Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Full Length Reaction
Added 2022-08-14 02:13:00 +0000 UTCThink you used enough dynamite there Butch?
What an iconic friendship, I love these 2 dudes! Did not see it ending that way for sure, but it's a very memorable way to leave the characters. I think I'd rather remember them that way than see what happens to them. How much of this movie is true?
**Note: I do say the music feels 70's a couple times... I guess I meant 60's!!
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Movie runtime: 01:50:26
Comments
Good reaction and good movie. I have watched the movie a couple of times before, but it has been a few years. When this movie was released, Paul Newman was 44 and Robert Redford was 33. They make a charismatic dynamic duo. I suggest "THE STING" (1973) having the duo. I was age 6 when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released. As a kid, I liked the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" [reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100]. I also liked other hits by B.J. Thomas, such as "Hooked on a Feeling (1969)" and "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song." B. J. Thomas died of cancer in 2021. R.I.P. Robert Redford movies (in addition to The Sting) to consider: -ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976 [w/Dustin Hoffman] [AFI Top 100] [I watched a zillion times] -OUR SOULS AT NIGHT (2017) [w/Jane Fonda] -BRUBAKER (1980) -THE HORSE WHISPERER (1998) [w/teen Scarlett Johansson] -SPY GAME (2001) [w/Brad Pitt] Paul Newman movies (in addition to The Sting) to consider: -COOL HAND LUKE (1967) -THE HUSTLER (1961) [w/Jackie Gleason] -THE COLOR OF MONEY (1986) [w/Tom Cruise]
Clay F
2024-01-03 13:09:52 +0000 UTCThis was a first for me. It’s one of those movies I should have seen a long time ago but just never got around to it. I really enjoyed watching it for the first time with your reaction, Jen. It is a great movie. I fully understand that scene from Beverly Hills Cop now. Detective Rosewood: You know what I keep thinking about? You know the end of Butch Cassidy? Redford and Newman are almost out of ammunition, and the whole Bolivian army is out- out in front of this little hut? Sergeant Taggart: Billy, I'm gonna make you pay for this. 😂😂
Lee Pitman
2022-08-16 11:45:35 +0000 UTCI second the recommendation for The Sting to see these 2 together again. Academy Award winner for best film from 1973. Such a fun movie.
Rob Parry
2022-08-15 04:10:02 +0000 UTCFantastic chemistry between the leads, and Paul Newman was always so good playing the fast talking charmer. But the writing by William Goldman (you know him from The Princess Bride) is top class. He researched this story for years and you can really tell, because so much of the detail actually is true. I know it from a slightly different angle because one of my favourite novels is Mr American by George MacDonald Fraser, which is mostly about England in the lead up to WW1 but has a significant subplot about the Butch Cassidy gang, and Fraser was another writer who did lots of homework. That scene where Butch says he never shot anyone is probably true. In real life he grew up Mormon and even when he turned to crime he had a strong aversion to killing anyone. It seems he felt that God would forgive him many sins if he wasn't a killer... though he worked with a man like Harvey Logan who was a totally cold killer. Nobody knows what happened to Etta in the end. She definitely went with them to South America and definitely returned to the States. But she's a very mysterious character in history. We still don't even know her real name.
Jon Anderson
2022-08-14 17:40:25 +0000 UTCGreat movie but the music always takes me out of it a little bit. Definitely a product of it's time. The film gets the broad strokes of their lives correct. One thing it gets wrong is it insinuates that after they left the US they went straight to Bolivia and stayed there but they actually bounced around South America for a while, including a long stint in Argentina. The last scene is also fictionalized, unfortunately. The official report from the Bolivian government is that after the two were surrounded a long gunfight ensued and both men were severely injured and ended up killing themselves to avoid capture. A lot of people have dismissed that report though and unconfirmed sightings of the two (particularly Cassidy) continued for years afterwards. Now that you've popped your Paul Newman and Robert Redford cherry you need to watch "The Sting" from 1973, one of the greatest caper movies of all time. It also stars Robert Shaw (Quint from Jaws). Fun fact, Robert Redford was the founder of the famous Sundance Film Festival which he named after The Sundance Kid.
Paul G
2022-08-14 13:33:59 +0000 UTC
