urban should never attempt to act ever again in his life. He was even worst than the female and Al Pacino phoning it ino pay his cable.

Skip this awful not mess. I rarely give one stars, but I was actually insulted by how craptastic this was!

Taking me forever to finish this slow slog of a movie that making little sense.

I'm guessing someone cast spell on an apartment, but the title calls it a room and two friends move in. The building is creepy and so is the landlord. The pay in cash and don't ask for a receipt, which was really scary.

Something evil lives in the walls or in the room-apartment next door.

One girl has substance and issues. A necklace that comes through the wall if you're dumb enough to stick you arm you in an oozing hole in the wall.

In the prelogue we see that the necklace causes a girl to immediately freakout and kill herself, but druggy friend put it on and she starts acting weird and somehow a music box figures in.

Anyway, the other girl is taking journalism in college. She spends most of her time blabbing to anyone who'll listen all about her friend's drinking and drugging problems, because everything is about her or she has no sense of privacy.

Druggy and blabbing friend go out. Druggy picks up a guy, passes out because she does drugs, and someone stabs her one night stand but apparently he doesn't bless or die because there's no blood or body the next day.

I'm not making any of this up.

College student starts dating a guy from college, who learns about the gross oozing hole in the wall.

They research a little and find other residents of the apartment-room have gone missing.

They make out.

College girl has bad dreams.

I don't know what happens next because you can't see the screen and I'm only halfway through this movie. It's been 40 days of constant rain and there's no end of sight.

... Of this movie or the rain.

The movie opens with the bandside of a naked man going into a marsh and drowning himself. We have no idea who, when, why, or what.

We cut to...

The protagonist, unlikable from the getgo. Everyone is unlikable, except, the supervisor, who knows the main character is abusing drugs and wants to help.

We get one throwaway line that leads us to believe her tolerance of a drug-abusing employee may be because her own daughter died of an overdose.

Anyway, daughter goes home to mom and we soon know why she's such a hot mess and not particularly likeable. She pretty much tells mum off and explains mom and her upbringing to a tee.

Anyone, brought by a abusing narcissistic parenting will probably be triggered - so warning.

I glean that mom did the entire gaslighting, it's your fault, you make me treat you this way form of narcissistic parenting. Forced the daughter to learn piano, to be perfect, and called her fat and disgusting, so daughter abuses drugs and is bulmic.

Anyway, earlier on we see the daughter basically die after an alcoholic, cocaine binge when her heart seizes. Black ooze, much like the marsh water, oozes into her mouth and she wakes, but not before dreaming of a mother eating her baby's face.

She staggers into work, insults her boss about the death of her daughter, quits her advertising job and calls mom, who had called earlier to her job. She hadn't seen it spoke to her in 20 years and has told people, her mother was dead.

Back to creepy English village where mutilated dead animals lay decaying on the side of the road, a couple is in a car makingout to the death, and adults are mean and nasty.

Enter an old friend who seems to be spying on her. No one has aged except the friend, whose mother died of cancer and whose father is the village vicar. A bitter man of faith in his God, wife dead of cancer. The daughter had it but was miraculously cured.

He's bitter because the people have turned from his god and we suspect they are worshipping something else.

Mom keeps drugging the daughther and attempted to drag her to her dead husband's old greenhouse. But the daughter wakes and mom runs off.

I won't spoil the story. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but you do want to know what the heck is up with that village and Mom~

Anyway, it appears worshipping anything doesn't really bring satisfaction or desired results and worshippers are in the same position as secular people - you live and you die and that's about it.

No one and nothing is coming to save you! Gods are selfish and only in it for the worship of themselves.

The End!

...really pulls this off. I've seen them in other films and they are decent.

Jonah didn't have the gravitas and Franco didn't pull off creepy or chilling well enough.

Jonah just look like that fat dumb kid in third grade that believes any outlandish story you told him. He just walked around with a blank look on his face, his mouth hanging open.

Sorry Jonah, I really liked you in The Wolf of Wall Street and even your first comedy - I think you played an irreverent babysitter? Loved you in those.

I mean maybe you were portraying Finkel the way he actually is. After all, he claims, he believed Longo. In which case I apologize and you got dumb and gullible down in an Oscar-worthy performance!

