Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

I have to agree with Max; I was disappointed with the film and feel that the "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" sequence was particularly hard to watch. It felt as though a whole shift of mood had taken place, and although I'm all for musicals, in which songs break the dialog frequently, this was so out of place in terms of the tone of the film that it felt like the director was just tripping and decided to add it in for his own amusement.

This movie was reminiscent of "Easy Rider" and also harkened back to the first film we saw for this blog, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," and in a funny way seemed like a mixture of these two. I say that because the whole premise of the film is, just like in "Easy Rider," the thrill of two men abandoning all responsibility and taking off across the American landscape. The scenes in which they scour over the terrain get old quickly, as was the case with "Treasure."

I struggle to imagine what has kept "Butch Cassidy" in the hearts and minds of film buffs for all these years. Perhaps if I were to revisit the film I would begin to understand, but I know I won't be able to bring myself for a little while...