Comments on: Think Ya Used Enough Dynamite There, Butch?

Think Ya Used Enough Dynamite There, Butch?

MorgansAmoebas — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:29:05 -0800

Robert Redford has died at age 89. He defined "movie star" for a young me.

By: slater

slater — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:33:40 -0800

By: cotton dress sock

cotton dress sock — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:34:48 -0800

By: MisantropicPainforest

MisantropicPainforest — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:41:37 -0800

Him saying 'no', repeatedly, while David Straithain changes the frequency of noise in Sneakers lives rent free in my head. No one has said 'no' like that ever, and it was utterly compelling.

By: AlonzoMosleyFBI

AlonzoMosleyFBI — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:46:15 -0800

By: dances_with_sneetches

dances_with_sneetches — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:48:15 -0800

I remember The Twilight Zone episode where he played death, cajoling Gladys Cooper to let him inside her house.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:51:43 -0800

One of the all time greats. .

By: cmfletcher

cmfletcher — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:52:18 -0800

By: fridgebuzz

fridgebuzz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:52:51 -0800

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:56:30 -0800

. I highly recommend a recent adventure/suspense movie, "All is Lost." He's alone at sea on a sailboat; trouble ensues. Excellent direction and Redford carries it with ease. Quite a physical role and he shot it when he was just north of 75! This movie deserves more attention.

By: chavenet

chavenet — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:58:10 -0800

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is one of the first movies I can remember seeing in a movie theater. I still watch it whenever it comes on, still laugh when Sundance sheepishly admits he can't swim, still love the freeze frame ending. Thanks for that, RR, and also The Sting, Sneakers, Out of Africa, The Natural and many many many more.

By: ducky l'orange

ducky l'orange — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:58:14 -0800

By: coldhotel

coldhotel — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:00:57 -0800

By: theory

theory — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:06:48 -0800

Redford suggested to Woodward & Bernstein that they focus their Watergate book on their own investigative process instead of doing a straight retelling of the scandal as they'd planned. Yes, this was because he hoped to make a movie about it — nevertheless I always thought that was pretty astute of him.

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:07:21 -0800

By: jquinby

jquinby — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:07:38 -0800

Don't sleep on Three Days of the Condor - Classic cold war paranoia spy stuff, though it has aa deeply weird 1970s-period sex scene. Or maybe they were all that weird.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:08:36 -0800

Forever Sundance. .

By: mumimor

mumimor — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:15:15 -0800

By: The Nutmeg of Consolation

The Nutmeg of Consolation — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:17:35 -0800

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:19:30 -0800

. Like, he was a legit real one. He came from an age where movie star good looks were just a hair or two above the average, and he didn't have to starve himself to have abs 24/7. Godspeed, Kid.

By: Liquidwolf

Liquidwolf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:20:26 -0800

Jeremiah Johnson, saw it at about age 3 in the theater. That's probably my first memory. Redford was as classic as they get and seemed like a genuinely good guy.

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:21:12 -0800

Oh, this one hurts. dances_with_sneetches: I remember The Twilight Zone episode where he played death, cajoling Gladys Cooper to let him inside her house. "Don't be afraid. The running's over. It's time to rest. Give me your hand."

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:22:04 -0800

Casting him in The Winter Soldier immensely increased the resonance of the "political thriller" tome they were seeking. Not a lot of screen time, but what a joy to watch. His work in the 70s goes almost without saying, it was so ubiquitous.

By: AzraelBrown

AzraelBrown — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:23:16 -0800

. I am embarrassed to realize only this morning, with the news reports, why it's the Sundance film festival.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:25:44 -0800

By: ivanthenotsoterrible

ivanthenotsoterrible — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:26:55 -0800

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:30:55 -0800

By: Webbster

Webbster — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:33:48 -0800

By: uncle harold

uncle harold — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:42:44 -0800

By: Glinn

Glinn — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:44:48 -0800

Dammit. That's a big one. .

By: martin q blank

martin q blank — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:46:41 -0800

As much as I admire DeNiro and worship Meryl Streep, there's a distinction between magnificently talented actors, and actors like Redford, who become legends. Yes, this is something people often say, but this time it really feels true: He was a Hollywood legend, and there probably will never be another like him.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:50:57 -0800

. I didn't realize he was still alive, simply because he was one of the Hollywood legends to me.

