Newman's Best Film?

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2012)

"Butch Cassidy" could possibly be Paul Newman's best movie ever. The action scenes could have been better, and I could do without "Raindrops" and I don't think the movie would suffer at all without it, but you could find a hundred films where music (or dialogue) that doesn't match the period or genre is used. A great example of this would be the final scene in "Dirty Dancing." The filmmakers are asking you to suspend reality, go with it! This is just a great "buddy" movie. Newman and Redford being the ultimate buddies. It's a lot of fun, without the cheesy happy Hollywood ending that we would get if this were made today.
Although today, somehow Butch and Sundance would have survived to make the sequel.