Bonnie and Clyde

Certainly important as a landmark film in how it ushered in violence into mainstream Hollywood pictures, but age has weathered its impact and nothing else about the movie really knocks you out. Enjoyable, but its fellow violent contemporary, The Wild Bunch, holds up much, much better.

Very important in cinematic history for helping to usher in criminals as the heroes and its use of violence, but I just can't get myself to care about it all that much. Drags way too much.

Broke all sorts of new ground when it went so far as to show a woman riding in the front seat of a car. Supposedly, some audience members fainted. The visual proved too much for the masses and it wasn't until 1989 after Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for sitting in the back seat of an automobile that people were comfortable enough to see women in the front seat again.

It's interesting from a historical perspective how this film broke several Hollywood taboos and how it influenced the use of violence in years to come. It doesn't really hold up that well once Buck and his annoying wife show up, but it's still worth a look. Beatty and Dunaway have a lot of charisma and always managed to keep my attention.

CLYDE BARROW WAS IMPOTENT, BUT THIS MOVIE WASN'T