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Summary: If a movie could ever have stunted growth, this is it...
Review: Dahmer was an OK movie, but was rather slow. I mean, it's so damned obvious that the guys/boys he brings home/meets end up hacked up for BBQ (metal fans, anyone?!) so why not work in some action, suspense, news, talk of the missing, etc.? All the movie does is show how he lured, tortured, and killed his victims, basically. Doesn't even touch on him being a cannibal. The movie has an abrupt ending, which really is it's biggest flaw. Given when the movie was made, I expected it'd touch on his hunt, capture, trial, imprisonment, and, ultimately, his demise. Very disappointing, that movie. Extremely lacking. Imagine getting dressed up in formals and your blind date picks you up for dinner in his Yugo, and you find out he's Mr. Rogers and you're going to Wendy's for dinner, when you expected opera tickets, a limo, and dinner at the Mansion. Try beating that with a greaseburger and a frosty.
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Summary: What about the gory details?
Review: If I had two adjectives to describe this movie, it would be pointless and dumb. They didn't accurately portray Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes. It was about a man as you know, going to bars picking up gay men, drugging them and having sex with them. All they did was have flashbacks and him hanging out with another gay man. Nothing gory, nothing exciting, biggest waste of my time. What about the saving of body parts in the freezer? What about the eating of his victims? WHERE are these DETAILS? If the writer of this movie would like the true story of Jeffrey Dahmer, please go to A&E.com and purchase the serial killer box set. Now that is something worth your time. When the re-write comes out with all the "true and factual" details, let me know.
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Summary: Left Out The Uniqueness
Review: Don't waste your money on this movie. What made Jeffrey Dahmer unique to other serial killers, was his methods of disposing the bodies. This movie didn't even touch base on this. Jumping from teenager to adult continuously was frankly, quite annoying. Very disappointed with the ending. Left it open, and many unanswered questions. I recently watched TED BUNDY. This was accurate, and didn't leave you guessing.
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Summary: great
Review: sick man, he was.....great movie though. u feel like u are right there with the actual killer!!!!
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Summary: intense
Review: This movie was very intense and strange because it was a true story. It seems so weird that there was a man like this in real life.......
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Summary: Impressive
Review: I was very impressed with this film. Though it fudges some of the facts in order to present a more sympathetic view of famous killer, undermining its credibility as a biography, the film works very well on dramatic terms. From its creepy / cheerful opening sequence (Patsy Cline crooning as chocolate Santas roll off the production line) to its haunting final image, "Dahmer" delivers the dramatic goods while avoiding, for the most part, outright gore. The film cleverly juxtaposes flashbacks to Dahmer's early life with the meeting of Dahmer and his (intended) last victim. This allows the viewer to contemplate Dahmer's slide into madness, with special attention paid to the contrast between the confusion and pain of his teenage years with the seemingly emotionless monster he became. The grim tone is leavened by flashes of black humor, but not to the detriment of the serious subject matter. Jeremy Renner, in the title role, was excellent. Renner really caught the flat, affectless delivery of someone who knows he's a monster, and has gone to great lengths (mostly alcoholic) to block out his sense of morality. He got that creepy look in the eyes, the combination of "little boy lost" and "great white shark" we can see in Dahmer's trial photos. Renner was especially good as the teenage Dahmer. Aside from looking startlingly young, he displayed a touching vulnerability and helplessness even as he commits and covers up his first murder. Bruce Davison as Jeffrey's father Lionel Dahmer was quite good, and came off as concerned, sympathetic, and completely ineffectual. Artel Kayaru as "Rodney" (who takes the place of the real-life Tracy Edwards, who escaped Dahmer and alerted the police) gives an outstanding debut performance. His vibrant persona provides a wonderful contrast to Dahmer's phlegmatic manner. I did feel that the movie was lacking in several areas. Some of the transitions between past and present were confusing, but once I clicked with the film's rhythm it didn't bother me. Rodney's motivations were obscure - why he would return to the apartment of a man who just tried to strangle him? The denoument was abrupt, relying on a sudden cut to the standard "Jeffrey Dahmer was charged with 16 counts of murder..." title card. There was a lot glossed