I've seen other films where real-life killers were portrayed and you got the sense of how people would believe them, but Franco just made me scoff, like, what idiot would believe any of this guy's bs?

I doubt that's what the scriptwriter, director, and actors were going for!

I'm watching this in 2024 after I happen to come across the third Chris of the family annihilator infamous trio of Watts, Coleman, and Longo.

Watts and Longo famously tried to blame their wives and Coleman tried to setup his murders (wife and two boys) as the work of a stalker (he was the stalker).

All 3 of them were immediately suspected. All 3 wanted out of financial obligations and two of them had gfs on the side. Both Watts and Coleman had awful parents who hated their DIL and seemed to care less that their grandchildren were taken. And didn't have the sense that god have them to hide those facts when speaking to the public. They were nearly as despicable as their two sons.

I was unable to find any YouTube channels that covered Lingo to any level of satisfaction and so decided to watch this movie.

Anyway, back to the movie. I rented the DVD from my local library. I'm a true crime fan and currently this movie is streaming only on MAX.

Others complained this movie had no payoff, I disagree. All along even if you never heard of Longo, you know his story is implausible (your entire family is murdered and you're 7n Mexico? Oh! Come on!)

Finkle pretending he believed Longo on any level, puts his entire credibility (aren't good journalists supposed to be natural skeptics, hence the impetus to search out the truth?) just screams liar, liar, liar pants on fire! A couple of references are made in the movie about how great a journalist he is - never heard of him and I've been reading the Times for years!

The most chilling performance in this entire movie was by the actress playing the wife Felicity Jones. At first I found her annoying but there wasn't a lot of for her to work with except staring off in the space and taking showers.

And I couldn't for the life of me understand why she wasn't berating her husband about spending so much time with the murderer and even believing it.

But that one scene when she confronts Longo was well worth it and well played.

For me the one thing that was really lacking in this movie was giving us any kind of meat to work with as to what drove any of the characters.

I still think this is a movie that's well worth watching. The director took a different approach than the customary one in dealing with these kind of True Crime cases and he held my interest.

This review is for the first three episodes. I watched the first two episodes with hubby, but I don't think he was as into it as he was with the first season, so rather than wait for the next time that he wants to view this I'm just going to go ahead and binge it.

So far this isn't quite as good as the first season was, which just gripped me by the throat and wouldn't let go. The first episode I watched I was literally shaking before I turned it on and I had to get a glass of wine to calm my nerves. I kid you not!

I literally could only handle one episode a week, because emotionally it was just more than I could handle.

While with this one, I'm binging it, because,it is holding my attention and I certainly want to see where it is going.

While the season was found to be quite terrifying not only with its story but also with the music and the direction and the acting it was just awesome in my opinion, this one isn't as scary as much as it is simply a bit of a mystery and who's doing what and you really want to know where it's going.

I'm hoping this has a twist to it and that is not as obvious as it might seem in the first three episodes as to who the villain is - in in this case - is it the aspiring actor or is it the cop or is it both?

The title of this series is Them. And that could be black people/minorities or it could be white people or it can be the cops. Because everyone's got an Us and a Them and am Us versus a Them.

The series is also like the first season in exploring race and racism and bigotry and how we see things through our own filtered lenses.

I think despite the fact that it's not as gripping as the first season, it's still good and worth watching.

This wasn't particularly scary. A bit of a slow burn. However it kept our interest and thankfully this is captioned and in the original Spanish.

I don't like shows that are dubbed in English because the English is always flat and it doesn't really express emotions correctly.

Anyway, I liked the cinematography and production value. I thought it was really good. The acting was fair. I found that, mostly this just kept my interest rather than being frightening. It wasn't particularly scary, but I did want to see where it went. I also liked being able to see different parts of Mexico and something other than "bandidos" or "bad hombres" or drug cartels and other stereotypes.

My understanding is that this movie is based on folklore?

My husband and I watched this together and we both enjoyed it.

This is not a ringing endorsement, but if you want to see movies made by directors from other countries, you can add this one to your list.

By the way this is very similar to another movie where the entire population of the world gradually loses its senses.

I don't like the author character, Rebecca. Once again, a white woman becomes the center of a story about the murder (or any story) about a brown or black person.

I don't care about her angst or problems. I'm not interested in her insertion into the story. I'm interested in the story of the kids involved and the child that died.

