My Friend Dahmer

Its about as good as a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer in high school could get, like he wasn't going to be running up and down the halls eating people and jerking off on corpses willy nilly.

I'd hate to end up in HIS Breakfast Club! Folks!

Its power is a loose, earnest sensibility, which is a tad ambivalent. When it's salacious and hits its plot points, it avoids exploitation. The audience identifies with the teenage Dahmer and wonders how they would have dealt if they found themselves in similar circumstances. But after its mettle and shrewd pacing, there's not a lot left. Lynch leans into a queasy, confused, nihilistic disquiet. Wolff has a Brat Pack feel that will take him far. Heche is connected, vaudevillian; a high point.

Having read the comic this was based on and remembering all the footnotes by Backderf (author of the comics), I maybe got more out of this than the casual viewer. Ross Lynch is terrific as Dahmer. Exactly as depicted in the original comic. But what really stood out to me in the comic was the sympathy the author had for Dahmer. Not demonizing him. Not that the film did either, but the film felt more clinical after having read the comic and hearing deeper analysis on Jeff's life and struggles.

Fairly well made. Feels less like a true character study, it seems like the entire point is to generate sympathy for Dahmer but I am not at all interested in that. The film also seems to imply that a dificult family life is more responsible for his eventual heinous crimes than mental illness.

The graphic novel is a true delight. This film is, uh, less good. Something feels off. Truthfully, I mentally checked out of this film about half way through. It's a bummer because this was probably my most anticipated film of 2017. The ending was great, even if it follows one of the worst scenes in this.

Interesting character study of Dahmer based mostly on second hand accounts of his behavior from people who went to school with him. Since it's impossible to sympathize with the subject on so many levels the film at least tries to get us to understand what a pitiable damaged wreck of a person Dahmer was. The weirdness of the 70's and that era was captured wonderfully without over the top kitsch. Ross Lynch is surprisingly good in this and his acting talent seems very underrated.

BillyShears is spot on. Not going to bother further...Dissecting it to pieces *evil grin*. Decent flick, albeit a tad overlong.

Enjoyed the graphic novel when I read it a few years back, but this seems to be making Dahmer out to be this sympathetic smol bean more than the comic ever did. Just no balance to it at all.

A high school comedy in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite :D

It's decent, but compared to the novel it's nowhere near as oppressive (the novel benefiting from the use of darkness to achieve this among other things). Also could have used a "Not great, Jeff!" at the end of that scene with Pete from Mad Men.

Compelling drama but mostly I liked the performances all around.

It was a bad idea to showcase this mostly dull part of Dahmer's adolescence. It offers little insight. The film only gains steam towards the end. Lynch was a poor choice as he doesn't give much depth to the character. Very little substance overall. Meyers offers some interesting filmmaking technique, but his writing needs work. It drags. I think he tries to show the humanness of Dahmer, which I appreciate, but the final product is rather cliche, one-dimensional, and flat out boring.

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This is a film that very carefully and successfully convinces us how the killer Dahmer came to be.

Ross Lynch is great in the title role and the reason to watch this - the fact he uncannily resembles the teenage Dahmer is a surprise bonus. Well-done and enjoyable (if that's the right word), even if it makes its point rather too obviously at times. Anne Heche does crazy extremely convincingly... I wonder why? Having graduated from high school (in Ohio, no less) the same year this is set, they got the music wrong. But that's beside the point, I suppose.

Seems that when it realises exact moments from the graphic novel, they come across as weirdly forced. yet the moments it invents (or takes from other parts of his life) work at establishing the circumstances that resulted in a killer. There's not many films about trying to fit in through desperate clownishness, so it has that going for it. The lead seems miscast, showing the usual mopiness of disenfranchised teens, rather than the blank emotionless stare of Dahmer in the novel and in mugshots.

Ross Lynch phenomenal as Dahmer

Pretty decent little biopic although kinda feeds into that new wave of everyone wanting to sympathize with serial killers because they think it makes them quirky or weird. Nice castin

NO HORROR, more a Black Comedy than Horror. Slow but well done and acted.

Having found the comic fascinating , I missed its 1st-person narration & thought a voiceover might add more clarity. Despite that, this manages to pull off the same trick: making you feel sympathy for Dahmer. Although he was certainly a sociopath the world is better off w/out, it's clear teen Dahmer was struggling w/ an untenable situation: who do you tell that murder gets you off? The film's also a reminder to the PC police that making strangers temporarily uncomfortable is comedy gold to many.

Passes the time.Good performance by the lead.

I mean it's a good film, but it suffers for being what it is. It's an interesting character study but is otherwise uninteresting because you know just how interesting the character can be. The actors are pretty run-of-the-mill, but I will say they capture the look and tone of the setting very well.

Disturbingly good, Ross Lynch surprised me. It's not east capturing Jeffery Dahmer and all that he was. Not too shabby.

Written by one of Dahmer's childhood friends, this has sort of an interesting point of view and likely contains a lot of guesswork. The most interesting part of Dahmer's portrayal is how his behavior in the presence of others could be interpreted as a basically harmless weirdo, but takes on much more sinister undercurrents given what the audience knows (from other scenes and of course the true story)

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Gosh I love it when an author writes themselves into the story. Love it even more on screen.