unity gettin packed tf up

No not really because I still have major criticism of the show and how it approached things as well as Chirs Hansen. i watched predators too.

I have an issue with the topic of pedophilia at times being used as a joke within this movie or media yes. I think many of the things that were chosen to be fictionalized lead to a more sensationalized movie . Which goes against part of the point of the movie.

There is no way someone can watch this movie and say the many things changed from reality arent to get a more dramatic , funny, horror plot than happened in reality. At times to the detriment of what its trying to communicate. At times undercutting or stopping before truly saying somehting.

the idea that everyone who critques this movie is just some mega fan of chris hansen is absurd

I have made clear its worth a watch . I have said its a solid movie. Skylar best performance. While also making clear serving a movie with so many fabrications and mistruths when there was enough to criticize that is closer to reality in some ways is a disservice

I have said openly i have major criticisms about Barrack Obama but if a biopic or fictionalized narrative horror came out about him and added in this many extra details or changed events for convenience of narrative I would call it out too

I am saying its not personally my taste. That it wont be in my top 4 movies. I didnt in any way degrade the taste of those that dune will be their top movie.

my issue was the opposite. I thought they didnt show him being a bad person enough. sure he cheated on his wife but apart from him looking upset the show might be over after the suicide (which I dont think is even that bad cuz who cares if a pedo kills themself) he just seems intense not so much a bad person.
I think not seeing his humanity is kinda the whole point of the movie. youre supposed to not like him but for me theres not enough evidence to

all the criticism ive seen online from people that havent seen it is "how could you make the pedo catcher the bad guy?" and my criticism after watching it is how did they make me like him more

Me saying my top 10 movies of 2026 wont include Dune or this isnt an insult to those that it will include. We have diferent taste I dont think my taste is better

So far for me

Hope
Godzilla
Mr Nelson did you kill people ( yes I see those reviews but appears I differ from reviewers this year because I loved hope and didnt love disclosure day or this as much as them)

and other movies will be my top.

If dune is your greatest movie of the year I am happy for you its not my taste. I dont think I am special for that its just fact. I said "lol"

cause tricked is funny way to put it when people just have different taste. Some of y'all call it contrarian to have different taste .

I dont think this movie made me like him more for anything other than the fact that in reality he didnt go this crazy and didnt become what I view in many ways throughout this movie as soul less, self righteous and fake religious

Well then I ask you what has he done in real life or interviews that we know makes him a bad person?

The reason they even moved the cheating scandal up, made it look like he was despearate to move to primetime ( when he was already primetime), made it look like he didnt care about decoys safey and it was just a further means to an end ( untrue documented as untrue)

the movie attempts to make changes to paint him as a bad person but in reality he isnt a bad person. He definitely too close with police and likely has too good of a view of the prison system but what else are we to do do with pedophiles other than the prison system.

whether your for or against the show doesn't mean your opinion isn't being shaped by it

you are literally posting clips from the show depicted in the movie and dissecting the differences and impact between each

you're also viewing it as some sort of Chris Hansen biopic when he is arguably not even the main character (or only main character in the movie)

also his name is Skyler not Skylar

"not seeing his humanity is the whole point of the movie"

I know thats why I am saying you cant in anyway call this movie neutral.

In real life he went home spent time with his family . Not just wake them up to watch his show ( which never occured). The movie shows him as a bad father, bad husband, actor and reporter who solely cares about furthering himself and awards.

yes again he fights back at the ratings producer saying he has kids but we see him with those kids once throughout the entire movie and its to serve his own ego. meanwhile he plays catch with the decoy and gives the kid his bracelet only so again he doesnt lose control of the kid.

in reality the india case he busted slave labor and this movie treats it as he was willing to use the youth ( yes they are of age past 18) as a means to an end. Thats it. A means to an end. Not genuinely caring about them in anyway and again in the most pivotal scene that made me want to walk out pointing at their p\*\*\*\* while they pretend to be a teenager

When the truth is perverted justice who JEFF ZUCKER PLAYS HIMSELF WAS PAID BY THE NBC EXECUTIVE WHO IS IN THE F***ING MOVIE

Jeff Zucker is in the movie. Do you have a defense of the person who paid for perverted justice, encouraged working with the police to create a more sensationalized product and controlled a lot of the show. Then went on to CNN from 2013 to 2022. Continued the same behaviors and defended Chris Cuomo being in the movie?

