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5/10
spoiled rich kid
redinnevada17 May 2024
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I'm still not sure I can recommend this. It's disturbing but not in the way that's intended I don't expect. First up, I hate this guy. He's the most spoiledest, childish, selfish, egocentric spoiled grown man who refuses to be an adult I've ever seen. Well, in a documentary.

That family was headed for disaster before the murders and they can thank MOM for that. She obviously was driving the super weird set up of having 2 grown ADULT (30 yrs old) sons still living at home who have NO lives outside of the house. All super successful in their chosen fields, until psycho son starts to fall apart and fall behind the golden son. Psycho son professes that golden son is the "love of his life" ....what is that about? Super weird!

Dad only steps up once the finances are impacted but that's only to say he's leaving the mom but not really??

These people are screwy...no wonder psycho went psycho. Well, except for one thing. He's a ROTTEN human! They raised a horrible person!

This didn't deserve to be a documentary, EXCEPT for the unusual family dynamics that set this whole thing in motion. But they never really explored the only thing that I was curious about.

No, instead they focused on his obsessing over a cam model. Yah? So? Lots of men do that...they don't MURDER for it! Neither actually did Grant.

No, he murdered because he wasn't getting his WAY to fulfill his obsession. He moved his obsession to another girl soon as he could after he couldn't get to "Sylvie" in Bulgaria. He murdered his family because they were telling him NO after 30 yrs of giving him whatever he wanted.

That's not a documentary. It's pathetic.
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2/10
not great...
NullUnit19 April 2024
Oddly seems to .. well.. not really "glorify", there was never any attempt to condone or excuse Amato's actions, .. but.. well.. this seemed to give WAY too much attention to Amato himself. This filmmaker seemed to feed into Amato's desire for attention, and Amato CLEARLY enjoyed it, in order to get a story. That seemed well.. just wrong. It came across as an uneasy way for Amato to "profit" from his crimes overall. I didn't like that. I mean, sure feed his ego to get the story, understandable. But that does NOT mean you need to use so much video of him in the doc itself. Audio recording would have been better. Don't provide him any unintentional ancillary "fame" so to speak.

Basically, I felt as though there were 2 episodes to feed Amato's ego (which he reveled in). Then one episode to detail Amato's crimes. I'm not really certain it needed the first and third episodes. If episode 2 was edited better and perhaps made it a bit longer - a 75/90 minute special rather than a 3 episode series would have made so much more sense.

It was interesting, but not a "must see" by any means.

This REALLY came across as "The Grant Amato Show." There's no "revelation", no "moment of clarity", no "uncovered story".. nothing really at all. I mean he was convicted.

I, for one, have the exact same impression of Amato after watching this as I did before watching it - spoiled rich kid with mental issues that reacted horribly when he wasn't getting what he wanted.

I found this to be a waste of time overall.
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8/10
New information from Grant
vqtmcgkbs6 May 2024
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1. Grant admits he did it. Says the gun is buried in friend's yard. Police look. No gun. 2. Tells story that Sylvie sent him a <3 letter in prison. 3. Filmmaker finds Sylvie. She won't talk beyond saying she was deeply traumatized by what happened, & is in therapy. Grant is shocked to hear it was traumatic for her.

5. No authentic expression of remorse. Lots of self-pity. Didn't like his parents telling him what to do. Felt distant from his bro after failures at work. Didn't want to do therapy. Felt life would be pointless without phone access for 60 days in tx. Got idea to kill his family.

6. How filmmaker sees grant: Selfish manipulative man getting what he wants in the attention (from the case getting publicized by going to trial).
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