Posted on 04/03/2019 2:36:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It was a fabulous watch and I will watch it again! Loved every part of it and
noteworthy they purposely didn't show the faces of Bonnie nor Clyde throughout
the film until the end. You only saw their backs or from a distance.
Great watch indeed! and the lead actors were just great in their roles.
It’s good.
I enjoyed it. Wish I had all of that haul Costner left with from the Gun and Ammo store. That was some major firepower
I have not seen the movie but I have read a section from his autobiography. “I Am Frank Hamer”.
Hamer says he used a Remington model 8. He also said that he believed he killed Clyde with a single shot as the car lurched forward.
ah ok, thanks FRiend. I’ll check them out..
To Nancy and Chuck .. today's Bonnie and Clyde... Instead of banks, they are stealing from taxpayers...😀
I think that squares very completely with reality. If I remember the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie I think the gunshot scene went on for a couple of minutes. I really do believe they were shot with thousands and thousands of rounds.
Haven’t watched it yet but knowing how Netflix Originals are I’m sure there’s some sort of homo crap in it.
The robbery was December 1927 and concluded in November 1929 with a lynching.
My grandparents were there for the conclusion in Eastland, Texas 1929.
Definitely peaked my interest in the Texas Ranger's history.
It’s a fair portrayal of men of that time. I met Joaquin Jackson when he was with a West Texas sheriff transporting a prisoner down to Alpine on a change of venue.A quiet soft spoken no nonsense man.
The Santa Claus bank robbery in Cisco, Texas would make a great movie.
The robbery was December 1927 and concluded in November 1929 with a lynching.
My grandparents were there for the conclusion in Eastland, Texas 1929.
My Mom was a 13 year old girl living in Cisco at the time.
I watched it, thought it was really good.
Me too!
I loved RAKE, he is hilarious and a so non-pc Brit.
I haven’t seen it, yet, but I vividly remember when the original “Bonnie and Clyde” movie came out in the 70s, I believe, and some young people who saw it were interviewed. One in particular said, the “Bonnie and Clyde were nice and the police were mean!”
It is past time that these moral deviates are presented as they really were!
Yeah. I own the original on DVD. It was the beginning of he era of making characters more three dimensional. That is, “bad guys” are not ALL bad and good guys are not all good.
But many made false inferences from that. Heck, Hitler liked dogs. I suppose a movie focusing on his love of dogs and only barely touching on that whole Jew extermination thingee would make someone think he was generally a pretty nice guy.
One needs to see the whole picture, though. This new movie did a good job of presenting what was really going on. I like that the Bonnie and Clyde characters in the new movie were not really presented as “human”. They were presented as a cancer to be removed. And they WERE a cancer to be removed.
Sure, people hated the banks, but they simply ignored the very bad things the duo were doing because they didn’t feel they were at risk. In a way, one could argue that they were the inspiration for the movie, “Natural Born Killers”.
It says law enforcement fired 160 rounds into Bonnie and Clyde's car. Another website said 130, and yet another one simply said "over 100." Whatever the actual number, the pictures tell the story... I wouldn't have wanted to be on the receiving end!
I’m originally from North East Texas, B&C passed thru that area often. Have talked first and second hand to people that knew them. I have been told that Clyde’s big secret was not guns but that he could get a Model A Ford anywhere. He would not come into town on a main road that law enforcement might be watching but on some barely passable path. Also have been told that their reputation got so bad that police in small towns would leave if they heard they were coming. Bonnie was said to be much like in the B&C movie, pretty and crazy in a gun fight. I worked at a gas station they supposedly they had robbed, story was they let attendant fill up car, emptied cash register, then tipped attendant.
Hello All. All you who replied to my post.
OK, I watched it. Last night. It was good. Very good. Just like you all said it would be.
Except Woody Harrelson. He was good in No Country for Old Men. But was it their intent to have Maney pose as a half senile old drunk? Or is that just bad acting on Harrelson’s part?
Thanks again all for recommending I see this movie.
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