Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

(As usual with any review, this will have spoilers.) Bonnie and Clyde was directed by Arthur Penn and stars Warren Beatty as Clyde and Faye Dunway as Bonnie. The plot is a dramatic, gritty, romantic comedy.As you can see those are very opposite sub-genres but this movie pulls it off. It is about a duo of bank robbers and murderers in the Great Depression. "We rob banks, " as they say throughout this film to their "sidekicks." Bonnie and Clyde go out and rob a few small stores, the occasional bank and sometimes pop the head of a bank manager. They are not technically "bad" people they just do what they do for the money and what little money there was. One scene where they are robbing a bank they ask a man if the which was in the stand was theirs and he said yes. Clyde let him keep it. Death in this movie is shown darkly. They do not want to kill anybody but as the intensity rises they have no choice. The "sidekicks" they get are C. W. Moss who used to work in a gas station and Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche.They go and move to state to state in a circle so their crimes in on state won't go to the other. But the police act anyway and this starts the public enemy era. Bonnie and Clyde go through many typical romance dialogue but this dialogue transitions very quickly to gunfights with the law. They go around in the public nonchalantly but everyone reads the newspaper. The gunfights are intense. This movie makes you wonder if the characters you care for will die. The characters do see death right around the corner too. They are living the life where they have to flee from one place to another from guys with big guns and a lot of them. They are relieved this rather quickly but just try to forget or dismiss it but it is unavoidable. They know they are going to be killed for their actions and so do you. The questions come up when. When will they die? When you watch this movie I urge you not to see how much time is left or how far you are into the movie. This will take you out of the experience. And what an experience it is. This is truly an amazing film. This took two people that in the papers were described terrible people who will kill anyone on sight and made them seem like good people that just do what they do because they don't have money. They take money from the rich because they are poor. Some critics panned this movie for justification of criminals and at first Warner Brother's were not fans of the film. They didn't like it but Beatty had to beg for them to accept it. Good thing that they did. This movie broke some unofficial rules that film had at the time. They showed violence like non-other at the time. Not to mention it won two Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress which was Estelle Parsons playing Blanche (?????). What were they thinking!?! I thought she was the worst and most annoying actor there! But I digress this is truly a good/great/amazing/awesome/something. Watch this movie. It is extremely easy to find and its instantly streaming on Netflix. You can't miss this movie. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. Bonnie and Clyde
10/10

P.S. I know i'm really generous and stuff. I promise i'll have a good review about a bad movie (and give it a bad score) on the next review whenever I do it.

The Artist (2011)

[This review has spoilers, you have been warned.]The Artist is a silent black and white film made directed by Michel Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The Artist is about a famous silent black and white movie actor seeing the film industry change to sound instead of silence. His name is George Valentine. He meats a woman named Peppy Miller who he then invites to the world of cinema. Then the future arrives. Valentine's boss shows him a "Talkie" but Valentine rejects the "invention." You then see the fall of his career and in the mean time you see another career flourish: Peppy Miller. Miller has become a widespread success with the "Talkies." This actually happened to many silent actors. They could not evolve to the films with sound and caused many to lose their life. This movie was the winner of 7 Oscars including Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Picture. Now on to the actual review. When I walked into the theater I expected a masterpiece. I received nothing less. The style is what I think made this movie so special. But of course the story is what matters the most. It is great with compelling characters and good drama and suspense to keep it going. The interaction that the characters have with each other is charming and sometimes even depressing. Dujardin's and Bejo characters are charming and their interactions with each other are funny. A small flaw was that the dialogue cards that come up didn't give me enough time to read but that might just me.
9.5/10
Why not a 10? [KINDA SORTA A SPOILER] I am not giving this movie a ten because of its ending. If I was to make/finish this movie, I would have made it much darker and much more grittier BUT this is never the less a masterpiece. Watch this movie and even if you just don't like silent movies or this one doesn't interest you, you should still check it out. It won best picture for a reason.