"Dillinger" Thread

Okay, did anyone watch it?

Link here.

I didn't love it. A bit too... um, Roger Corman-esque I guess. (I'm pretty sure it is a Roger Corman production.) All shootin' and yellin' "I'm John Dillinger, I'm immortal!"

One thing Public Enemies has all over this one (in addition to obvious stuff like the much bigger budget and much more authentic sets and locations) is that that film didn't seem nearly as episodic. It seemed to tell a story, more or less. Dillinger feels more like isolated scenes which aren't strongly connected to each other by a single story. Only the narration of Melvin Purvis even suggests a single story, and that's kind of a cheat.

The gunbattles weren't particularly well-done or bloody. I still have a half-hour to watch, so maybe they pick up. Still, I'm thinking about the slow-motion shoot-'em-ups of The Long Riders and thinking I'm not seeing anything here remotely like that.

But I still have a half-hour of it to watch, so I'll finish watching it.

posted by Ace at 06:58 PM

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