Thursday, December 11, 2008
POPCORN
Today's Paul Newman Fest film was
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Newman is a star now and is getting big money so he gets big productions. It is not the best phase of his career and this is definitely not one of his better films.
It is a post-western western. All irony and tongue in cheek and heavily influenced by the Penn film Bonnie and Clyde.
The first half is amusing and the second drudgery.
Amazingly, Ebert found the same thing.
I swear I didn't read his review before I saw the movie.
Robert Redford is in this one, of course. It is a buddy movie after all. Another star-buddy.
The film is so lightweight that it floats from the mind. Newman will get over this fluff soon. There will be the con-man film next. Then we will get back to serious acting and strong character roles.
In the meantime I will give this a 3 out of Netflix 5. I don't ever want to see it again but it was pretty.
