Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Pros: Chemistry, Cinematography, Humor
Cons: Incongruous score

“I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” Butch Most of What Follows is True – from prologue It seems like we always remember the good things - when someone is dead and gone we tend to think of the bright spots of ...

Pros: acting, script, cinematography
Cons: music

Some movies survive the test of time, others don’t. Sometimes choices made in regard to a film seem right for the time, and later on don’t hold up as well. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released in 1969. Then as now ...

Pros: Memorable for many reasons
Cons: Raindrops keep falling on my head.

How did those characters get into my wedding. They didn't crash it. They were invited. More in a bit. The year 1969 was an amazing year for me. I was in my late teens and a sports and movie fan. The NY METS won their first World Series. That was also ...

Pros: Pervasive irony mixed with humor.
Cons: Reality is stretched almost to the breaking point in places.

I think one of the reasons that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was such a stunning, classic hit almost 40 years ago, back in 1969, was that it was a dance of sunlight for American audiences in the dark and gloomy days of the Vietnam War. It ...

Pros: Goldman, Hill and the two unknowns!
Cons: None. Gold. Period.

My favorite Western, hands down, bar none is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Jeremiah Johnson being a very close second and Bite the Bullet, third). The interesting thing about Butch and the Kid is- if you time the violence/bullets- it's ...

Pros: An essentially true story told with great imagination and humor.
Cons: Some details in the movie, though often correct, strain credulity.

In the "Hole in the Wall Country" of Southern Montana and Northern Wyoming, they still talk of George "Butch" Cassidy and Lonny Longbaugh, aka "The Sundance Kid." For over 20 years, the pair robbed banks and trains. In fact, before they went East, and ...

Pros: Characters. Action. Script.
Cons: One montage a little tedious.

The sad fact of classics is that very few of them are perfect. "Morning Bell" on Radiohead's Kid A? They coulda done without it. An American in Paris' 20-minute closing sequence? Too long, and not very fun. But the reason that they're all ...

Pros: Good story line, Fabulous Acting
Cons: none

You know what? It just doesn't hurt to laugh anymore. Ya gotta love these guys, facing who knows what odds to become some of the most notorious bank robbers of all time. They never had a dime, everything they tried was botched, broken, mishapped (my...

Pros: a light hearted classic western
Cons: none

We all know that this film is a classic, but there is more to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid than meets the eye, more of that later. Everything to do with the film seems to set high standards. The pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the main ...

Pros: Newman and Redford. Redford and Newman. Oh yeah, it’s a great story too.
Cons: : I’ll explain the song thing in a minute, but it is annoying.

My husband and son love their “cowboy” movies. In fact, I purchased several VHS versions of old (1930s, 1940s) John Wayne movies that they will watch over and over. Me, I prefer something with a little more plausibility than these old chestnuts,...

Pros: Redford and Newman are great together. Super script. Great editing.
Cons: That stupid song!

The Coen brother's movie Fargo begins with the statement that it is based on a true story, but it was not. This movie begins with the promise that "Most of what follows is true." It delivers on that statement. The sepia tone film clips that begin the...

Pros: Newman, Redford, Ross, Hill, Goldman
Cons: That song by B.J. Thomas

Writer William Goldman (The Princess Bride, Year of the Comet) was so enamoured of the legend of the Sundance Kid that he used “Harry Longbaugh”, the Kid’s real name, as his pseudonym for a time. His screen play “The Sundance Kid and Butch...

Pros: Gorgeous cinematography
Cons: Bland and stiff

It's parasitic: five days after you've heard it it'll still be rolling around inside your noggin, forever deciding which tune you'll hum as you take out the garbage or stroll down the sidewalk. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (performed by...

Pros: Wonderful performances, witty dialogue, great art direction.
Cons: A little slow in parts.

I've seen bits and pieces of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID over the years, but it wasn't until it came out on DVD that I took the time to watch the whole thing. Though it takes place in the wild west, it's really more of an action comedy. Newman and...

Pros: The acting, writing, directing, photography (need I go on?)
Cons: Bachrach can grate at times

A brilliant screenplay. Magnificent cinematography. And classic performances. And the best part is, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I've been a huge fan of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" since I was a child....