Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I saw it a couple weeks ago and definitely not good.

What the movie is based on is a telephone relationsihp Amistead Maupin had with a teenager way back when and then it turned out they couldn't confirm the kids existence. Most of the stuff in the movie is just an extension of that but not based on any real events.

The CSI episode (and a similar Law & Order episode) is most likely based on the Kaycee Nicole scam a few years ago in which a woman posed online as a teenager dieing of cancer. Blogged the whole thing, got a lot of support, both emotional and financial.

Shortly after her death it came to light that Kaycee Nicole never existed.

Thanks Alex!
Yes, the show I saw was a teenage girl. It may have been Law & Order, I don't recall. And it was on the internet and phone calls. She was about to get a big life insurance check when they found she wasn't real. Whichever show that was.

Strange how much emotional support these people can get from strangers who never even meet them. They will do anything to protect them in some cases.

[wendybeth]

Whew! Thanks, Scaeagles- I can totally see you as Plankton!

I like Patrick.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by RStar

She was about to get a big life insurance check when they found she wasn't real. Whichever show that was.

Strange how much emotional support these people can get from strangers who never even meet them. They will do anything to protect them in some cases.

That was the Law & Order episode then and definitely inspired by the Kaycee Nicole incident.

I was only on the fringe of Kaycee but in my too many long years in online communities I've seen it on a smaller scale so many times. If you ever want to express doubt about someones story you might as well save it unless you have absolute proof because until then you are just a cruel heartless bastard.

Some of you here are also familiar with SDMB so are familiar with the debate over whether Wally ever existed, and if he did whether he really died.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

That was the Law & Order episode then and definitely inspired by the Kaycee Nicole incident.

I was only on the fringe of Kaycee but in my too many long years in online communities I've seen it on a smaller scale so many times. If you ever want to express doubt about someones story you might as well save it unless you have absolute proof because until then you are just a cruel heartless bastard.

Some of you here are also familiar with SDMB so are familiar with the debate over whether Wally ever existed, and if he did whether he really died.

That's what I thought. The more I tried to picture the detectives in the story, the more I came up with those faces. I watch both CSI and Law & Order little enough to not be sure. I'm more of a Sci-Fi guy when it comes to TV. That and Smallville, Supernatural, and Whose Line. And, of course Star Trek.