So you've just seen MONSTER on DVD....
06-18-04 | 07:35 PM
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I just rented it last night for the heck of it and it was a well made movie and well acted but I dont see much replay value in it for me. Still, well done and acted. It was hard to see Charlize under that makeup and extra weight which made it good and didnt distract from making it unbelievable.
06-18-04 | 11:02 PM
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Originally posted by mookyman
Ah, the sensitive-minded DVDTalk community warms my heart as always.
I do not think the film was trying to justify her actions, but rather to explore how a person becomes a sociopath without making her a villianous cartoon. The film's Aileen is no hero, and isn't very sympathetic, but she is human.
The point that we cannot know what happened in her encounters is valid. Wuornos did lie contradict herself many times before her death, and shortly before her execution, she said that she had lied about all the men having tried to rape her, that it was only the first. Of course, we can never really know, but the filmmakers probably chose this storyline because it seemed the most plausible. The other men in the film range from a bit sleazy to sympathetic, but aren't sneering, drooling rapists.
Weird how people automatically would prefer a hateful, one-dimensional serial killer character to a complex character.
Ah, the sensitive-minded DVDTalk community warms my heart as always.
I do not think the film was trying to justify her actions, but rather to explore how a person becomes a sociopath without making her a villianous cartoon. The film's Aileen is no hero, and isn't very sympathetic, but she is human.
The point that we cannot know what happened in her encounters is valid. Wuornos did lie contradict herself many times before her death, and shortly before her execution, she said that she had lied about all the men having tried to rape her, that it was only the first. Of course, we can never really know, but the filmmakers probably chose this storyline because it seemed the most plausible. The other men in the film range from a bit sleazy to sympathetic, but aren't sneering, drooling rapists.
Weird how people automatically would prefer a hateful, one-dimensional serial killer character to a complex character.
06-22-04 | 12:06 AM
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Originally posted by Dammit
Just watched it tonight. Didn't even know it was based on a true story.
I didn't become invested in it enough to offer much of an opinion. Hard to believe they could make Charlize Theron so damned ugly though. The Orcs from LOTR got nothing on her.
Just watched it tonight. Didn't even know it was based on a true story.
I didn't become invested in it enough to offer much of an opinion. Hard to believe they could make Charlize Theron so damned ugly though. The Orcs from LOTR got nothing on her.
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Anyway, I just rented this and besides the two performances the film is not all that great. It is worth a one time rent though just for Charlize's performance.
