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 Golden Oldie Oct 23, 2009
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has meant a lot to the western film genre. It's spawned the Speghetti Western films, started the 'buddy-film' movement, and ditched the tradtional western music for a more contemporary one.
BC&SK is really the OG of the buddy films. Loosely based on historical facts, this is a tale of two friends out agianst the world. With the duo of then-superstar Paul Newman and up and coming sensation Robert Redford, the acting is superb. The writing is very good; just funny enough to be above a sitcom, but not so much that it's a comedy.
A great deal of detail is brough, I love the sepia tone montage, desperado shoot-outs and the variety of settigns. While BC&SK did break major ground, it stays simple and is face value with it's message. The perfect movie to just relax with.
 butch cassidy and the sundance kid Oct 19, 2009
Classic performance with true wit thru out.A favorite that stands tall for all time.
The film arrived in a timely manner,and was packaged well.The experience of your service was wonderful and we plan to order more in the future.
Classic American Western movie, with two huge stars... Oct 02, 2009
Thank you, Amazon, for these buying opportunities that are also agreeably priced. I have a need to enjoy, at will, the best movies I've ever seen, over and over. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with Newman and Redford is a great artwork; one of my favorite American Westerns. This DVD is superb in quality and was delivered promptly. Thanks again, Amazon. Best Regards; Adisa Achaki.
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 Let's be real here; this is not `Top 100' anything material... Sep 22, 2009
Chuck this up to one of those films I just `don't get', `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' is not a bad movie, but it deserves no where near the praise and prestige it has garnered. The uneven quality of the production, as well as the redundancy of most of the scenes, leaves this one feeling incomplete overall. The performances are decent (with one exception) and the pacing is steady (but nothing remarkable), but the actual scripting is where the film, for me, falls apart. It comes off like a serious of similar situations and overly long extended sequences that needed major trimming, and some extra meat to make them even remotely necessary.
I'm not a huge fan of the Western to begin with, but I have come to appreciate the depth attributed to some of these films, especially in recent years (07's Jesse James epic was one of the most visually as well as mentally stimulating films I've ever seen), but this dusty film is just that; dusty.
The film tells of Cassidy and Kid's turn from chasers to chased as a rival gang decides to hunt them down. The film is really an endless chase scene that starts off rather exciting but descends into aggravating as nothing new is added to the pot. They retreat to the hills, then to Bolivia, but even that is not far enough away to escape their enemies. Between Cassidy's gung-ho optimism and Kid's meticulous realism, they make for a team to be recon with, but the film doesn't really make them out to be that smart. You'd expect a lot more out of these two, and the script could have made for a more convincing comradeship; but it fails to do so.
I loved the partnering of Redford and Newman in `The Sting' (which, unsurprisingly, was also directed by George Roy Hill), but here they don't have the chemistry needed to sell this. I think that the script has to do with that, since they aren't really given anything interesting to work with, but I think that Redford and Newman's approach to their characters made it hard for the two of them to connect. They are so different that they seem mismatched. In `The Sting' they have similarly contrasting personalities, but the script is evenly balanced between the two characters and helps create a common ground between them; here though, there is just a sharp separation that makes them appear as if they were from two different films altogether. Newman is effortless as the jovial leader; but Redford's nervous seriousness engulfs his scenes and makes Newman appear out of place. They just don't really work here together.
They are kind of uncomfortable.
I also wasn't a fan of Hill's approach to this film. `The Sting' had a layer of fun that permeated the film and made it seem exciting. That fun though, NEVER took away from the tension he was building. Here, Hill had a chance to create an intense film with layers of humor but instead he went with an awkward approach to his humor that resulted in awfully ridiculous sequences like that of Newman riding a bicycle while `Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' plays in the background.
Bad move.
I loved the opening of the film; the gritting sense of realism that was laced with an effortless humor that reflected the times perfectly; but once the sepia overtones were stripped from the film and the actual `movie' started it quickly descended into mediocre territory.
I expected more from a film that ranks on AFI's `Top 100 Films of All Time'.
Just like I remembered it Sep 12, 2009
The Blu0ray version is beautiful and I had forgotten how good this movie was. Hope "lazy" Hollywood doesn't EVER do a remake of this one
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