Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid lost me at Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head

[Orrex]

I really, really tried. But that interminable scene with Butch on the bicycle made me want to shriek.


Couldn't take it.

[Brother Buzz]

1. One can only assume it was a concession to get Burt Bacharach fully committed to the project

I did like the bicycle, wood rims, and all.

[Orrex]

7. The bicycle itself was cool, sure

But the scene itself was too much for me.

[Brother Buzz]

11. As a kid watching the old cowboy films, I learned to sit silently through the mushy kissing scenes

until the cool action resumed, but you just keep thinking, Butch. That's what your good at.

[Taverner]

2. Not to me. I think that movie is perfect, every scene, every detail

[Orrex]

3. How can you shoehorn that piece of 70s crap soft rock into a period piece?

What a bizarre and pointless anachronism. Why not just give Sundance a laser rifle and call it quits?


To be fair, the scene would have worked just fine without that stupid song.

[Taverner]

5. It's not a period piece

It was the first "meta" Western

Before "The Unforgiven" or "Blazing Saddles" or "Rustler's Rhapsody"

Basically it's a road movie and seen through those eyes, instead of a period piece, it makes much more sense.

They are two hippies/beatniks/bohemians who have a vision, when the rest of the world is wearing bifocals

[Orrex]

6. Yeah, I heard Newman recite that strained line, too.

Maybe I'll give it another try, but Raindrops has got to go.

[Taverner]

9. Before that movie, there were no "semi-pacifist" outlaws in movies

Of course in real life, Butch and Sundance were bloodthirsty killers

[Boomerproud]

14. That is true of Sundance, but I had not heard that about Butch Cassidy.

I guess I better do a Wiki. I do know that he was raised a LDS, so that fact raised a few eyebrows.

[orleans]

8. i loved that scene & loved that song

The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical); Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and Hal David for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head&quot ; and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced. It was also nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Sound (William Edmondson and David Dockendorf).[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid#Awards_and_nominations

[Orrex]

12. Bah!

Cinematography I can understand, and the non-Raindrops score was pretty good.

If it's between this and Wayne's utterly unwatchable True Grit, I can see why Butch-n-Sundance took the Best Picture.

[orleans]

13. (it also took best song...raindrops) n/t

[blueamy66]

16. It was my favorite song as a kid

and I still love it.

Will be listening to it in one minute!

[tenderfoot]

18. Still haven't seen it yet.

Will check it out.

[MrScorpio]

4. Heresy!!! nt

[jakeXT]

10. I guess Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette isn't your thing either

[kwassa]

15. "The Sting" was equally anachronistic, with that ragtime score set in the 1930s!

Ragtime was about 20 years earlier. The 1930s was the swing band era, and none of it is heard in the film.

[Orrex]

17. You can listen to music post-period, though

It's less likely that you'd be able to listen to a song from 70 years in the future.

[UTUSN]

19. It was the '70s. You had to be there. & I don't remember if I was. nt