Movie Notes: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

August 9th, 2010

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Synopsis

Notorious train robbers Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) find themselves literally one step ahead of the law, hunted by a relentless posse. This film documents their final days.

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Movie Notes: The Towering Inferno

March 22nd, 2008

The Towering Inferno

Synopsis

A San Francisco mega-skyscraper goes ablaze due to ill-advised construction cost-cutting. Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and fire chief O’Hallorhan (Steve McQueen) battle the blaze to save a literal cast of thousands trapped within.

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Movie Notes: Quintet

April 14th, 2007

Quintet

I’ve watched some fairly mediocre movies lately, but believe I’ve reached a low point from which to rise — because I can’t imagine many films worse than Quintet.

The premise is decent sci-fi: during a future earth ice age, seal-hunter Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant companion Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) find a post-apocalyptic underground city, trapped beneath snow. Within, a tribe of surviving humans have created a warped dystopia.

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Movie Notes: Cars

June 15th, 2006

Cars

Saw Cars last night; pretty good, another quality entry into the Pixar line. Compared to any other animated movie, it’s better, but unfortunately when compared with the other Pixar films it suffers. It’s essentialy not very funny. I recall laughing out loud numerous times during Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. but Cars only illicited a chuckle during the credits.

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