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lizardbeth) wrote2009-07-09 11:00 pm
lizardbeth) wrote2009-07-09 11:00 pm
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Public Enemies
We saw Public Enemies tonight.
SO AWESOME.
If you liked Heat or any other Michael Mann film, if you like film noir (which it's not, not really, but they're sort of related), if you like Johnny Depp or Christian Bale, or crime thrillers, or men in fedoras with BIG FUCKING GUNS SHOOTING THINGS AND ROBBING BANKS, or period pieces, it is so well done. (if you like none of those things? um, possibly not for you)
And okay, the chronology is messed up, so do not take it as history, it's not. But still, it takes advantage of the real history to tell a concise story of Dillinger's crime spree, the girlfriend who rode with him, and how he was brought down (and also the simultaneous rise of the FBI and the spread of nationwide crime syndicates as side stories).
The accents are amusing to track - there's CB channeling Purvis' southern, David Wenham doing American, and Marion Cotillard pretending, well, less of an accent than she has in real life.
But you know what? I have something better. I have pretty pics from the movie.
aren't they cute?
Hats for men should come back. y/y?
also, hanging on the outside of cars shooting guns, not safe, but AWESOME.
"What keeps you up at night, Mister Dillinger?" (asks Agent Purvis)
"Coffee."
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SO AWESOME.
If you liked Heat or any other Michael Mann film, if you like film noir (which it's not, not really, but they're sort of related), if you like Johnny Depp or Christian Bale, or crime thrillers, or men in fedoras with BIG FUCKING GUNS SHOOTING THINGS AND ROBBING BANKS, or period pieces, it is so well done. (if you like none of those things? um, possibly not for you)
And okay, the chronology is messed up, so do not take it as history, it's not. But still, it takes advantage of the real history to tell a concise story of Dillinger's crime spree, the girlfriend who rode with him, and how he was brought down (and also the simultaneous rise of the FBI and the spread of nationwide crime syndicates as side stories).
The accents are amusing to track - there's CB channeling Purvis' southern, David Wenham doing American, and Marion Cotillard pretending, well, less of an accent than she has in real life.
But you know what? I have something better. I have pretty pics from the movie.
aren't they cute?
Hats for men should come back. y/y?
also, hanging on the outside of cars shooting guns, not safe, but AWESOME.
"What keeps you up at night, Mister Dillinger?" (asks Agent Purvis)
"Coffee."
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