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I know he was evil and deserved it, but...


Did anybody else 'feel' for him when he was being prepped for the chair?

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That's why I like this movie, it makes you "feel" for the guy and that's exactly how everyone felt about him in real life too.

He could trick people easily.

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Nope, not at all. I'm very glad Ted was executed. And for the dummies who claim that life in prison is a "worse punishment", tell me this: Why did Ted try so hard to get off death row, if life in prison was a worse alternative?

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In many movies i felt bad for bad guys sometime...but not for this guy at all...

reality and movie is very very different... that's y to me... documentary of these serial killers are more fascinating ....how their mind works and how their life changed..why they started doing these stuffs...and so on..

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I'm not a fan of the death penalty. But it is necessary for individuals like Bundy. Not because of any personal pleasure to be gained (which there isn't), but because it was necessary to protect future victims from him. Ted Bundy was born like any and every person is born into this world, with choices to make. He may have been kind to his mother, and I'm sure he was an adorable baby. But as an adult, he made his own choice to take the path he did, to do evil and murder innocent young women who had never done anything to him. I know it says "Thou shalt not kill," but it's talking about murder, specifically. When Bundy was put to death, that was not murder. That was justified punishment. Saying the death penalty is murder is like saying a kidnapper is being held in prison against his will, forgetting that he held his captives against their will. I believe it where it says God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. We're all His children. If he repented and accepted God's grace, then he went to heaven. That is the amazing grace of our God. But, I hear he was unrepentant to the end.

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I have to say I found the scene of Ted Bundy being prepped for execution a lot harder to take than any of the scenes of him torturing and killing his victims. This is hardly a flattering portrayal of a sociopathic personality, but Michael Reilly Burke's nuanced performance makes him oddly likable. Kill me now.

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I agree with WarpedRecord. The chilling quality of that scene beat anything the The Green Mile had to show us 88 ways to Sunday. Creepiest scene in the movie.






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I didn't feel sorry for him at all. I got pissed that this man who killed so many people to whine and be scared to die. But if these events did not happen why was it in the film; why did the director feel it added to his story?

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