Lmaoo didn’t even recognize that was him

dark episode of Scooby Doo lmaoo

I mean its blatant down to before the raid there is a photo of Osama Bin Laden on the wall. There is something real interesting they could do time wise if it focused on his competition being Iraw war coverage and corrupted justice was calling out perverted justice for their methods. Which is what actually happened. Instead they shove so many things that didnt occur in that I am baffled. Because the movie tries to do too much and what holds it back the most at executing and exploring some of its deeper things are things that never occurred or didnt occur at the same time .

Lost , moving to primetime, cheating scandal , decoy rising to ranks to host show and being bestie with chris hansen chilling outside of the job , never seeing his family when seeing his family and balancing with his work life looking his kids in the eye daily knowing he caught would be predators.

the emotional toll isnt really shown on him from dealing with the predators we see him more shaken in my opinion by craving ratings and fears cheating scandal will come to light than the emotoional toll of catching predators and the fact many of them were repeat offenders.

the fact we dont see his reaction to the court cases , cases being thrown out or repeat offenders at all is geninely insane. Dont see him deal with victims.

Instead the movie spends a lot of time up its own ass lookng pretty , funhouse mirrors, trippy and making him seem overly religoius when in real life he isnt overly religious at all

it asserts him in a "stop trying to be god" type of situation. As if reporting on slave labor in India lead to him touching that emmy that

when if you see his interviews from the early 2000s he is not some sort of crazy entertainment fame demon at all

They act like he obsessed with his emmy when he never even gave a speech after winning because he didnt even attend the 2006 emmys. He was solely in the opening sketch after being asked to be in it by Conan O Brien.

villain is defeated by meddling kids ( Decoys) with monsters of the week disassembled I think it was venture brothers that the scooby doo parody mentioned " the psychological addiction of Velma and the gang to put themselves in dangerous situations. Sometimes when people are in danger others where not. Where it becomes self serving for them to put themselves in situations of danger and solve cases.

I forget if that was venture brothers parody or a different parody. It was the idea that there is something sick about them to continously crave being scared. Scooby and Shaggy the only truly brave ones but are dragged along for the adventure. Risking death . Daphne and fred lust. Velma Ego. shaggy and scooby gluttony.

this movie even has a seven reference lol. the deadly sins here are present in many ways. we see perverted justice when Chris shows up talking about the whale is listening to p\*\*\* or something crazy. The fact that they sold thongs ( thongs were real that exact wording on a thong is up for debate and their site is down).

The producer oddly enough reminds me of Velma

The Ego of producer and Chris within the movie separating it from reality. Chris in movie at a point is doing it to hide his sins and protect his family ( entirely differnt from reality). Producer focused on ratings. Decoy focused on ego as well with acting career . executive ( played by his goofy ass self) focused on money and he ironically getting paid off this very movie and didnt have to audtion or anything Jeff zucker is a piece of living s***.

Later scene in trap house with empty car( also never happened) and him collapsing to floor most scooby doo s\*\*\* ever when he sneaks up on them in that room and they scream

Oh most definitely still gotta go and support it

And still gotta see Hope

I like him in the paper

He’s gay in the paper too

You didn’t see him tornado humping that girl?

One of the details that genuinely bothered me most was the chat logs didnt occur like that. The decoys did not lead on the pervs. Didnt suggest s\*\*\*or what if we showered together . The predators took it there. If the decoys suggested " hey we should shower together I am 13 is that okay". It presents it as if they were feeding pedos a fantasy and in some way "entrapping them and suggesting ideas they did not present".

Yeah I assumed the tornado was a metaphor for homophobia by making a gay and a lesbian hump

Liked this better than I expected

I think the film knowingly positions itself to be accused of the same exploitative nature it’s targeting TCAP and Hansen for and I feel the parallel to that does well to lend this film effectively as a bizarro psychological hallucinatory nightmarish rendition. It’s a very meta film and I think it’s less concerned with preaching something to us and more interested in being a snapshot of the 2000s fascination and obsession we all had with the 24/7 news cycle and overstimulation of entertainment that we never thought to question what went behind those images, we only wanted an easy message of good to prevail.

I didnt want an easy message of good though. I do think its self aware in its contradiction and how it presents events as entertainment including the movie itself. I just think the cheating was over gassed it served to also make the predator of predators the prey of the media. The same media he also works for. Same as the enquirer of all places being the investigative journalism that takes him down.

More interesting elements to me would be seeing corrputed justice which opposed perverted justice methods, Seeing Enquierer do their investigation of his practices, see that story break and his world shatter . See court cases of the pedos some cases get thrown out. See repeat offenders. See conradt sister sue NBC.

It arubptly ends as if many of us care about it going that far when I do not give a fflying f\*\*\* that the predator blew his brains out. Raids occur all the time when they have a warrant and reason to believe someone has CSAM on their computer or property which they had reason to believe that and he is a government offical who handles legal cases. They knew he had a gun. Jared Fogle place was raided. If he blew his brains out whether paparazzi there or not it wouldnt be "OMG HOW COULD THEY DO THIS".

