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Comment by Goggalor on March 17, 2013 at 6:18pm

Cyrus: You used the phrase "furious anger" in your review, so of course I couldn't think of anything but Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction" for the rest of it.

Comment by Billy Magada on March 17, 2013 at 2:08pm

I've been watching everyone of the documentaries on this over the years and its fuckin ridiculous how no one is going to be held accountable for this shit.

Comment by Kelly on March 17, 2013 at 12:39pm

I know this story, I don't think I'd want to watch this because it would be too infuriating. I hate this kind of mob mentality where people are out for blood instead of truth of justice but use it as an excuse to feel justified for ganging up unfairly on someone or something, and this case is an ugly result of that.

Comment by Cropsey on March 17, 2013 at 5:04am

Movie pissed me off. Very frustrating.

But i did have a nagging thing the whole time... Why weren't Echols and his pals screaming the walls down with their innocence? Man i wouldn't have been sitting there all cool and smiling.

Great doco!

Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on March 16, 2013 at 2:51am

Creepy thing, at the end when the trailer clip plays as it hit the part about the real guy being free and the childern laughing I turned a corner(listening on my blackberry) to see a bunch of kids.

Comment by stalksthemoon on March 16, 2013 at 1:59am

@movieartman, the problem with that outlook is, what happens when there's overwhelming evidence that keeps pilling up that back them being innocent? Are prosecuters still serving the system then or their own agendas. Their responsibility should be to the truth should it not, and also trying to find the real culprit when they are possibly still out there? Sorry but when new evidence surfaces that pretty overwhelmingly suggests that they were innocent and they basically ignore it and still try to keep them in jail, that seems to support Cyrus' point of view on the situation more than yours. If you think these people don't have agendas than you're pretty ignorant to the world in general, no legal system is perfect, least of all ours. Sometimes we need reminding that this is the case.

That being said, I do agree it is a little hypocritical of Cyrus to be ready to lock up Terry Hobbs and throw away the key over very flimsy evidence presented in a somewhat biased documentary. It is worth looking up some more information on the case, there are several facts the documentary leaves out. Everything is not as cut and dry as the documentary presents it, even if  I agree that there was enough reasonable doubt to look at the case again. 

Comment by Boatloads1017 on March 15, 2013 at 10:43pm

Kinda reminds me of the Rubin "Hurricane" Carter story. With the exception that he was a black boxer in 60s New Jersey and these were a bunch of goth kids in 80s Arkansas. That and Carter has his own 8 1/2 minute  Bob Dylan song. 

Comment by Kyle Voltti on March 15, 2013 at 10:12pm

I wonder if either of you guys have ever seen the documentary After Innocence.  Had the most chilling moment I've ever seen on film of a prosecutor saying that it wasn't important that the guilty or innocent party was in jail as long as the system didn't appear wrong.

Comment by Witherspoonfan on March 15, 2013 at 9:34pm

Atom Egoyan? Screw that film!

Comment by TheDarkAdonis on March 15, 2013 at 7:53pm

As someone who has been involuntarily detained in a psychiatric ward, I know how easy it is to be "diagnosed" and how vacuous their evaluations of patients can be.

That said, I feel we're too ready to invest in the narrative of small town hicks vs. The precocious intellectual type. I don't know what happened. My opinion of Echols isn't evidence against him. However, I'm skeptical of documentaries backed by thr accused that just as recklessly accuse another man of the crime through the same type of innuendo as was levied against The Memphis 3.

Likewise, suspicion against Echols and the others was more than just heavy metal and black clothes. It was alibis proven to be lies and demolished on the stand. It was apparent knowledge of details of the crime not yet released to the press. It was numerous confessions before and after their arrest. This, and their records read like serial killer cliiches in crime novels.

Now either this entire town is conspiring against him and he's all too willing to look guilty or he had something to do with it.

I don't believe in the Satanist horseshit and that small town gullibility poisoned the well as badly as the prosecutors calling OJ a nigger.

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