over that could have added insight to Dahmer's psyche. For instance, his latchkey kid's fear of abandonment (the incident when he came home to find his mother and brother moved to Ohio could have been proved telling!). Or his fear of castration, brought on by testicle surgery, or his fascination with dissecting animals. Dahmer's army years, an attempt at "normalcy" ending with a discharge for alcoholism, may also have been worth at least a mention. There were also many, many atrocities that were never referred to. Dahmer's apartment was notorious for its rank odor, but neither of the men Dahmer brings home mentions this. The vats of acid, the heads in the freezer, the painted skulls and drawer full of Polaroids are never seen. His cannibalism is never even alluded to. In fact, the film seemed to be at pains to portray him as less of a ghoul and more of a misunderstood monster. Aside from the dishonesty of such an approach, as a longtime horror fan, I missed the grisly details. With such a solid dramatic structure and good performances, I felt the filmmakers could have painted with a much redder brush and lost none of their integrity. Unfortunately for us gore-hounds, however, the production team decided to err on the side of good taste. No pun intended. (Well, maybe just a little bit.) Last but not least, I was very disappointed tbat the DVD contains only the full-screen version of the film. This is especially annoying since the preview is shown letterboxed! Still and all, this is a powerful film that I would recommend to anyone with an interest in madness, murder and mayhem of the cinematic variety.
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Summary: Garbage
Review: Is he a man or is he a monster. After watching this flick you will be as clueless about a solution as I was. What made Jeffery Dahmer so infamouse was not that he killed people, anyone could do that. It was that he ate them and he was a homosexual. The story revolves around Dahmer basically trying to kill this man he meets a t aknife shop. He fails. But in the mean time we are witness to his first kill and how his Father was such a .... We also see him kill one guy in the beggining but beyond that we see nothing. Literally the movie is about Dahmer getting stoned, Drunk, what ever, having sex with a few guys, killing 2 and trying to kill a third. This movie is so pointless and stupid that to watch and enjoy this must either mean; A) You have extremely bizzare taste in movies or B) YOu are blind. Overall avoid this piece of garbage. It by no means tells the truth about Dahmer and only shows us to gay underworld. Is he a man or is he a monster, this movie can't tell you that, read his biography instead.
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Summary: freaky
Review: the sick thing about this movie is it really happened, there was a man out in this world like that, and that is really freaky..u don't even know who u are with u just trust someone with your life and then it comes to this movie.......of a demented soul that no one will ever no why he did what he did.....my heart goes out to the family members who had to go through this sick tradegy.......and for the family that never knew how sick their son or brother was.....
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Summary: A complete waste of time.
Review: This was without a doubt one of the worst movies I've seen. I expected something that gave insight into Dahmer's life and what drove him to his acts. Instead we got snippets in flashback form that give little information. I found the format a bit confusing as it was hard to delineate when each flash back was, so it was hard to get a handle on how things progressed. There was virtually no information about Dahmer's childhood, and what could have created such a pyscho. And very little about what he actually did other than two short scenes depicting him cutting up what I think was his first victim, and using a powerdrill on the head of another victim. Overall I thought this was a terrible movie, and I would never recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie of All-Time!!!
Review: Bravo! Jeremy Renner steps up to the plate and kills a homerun!
Pardon the pun...I couldn't resist. Check out the featurette - it gives you an in-depth look at how far Renner was willing to go in his research of his part of Dahmer and how he got every little creepy nuance of Dahmer's personality(or lack therof) and his every bizarre subtle mannerism down to an exact science. I love the part when he's in the chocolate factory and he tells the new guy, "this job could make you go nuts...if you're not o.k. up top." Imagine making chocolate Santa Clauses for 8 hours/day and then on your lunch break eating them for lunch as you sit by yourself in the break room in solitary thinking of what guy you're going to get to pass on out on Whiskey and Coke(..and GHB) and then ... with a power drill, saw, and then dissect until you're bored with him. Only the sickest, demented, deluded, and demoniacal serial killer of eternity - Jeffrey Dahmer.
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