By: bigendian

bigendian — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:52:03 -0800

I really liked his work as an actor and director (from what I've seen) but even beyond that, Robert Redford's importance for movies cannot be understated. As Film Crit Hulk wrote earlier: "the fact he took that power and created the entire Sundance ecosystem, which fostered the american independent cinema boom - and probably most of your favorite directors - is one of those things that paid us with amazing work 100x greater than even the great work of his own career. It's the kind of career that makes endless ripples." .

By: MattD

MattD — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:52:17 -0800

GenjiandProust - so much yes about casting Redford in Winter Soldier. Right about the same time they were making the choices that led to the first Guardians and Ant Man movies being so good.

By: jim in austin

jim in austin — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:53:36 -0800

By: WaterAndPixels

WaterAndPixels — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:54:44 -0800

. Think I'm gonna watch ´Spy Game' tonight, I have an unreasonable fondness for that movie.

By: mazola

mazola — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:55:31 -0800

It impressed me how he was able to command his bit of screen time in "A Bridge Too Far". That's a star-studded flick with an astonishing array of talent and he just had an ease and presence that's hard to quantify/articulate. Truly a star among stars.

By: rp

rp — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:58:10 -0800

. Not his best work, by any stretch, but I have a very soft spot for Spy Game.

By: Spike Glee

Spike Glee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:01:39 -0800

By: orange swan

orange swan — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:01:52 -0800

I have realized this morning that I've seen very few of Robert Redford's movies -- perhaps five. Must remedy that. He was in a lot of classic, much-referenced movies. I also appreciate that he was consistently on the right side of every political issue he spoke out on, and that no one seems to have any complaints about his behaviour. Redford seems like one of those people who have been around so long and made such a solid contribution that they get taken for granted in a sense, at least by younger generations, and one doesn't quite realize significant they really were until one sees the size of the hole they leave behind when they're gone.

By: rory

rory — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:05:45 -0800

Seconding All is Lost and Three Days of the Condor, both of which I saw in the last few years and thought were great. Butch Cassidy and All the President's Men are still his greatest, though.

By: rory

rory — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:08:13 -0800

And some great directorial work, like A River Runs Through It and Quiz Show. He was a better-than-average director as well as everything else.

By: FallibleHuman

FallibleHuman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:11:17 -0800

By: Smedly, Butlerian jihadi

Smedly, Butlerian jihadi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:12:38 -0800

Have been meaning to watch Three Days of the Condor for some time. Will have to make a point of it now. Redford was among the very best of us, not only as a screen talent, but as a representative for what American masculinity can be. .

By: BetaRayBiff

BetaRayBiff — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:13:09 -0800

. Lotta love for Spy Game. Much better than it should be, and I'm guessing that's probably down to the weird effortless dignity Redford brought to just about everything.

By: FallibleHuman

FallibleHuman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:13:14 -0800

Most gen x comp sci nerds seem to have imprinted on "Hackers" like a baby bird, but for me it was Sneakers all the way. RIP, Robert.

By: inflatablekiwi

inflatablekiwi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:14:09 -0800

embarrassed to realize only this morning, with the news reports, why it's the Sundance film festival. ....and the Sundance Ski Resort near the festivals' home in Utah (though the festival is moving to Boulder, Colorado from 2027 onwards)

By: NorthernLite

NorthernLite — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:15:40 -0800

Feck me, I didn't need this today. There comes a point in your life where you can't believe someone - a celebrity, a loved one, you - is old. Because you're all still 17 or 25 or 40-something. Anyway, someone I worked with at an education. Institution had, in a previous life (like me), worked in entertainment, and told me she was a PA to him. Had some nice stories. (Assuming they were real. Ha.) Good ones, about him, his acquaintances like Streisand, etc. He was a good boss.

By: The Ardship of Cambry

The Ardship of Cambry — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:17:59 -0800

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:25:53 -0800

After hearing about this, I did an online search for "modern movie stars." Let me say that the pickin's were slim. The closest would be Clooney and Denzel. And, a generation younger, they don't yet have the depth and quality of catalog that Redford put together. Redford was one of the last of the old-line Movie Stars. And he was also a great actor. What a career. (nthing Sneakers, which I may have to watch tonight) .

