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		List Price: $14.94		Publisher: Columbia Tristar Salesrank: 33698 Released: 2004-06-01 Theatrical-Release: 2003
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Amazing and tragic story
I honestly wonder how much of her final tirade was real (at least in her mind) or just another story she made up to get attention.

She appeared to have been quite intelligent, so who knows what she might have become had she been raised under different circumstances?

I had to crack up when her friend Dawn said she believes homosexuality was only invented in recent years. lol

The Real “Monster”..
After seeing the movie Monster which was based on the life of the first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, I was interested in seeing the real Aileen herself speaking of the murders she commited. This film does a great job of delivering to us a glimpse into the childhood and mind of a disturbed woman. The interviews are great and Aileen holds nothing back while talking to Nick. We get to see actual footage of her trials and of her proclaiming her innocence to admitting the she lied about being raped and having to kill in self defense. We are able to look into her black eyes and see the rage she felt. We see interviews with her few close friends who explain the terrible things that happened in Aileen’s life that led her to Florida and eventually to being a hooker. She’s labeled a serial killer because as she said, “she has a number”. She murdered 7 men with the motive being to take their money and their vehicle. She admits that she had to kill them so they wouldn’t go to the police. Aileen always believed that the police knew it was her killing these men but that they let her kill so they could make money off of her. However way you want to look at it, Aileen was a murderer but also a victim of circumstance. It is almost sad to see her speaking of her execution right until the day before it took place. Aileen came clean before her execution in 2002 by lethal injection after serving many years on death row. In her own words….”You have to kill Aileen Wuornos or she will kill again”. Also, I must say what a Excellent job Charlize Theron did playing Aileen in the movie Monster. It is no wonder she won an award for the movie. This DVD of real interviews is very revealing and very interesting for anyone who is curious about the real “Monster”.

A MUST SEE !!!
This is Mr. Broomfield’s sequel to “The Selling of a Serial Killer”. Both are very well researched. It isn’t often that you are treated to the facts as they really are. We are usually served the psycho-babble of distortion which is not present in either of these films. After viewing these films one is left feeling that maybe, just maybe there might be something wrong with our system of justice. When someone (Tye) is an accomplice to murder,an accessory after the fact and received stolen property (victim’s cars and cash) can walk away with movie and book deals and their freedom there is a serious problem with the system. This movie is very well done and left me feeling that I knew Aileen Wournos as a person not as a serial killer.

I highly recommend this movie and the prequel.

Get to know the real Aileen
Interesting look at the life of Aileen Wuronos Serial Killer. Powerful informative Documentary about the life and trials of Aileen. It tells her whole story from when she was born up until the last minute of her death. Covers all aspects and you get to meet the real Aileen. Charlize Theron did a great job portraying her in Monster but this is true to life and in your face reality. We get to see Aileens motives for killing , why she did it, how she feels etc. At times you feel for her and think this is a real human being and does she deserve this, at other times one could think she might be mentally ill due to her accusations that the police knew she was going to commit her crimes. We get to see her anger, hate, fear, pain and all the human aspects of her personality. At times she can come off as normal and engaging and at other times full of hate and anger. We get to find out her last meal, see her last interviews and know what song she requested at her funeral. This is a must see if you liked Monster. 4 Stars.

Rambling, Tendentious
The interviewer has an obvious agenda; he is anti-death penalty. He seeks to portray Wuornos as insane. The reality is much more complex than that.

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Wrong Cast
sorry, but urich and brooks are the only two who should ever play these roles. despite Parker’s opinion that JM is a better Spenser, he doesn’t at all fit the bill. he looks nothing like how i saw the character in my mind even before the original show (while reading the books). he doesn’t bring to mind an ex-boxer/street tough. he looks more like an accountant. and NO ONE could ever ever play Hawk the way brooks did. Avery Brooks IS Hawk. Just as Robert Urich IS Spenser. watching this film was like ordering steak and getting liver.

