BETTER than 'Bonnie and Clyde'… Sorry folks!
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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.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies". -
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.