I never thought much of his acting abilities, except for Heaven Can Wait, which he was pretty fair in. But his performance is just dreadful in this movie. Completley unrealistic, and amateurish. He serves much better as a director/producer. It's obvious that he only had a career due to his pretty-boy looks.
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he's good in MCCABE AND MS MILLER.
shareI liked him in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Bugsy and Reds. Though in Reds, Diane Keaton outacted him in their scenes together. He is a GREAT director and underrated actor I think. I think he was gave the best performance out of the entire cast in Bonnie and Clyde! So I don't know where you're getting that from.
Mama:They're all gonna laugh at you!
Carrie:For reals?Then I'll f*k them UP!
I'm not a huge fan of Warren Beatty either. However, I found his performance in Bonnie and Clyde to be very good. He's also terrific in The Parallax View and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (the latter is arguably his best performance).
"Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off!"
Agreed. Beatty is just distractingly horrible in this.
Paper deep. cliched acting.
I thought he was ... okay. I thought he would have taken Clyde in a different direction. There's so much that Warren could have with his character. I mean, for goodness sake, it's CLYDE BARROW that he was playing, not just some goon. But the way he portrayed him, it made Clyde look more like an idiodic fool than the type man he really was. Clyde had a heavy HEAVY history, and he was made out to be a sort of joke in this film.
I thought it was a little off putting the way Clyde (in the film) responded to Bonnie's poem. It should have been more endearing, and little more serious, a little more silent. They could have simply looked at each other and made the scene much more intense.
He just tried way too hard.
Faye, on the other hand, was perfect.
Disagree, but if that's how you feel, that's fine with me.
shareI usually think of Warren Beatty as a celebrity instead of an actor.
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