A Disappointment
I’ve long been a fan of Robert B. Parker Spenser books but, even though I watched them, I didn’t really care much for the Robert Urich “Spenser for Hire” series. Too ‘goody two-shoes’ and ‘television-ized.’ That’s why, when I found these Joe Mantegna movies, I enthusiastically thought that someone made some Spenser movies that were a little more ‘raw’ and true to the books. What a disappointment! The stories were accurate enough, but Joe Mantegna as Spenser? A former cop and boxer? I don’t THINK so! I found him, and the actors filling the roles of Hawk and Susan to be completely unbelievable and wrong for the parts. These movies really made me MISS the Robert Urich series!

Susan, Susan, Susan ….
The star of this film is Marcia Gay Harden. Joe Mantegna as Spenser is very good- because he comes forward as a literate Spenser, and delivers the lines written by Parker very well. Mantegna chose Harden for the role, and he chose well.

Toronto resembles Boston in winter, although the Canadian police uniforms don’t look at all like those of Boston’s finest.

The Toronto setting led to a number of other small, but notable, details. The bus that takes Ellis Alves away from prison sports a Boston “T”. The Suffok County Courthouse is played by the Colorado State Capital building. And, while the book’s settings bounce between Boston and New York, that changing scene is not apparent in the film. The film’s denoument in the museum is prefaced with an exterior shot of the Royal Ontario Museum (flying the stars and stripes on its flagstaff). After a year of Spenser being dead, Corsetti doesn’t seemed at all surprised to find him in the museum, although the book places that scene at Rockefeller Plaza.

I had hoped that more Spenser films starring Harden and Mategna would be forthcoming- perhaps they will.

This is a strange first choice for the new Spenser cast
It is interesting to me that even though I believe I watched most of one episode of the television series “Spenser for Hire” that when I worked my way through the extant Robert B. Parker novels in chronological order one summer that Avery Brooks was definitely Hawk in my mind’s eye. However, I did not think of Robert Urich as Spenser. While I did think Urich had the general build of Spenser as described in the novels (to wit, ex-boxer) I did not hear him saying the witty lines written for the character by Parker. In “Small Vices,” Joe Mantegna plays the part of Spenser and while I never would have thought of him for the role if I was doing the casting, I do think that for the most part he delivers the one-liners pretty well. However, I certainly do not think of him as being an ex-boxer.

For the record, I consider Marcia Gay Harden to be an ideal Susan Silverman but Shiek Mahmud-Bey is just too young to be Hawk.

Ultimately, with “Small Vices,” I am more troubled by the fact it was somehow selected to be the first Spenser television movie with this new cast. I know it was because it was, at that time, the most recently published Spenser novel. Parker adapted his own novel so certainly the dialogue is in the spirit of the original words on the printed page. But “Small Vices” was the 24th Spenser for Hire novel and anybody come newly or lately to the character in novels and/or television incarnations is not going to appreciate the relationships as they stand and this point in the history of the characters. That is of vital importance, because as the teaser to “Small Vices” shows, this story is about the time that Spenser encountered someone who may well be his superior as an opponent.

My major complaint against the adaptation in the final analysis is that the psychological damage done to Spenser’s psyche, as well as the long period involved in his physical recovery, is barely sketched out in the film. The novel took the time to develop both in much detail, which is why “Small Vices” was one of the very best of Parker’s Spenser novels. Consequently, my response to this adaptation was that both the character and the viewers were being shortchanged by this brevity. I would have saved this pivotal Spenser story for later in this series of adaptations, assuming, of course, that it continues for sometime to come. Still, Spenser fans will see something here for the writer and cast to build upon.

Not very exiting.
I have an image of Spenser from reading the books - that of a big guy with an 18 inch neck, 50 inch chest and 18 inch arms. Very strong and above all, very physical. Joe Mantegna is a good actor but (for me) just does not cut it as Spenser. He is just not big enough! Robert B. Parker himself, plays ‘Ives’ in one scene and it is clear to me that he based Spenser (at least physically) upon himself - although he denies this. Sheik Mahumud-Bey is too nice to be Hawk whom I see as menacing but articulate. Casting aside, the story was slow and quite frankly boring. By the time it ended I did not care what happened to the characters. It was treated as more of a love story between Spenser and Susan than a detective story.

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