Excited for this!
Always enjoy a good journalism thriller like Blood Diamond, Nightcrawler, Spotlight, State of Play, Zodiac etc
shareAnybody else heard about this movie?
shareKeira Knightley takes out the patriarchy? Sounds like a riot!
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MovieChat Forums > Boston Strangler (2023) Discussion > Excited for this!
It will be released in March.
shareSo effing slow.
shareNot that great
shareYeah it was underwhelming. Im sorry to say that the best parts were also the most thrilling parts when the victims kept letting the strangler into their homes after so many murders.
shareI thought was one of the unique aspects of the movie was to not show the murders happening so your imagination filled in the blanks
shareI think it was because they thought the guy was an actual maintenance guy or a model scout. Sometimes, both. Also, at first he targeted old women and then suddenly it went from old to young women. And this is explained in the movie as a huge dilemma. And what is noticeable is the unsatisfactory detective work. Then there’s F. Lee Bailey’s role - and look at what he did to the whole thing. But the one that was the most unbelievable was the maintenance guy and now the guy who wanted to get measurements (w/o a measuring tape) from a young women selling her a line she could be a model. That one scene of her with this guy using his hands around her legs as a form of measuring….
shareIt’s not that good. The others you listed are good because they’re fiction except for Zodiac and Spotlight. The two journalists in this are tenacious but they are up against bad policing. What makes this not so good is what actually happened. It’s the ending. And you will see the worst police work ever which makes you wonder. Is everyone who’s in jail or has been executed really guilty. A good detective one is The Investigation. It’s in Danish about the killing of Kim Wall. And Martin Clunes in Manhunt. Really good. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork is a good one. The Serpent on Netflix. The Nightstalker documentary in California of Richard Ramirez. Oslo Murder. There is a series on Netflix call Criminal. Each is in a different countriy. UK. Spain. France. And Germany. And it is Fantastic. You get to see the art of interrogation up close over a 24-hour period.
In real life, they lose evidence. They suspect family members. They are pressured to close the case with whomever looks good for it. Sometimes, it takes 20 yrs and an answer is never reached unless there’s DNA. Usually they let the guy go in the beginning and it takes a second pair of eyes and one who has attention to detail many years later to solve what is really a simple crime.
I recommend Alan Pakula's 'All The President's Men' then, if you haven't seen it already...
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