BETTER than 'Bonnie and Clyde'… Sorry folks!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Dillinger
A_Minor_Blip — 19 years ago(July 26, 2006 10:59 PM)
sorry folks, but this movie is grittier, less dated, more realistic, funnier, more action packed, and kicks way more beep ass than Bonnie and Clyde added to it the cool way they edited those fast moving newspaper clippings, and the fact that you get TWO SIDES to the story: the bank robbers AND those who are chasing them
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tjantus — 18 years ago(August 17, 2007 11:35 PM)
"Dillinger" is a pretty good movie, but it takes even worse liberties with not only the story, but with the historical figures than "Bonnie & Clyde" does. I love good gangster movies, too, but both of these were a let-down, and compare to "Bonnie & Clyde", this one comes off as a made-for TV Tuesday night "special". It had a great cast, but the script was drivel by comparison. Sorry to disagree with y'all, but there it is.
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neil-124 — 17 years ago(July 17, 2008 03:36 PM)
I guess my predisposed liking for this movie over "Bonnie and Clyde" has to do with the stories I heard all my growing up life about Dillinger and his family.
My dad recalled seeing the bandit once when he was a little boy in Plainfield IN and the stir Dillinger's passing through town caused.
A lot of liberties were taken in the making of "Dillinger" and Ben Johnson is about twice the size of Melvin Purvis, but he was perfect in this role. And of course there couldn't have been a better choice than legendary Warren Oates as Dillinger himself. He really put himself into the character and ran with it.
Great supporting cast in this movie too, it's hard to beat Harry Dean Stanton, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Dreyfuss, and Steve Kanaly.
Of course "Bonnie and Clyde" has Dub Taylor, so I like that one too but it seems a little too polished compared to the grittier "Dillinger".
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tgladek — 17 years ago(October 08, 2008 10:44 PM)
Dillinger is my favorite, although I do like Bonnie and Clyde. I think it's because I think the casting in Dillinger was far superior to that of Bonnie and Clyde. But, that's just my preference.
Warren Oates is just so "present" on screen and Ben Johnson totally nails the earnestness and morality of Melvin Purvis. Steve Kanaly was perfect and Cloris Leachman was great (a little over the top). And, Michelle Phillips simply glowed (a fine match for Faye Dunaway).
I like the "grittier" movies myself; I'm a huge fan of Sam Peckinpah who frequently cast Johnson and Oates.
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Ernie Pyle — 16 years ago(April 26, 2009 01:44 PM)
Count me in; I liked it better, too. I also believe this is due to John Milius. He has a good track record of these type of historical dramas: Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy Bean, The Wind and the Lion, Geronimo, and Rough Riders. He's a rare conservative in Hollywood and pro-NRA ala Charlton Heston. A few liberties aside, the prodution design was top notch and just had that authentic look and feel of the Depression-era '30's.
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stick500 — 16 years ago(November 22, 2009 05:58 PM)
No way! As much as I love gangster movies and the Dillinger story, this movie doesn't even come close to B&C. Film historians (as well the critics at the time and box office numbers) will overwhelmingly agree with me. Yeh, Oates is a great Dillinger look-alike and an awesome actor and does a fine job in this movie, but B&C simply was memorable in so many more ways. Also, it marked a watershed moment in film history as that was the first movie to ever combine lighthearted scenes with all-out violence, setting a new style for Hollywood from '67 on out. In addition, its success launched the careers of Beatty, Dunaway, Wilder and Hackman all in one fell swoop.
Neither movie gets any extra credit for historical accuracy, but Dillinger really goes overboard with some of the fiction thruout the movie. Besides, for the guys out there, have you ever really taken a good look at Faye Dunaway in 1967?
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stick500 — 16 years ago(November 22, 2009 06:13 PM)
Bonnie and Clyde;
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #42 Greatest Movie of All Time.
Ranked #5 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June 2008.
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porfle — 16 years ago(December 09, 2009 11:55 AM)
DILLINGER is an awesome gangster movie with a great cast. But BONNIE & CLYDE is better.
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MikeyEvan — 12 years ago(July 06, 2013 12:57 PM)
I just didn't like the overly Liberal tone of "Bonnie and Clyde" Authority = bad Desperadoes = good Fun movie though Dillinger had a Conservative tone but not to the extent to make you hate the bad guys and or made the good guys look like saints.
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joe_538 — 12 years ago(August 26, 2013 01:37 PM)
Agreed, Bonnie and Clyde seemed to give the message, "Do whatever you want, and anyone who tries to stop you is wrong." It also made Clyde impotent, failed to acknowledge Bonnie had a husband in prison, didn't include her smuggling a gun to Clyde when he was in jail, and gave her a 60's hairdo. Dillinger is more honest to history.
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marbleann — 16 years ago(August 11, 2009 12:05 PM)
Me too. I thought I would be killed for saying I did not understand the big fuss about Bonnie and Clyde. The tv movie I thought was better. I just can't get past Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the leads. If Vogue made movies it would be this. The most memorable part of B&C was Estelle Parsons yelling. I think even the St Valentines Day Massacre was better. Jason Robins was having a great time with his role as Capone and Oates was with Dillinger. With B&C you just got 2 posers.