The show didnt end after that event ran for like 5 more episodes. The pressure of the legal case did for sure effect the show but the development of how that changed the episodes after as well as him continuing to do the catches post network, victims he interacted with, charities he worked with on the causes, so many things kind of just cut up.

the movie focuses essentially ont he rabbi speech which is similiar to what actually occurred besides the physical contact with "what gives you the right"

that same rabbi in reality would be a repeat offender and continue to try to access internet and try to avoid registering on the s***offender registry list

By the logic some present the s***offender registry list shouldnt exist because it shames people. When I think yeah people have a right to know people are pedos or attempt to engage in sexual acts with minors . I am fine with camers being brought in on them. I think at times things being handled in private has lead to many cover ups, sweeping under the rug, victims afraid to come forward, victims gaslit into their first sexual experiences with an adult and dont know who to tell.

Again this isnt really comparable to the war reporting the movie contrast it with because wars have always been openly reported on and always its an american jerk off propaganda fest. Pedophilia in the early 2000s was dont ask dont tell. Especially boy scout organization which when it was mentioned in the movie same as "I will take the jared meal" I was a bit eye rolling.

I enjoyed this, never reached greatness for me and I think it’s a good companion piece to the Predators documentary from last year. It’s funny I think they both have their own flaws in what it was trying to say but they also both executed certain things better than the other one. Felt like this one was trying to be too over the top for my taste. Doc showed how Hansen has been moving way more subtly, also he came across alot more sinister in that while also not going too showy

That said though, Rob was top tier here

So it’s about Chris Hansen but it’s a fictional story, tf LOL

When year-end comes, Pattinson is really gonna be in 4 of the Top 10 films of 2026

Interesting in checking it out after this. Will draw up my conclusions then.

Odyssey
Dune
Primetime
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The Drama in my Top 10

And that is what I feel everyone should do. I think a lot of the covnersations about the movie are less complex than the movie while also wishing the movie delved deeper into its topics

the " its making chris hansen evil and humanizing pedophoiles" isnt true and is reductive "people that have fault with this movie are just fans of chris hansen" also not true and I have posted reviewers cite their actual issues with the movie. "its a hit piece" not entirely true it clearly doesnt present hansen as good or evil but it does present him as absolutely crazy. In doing so at times the pedophiles while clearly pedophiles and have a sick problem arent crazy over the top it can be a tonal whiplash. In reality the Rabbi speech went quite similiar but the Rabbi speech is also central to the movie of "what gives you the right?" much of the movie is questioning what gives Chris Hansen the right to reveal to the world these are would be pedophiles. To work with the police. To make it a consumable amount of entertainment focused on ratings which is what equierer and Jessica conradt asserted even though Chris Hansen has never bragged about ratings , didnt even go to accept his Emmy and isnt religious in real life.

in one sense the movie feels like its creating a hypothesis for why and how someone could decide catching predators with perverted justice a maligned group with many issues in their execution even if for a good cause could go wrong. If he lost part of his soul along the way in doing so and his humanity from constantly being around them. Practicing witty one liners. Making it content. If a content diriven market in all forms corrrupts us whether its reporiting on Lindsay clancy, epstein, serial killers , pedophiles. What separates it from public service Amy Goodman democracy now vs approaching more like Jersey shore of scripted or controlled for best results. If some cases are thrown out ( what is a reasonable success rate vs now people know the person his a pedophile but they can still continue). Some of the predators caught being repeat offenders

Again there are a few changes in the movies that really affect the depiction. Example of one where there is no story reason for it being these decoys in the movie lead the predators on or suggest sexual ideas in ways perverted justice didnt in real life . Because doing so would bring it much closer to discussions of entrapment.

Top films so far for me

Hope
Furious
Obsession
Hokum
Odyssey

by end of year add in Godzilla Werewulf

enjoyed the Drama and prime time but not top 10 movies overall but both great performances by him where he aced it. s*** Mickey 17 I was highly disappointed in but he still was one of my top performances of the year. Mickey 17 he got to show a bit more range and character development than this role for me.

I can enjoy an actor or actress but I try not to be fanboys of any of them because I think it gets super limiting of being able to actually judge a piece of work.. Same as directors. I have my favorite directors. I saw Refn this year. But i can still separate my enjoyment of him as a director or actors or actresses I like from discussion of singular works. If you become too much of a fan of an actor I think you will always lose some level of being able to discuss their art. The actors people are a fanboy of are never in bad movies but they are in movies that have faults as all movies at times do . But people wont contstructively criticize anything damn near out of fear them doing so stops a movie from witnning an award that they want to see the actor or movie get so they can see that actor they care about happy. When whether MBJ or Timmothee chalamet win or dont win sinners or marty suprmeme win or dont win that should in no way affect someones enjoyment or dissection of the art.

Imma be real chief, I'll only read through this once I've watched and processed

you got a an issue with me cool keep it here dont troll me in a thread about a genocide @shaleirose have some level of decorum.