Carrol NaishNicholas Ray""sThey Live by Night (1949)with Farley Granger and Cathy O""DonnellSam Peckinpah""sThe Getaway (1972)starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGrawRobert Altman""sThieves Like Us (1974)- a remake of Ray""s film with Keith Carradine and Shelley DuvallTerrence Malick""sBadlands (1973)with Martin Sheen and Sissy SpacekJim McBride""sBreathless (1983)with Richard Gere and Valerie KapriskyTamra Davis""Guncrazy (1992)starring Drew Barrymore and James LeGrosOliver Stone""sNatural Born Killers (1994)with Juliette Lewis and Woody HarrelsonPlot SynopsisThe film""s opening is pivotal and expressionistic, quickly determining the young hero""s ultimate defeat and failure.Suddenly, Superman propelled Doomsday into outer space to continue the fight.The President ordered the firing of a nuclear megaton missile at the alien monster, although Secretary of Defense Swanwick expressed his disfavor.It""s walking amongst us...We""re dealing with a soulless killing machine driven by pure animal instinct").Brackett accused Loomis of writing books o earn "blood money" -- "I think you have created quite the masterpiece of a monster off the blood of this town, because monsters sell books." But hen, he again agrees to sacrifice and sidetrack his personal dreams as a victim of circumstance.Now forced to remain in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Xavier and his mutants (Banshee, Havok, Beast) returned o the mansion, where Charles had plans to open up an academy - only for mutants.