Bonnie and Clyde [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Bonnie and Clyde [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: The most classic of classic movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite film of all time, and for good reason. Watching it again today, I realized that there is not one scene in Bonnie and Clyde that could have been cut. Every single scene is essential for character or plot development. This movie does not spell things out for you; it shows you things and lets you draw your own conclusions. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty's performances are simply incredible; so are everyone else's. There is not one bad actor in the batch, not even among the extras. The film has an authentic look: apparently it was filmed in towns where the real Bonnie and Clyde visited some thirty years earlier. Criminals can feel and love and laugh and hurt too, just as much as any law-abiding person, and this movie will remind you of that. You will be as frustrated with Blanche as Bonnie is; you will grin tolerantly at Buck's milk joke; you will gasp at the carnage and feel your heart soften at the naive sweetness of C.W. Moss.
This is a must-see movie for anyone who enjoys good acting, plotting, filming, editing, scripting, music and scenery. One of the best films ever made.
Movie Review: What was so exciting long ago and seems a bit tarnished now
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was a cult movie of my college years. I saw it more than one time. I was taken with it without quite understanding 'why' and was too carried away with the general enthusiasm the people around me had for the movie.
Bonnie and Clyde are 'cool'. They are outlaws with style. Warren Beatty's inarticulate toughness, and the brash beauty of Faye Dunaway are 'fire'. This is a beautiful love story, with the reluctant shy Clyde wakened to manhood by the audacious and poetry- writing Bonnie. They rob banks with the assistance of a highly entertaining crew . There are highjinks and fun and yet great tension in the gang when things go wrong.
But above all there is the violence, the violence which has its climax in the Feds finishing off Bonnie and Clyde in the famed slow- motion scene where their car is riddled with hundreds of bullets.
A great part of the spirit of the movie is the banjo-music which speeds them on their capers.
Considering this movie with the distance of years I remember a certain unease which I felt with it. Too much violence and too much celebration of violence even when the good- bad guys Bonnie and Clyde are up to it.
This is a kind of movie I am unable to enjoy now. There is too much real violence in the world. The sight of fictional violence reminds of the horrible events which transpire in the real world.
And it raises in my mind a moral question, the question of whether it is right to take pleasure in such violence even if is only violence on the screen.
Movie Review: "but it's death for bonnie and clyde"
Summary: 5 Stars
warren beatty(who also produced) and faye dunaway star as the title charters in this still haunting movie about being poor and wanting more than you can have. b&c both fit that mold,young and looking for more action than their lives were giving them.when they met it set in motion a chain of events that would take them to places they had never been but at a steap price.
while the film starts out as just two wild kids out for a good time and even a few laughs slowly you begin to see that the "game" they are playing is getting out of hand.with clyde's brother and wife in tow along with c.w. moss(buck'clyde's brother is played by gene hackman estele parsons plays buck's shrill wife and michael j. pollard is c.w.)the gang sets out to rob banks across the soutwest. the fun turns deadly after one of their hideouts is found and a shootout takes place. a policeman is killed and now the fun becomes a fight to stay alive. from this moment on the violeance is turned up and the humor of the movie is replaced with the grim truth that the people we are watching are doomed and we can do nothing to stop it.the shootout become blood things as cops and even buck and his wife are shot. the death of buck is one of the most heart breaking death you will ever see and hackman and parsons are stuning in their last few frames of film.
being shot and badly wounded them selves, bonnie and clyde hide out at c.w.'s fathers farm, which sets up the final shootout, an all out bloodbath that is shot in slow motion and leaves you just limp with saddness of the two lives that wre wasted .
a true classic and should be in everyones collection
Movie Review: A landmark it is...
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I had decided that we would broaden our horizons and watch some films that got critical aclaim before our birth (and beings we were born in 85 we have a lot to choose from) so the first year we chose from was 67 and the first film we watched was Bonnie and Clyde. It's refered to as the landmark film of the 60's and I see why. As the first film to recieve an R rating (which is less than a PG-13 compaired to todays standards) it was one of the first films to showcase violence with bloody results. The story (loose as it may be) follows real life outlaws Bonnie and Clyde (played by Beaty and Dunaway) as they run from the law acompanied by a auto mech. C.W. (Pollard) and Clydes brother (Hackman in a roll that should have landed him an oscar) and his unwilling wife (played by Parsons in a roll I can't believe won her an oscar!) We see as they run from the law, but moreso we see as they grow as people in their relationships with one another and we see that what first attracted them to each other is what kept them going strong...this is seen when Bonnie and Clyde are lying in bed and Bonnie asks Clyde, if he could wake up a free man with no record, what would he do? He proceeds to say that he would do things differently, but as he elaborates you can see that his plan is still to be an outlaw. Bonnie turns away, obviously dissapointed, but she gives way to a smile, because this is the man she loves, and if he were any different she may not love him. I thought, for the time, everything was top notch. You cant compare this film, at least the acting and effects, to films of today for the caliber is not there. But, for shear story and production, Bonnie and Clyde was ahead of the times and desearved the praise it recieved. Faye Dunaway was brilliant and beautiful, and while Warren came off a bit stiff sometimes and Parsons was downright dreadfull, Hackman was brilliant and Beaty had his good scenes (like when he reads in the paper that he left his brother to die). What I also liked about the film was that, instead of playing Bonnie and Clyde as heartless criminals you can see how things really got blown out of perportion. You can see how they were linked to robberies they never commited mainly becuase there was no one else to accuse, and you can see how Bonnie starts to miss her mother deeply, and when she encounters her again you can read in her eyes the regret for starting her life in crime, especially when her mother says that she better keep running for if she were to stop she would be killed. Bonnie never intending all of this to happen, and for that matter, neither did Clyde, but one bad choice after another adds up, and the ending for Bonnie and Clyde was just as she predicted..."It's death for Bonnie and Clyde."Movie Review: Sad
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a sad movie--not for the bad things that happen in the movie but because this is a story about two young people who treated life in general as a big joke. They acted nonchalantly and carelessly about their own lives, and they killed with reckless abandon. This movie is also sad because it appears that the "good guys" who wanted justice were almost glory seekers who just wanted to say that they shot Bonnie and Clyde.
Movies like this are good to watch sometimes, I think. One can be reminded that we really do have things good. I do not think that Bonnie and Clyde were glorified in this film, and in the end they got what they truly deserved.
There were two scenes that were intensely violent and caused me to shudder, yet they were not violent just to be violent. I have seen pictures of the car that Bonnie and Clyde were shot in, and it appears as if the movie is pretty accurate in that regard.
Watch this movie as a warning what young people are capable of in the desire for thrills and glory--and be thankful!