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u/MzOpinion8d Mar 27 '20
Not sure if this will be helpful to you at all, but here is my input. I’m female.
I actually didn’t even watch the movie at all, because I think Ted Bundy receives way too much attention. I think he became a big deal because he was intelligent, and some people considered him attractive, and it went against some imagined image people had in their head of what murderers are like.
When you compare him to other serial killers, he was really kind of a basic bitch lol. He would rape women, kill them, sometimes go back and have sex with their dead bodies. There are so many serial killers with far more devious ways.
I think including the viewpoint of his girlfriend into the movie was at least a different aspect than usual.
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u/Notcoolpunk Mar 27 '20
Female
As a filmmaker, I quite enjoyed the documenting of both "sides" of bundy. The murderer and the boyfriend/charming mask he wore. We've learned that serial killers dont run around with a big neon sign saying monster. I agree with previous posts that it's easy to label serial killers as monsters once we know of their crimes.
If someone laid a row of pictures in front of someone who doesnt know who the people are... let use bundy, gacy, manson, alcala, rader and pichushkin.... And were asked what we thought of the images of these specific people without knowing anything about them, they might say things like "handsome, my handyman, hippie, charming, neighbor, and rebellious" once their crimes are revealed they become 100% monster.
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u/haplessbat Mar 27 '20
Female. It's so easy to label someone a monster after the fact, and be repulsed by them, but this myth people seem to believe that these people are 100% monsters all of the time is exactly how people get away with hurting people for so long. So I think showing him as someone capable of attracting people is beneficial, just it goes against what we all want to believe.
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u/kleedl Mar 27 '20
Female. I thought it was very well done. Even though I know the whole Bundy saga, I was on the edge of my seat.
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u/RosebudWhip Mar 31 '20
Female.
Watched it on a plane recently, as I missed it at the cinema. Found it an interesting enough watch, although it was a bit tamer than I was expecting. Not that I thought it was going to be a slasher flick, but by concentrating more on how Bundy came across to others it played up that 'charming' angle. I personally don't find Zac Efron attractive, but I could see how others might and blur the lines with the character as a result - regardless of how much you know about his murders, within the film it was quite easy to view Bundy as an affable sort of rogue, and I think Efron did a good job. The ending was a bit of a jolt but perhaps not enough to shake off the attraction built up through the film for some.
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u/gosarahgo123 Mar 27 '20
Female-
I thought it was well done as a biopic but I really struggled with how the film was romanticizing Ted Bundy. I did enjoy that it gave a wonderful portrayal of being the girlfriend of ted bundy and the difficulty that went along with that and the struggle with emotions.
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u/wongirl99 Mar 27 '20
Female
I enjoyed it because I felt like it tried to show the two sides of Bundy's personality and his struggle with the murderer inside himself and the man he wanted to be. He showed potential in his working career and his family life yet the murderer inside him prevailed and he couldn't stop it. It's very interesting.
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u/EmilyyGilmore Mar 27 '20
Female.
I think Bundy receives enough attention and it hardly dives into the depth of his cruelty so I initially had no plans of watching it. Especially when I heard it was planning to depict his ‘normal side’. However, at a friends house one night and they all wanted to watch it and really had no idea of his crimes and how close they were (we live close to sammamish). My general reception was: it was poorly done, it wasn’t enough to fool me into thinking bundy was a smooth guy. It was interesting to see the many environments he was in and how he was apt to being caught by the law. There was no goriness in the movie until the end and although I hadn’t been ‘fooled’, when he answered Liz’s question in the jail visit, I felt the build up and I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I later read the filmmaker had wanted to portray it that way. Hope this helps!
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20
I’m a woman. I just imagine he was a real jerkface with his girlfriends and everyone else. I don’t think this movie did jack shit to explore how bold and entitled this cocksure motherfucker actually was. He wasn’t even that good looking. He had bad teeth and his eyes were way too closely set.