If you're enthused to LMN's consistent "Base on a True Story", straight out of the rear end of a bull, dramas, this movie will NOT disappoint you!
Filmed entirely in some nameless "burb", no doubt in California, you are suggestively "taken" to such locals as Las Vegas, Desert Palms, and Mesa, but if you don't hear one of the "actors" mention it, you will be lost without a GPS, or should I say, sucked into the GBS, (general bull s***) of this "movie".
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IMO the movie was terrible. The acting was horrible. Although they threw in many things/phrases from the trial, < Jodi's bs>, 3 hole wonder, prostitute, used toilet paper, among others things, it was just thrown together. And I understand they use creative license to dramatize a movie, based on a true story, there is no proof Jodi ever danced in a lingerie outfit for Travis. That was just silly. I have watched many, many Lifetime movies, and really like them for the most part.
The only part of the movie that was too close to the actual events, was the murder scene. The couple minutes it lasted, my mind put the real Travis in the scene and experienced what he did. Actually it was too realistic.:tears: It really emotionally shook me up.RIP Travis
1. storyline - D.. thrown together haphazedly
2. acting- C-
3. characters portrayed-E
1 thing kept bugging me, silly I know, but Lifetime couldn't even find a sleigh bed to make it more realistic?
0 cowpies. IMO
BBM.....2 cow pies on on the other extreme of 2 thumbs up :floorlaugh:
For someone who watched ONLY the trial, and got info off WS, I was incredibly disappointed. Other than a few names, a few "phrases", you couldn't connect it with this horrific incident.
Their rendition of places, ie TA's house, grandma's house, CMJA's vehicle, lacked any type of truth. I found that in the real sequence of events, it was all important. The walls in TA's hall, where the bloody palm print was found, were NOT blue. Had they been, no doubt, CMJA would have seen it and wiped it down. CMJA's grandma did NOT have a welcoming "house", it was "demeaning/ a step down" for her to move there. CMJA did NOT have an SUV, that's why she borrowed TA's vehicle to shuttle the"sisters" of the church around, it had more room.
LMN couldn't even get her in an orange jump suit for her mug shot in Siskiyou County.
If there should ever be an accurate film made of this crime, I hope it comes with the blessings of Travis' family, and they have a huge input in it.
In all honesty, the movie really offended me on so many levels.:facepalm: