Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

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Originally Posted by kylor

Precisely. So for a critic to make this "glamorizing" argument about this movie making it seem like it's a bad thing is ridiculous, because it's like an old man yelling at a cloud, yelling at something that's always been there, not to mention something that will not be changed any time soon.

The difference is that this particular film does tonally come off as glamorizing the Ted Bundy murders. Same as (while fictional) Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds essentially glamorizes WWII and the Nazis. Or even most Hollywood biopics that 'fluff' up the historical accuracy for entertainment purposes, coming off as exploitive.

United 93 was a very serious, dark, and mature drama with a bit of thriller elements mixed in, but no means glamorized the tragedy.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is taking Ted Bundy and giving him celebrity status treatment making him out to be this glorified pop-culture serial killer icon. It's making him appealing and attractive to either toxic masculine male fantasy and adolescent teenage girls because of the Zac Efron imagery. The film takes grisly material and sugarcoats the subject, playing up the fantastical idea of his murders.

That's the difference.