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The Elisa Lam & Cecil Hotel Documentary by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/17/2021, 6:47am PST I read something recently that said that the "McMillions" documentary was supposed to be an hour and became 6 when HBO got involved or something. I don't have all the facts here. I don't peddle in facts! This is where I come to relax. The documentary on Netflix about Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel, which has a name I don't remember, suffers from this. There was maybe 90 minutes of material here, but what the film makers do is savage the Youtube "Web Sleuths" which becomes a little satisfying at the end when everything is tied up. One of the chief targets of these fucking idiots is a Mexican (his nationality) death metal guy named Morbid. I used to go to death metal (BLACK metal??) shows over a decade ago and his act seems 100% in line with the genre. If the clips they played are his actual music then the music he made was pretty listenable for someone like me, an outsider to the whole thing. He states that the web sleuths were so goddamn stupid they think he killed Elisa Lam because he was one of 700 daily residents at the Cecil Hotel an entire year before Lam's death. A year! Think of where you were a year ago and then imagine someone dying in that spot today and then blaming you for it. Ok, a year ago we were all sheltering at home so that's probably a bad example. Two years ago, then. Two years ago I was getting chicken wings at a bar probably. If I had taken a selfie and then today some bipolar person decides to go swimming in the grease and "web sleuths" blamed me, that's how stupid it was to blame that kid. The documentary is cut to make the "sleuths" seem unlikeable, and there is no evidence that any of them told the Morbid guy to kill himself, but what a crowd to be a part of. It can't get more than two and a half stars because the 4 episode series is soooooooooo dragged out, and it's not anything more than popcorn tv, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do, I think. (I feel that the guy who was the "Skid Row Historian" was probably contacted 99 times before this by people trying to do a show about hair bands and the greatest day of his life was Ron Howard showing up for this one confirming that, no, he really did need his true expertise for this one.) ICJ

The Elisa Lam & Cecil Hotel Documentary by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/17/2021, 6:47am PST     They did the same stretching out with Night Stalker NT by Richie Ramirez 02/19/2021, 11:25am PST