Thursday 9 May 2019

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile — A Review

8th May, 2019.



Have you got family?

Younger relatives?

I do: my nephew, Jude, so you know.

Who want’s to be a YouTuber: wouldn’t you know it … !

At ANY rate … ?

He wants to know how to record stuff — games in particular — on his tablet, so he can record additional commentary, via green screen.

THEN upload it to YouTube.

With Mummy’s permission.

Possibly when he’s 13, obviously!

At ANY rate: that got me looking for how to do screen recordings on as many different things as possible.

On his Amazon Tablet?

I couldn’t find a thing.



On my phone, on the other hand?

A Huawei P-Smart running the company’s custom version of Android?


I’ve found that, if you simultaneously press the Volume Up, and Power buttons, you can do a screen recording like the one I’ve posted, here.


There’s even an onscreen ‘Stop’ button.


How you do that recording on anything else?   Without installing extra software?

Is a mystery to me … 


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At ANY rate … ?

That’s not necessarily what I wanted to tell you about, tonight.

Nope.

I’ve got to confess that — last night — I watched a movie.

1981’s The Howling.

Not something I was stunned with, it has to be said.

I fancied something a touch … 

Well, better paced, for starters.

I think I found that: in the shape of the Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil.

I think we have an interesting movie, here … 

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Base on the biography, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, by Bundy’s former girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil shows us Liz (Lily Collins): preparing to met her ex for the last time: as Bundy (Zac Efron) is preparing to his execution.

The story flashes back to 1969: twenty years earlier when the pair met at a students bar in Seattle.

Met … and start dating … 

Until 1974, when young women start going missing: around Washington State: and neighbouring Oregon.

And Ted is arrested in 1975: in Utah.

Several people have connected him with the police sketch that’s been released: and police in the Pacific North West have been circulating his name.

And, when Ted is pulled over for speeding … ?

In Utah … ?

He eventually is charged with kidnapping … 

That charge … ?



Is when Ted’s life, Ted’s … hobbies … ?



Start to catch up with him … 

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Now … 

What was I expecting, here … ?

I’m not necessarily sure: but think I expecting something vaguely like The Silence of the Lambs.

After all, Buffalo Bill’s kidnapping technique was lifted from Bundy … 


A police procedural, maybe: or psychodrama.

What I got … ?



Was a good old fashioned courtroom drama: one that makes the relationship between Ted and Liz its central story, and one that is something I found utterly engrossing.

This is not a horror movie, with bodies piled up on street corners.

This IS about the relationship between a women deceived by the most engaging of men … 

One who, ultimately?

Deceived many in his time, including her, before going to his death, at the end.

Frankly?

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is not a stunningly wonderful film.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is well played: extremely watchable.

And well worth your time.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
★★★☆

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