Comments on: Public Enemies: Michael Mann’s Big Sad

By: K. Signal Eingang

K. Signal Eingang — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:52:37 +0000

Hey, I still get that haircut. It’s a great haircut.

Also people with fauxhawks need to be set on fucking fire. Just in case you didn’t know.

By: FOARP

FOARP — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:25:08 +0000

Plus – Eileen managed to get through an entire Harry Potter review without breaking out in a chorus of “The Guns of the IRA”, so I guess she just can’t be Dolan.

By: FOARP

FOARP — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:23:19 +0000

@Blowback – Only he already had a depression era flop with Cinderella Man. Lightning doesn’t strike twice.

The whole Michael Collins bit is pure Dolan, but from the way it’s just shoe-horned in there it looks like an edit.

By: blowback

blowback — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:09:07 +0000

Looking at that picture of John Dillinger, it struck me that Russell Crowe would be almost perfect in the role.

http://handson.provocateuse.com/images/photos/russell_crowe_07.jpg

By: Nestor

Nestor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:46:58 +0000

Anyone really give a damn about the real identity of whoever writes what? It’s all just words on a screen as far as I’m concerned.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:27:09 +0000

I thought the movie was interesting in the way it was shot, but essentially boring overall. Depp was good, but Christian Bale’s character was lifeless. I don’t blame Bale, except for taking the job in the first place, but anybody could’ve played his role. He doesn’t need to play second fiddle, and Bale is much better in roles where he doesn’t even have to try to impersonate anyone: Harsh Times is his best film. Rescue Dawn is not that far behind.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:26:10 +0000

On the other hand, this is a classic Dolan-esque line: “Beautiful haircut, that. Beats me why men ever stopped getting that haircut.”

On the other hand, Jones’ punctuation isn’t quite as odd as Dolan’s. Dolan, especially in Pleasant Hell, but also in his articles, constantly uses periods and sentence fragments rather than utilizing semi-colons, colons, and conjunctions. Lots of fragments in lieu of complex sentences in Dolan’s writing. Not that I’m complaining, as it’s still great.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:21:26 +0000

I don’t know; after years of reading Dolan’s stuff, I have an irrational, out-of-the-blue hatred for the English and a love of Irish freedom fighters. Maybe Dolan has a reason, but I don’t. I’m just a fan and I find myself co-opting his opinions based simply on the entertainment value of his prose (that and, as he mentioned in a lecture on the war nerd, Dolan’s writing demands to be taken as intuitively correct). It could be that Jones is just a fan.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:50:57 +0000

chrisv …

You do realize Jones and Bretcher have both done radio interviews and appear to be separate people? (Granted Bercher could be an exile impostor doing a bad Frenso accent, haha).

I mean they could have faked them somehow … but that does seem like a long walk to be taking.

By: nikhil

nikhil — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:48 +0000

Crudup who the fuck are you talking about? Like an amalgamation of all the famous brown people in the last 10 years?

By: FSB Agent 008

FSB Agent 008 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:31 +0000

Depp as Dillinger must be a total joke to begin with. Depp – like DiCaprio – is an eternal boy, while Dillinger is a man’s man. Dillinger looks old in his 20s, Depp looks young in his 40s. It’s a total mismatch. Depp should be playing artists, queers, whatever, just not the bank robbers of Al Capone era.

By: chrisv

chrisv — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:56:39 +0000

That was a decent review. Personally I liked the movie, but you are totally right that Dillinger does not seem to be having any fun in that movie. Anyways, I guess it helped that I did not know much about him before hand.

My main complaint about the movie is that the men (both robbers and G-men) seemed to look identical in their accurate 30′s outfits so it was sometimes hard to tell who was who (especially in the escape from the lodge scene).

I have one advice for you Eileen, or should I say John. Stop mentioning the IRA in every freaking article. It just proves that you are John Dolan. For example, after Gary Bretcher wrote a nice English bashing article, I was finally absolutely convinced that he is John Dolan (I harbored some doubts before).

I have read the Exile for almost 10 years now and have also read some of John’s books, so I am very well acquainted with the pure hatred Dolan has for the english and his love for Irish freedom fighters. Now its not that I disagree with you John. But if you are going to create a fictitious personality, try to follow through so that those personalities are more believable. It is hard to believe that all three of John Dolan, Gary Bretcher and Eileen Jones all have the same identical love for Irish revolutionaries and hatred for the British.

So yeah, it was really cool to think that there might be a hot girl somewhere that has that great Exile writing style, but you totally ruined it for me John.

By: Crudup

Crudup — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:03:28 +0000

Mysterious luck riding a bike and not falling, yes. How about hitting a skyscaper with a Boeing then establishing a TV channel and groupie girls courting, pot smoking house in the cave. Then getting hanged on TV. And THEN winning USA presidential election.

By: 16 Shells from a 30.06

16 Shells from a 30.06 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:16:08 +0000

In real life, his last words were said to be:

“You got me!”

Dunno if the movie followed suit or not…