tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post6950430634866043227..comments2024-03-25T10:47:42.656-07:00Comments on Can't Explain: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)Jeff Pikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-87639469590584514802012-02-06T07:33:46.465-08:002012-02-06T07:33:46.465-08:00Jeff Blanks, that's the $64,000 question all r...Jeff Blanks, that's the $64,000 question all right! Thanks for your comment.Jeff Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-69392682186735250772012-02-05T23:11:23.937-08:002012-02-05T23:11:23.937-08:00I always felt the people of the '60s (dependin...I always felt the people of the '60s (depending on what you mean by "the '60s") let it down as much as anyone else. Certainly I think the reaction to it by subsequent generations (coughPunkcough) carries a certain subconscious disappointment of its own. At the same time, they did open things up in a way that wouldn't have happened otherwise. I was very happy to live as a child in a '70s society that had plainly taken a few steps in the direction that the '60s set, and no one should've felt like the they were a failure simply because Hippie Utopia didn't materialize immediately. But people did feel that way, and the discouragement that engendered was the '60s bane even more than the Ohio National Guard, since when a more subtle counterattack came no one seemed to fight it. The Establishment learned how to capitalize on the Boomers' own disappointment, and so here we are. What do we do now?Jeff Blanksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-46318094458739783632012-01-31T13:24:15.234-08:002012-01-31T13:24:15.234-08:00I'm thinking of doing 51-75 because the last l...I'm thinking of doing 51-75 because the last list I made before the final cut had 79 movies on it.<br /><br />"What I Watched" is fun, but it encourages more Xgau Consumer Guide/Kael New Yorker blurbs than it does longish essays. I've tried recently to single out one movie each week for at least a second paragraph. Who knows if it'll work.Mon-sewer Paul Regrethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04918972562626522624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-86203791981094135272012-01-31T11:42:04.143-08:002012-01-31T11:42:04.143-08:00I hope you do a #51-75 -- it would be interesting ...I hope you do a #51-75 -- it would be interesting to see. Heck, take it all the way to #100! I'm pretty sure this and other things will keep me preoccupied for awhile, but I've been thinking about borrowing a version of your "what I watched last week" feature just because I haven't given myself the outlet yet for all the new and new-to-me stuff I see.Jeff Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-69548418902406144342012-01-31T11:02:06.409-08:002012-01-31T11:02:06.409-08:00First off, thanks for doing this. I look forward t...First off, thanks for doing this. I look forward to your reflections on these films. Second, you read my mind ... I've been thinking that my next on-going blog project would be #51-75. Finally, 3/10 isn't quite in the "abhor" range, and I'd probably be kinder to BCATSK if I watched it again (on the other hand, I give Top Gun 3/10 and I've seen it many times). No, if I really hate a movie (yes, I'm talking to you, I Am Sam), it gets 1/10.Mon-sewer Paul Regrethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04918972562626522624noreply@blogger.com