So I'm rolling my eyes. First at the character's willingness to lie so easily - To the housemother who said, no, you can't talk to underage girls in my charge and then her sitting on the girl's bed cross-legged, smoking, and giving themcigs like she's one of them.

Give me a break!

No, you're exploiting them for a book. Rules actually apply to you, too.

Then she goes to the police station. Lies again easily and inserts herself into a murder investigation, again for her book.

I actually dislike the character more than I dislike the girls and I don't like snotty teenagers, especially ones who bully and murder.

I know this is a character, but she's written in a very typical way in a trope that I'm finding really annoying from so many other movies throughout the years.

There she is lying, removing someone from a murder investigation. Like, WTH? I hope she gets charged with obstruction and kidnapping for removing a child from police custody without parental knowledge that she has no relationship to.

The arrogance and confidence that nothing will be done to you!

Very poor and annoying writing in my book. Isn't she supposed to be the hero of sorts by writing about this case? Well, make her less glib, unethical, and annoying and globbing on to the pretty little white girl.

Where were the writers of color? Why is this white-centered in a story about child of color who was brutally murdered in real life?!

Maybe it was the cinematography, because it sure wasn't the story, which was long slow and boring.

It was like watching everyone on too much Xanax. There was no excitement. The one lesbian love scene was tame and boring.

I didn't know it at the time that this was a Patricia Highsmith adaptation of one of her books of the same name. I saw this in an artsy fartsy theater in a hoity-toity part of town and maybe just because of where I saw it. I thought it deserved a seven.

Anyway, there was no high. There was no low. There was no tension or suspense. I'm not even sure what the attraction was between the two characters as the Carol character was cold and didn't really seem to be particularly interested in the younger protagonist.

I remember reading, maybe it was a critics review, about the big lesbian sex scene and I thought well maybe it'll pick up at that point.

That sex scene couldn't have been more boring, if it was missionary style with the lights off, between a, impotent minister and his frigid wife of 50 years.

I'm leaving this review after seeing the movie several years ago, because apparently there was a reason why I gave it a seven but I can't remember why I would do that, because I remember being completely bored the entire time I was watching this movie 0 waiting for something to happen and it never did!

Again, it was probably the cinematography and the ability of the movie production to capture the style of the time.

This is one of those adaptations based on books written by gay people who were born in the early part of the century or in the 50s who remained in the closet and so when they wrote books or created films, the subtleties were well hidden, supposedly, from the mainstream public; and because of that, all sexuality, tension, thrills, storytelling, what have you, remained completely buried and in the closet and just meh.

This case is well-known to me and, yes, I've seen the JCS channel on this.

I've also watched Investigation Discovery ID and other true crime channels on tv about this case.

This is what's good about the Netflix documentary: You get to hear from the detectives, see news reports, the highlights of Jennifer's interviews, interviews with the boyfriend, and crime scene photos.

Of all the docs I've seen, I've never seen interviews with Wong, news footage, interviews with investigators, or crime scene photos. Just voiceovers about the strictness of the parents and the interviews with her. In at least one doc you did see camera footage of suspicious dad tracking the daughter to a workplace where she claimed to be employed and that's about it.

Now maybe Netflix was aware of the takes already out there, so they went with another POV with the small amount of other footage available.

The doc is short and can easily be supplemented through the ID channel on TV or any number of true crime channels on YouTube.

If it delved deeper and longer, everyone would complain about padding and/or that it was too long and needed to be only, 90 minutes.

Well this doc is just that, about 90 minutes.

One thing of note is the lack of information about the other suspects. But they atleast showed Wong being interviewed and I've never seen anyone showing that. Never seen Nick on the other suspects either or even any court footage of any trials.

The other thing I noted was, everyone was an idiot. I mean the parents were clueless and just never saw that their daughter just wasn't as smart as their expectations, although she apparently was very good with the piano, but that's a different skill set.

Wong also was no genius. He gave everything away in his interview. Talked way too much, bringing up things that were never asked and directly making the cops suspicious of him and Jennifer. Neither asked for lawyers.

As far as I can see, no genius was in operation here from the parents to Jennifer to the bf and the 3 clowns that couldn't even shoot straight.

What a dumb mess. At no time did anyone tell Jennifer or did she tell herself, I'm an adult and I can walk away. The time and energy put into lying and creating false documents for 4 years could have actually gone into going to school and getting a decent job and moving out!