I recongnize this is a fictionalized piece of work. I am posting clips of the show because the user said "I hear pedophiles explain themselves in this"

If you watched the clips the purpose of posting them was THAT THEY EXPLAIN THEMSELVES IN THE SHOW TOO"

I am saying if you feel it is extrapolating or majorly changing from the show with a purpose to show the pedpophiles as more sympathetic I am giving you the clips. That is a decision for you to make yourself. Not saying I want a bioipic

no idea what u are trying to say tbh

nothing in particular other than some of the tactics used to catch them making it harder or impossible to prosecute (none of which is shown) and something about trying to overstay at a hotel being paid for by a podcast he was on lol

see even the 3 reasons you give I dont care about
who cares if he cheated on his wife, im not her or his family
its literally his job. getting a primetime slot just means hes succeeding in his job
decoys safety is never shown to be at risk. sure they shouldve explained better to dan what was happening before throwing him in at the last minute but (at least in the movie) the producer is shown to the one really throwing him in there.

I am saying in combination with what many of you are saying inclduing @Cody if the goal of the movie is for you to not see his humanity. Its understandable how some could view it as a hit piece or casting him as evil. Even if wholly I disagree it cast him as evil but do believe it shows him as crazy. I am not feeding the purpose of doing so being because the movie is pro pedophile or "its because the director is jewish" as the internet half brained conspiracies are doing. I say there are many good reasons to critique Chris Hansen. I am saying in making him look crazy, scary and often looming figure throughout the movie you at times do a disservice to the plot and message. It becomes Oscar bait. Yes Skyler is the focus of the movie and I openly said his performance is the top performance of the movie for me not Pattinson or Merrit.

Nigga I have criticized Chris Hansen for being back the blue, the way he talks about immgirants, the lack of follow up directly within his shows of the court cases and repeat offenders . Making pedophiles villains of the week in a mighty morphin style

Yes he donates to victims causes but I would be interested in him actually letting the victims have a voice in some way within his show or get their direct feedback. More than putting demons on screen screen and saying look at this demon. Then we have to google to see what became of their life or did they possibly get free again to be in another episode.

who is calling this neutral? of course its not its a movie not a documentary
im just saying to me it failed in stance it took on him

The person who was running to catch a predator at the time and made more money on it, more decisions and left NBC due to how this show ended is in this movie playing hismelf how to you is that not a conflict of interest

yeah what the hell does that have to do with anything i said lol

Shaleirose has called this complex and nuanced. As well as neutral because they feel it doesnt cast Hansen as Good or Evil. When I dont really think of it as simple as that binary

basically rob pat acted crazy while doing nothing actually crazy

I am not some Chris hansen mega fan and from the first trailer I was in for IT TO CRITIQUE him and THE NATURE OF THE SHOW. How it executed that isnt that great . I was hoping it too would critique the audience that watches it and engages in sensationalism not further sensationalize it.

i have posted reviews that break it down multiple times so people cant say 'well you watched the show'

many people who watched the show, didnt like the show for the way it moved are saying some of the same things

rather than respond to criticism of the movie defending it with "you expected a biopic" when no when trailers got closer and reviews dropped of adding in a lot of fiction I didnt

I expected a better movie that truly delivered on a lot of the questions it asked

it didnt

the end.

"all the people who dont think the movie is great are just mega fans of chris Hansen"

I think some of y'all are so obsessed with Robert Pattinson that you truly believe this

So you have to ask yourself why was he that crazy other than for Oscar bait and to draw people in for a Joker like performance in a movie that it in no way fit in?

Nightcrawler a better movie with a cheaper budget. Better acting. Better writing. Better plot. Better Directing. With the same message.

From 12 years ago.

That wont make a fraction of the money , awards , press that Primetime will.

written and directed by the same person.

the funhouse mirror and use of colors in primetime grows tired.

Movie is only a hour and 50 minutes yet waste so much of its time not hitting as hard as it can then sensationalizes every single part from the reality. Which beign against sensationalism and doing things for awards is part of its message is it not?

So explain to me why it does those same things?

you answered your own question

if it wasnt based on a real life person they woulda had him do some actual crazy s***