Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 16, 2009 20:12:07 GMT
Well, I enjoyed that!
Best film I've seen in the cinema this year so far anyway.
140 minutes of 1930s Chicago with Johnny Depp as serial bank-robber John Dillinger and Christian Bale as the FBI man sent to bring him down. Very atmospheric, very stylish, not too gory, not too sanitised, neither over- nor underplaying the sympathy for the criminal or dark side of the Feds. Some cracking scams, but not too unrealistic.
Yes, a decent gangster movie. Nothing new or ground-breaking, and it will be forgotten in due course. But solid enough.
And it showed a grown-up audience in the 1930s enjoying a black & white Looney Tunes cartoon at the pictures, so there.
Martin
Best film I've seen in the cinema this year so far anyway.
140 minutes of 1930s Chicago with Johnny Depp as serial bank-robber John Dillinger and Christian Bale as the FBI man sent to bring him down. Very atmospheric, very stylish, not too gory, not too sanitised, neither over- nor underplaying the sympathy for the criminal or dark side of the Feds. Some cracking scams, but not too unrealistic.
Yes, a decent gangster movie. Nothing new or ground-breaking, and it will be forgotten in due course. But solid enough.
And it showed a grown-up audience in the 1930s enjoying a black & white Looney Tunes cartoon at the pictures, so there.
Martin
