Nostalgia is indeed a funny thing. There are bands that I hated in high school (Blues Traveler, Counting Crows, DMB) - that I now really enjoy. Probably because they make me think of some good-ass times with good-ass friends when that music was all over the radio and MTV.

Not sure I want to, honestly. There’s enough discomfort and bittersweet undertone to the movie as-is.

I love his indomitable will. That he hasn’t shut down his humanity in the face of adversity. He could have easily become a self obsessed victim and allowed his illness to make him cruel and bitter. But he hasn’t. That is true courage. I have always loved all his 80s movies, but I admire him more now.

I’ll admit that a small, still-adolescent part of my brain that formed in 1999 was really hoping to see her dance.

True. Turns out I would not be SHOCKED at what happened to this Former Hollywood Star! 

It still sucks though. Especially as ‘death of female character to motivate our hero’ is one of the more annoying movie tropes.

How does she feel about her time on Ghostwriter?

Uh little kids? This is not out of left field. 

People shit talk her, but I've always liked Ann Hathaway. She's talented, gorgeous, and from this at least, seems to be a decent person.

Umm... People have protested minorities being represented negatively as villains or token characters pretty much since Birth of a Nation. I think you’ll find most folks that visit this site agree that’s a negative thing. I’m not sure the point you think you’re making by saying that “you could say” black people being…

Well you can’t say fairer than that.

Part of the reason that The Vow was so frustrating and weird is that a very large chunk of it is these “whistleblowers” patting themselves on the back for getting out of the cult without mentioning how much money they were making. I thought their party for the New York Times story was in poor taste, putting it mildly.…

Yep, one of the most disgusting things he did and said that was left out of The Vow. He also trafficked children and young women from Mexico with the lure of getting a Green Card. Then the Bronfman sisters and Laura Salzman put them to work as slaves and they were all forced to have sex with Keith. He imprisoned a…

“It gets straight to the point with clips of Raniere explaining a hypothetical situation in which a baby is “fuckable””

‘These people were making a profit, so they looked the other way, or worse, helped Keith Raniere and the Bronfmans in their criminal activities and legal battles.’

Exactly.  As a filmmaker, I found the whole process of the making of this film highly ethically dubious, as it completely blurs the line between subject and makers, and I I was really unclear just who was making this film.  I gave up watching it midway when I became convinced I was watching a preemptive defense…

Damn, I guess I then have to Seduced as well. I’m currently stuck after episode 6 of the Vow, trying to get myself to finish those last three episodes as it is such a drag to get through, and I think this review on so many parts of that documentary that fail. Especially after having read on NXIVM when all the stuff…

I thought it screamed “Mark Vincente’s effort to get his documentary career back online” . The Vow could have easily been condensed into 5 episodes without losing much. The one thing I found odd was in the 1st or 2nd ep there is mention of Rainiere curing people of very severe Tourette’s I kept assuming it would be…

It was pretty infuriating that the it took 7 hours and 50 minutes of that miserable slog before the guy with the footage finally uttered on camera “maybe I was stupid”. It is nice that the documentary would give some sense of voice to the personhood of the victims (see the Michelle McNamara doc on HBO to see that done…

OMG The Vow was a tedious trainwreck. Too many videos of Raniere’s pep talks and not enough details of the branding, sexual abuse and human trafficking one would look for in a docuseries on the cult.