Yes, I know about the issues with parents and kids in Asian and immigrant cultures, but guess what, millions of people go out on their own every single day.

She had choices and chose the wrong one! Sad all around. Her diary indicated the pressures were more about her drug-dealing boyfriend than anything else. Abby parent would object!

Also, I think the Netflix doc gave is enough information about her motivation. Also, is never heard she tried to do it before! Not sure how much more Netflix could spell it out. She maintains her innocence to this day so no more information is coming forth. They all won retrials, too!

I'm married to a descendant of immigrants... From Europe. Yeah Grandma and Grandpa came through Ellis Island. Nobody wanted them either.

I'm also a child of an immigrant. This is a country of immigrants, except for the natives of which Mexicans were here first. Lol!

I have no problem with immigrants. They come here to work, just like everyone before them.

A large portion is in Mexican Spanish. Anyway I have no problem with reading captions as I do all the time in English because my household is also a Deaf one.

Anyway, a lot of people in the reviews upset over some fiction. Oh and please note one reviewer - Obama shipped more illegal immigrants back to their home country than any president before him! Lol!

Anyway, this episode started off great during the first half. I felt so sorry for the kids and women and men who place themselves in danger and are taken advantage of because they are desperate and vulnerable.

The second half losses steam, while at first it was interesting and you waited for the twist. But then, it dragged and dragged and the twist wasn't really good and kinda silly, as the amount of money to do such a thing and what would be the purpose? Made little sense even with suspension of disbelief.

If only the American Dream actually existed for other than the very well-to-do and the rich!

We should take care of Americans first, some people scream and then vote against anything that actually would help Americans and all those fetuses that were born! It would be hilarious, if not so hypocritical and sad and exposed why they're so against a particular immigrant!

Anyway, towards the end as the entire premise crumbled, I just wished this to end and I lost interest.

But that misspelled tweet was hilarious!

It's just fiction people! Fiction! But not very good fiction!

As a woman and an older one at that, I was especially annoyed by the fact we needed to see her boobs in the shower. They are nice boobs. But, really? Why?

The other thing that annoyed me, but unfortunately, way too true to life was Jesse's naivete and trusting nature.

Are young woman still getting drunk with men and expecting nothing bad will happen? It shouldn't but it does do, don't do that!

Why on earth would you get on a boat with some stranger alone, not tell your best friend or text your dad, or, much better, not get on at all. Tell him to bring back the booze. You'll wait.

Then you drink and trust him to make you the drink and don't think, I don't know this guy and he could be a serial killer/rapist who could assault me right now and no one would know or drug me, rape, stable me, and toss me overboard.

My momma taught me to think like that! So it's a, no, for me!

Like, are you that stupid? Don't you read the news? Social media?

Then, of course he drugs her or maybe, still stupidly, drank too much and passed out and waked up un the middle of nowhere and then apologizies like it's her fault.

Women, we really have to stop being so f* polite, afraid to hurry men's feelings!

Then proceeds to sleep with him with zero protection, not knowing what disease this dude has.

Anyway, we're later joined by another girl and at first I thought she was flirting with our naive young lady or just kinda loose. I mean, you want a drink after getting knocked out?

I thought this was going to go the way of two women fighting over a man, but it does take a turn - in another direction. At first you're guessing and then it become pretty clear that two someone's are willing to go that extra step to protect themselves and do away with inconveniences.

Even though, I spent some time talking to the TV, as in, well you're a dummy, like a lamb to the slaughter, it was still engaging enough to keep me interested.

I'll probably rewatch at a later date with hubby. I've seen worse and this one keeps you interested in my opinion.

Well at least now I know how it came to be!

This movie could have been so so much better.

Immediately, the movie gets right into it, coasts along really well and then stumbles, and stumbles, and stumbles, taking forever to get to the point that we're all waiting for if you've seen the original classic.

It can stand on its own as a confused mess, but does a poor job connecting itself into the classic 1976 movie although they do at the end make a straight beeline towards it - just making you want to see if you can find the original and classic streaming for free this evening.

Apparently, this wasn't prophecy, but a goal of fear-mongering to bring people back to God. Basically, it's a script about what a certain political party and religious group has up to since the 70's and why they believe a certain tanned rotund, burn steak eating, Bible selling con is the Second Coming.

