better than the movie ??
just watched the movie
shareI haven't seen the movie, but the show is good so far. It does a nice job of replicating the Getty's world. Nice sets and performances.
shareHaven’t seen the movie but the series is worth watching!
shareIt's well done, but the pacing is somewhat uneven. It can go from compelling to plodding even within the same episode. Clearly, money was spent and Donald Sutherland is superb, but 10 parts for this story is an awful lot. If it would have been tightened to eight, it might have been better. That said, there are many important details that weren't included in the movie.
shareAgree. I just watched the last three eps this weekend, and think it could have been shortened to 6 episodes instead of 10. As far as the 'many important details that weren't included in the movie' - don't forget this series ran the disclaimer which stated it was only based on actual events - meaning the writers took liberties with the story to make it more entertaining. So those details may have been a work of fiction on the writer's part, which is why it wasn't in the movie (that said, not sure if the movie improvised with fictional accounts to fluff up the movie).
shareI'm not sure what the real story is, but I've heard Getty's family has angrily denied that he was complicit in his original kidnapping. The young guy being killed after helping him escape was also completely left out of the movie version and the two diverge pretty dramatically when it comes to the ear. One has a doctor hired by the kidnappers doing it and the other makes it Getty's idea and a young boy doing it. What the hell? Isn't that much of the real story known for sure by now? Speaking of fluff, the incessant shadow puppets in this version felt like torture.
shareAbsolutely. The last two episodes could have been condensed to one without a problem, for instance. In fact, the last episode could have been a sweet five minute ending montage to the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want or Pink Floyd's Money.
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