Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey

Two 19th-century train robbers keep one step ahead of the law until finally tracked down in Bolivia.

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  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    The best buddy film ever made. It?s got everything you could ever want in a film, I could watch this film over and over again and never get tired of it! Classic!
  • danperry17
    September 14, 2009
    danperry17
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is that rare Hollywood film that manages to at once be entertaining and a piece of art... that "Art House" is a genre in itself should tell us just how rare this is.

    The Western meets the buddy comedy meets the biopic in this one, and George ...( read more)Roy Hill's sepia-toned stills combined with a touching soundtrack come to life like no other film. Every shot is beautiful, every colour magnificent, and every line a good one: even the ones that are deliberatly hokey.

    Paul Newman is good, sure, but Robert Redford steals the show, arguably his best performance. The supporting cast holds its own, and the result is one of the greatest films you will ever see. It's sharp, but it's accessible: well-plotted, believable, and yet completely enchanting as well. It's a fine line to walk, and Butch does it better than 99.9% of films ever made. Simply amazing. Watch this movie as soon as you can.
  • allan913
    September 14, 2009
    allan913
    An non-stop enjoyable adventure. An excellent movie. A wonderfiul film that packs lots of laughs, romance, thrills and plenty of action. One of the greatest westerns ever made. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are fantastic. These two redefine the standard buddy movie and deliver w...( read more)ith amasing chemistry that makes me love them more and more everytime i watch this film. This is one classic film that will be remebered for years.
  • mrpopcorn
    August 13, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble."

    Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

    REVIEW

    A truly revisionist western in the best sen...( read more)se of the term, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was one of the quintessential American movies of the sixties; a huge commercial success and showered with Oscars. Over the years it has gone somewhat out of fashion but it is still a ground-breaking classic no matter how you look at it. It moves seamlessly between seriousness and a beautifully honed comic sensibility continually buoyed up by one of the greatest of all screenplays by William Goldman, too jokey for some, perhaps, but clever, myth-making and intelligent and while many movies that seemed so much of their period or which wore their influences a little too obviously, "Butch Cassidy..." certainly isn't one of them.

    Admittedly Newman and Redford coast their way through the film; they look like they are having too much fun. This is laconic acting at its most laconic, but Conrad Hall's photography is still stunning so the film looks as good as it sounds. I have no doubt that George Roy Hill's subsequent Newman/Redford pairing "The Sting"'s best picture Oscar was one given to make up for "Butch's" failure to take home the big prize.
  • sononothing
    June 15, 2009
    sononothing
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid isn't your basic western. They're not patrolling the west killing Injuns and protecting homesteaders. They're robbers. They rob trains and banks, cavort at cat houses and practically share a local school mom, but people still love the hell out o...( read more)f them. Except for H.E. Hariman of the Union-Pacific railroad who puts together a "super posse" to eliminate Butch and Sundance because they are constantly robbing his trains. What ensues in the middle of the film is one of the greatest chases minus automobiles in film. Eventually the pair escape from their pursuers and wind up in Bolivia with the school teacher walking a tightrope between going straight and continuing their thievery.

    Paul Newman is Butch Cassidy and plays him as the likable guy that most of Newman's roles turn out to be. He plays Butch not as a wisecracking good old boy, but a cynical guy trying to find the bigger and better deal. Newman fills the role perfectly and creates another trademark persona to his long resume. A young Robert Redford plays Sundance, who is deadly with a gun and seems cold to the world when the situation calls for it, but is just as cynical as Butch in private. Redford balances the need to over act or under act as the script calls for by keeping everything in tune with a performance that is smooth throughout the film. Katharine Ross is the glue that holds the boys together as Etta Place, the school teacher the two almost share between each other. Butch is like an older brother and Sundance is her love, though sometimes the roles seem a little blurry. Ross tends to be stiff at certain points in the film but it doesn't take away from the performance or the film as a whole.

    Directed by George Roy Hill, who would garner an Oscar a few years later for pairing Redford and Newman up again in The Sting, gives us a film that honors the westerns that come before it (especially John Ford during the super posse chase) but builds the film into something that the world had not really seen before: the buddy movie. All of those buddy films that filed past the following forty years can tip their hats to Butch and Sundance, just as this film can slightly tip its hate to the Hope and Crosby road pictures from 20 years before it. The film benefits from George Roy Hill not making a straight bio-pic and going with this route and turns what would have been a rank in file film into something extraordinary.

    Butch and Sundance is one of those classic films that not only benefits from its substance, but it also gains more momentum from the era that it was released. Rebels were a hot commodity in the year that Woodstock happened and anti-authority movies were what was selling (consider a year later that George S. Patton would be called the first rebel and win an Oscar for George C. Scott). Beyond that, Butch and Sundance gives us two great actors at their best in the leads and a finely constructed film that remains a classic and ironically a favorite for many people who don't even care for westerns.
  • CptFG
    December 22, 2009
    CptFG
    Conrad L Hall's masterful cinematography stands out in an otherwise underwhelming film.
  • emotionslatifa
    December 11, 2009
    emotionslatifa
    Great western, one of the best
  • samanthaseaotter
    November 25, 2009
    samanthaseaotter
    Didn't like this near as much as The Sting.
  • Ziroana
    November 25, 2009
    Ziroana
    really good and exciting
  • YoghurtTheWise
    November 22, 2009
    YoghurtTheWise
    "I'll go."

    "This is no time for bravery....I'll let ya."
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