It also makes sense now!

Jesus is rolling in his grave... No!... Wait!.. What?

Anyway, I liked, but wish it was so much better than it was...7 stars for holding my interest, the acting, and the set design!

Needed way better script!

IDK why some people didn't get what the subplot was intended to do.

It was there to show she knew how to use a shotgun, which comes into play later.

It was also too show she was the more capable girl, because of the trauma she's been through i.e. Waiting until you can determine the endgame, how to gain trust from your abuser so you can turn the tables, and that she was more observant (she noted just how strong he was).

I'm all for girlpower as a woman myself who has met several men who's butt I would have given anything to beat with my bare hands, but even the skinniest of men can have way more muscle power than the average woman.

As she said, just one punch could have knocked them out; and trust mem I'm all for several woman going after a guy from multiple angles to give ourselves a chance to get away.

The one girl hit Patricia as hard as she could with that chair and she didn't even flinch, just got pissed, so if you're going to take a chance with physical force, you better aim good and deadly. Even the cops will tell you to use whatever method you can to stay alive and sometimes that means cooperating, seeming to bond with them (as she tried with Hedwig) to gain trust.

Apparently, for some people there wasn't enough gore or violence or sex to keep them interested. I thought James and Betty were excellent in their parts, perhaps even better than the script and Anya did the best she could. The two other girls were supposed to play "normal" ditzy teen girls, which may be an annoying stereotype, but you have men making these movies, soooo... But it was also a play against what the Horde believed - that they were naive. Never watching their surroundings. Always expecting everything to just go right - look how long it took them to stop staring at their phones to notice a stranger in the car - never had trauma and so deserved their fate.

Also, when Anya runs out of bullets, The Beast sees the scars (she cuts herself) and recognizes she has experienced trauma (one of the horde had been tracking the two girls for a while, the Anya character wasn't supposed to be there).

These are two other facts that people seemed to have missed - the shotgun wouldn't fire when she had the chance at a clean shot and the motive of the horde.

Anyway, I watch movies to be entertained and so spend less of my time being critical of what I'm watching, which, for me, just ruins a movie. Sometimes, going back and rewatching, you can see what the movie was going for.

I found the same with the movies, Don't Worry Darling and Run Rabbit Run, both taking underserved hits IMHO. On initial viewing, I sat there thinking, WTH? And not until I read reviews from other people who paid attention, did I go back and realize just how great this two movies are, than I initially thought.

I get it, a lot of people (mostly men, I think) don't like Night, yet continue to watch his movies and then bash them. Makes no more sense than they claim about his movies! Lol!

Knew it was a hoax, because the writing was that bad. I kept saying that the voices of the daughter and wife sounded fake, so did the protagonist's.

And Mel's lines were so hokey, it was just no way any of it was happening (not to mention him staying on air. Most men would have gone flying out of the building.)

Then of course when the kid fell you knew another twist was coming.

Just didn't feel right and so I kept thinkingm this is a hoax and I know the new guy is in on it. Pretty awful movie, but somewhat entertaining, but we've seen it all before.

You've seen worst. Considering this was Mel, I really enjoyed the "kosher" line (giant eyeroll).

...without the religious nonsense. God still loves us. Oh really? It's batting 1,000 with his domestic violence of humans. Like a spouse beating their mate and saying, I'm doing this for you own good or you make me do it!

Anyway, the I'm Anna and this is Ethan is a gender switch on Adam and Eve and they're headed to Bethel in Vermont. Bethlehem...see? Get it?

Giant eyeroll. You can tell this is an American film because no film is repleat without mention of god and Jesus. So tired of fairytales for grownups.

Like everyone else, I praise Will Smith's performance. Back when it first came out, we didn't know what a giant... He is.

The first half is great and the scene in the bank had me in the edge of my seat with suspense.

Others are complaining about the fact that the story doesn't spell everything out. Oh come on! You don't need all of that. There's enough exposition to give you a good idea of what happened and to put two and two together. American audiences always win everything spelled out for them!

The virus went airborne so even if you weren't treated for cancer, eventually the virus mutated, became airborne much easier to transmit.

And we see with covid what it was like and how people refused to believe that it was real or to wear a mask or to take precautions. So it's easy to see how a viral infection can spread very rapidly from zero to a worldwide catastrophe.

