Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I just watched The Highwaymen

Pretty good. I'd give it 4 out of 5. If you're looking for non-stop action, this ain't your thing. The shootout is anti-climatic. It's more of a character study/history type thing without being anything like a documentary. It's not Hatfields and McCoys. The thing that jumped out at me was how subdued and gentlemanly Hamer and his sidekick were. Probably pretty realistic.

Planning to watch it tonight.

Completely, TOTALLY off topic...but I gotta ask about your avatar. I'm thinking that's a famous golfer and that I should be able to remember the name, but damned if I can and it's driving me nuts. Help me out!

I'm about half way through it right now.

I thought it was good, watched it this morning.

Y’all talking about the original or a new version?

It's a pic of myself. I don't know if I'm famous for golfing.

Original? This is a new Netflix movie with Keven Costner and Woody Harrelson. It's about Frank Hamer's pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde. It all focuses on Law Enforcement and nothing on Bonnie and Clyde. They're just faceless killers that need to be put down like mad dogs according to the government. It does show how they are heroes to the people. I wonder if Hamer's family was okay with his portrayal. In the movie, Hamer is not portrayed as a cold blooded killer, but lots of people seem to view him that way in it.

The movie Happy Gilmore could have been about me, but then I don't play hockey neither.

Costner gave a better performance than I expected.

Acting looks pretty hokey on the coming attractions.

It wasn't bad. Costner was better than usual. Woody Harrelson played himself.

Kathy Bates portraying the Governor was pretty good. I thought she played a scumbag politician accurately.

It's really more a refutation of the "old men are dangerous" mindset prevalent on the 'fire. The older I get the less dangerous I feel and I think that's pretty accurate and a realistic assessment for most guys. These two could barely get her done anymore and in that way, I think it was a pretty good movie.

Yep we watched it as a family last night same thing stood out to me.

His trip to the gun store was like a dream to me literally.

That BAR...

I think it was on DeFlave's thread about this show coming out...I argued that there wouldn't be many gunstores with those type guns around. I get your dream, but as far as the movie was concerned, I think it was highly unrealistic and may have been an anti-gun thing. They did talk about how Bonnie and Clyde got their own military guns from an arsenal. I expect that Hamer got his the same way.

Good movie. Wife enjoyed it too. Thankfully, there were no lesbian/gay scenes to endure as we had been typically seeing out of Hollywood/Netflix for the "righting" of historical events.

I thought it did a good job of showing the popular support for B&C and the common people's discontent/disgust with banksters/politicians for getting them into the depression. Too, a look behind the scenes at political motivation, as the governor thought only of her "optics" for the end result.

My question is this and I am not any kind of a historian--had believed the killing of B&C was more of a thought out roll-by rather than a complete stop?

I worked all morning in the yard and fell asleep halfway thru watching it in the afternoon I am going to rewatch it today, I liked what I saw.

I gotcha that makes sense I hadn’t thought of it that way.