BONNIE & CLYDE (DVD/ST&WS/FR-SUB)-NLATPROne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, “it’s the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance.” The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde’s brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck’s frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. –Jeff Shannon
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March 5, 2010
#1
Man, what a stinker this movie is. Seriously it’s so lame that only children would enjoy it.
First of all, how dumb is it that there would be a girl bank robber anyway. I believe the boy part of it, because history has shown that boys rob banks. But girls? Come on. That’s not very believable and anyway why would they need to because they get all their money from men already. See, the logic in the movie doesn’t work.
This movie, which is horrible, is also a total rip-off of Natural Born Killers. If Woody Harrelson (or anyone from the terrific ensemble sitcom “Cheers”) were in Bonnie or Clyde it would be a much more excellent movie. I would prefer to see Frasier and Robin Colcorde robbing banks and I think that would be a real hoot of a movie.
I haven’t seen many Warren Beatty movies, but I can tell you after this one, I probably won’t be rushing out to rent them. And Faye Dunaway who plays the part that is not Clyde is also dumb and I hate her so much!!!!
If you have a choice between seeing this movie and Anaconda, I recommend Anaconda, again, unless you’re a child and have no movie taste and then you should probably watch this movie.
March 5, 2010
#2
this movie was so bloody at the end,they made the r rating!this was the first movie they ever rated r.the flaw is its very slow as compared to todays action packed extravagansas.a modern day version would be awesome.actualy,there is teenage bonnie and kleptomaniac clyde.its better than this one.everbody knows the story.theres these 2 lovers bonnie parker and clyde barrow.they ride around robbing banks.they become something of folk heros.the feds used a dastardly trick to lure them to their slaughter.lex luthor from superman is in it.oh yeah hes this jewish guy…………………..gene hackman?its considered a classic.it is very much true.it was not exact with any books i read,but the important stuff goes down the same way.its called a classic but ive turned it off a number of times.legend in its time,i guess.the end scene is intense.the superman movies were better as mostly every hackman movie sucks.
March 5, 2010
#3
This is another 1960′s film designed to subvert american values
and culture. Liberals, most notibly Warren Beatty, were
involved in the production of it. The message of the film is
that crime and violence against society is a great lifestyle.
Criminals are heroic figures while the police are an evil force
out to stop the “fun” of young people.
Liberals made films like this in the 1960s as part of an assault
by media on the foundations of freedom. Their attempts to build
communism had largely failed after the death of the socialist
Franklin Roosevelt. And after the movement collapsed in the
1950s, many of them took to promoting drugs and crime among the
young. The idea being that America could be prepared for
revolution if its young were turned into criminals running wild
rioting in the streets. This film was the real inspiration for
criminals like the weather underground, the SLA, the
Baider-Meinhoff gang in germany and numerous red brigade death
squads in europe.
The formula of the film was to pick two attractive leads and
then sell violence and crime for two hours in a slick advertising
package. Subvert the idea of love into a love of death and
make violent death an inevitable thing.
Better yet, package up the violence so that its “better than
real life”. People say this film is more “realistic” in its
violence than previous hollywood films. Not true. There isn’t
anything real about it because real violence is ugly and boring.
The film doesn’t capture realism. It creates a new language of
stylized attractive violence for film.
Beatty revealed his true “colors” years later when he made the
openly pro-communist film “Reds”. But he was working hard for
the cause when this film was made.
March 5, 2010
#4
Hollywood has a track record of turning vile, murdering cowards and criminals into folk heroes. This piece of trash is among the winners. What a load of pure hogwash. When it first came out, the critics went into ecstasy about the sexual message all through the movie, using handguns as a phallic symbol. More Freudian dribble!!! The police are the villians here while the gang are the heroes. (The scene with Denver Pyle playing Texas Ranger Frank Hamer sneaking up on the bloodthirty duo is pure bilge. If the real Capt. Hamer had had his way, B&C’s crimewave wouldn’t have lasted any length of time.) The real Bonnie Parker was absolute trash. She blew a policeman’s head off point blank with a sawed off shotgun! And she’s a HEROINE ? More like she was on HEROIN. If you think this is a “Robin Hood” tale of robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, you live in a fantasy world. The small businesses that Barrow and Parker robbed were “mom and pop” stores. And the poor certainly didn’t benefit. The only redeeming part of this film is seeing these two thugs riddled by gunfire by the law. A fitting end.
March 5, 2010
#5
AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS VERSION AND THE ULTIMATE EDITION IS………?
GOD I HATE THESE COMPANIES ALWAYS LAUNCHING NEW AND IMPROVED SPECIAL EDITIONS AFTER ANOTHER…AND GUESS WHAT!!!! THE TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION AND THE 2 DISC ULTIMATE EDITION ARE COMING OUT THE SAME DAY!!!!!!!!!!!1 I DONT UNDERSTAND….COULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN?!! AND THE LATTER IS APPROX 12 DOLLARS MORE EXPENSIVE! i really dont get this…this is the last straw….2 special editions on the same day? this is unbelievable