Do we really need another Bonnie and Clyde movie?
yes, of course we do
Its more about aging tough guys from the vanishing Old West than is is about Bonnie and Clyde. I'm surprised Harrelson was one of the producers. It's definitely not a chick flick or a film about grown men dancing around in their pajamas beating up aliens.
Do we “need” any at all?
BTW I saw this and it wasn’t bad.
Oh, and bythe way...... LIFE on netflix is a great nitty gritty Korean crime series
Not really about B&C. More about the lawmen that got them. I enjoyed it.
From this perspective.. . well, I want to see it.
The climactic shootout was also dealt with briefly in Stephen Hunter's latest novel G-Men.
Frank Hamer is a legend and probably should be even more of one. He is also the man who caught Lyndon Johnson red handed stealing his first senate election.
The family of Hamer successfully sued the makers of the Faye Dunnaway/Warren Beaty film. I think the amount of the settlement was never disclosed.
It better be accurate. Warren Oates in Dillinger that was a lie. Beattie’s Bonnie and Clyde years ago was a lie. If you read the histories of these two groups you will see that Hollywood just takes all kinds of liberties and presents movies that are action packed falsehoods.
I’d rather watch a documentary.
The producers did a fantastic job of keeping the attention the Texas Rangers pursuing them. You see Bonnie & Clyde’s faces for all of six or seven seconds at the end. So it really isn’t a B&C movie.
It’s a great detective movie set in the era before modern communications and forensics. It’s also a great showdown between the 1,000 man manhunt by the feds and the two old, worn-out Texas Rangers. The Feds, naturally, think the old guys are way outdated, should stay in retirement, and get out of the way.
So it’s a fun view of crusty old highly experienced lawmen using honed deductive reasoning skills against new upstart G-Men armed with the most modern technology but little experience and not much common sense.
There’s only been ones that focus on the bad guys, not on the heroes that took them down.