I didn't need all those details but yes I agree the ending felt rushed and the film was pretty much ruined by the rushed ending as well as the CGI monsters.

I don't understand why they couldn't hire a hundred extras preferably acrobatic people, people who are extra bendy, thin people, people who are dancers, people who are very athletic and use them because the CGI is just awful.

Anyway I've seen this movie multiple times because I really do enjoy Will Smith's performance and the setup of the movie. And I loved the dog!

Movies that keep me engaged or interested or entertained always get a 7, because really that's all we can expect from fiction movies.

My audience was completely engaged. It seemed like a mix of old and young and teens. No derisive laughter and the free jump scares worked.

This movie made little sense, but it was different in the premise. You had the usual tropes of creepy old ladies and teens work angst. The dad was wasted.

The initial scene was really good and made you want to see more.

There's a little confusion because stay that scene we start seeing a little girl growing up a bit and O had no idea she was the Jessica character. I thought the little girl was the child of the Jessica and her husband.

Took a while to figure out who was who. So that could have been done better, because we jump right into her being stepmom and I was like wha?

Suspend expectations. Could it have been done better on better hands that know how to bring the creepy we all want when we watch horror? Yep. It ain't no Hereditary, but I wasn't that big a fan of that weird movie either!

I really love this movie. Ed Harris was wonderful. He's small, short, and bald, but somehow came across sexy as hell!

As, a woman I want to be loved like that! Y favorite live and scene is when he cries, "I was loving you...and you were f* me!" Man, Harris, I'd love you to the blue China Moon and back! I felt his pain! Wonderful actor!

My husband and I watch movies on the afternoon, when we don't have any plans and I chose this for our afternoon movie.

Of course I have the DVD and of course I've seen this multiple times. I actually figured out a part of the plot that was always a little muddled for me, even though I've seen this movie multiple times

Anyway, it's 2024 and we watched the movie for the first time (hubby's) today and he was totally into it. I can always tell when he really likes the movie when he does it nod off! He was glued to the TV screen and declared it a winner!

Anyway I like this movie way better than Body Heat, which was way way over the top about how sexy Kathleen Turner was.

To me this was more realistic about a man falling in love with a beautiful woman than anything Body Heat had to offer.

Body heat was about lust. This movie was about love. And I like that!

I was never WW fan. Never Heard he3 on radio. Didn't know she existed until I heard about her because of her talk show. I've seen a couple of parts of her show. I can see some of her appeal.

I'm a little more interested in her since her diagnosis because that's a very human thing and because now that I've seen what a hot mess she was/is, she more interesting as a person than a personality.

I first watched the Where's Wendy doc and then this. I found it kinda annoying, especially the weird constant crying.

With celebs that are always on, you never know what's a real emotion and what's for the camera. Regardless, I think she was really hurt by her husband and who wouldn't be.

But on the other hand, you knew he was cheating for years, so the grieving should have happened and been over long before now.

She did manage some restraint. I'll give her that, because if I saw my husband Backwards Barbie riding in my Rolls, I'd be he up on charges lol!

But then that's the reason why you don't take a man off the street, then clothe, house, feed, and employ him. Leave him right where you found him. You didn't need him. You were already made.

Everything was your choice. You do exactly what you want and from what I can see from the doc, you always have, regardless of what's best or what the people who love you want. So stop crying and feeling sorry for yourself.

This was really sad. Her family seems like really decent people.

I'm not a WW fan. I've caught some parts of her talk show and did enjoy what I saw. When I first heard of her, she didn't seem like a very nice person dealing in that gossipy hurtful "journalism" that unfortunately too much of the public likes, so I wasn't breaking my neck to catch her. Never heard her on the radio.

As an introvert, I don't understand the need for public attention or wanting to be famous and like a lot of people with that goal and achievement, it's a long slow road to destruction.

Like other famous people who basically demanded and were catered to, to do whatever the heck they want, there's a price to pay later.

I doubt she could have ever been influenced or controlled to do what was really best for her and so family that may have wanted to do best couldn't and the enablers and users were right there to keep the wreckage going.

She needs to be in a private hospital/care facility getting treatment, otherwise we know what the headlines will be soon...going the way of Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, et al.

