Archive for November 15th, 2005

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

If he’d just pay me what he’s paying them to stop me robbing him, I’d stop robbing him.

When you consider just how identified with each other Robert Redford and Paul Newman are, it’s amazing to realize that they have only made two movies together to date. Of course, when they’re both as good as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, I guess it’s not so hard to imagine.

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Tremors (1990)

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

No tracks, no sign, no spoor… You’d think after eating all those sheep they’d have to take a dump someplace.

Someone involved with this movie watched a lot of Saturday afternoon television as a kid, a lot like I did. They obviously saw something they liked in cheesy fifties horror movies, a lot like I did. So when they they grew up, they went out and made one.

Tremors is a pitch perfect send-up of any number of Atomic-age monster movies. Starring a solid cast of A-Minus List actors, it features an intelligent, humorous script and a collection of broad but vividly drawn characters.

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