"Public Enemies"

[dal4018]

Marlow did you want to more footage of Dillinger's childhood if so me too it would have given me more insight into Dillinger and why he became the person he was.

I would have settled for ANYthing giving us a clue 'who' Dillinger was. As it is, both he and Purvis are uninvolving characters in a brutish Greek tragedy.

Me too Marlow would have liked to seen more about his childhood too show why he became a bankrobber.They painted him as flamboyant,smooth and the real Dillinger was anything but.

[Marlow]

I am going to take 4 and 8 year old grandsons to "Ice Age 3" tomorrow to recover.

Hey, me too! (6yo gs)

[lonewolf]

I was "influenced" into drowsing through "Cheri", the ultimate period piece "chic flick" tonight, instead of Public Enemies.
I am going to take 4 and 8 year old grandsons to "Ice Age 3" tomorrow to recover.

[Marlow]

Marlow did you want to more footage of Dillinger's childhood if so me too it would have given me more insight into Dillinger and why he became the person he was.

I would have settled for ANYthing giving us a clue 'who' Dillinger was. As it is, both he and Purvis are uninvolving characters in a brutish Greek tragedy.

[dal4018]

Saw it this evening - what a monstrous waste of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who were essentially reduced to a smirk and a blank stare respectively. Even the cinematography was atrocious as it looked like a 1970s soap opera, with the strange close-ups and cheesy videotape. Michael Mann did MUCH better when he did TV's Miami Vice. We get virtually zero connection to either Dillinger or Purvis, as they are presented to us. I kept expecting for things to 'pick up' and they just never did.

Marlow did you want to more footage of Dillinger's childhood if so me too it would have given me more insight into Dillinger and why he became the person he was.

[paulthefan]

anytime someone saves me 2 hours of wasted time in a movie theater I feel indebt...Marlow comes through again.

But marknhj would tell you to RUSH down to the theater right now and see a sure-fire Oscar winner, just cuz I panned it! :twisted:

I know who to trust and since my risk strategy (kind of minmax) is very conservative, Id rather miss 2 good ones than to see 1 bad one.... I consider a bad review precious.

[Marlow]

anytime someone saves me 2 hours of wasted time in a movie theater I feel indebt...Marlow comes through again.

But marknhj would tell you to RUSH down to the theater right now and see a sure-fire Oscar winner, just cuz I panned it! :twisted:

[paulthefan]

Saw it this evening - what a monstrous waste of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who were essentially reduced to a smirk and a blank stare respectively. Even the cinematography was atrocious as it looked like a 1970s soap opera, with the strange close-ups and cheesy videotape. Michael Mann did MUCH better when he did TV's Miami Vice. We get virtually zero connection to either Dillinger or Purvis, as they are presented to us. I kept expecting for things to 'pick up' and they just never did.

anytime someone saves me 2 hours of wasted time in a movie theater I feel indebt...Marlow comes through again.

[Marlow]

Saw it this evening - what a monstrous waste of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who were essentially reduced to a smirk and a blank stare respectively. Even the cinematography was atrocious as it looked like a 1970s soap opera, with the strange close-ups and cheesy videotape. Michael Mann did MUCH better when he did TV's Miami Vice. We get virtually zero connection to either Dillinger or Purvis, as they are presented to us. I kept expecting for things to 'pick up' and they just never did.

[dal4018]

to dovetail with the opening of the movie, SF Chron guy gave his choices for the 10 best screen mobsters ever. Not a bad list, IMHO

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 187FPO.DTL

Missing from at least the honorable mention list has to be Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death, but I did catch end of Scarface the other night and agree with the No. 1.

GH another name was missing from the honorable mention list Lawrence Fishburne's portrayal of legendary Harlem Mobster Ellsworth"Bumpy"Johnson in "Hoodlum"and Al Pacino's portrayal of Michael Corleone in the Godfather especially the Kiss Of Death scene with the family rat Fredo

[gh]

to dovetail with the opening of the movie, SF Chron guy gave his choices for the 10 best screen mobsters ever. Not a bad list, IMHO

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 187FPO.DTL

Missing from at least the honorable mention list has to be Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death, but I did catch end of Scarface the other night and agree with the No. 1.

[dal4018]

Lonewolf saw this flick yesterday Depp's performance was understated but effective definitely more style than substance with a dash of humor in it as well.One critic said that they enjoyed the fact that no visual referrences were made about Dillinger's childhood I personally feel that it should have been apart of this movie.

[dal4018]

I was a child and only vaguely aware of the exploits of John Dillinger when he was running amok. He was a contemporary of my parents and while they did not condone his crimes, he and Pretty Boy Floyd were, in fact, sort of folk heros in rural Depression era America.

Just as my paternal grandparents and great-grandparents , who were friends and neigbors with Jesse James family in NW Missouri, were pretty ambivalent about Jesse.

When I think of the era Bonnie and Clyde come to mind.

I went to grade school with a niece of great niece of Bonnie's.

WOW ANOTHER ONE YOUR THE SECOND PERSON TO HAVE KNOWN SOMEONE RELATED TO ROMANTICIZED CRIMINALS OF THAT ERA .

[TrackDaddy]

I was a child and only vaguely aware of the exploits of John Dillinger when he was running amok. He was a contemporary of my parents and while they did not condone his crimes, he and Pretty Boy Floyd were, in fact, sort of folk heros in rural Depression era America.

Just as my paternal grandparents and great-grandparents , who were friends and neigbors with Jesse James family in NW Missouri, were pretty ambivalent about Jesse.

When I think of the era Bonnie and Clyde come to mind.

I went to grade school with a niece of great niece of Bonnie's.

[dal4018]

Who were those unfortunate deaths?

Wiki knows all.

Your right just came from there it mentions two women getting wounded.