Rog, just saw it again. Love ya, but, would have easily place it amongst the top 10 of 2010. My God, no recognition of Redford-Newman, as opposed to movies part 2 part 3 part 4....???????
COMPLETELY agree. I mean, for fucks sake, EMBRACE that you're a western! Aside from the INCREDIBLE chemistry of the two leads, I absolutely did not like this movie.
I think Roger's mind is not so cemented. It does change over time as he sees something again. He's downgraded The Graduate over time, but has warmed up to the Godfather II over time since his initial good-but-not-great review. So who knows what exactly his thinking on this movie is now, since this review is 43 years old!!
My personal opinion is that there are much better westerns than this. By the time I got to this I was surprised to find out it got nominated for Best Picture, doesn't smell like a contender for that.
Ebert I know your pretty damn old but I don't think you were around back then in those days. All you know of how it was back then is from movies. Just because it doesn't have your mediocre high noon duel or Holding your bridle in your mouth yelling SOB..does not make it not a western. Your opinion is trash and you missed the whole point of this movie.
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Apr 15 - 04:45 PM