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Post by telegonus on Jan 8, 2019 7:36:44 GMT
Butch Cassidy is a fun movie. I must have seen it three, four times or more when it came out, 1969-70; and not because I was such a big fan of it but because they kept on running it in different theaters on a double bill with a newer film (I think that one was Little Big Man, not sure), and in stayed "in circulation" for well over a year after its release. Yet it never bored or disappointed me. After a while it came to feel like "movie muzak". Easy to watch. Katherine Ross was a joy to behold indeed. Newman and Redford had great screen chemistry and I wish they'd appeared together in more than just one film after that. Funny thing (to me): I don't think I've ever watched B & S on television, ever. Bits and pieces here and there. It may be the last movie in my life (i.e. most recent ) that I'm content to remember as what it was, have no desire to revisit. I had no complaints about it when it was new, have no desire to become an old dude nitpicker ("this scene worked, that one didn't", etc.,--and "why that goofy raindrops song,--in a western!--it's so Sixties", etc., et al). Anyway, it was excellent light entertainment, in the best sense of that term, and at that level it's a classic IMHO.
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 8, 2019 12:25:34 GMT
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