I'm waiting for someone on this doc to stop blowing smoke and say, flat out, she's sick, she's suffering mental decline, and stop with the accolades. That crap is over and done with, not coming back. You're asked if you took her to a hospital and you say you can't answer that question???

Yeah...

Banks will take action to protect someone's money who is incapacitated. This can help with elderly people who are being taken advantage of by caretakers or housekeepers or people who befriend them with the sole intent to steal their money.

I don't think the decision to do such drastic action is taken lightly. Actually, it's good the bank took those steps.

I give this a low rating because it feels like exploitation to publish the so-called documentary and watch someone who's been so obviously ill in many ways.

This was a little odd and it seemed choppy, but I think, and it wasn't until near the end, this I finally got the point of this.

It really wasn't really about Amari or Teddy as much as it was about this Maryland School for the deaf football team and it's long winning streak and what the future may hold for these young Deaf men and women as they leave a supportive environment and go into the hearing world.

So if you look at it from the point of view that, this is just a little microcosm, a small slice of life view of this school for the Deaf, Deaf teenagers, Deaf culture, and the lives of just want a few Deaf kids and what was going on with their lives in this moment in time, then I can understand better what the film was going for. We really didn't get a lot about the child Teddy who was bullied and hearing school and ended up taking his life. I think if we learned a little bit more about him at the beginning and then we segued into the story of the school for the deaf with Amari as the focus, the film with have come across more coherent.

It was a bit annoying to not be able to turn off the captions. I know sign language and while I always watch with captions on it's distracting when I'm trying to watch people signing.

I'm aware of this case, because I'm into true crime, but never delved deeply into it. I've seen interviews with the real murderer and she just isn't credible.

She talks in this quiet, modulated voice that I've seen other female murderers use, as if to say, see I'm so sweet and gentle and feminine I could never commit murder. Yeah, right.

Right off, the movie paints the husband as a bad guy, but on the other hand (if it is true or near the truth), she knew what she was getting into, but ignored all the signs. I mean he cheated on someone to be with her and she saw he was a philanderer, so cry me a river.

But people (especially women) always think they'll either change a man or that she's so wonderful a cheater won't cheat on them. I'm a woman, so I know.

Anyway, we see here in the movie and in real life, she had no problem with cheating herself and for years.

Hey, if things aren't working out, get a divorce! Don't marry a guy you know is a cheater, a drinker, and a gambler - it's not going to go well, A hammer to the head would be more subtle.

Lifetime assumed most of its viewers are women, so they need to give a background reason for the premeditated plotting of murdering and dismembering you spouse, by a woman, instead of opting for separation and divorce.

What this didn't show and maybe can't is that there are plenty of people who for a variety of reasons decide that murder is a good and the only option. And apparently she did.

Some people claiming to know (really you don't) insist she's innocent. But DNA and a lot of circumstanial evidence and motivation points to her. I'm not buying her claims of innocence.

He may have been a cad, but she had options and chose murder instead.

Despite, the obvious bias by Lifetime, this was watchable and the actors did decent jobs.

For people claiming she's innocent or are in doubt, including the actor playing the victim - Oh come on! -The guy was found in suitcases he owned and she admitted to, human "sawdust" (a term coined in an earlier gruesome murder case involving a frozen spouse and a woodchipper), the fact that her brother and she drove to AC to the man's car and used the victim's phone to make it appear he was still alive, a medical drug was found in his blood, a substance similar to that used in household furniture was found in the body, medical grade towels she had access to were found with the body, the missing gun she purchased, the cost of bullets on the receipt and the price from the gun dealer, the Internet searches, the trip to where the body was dumped and then trying to get .90 cents removed twice, the matching of the plastic bags containing the body to ones at the house, etc., that's not a Mafia hit; That's not someone annoyed with his gambling debts, that's someone with motive no matter how weird, means, and opportunity, who worked in a medical facility and had access to those things.

Circumstantial doesn't mean I could have done it or you, it means the circumstances surrounding the likeliest person - and that's her. The fact that fragments of his body were in the car is enough. That means she was in close proximity. No wonder the jury convicted.

The fact that she's sticking to her story means nothing. Why would she confess to her lover? She has no regard for human life, so swearing on her children's lives means nothing either. I've seen cases of females who murdered using them to play to the public as though being a mom means you can't murder. I can think of two cases right off the top of my head.

They got the right person and the movie was fairly decent.