The Capture of the Green River Killer

[Darhling]

Has anyone seen this?

It has some great actors in it (at from my point of view) and I have read a lot of great things on IMDB.

 

[Miss Crisplock]

I used to live in the area. Right in the area, as in couldn't get home one night because the police had blocked the road after having found yet another body.

A little too close for comfort, I haven't seen any of the movies about the GRK. Creepy.

 

[Rachael]

I'm right there with you. Things that happened in my backyard are just too much to take in again. I can't watch anything about Ted Bundy either; I still remember Aaron Brown covering his execution in Florida.

My dad felt that way about Schindler's List; he so vividly recalled the newsreels of the camps from when he was a boy that he had no wish to watch anything that showed the Holocaust without blinking. He put it very well: "I saw it the first time and I'll never forget"

 

[Brinybay]

First I had to make sure you weren't talking about this POS movie: Green River Killer. That one is a real stinker.

Apparently you're asking about this one: The Capture of the Green River Killer.

No, haven't seen it. But avoid the first one I mentioned. Here's my review of the 2005 Green River Killer, posted on another forum:

Movies based on true crime stories are usually at least interesting, and for lack of a better word, entertaining. But not this one, even if it was in my backyard. Take a few scenes of soft porn of Ridgeway with prostitutes, alternate them with flash scenes of an unrelated gory autopsy, (apparently these were dream sequences, but I couldn't tell) and intersperse with actual video tapes of Ridgeway talking about the murders, and you have the entire movie. There weren't even any scenes of King County that I recognized, the whole thing could have been shot in LA for all I could tell.

They didn't even have the facts straight. Ridgeway was working as a truck painter at the Kenworth plant, but the movie had him working in a warehouse. The Green River Task Force was part of the King County Sheriff's Office, but the cops in the movie identified themselves as "SPD", meaning "Seattle Police Dept." Lead detective Dave Reichert, who later became King County Sheriff and now a member of Congress, makes no appearance anywhere in the movie. The movie also depicted his victims as pretty white women that belong to a madam who's "business" is based out of a low-life bar where he picked them up. That was not his m.o. at all. Some of his victims were black, many of them minors, and he picked them up off the street, mostly along the Seatac strip. Also, Ridgeway was a very plain looking, geeky type of guy, but the movie made him look like a mean biker-type dude.

It's plain the film makers made no attempt at researching the case. They only knew that it involved the Green River which is somewhere around the Seattle area. What a pathetic piece of garbage, don't waste your time and money on it.