By: Woodroar

Woodroar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:26:53 -0800

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:31:09 -0800

This saddens me so much.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:31:11 -0800

he did some good work as an actor. Not the greatest of his time (or often as not the movie he was in). Somebody called him the anti-John Wayne, because his initial fame came as the Duke was on the wane. Very much a reflection of those times. All The Presidents Men immediately comes to mind as his essential movie, certainly one I can watch pretty much any time. And, key point, it's very much an ensemble success. Script, direction, cast (of course), art direction -- everything. The guy was a team player all the way. Which made him a pretty solid director as well. Ordinary People didn't deserve to beat Raging Bull at the Oscars but it at least deserved a nomination. Sundance, I think, will go down as his greatest achievement. Talk about a legacy. Well played, sir. .

By: dannyboybell

dannyboybell — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:40:42 -0800

The Great Waldo Pepper is still on Netflix until the end of the month which is one of my favorites. And of course The Hot Rock in which Redford was totally miscast as John Dortmunder , but not as badly cast as George C. Scott, Paul Le Mat, Christopher Lambert, and Martin Lawrence. .

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:52:06 -0800

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks Spy Games is much better than it has any right to be. While I'd not call him my favourite actor, he does appear is a lot of my favourite movies, and those films are better with him in them. He really had the "it" that makes someone compelling to watch on-screen. .

By: scruss

scruss — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:05:32 -0800

. The Sting is my favourite of his, even if he's playing second fiddle to Paul Newman. It's such a gloriously contrived plot, but it's based on some real-life long cons carried out by the Gondorff brothers.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:18:55 -0800

He not only gave back but let everyone know his industry as mostly rigged (against talent, art and outsider production and distribution).

By: gkr

gkr — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:26:14 -0800

By: Going To Maine

Going To Maine — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:31:22 -0800

By: Didymus

Didymus — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:31:58 -0800

what's the closest we got to the Redford/Newman concentration of male beauty? because that was some potent male beauty, the two of them

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:32:39 -0800

By: kokaku

kokaku — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:36:43 -0800

Pitt/Clooney is the closest modern pairing i can think of and they were definitely playing on that dynamic

By: aleph

aleph — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:39:31 -0800

. My only scrap to relate/remind was his appearance in the sequel to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Pirsig called "Lila: An Inquiry...". Redford apparently wanted to make a movie of the book. When Pirsig met him he was blown away by meeting Redford and then had Redford say something about how most people "goon up" (or something) when meeting him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance

By: citizenk

citizenk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:42:12 -0800

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:48:57 -0800

Oh, damn, this is a hard loss. The "movie star" image aside, the guy always gave such natural-feeling performances. Jeremiah Johnson is probably the first of his movies where I sat-up and noticed how damned good he was. .

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:56:47 -0800

Three Days of the Condor was the first R rated movie I ever saw, at a 2nd run movie theater on Block Island that just ran movies continuously around the clock. It is etched in my memory for two main reasons: 1) it was the 1st movie where i came in at the middle, watched it through to the end, then watched the beginning (this was before, oh best beloved, VCRs and DVDs and even, in my world at least, cable TV) and 2) welp, I'm heterosexual and whoa, whoa what ARE these feelings? I remained in love with Robert Redford - although he was undeniably Too Old - until, a few years later, Nicolas Cage came along in Valley Girl. .

By: dlugoczaj

dlugoczaj — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:57:02 -0800

By: JustSayNoDawg

JustSayNoDawg — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:09:11 -0800

By: evilDoug

evilDoug — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:11:57 -0800

OK, small story, in the late 70's when I was young and stupid, I woke up in the San Diego County Jail one Friday. In the felony tank. I didn't know what I had done but I was sure it couldn't be good. Slowly over time, things normalized in there. During the weekend all processing stops and you stay where you're put. Saturday rolls around, and OK this is my new life. Sunday more of the same until Sunday afternoon, and it's movie time. The TV in the Felony Tank starts playing familiar, awful music. Barbara Streisand, The Way We Were. the most ridiculous tear jerker melodrama with Streisand & Redford. Everyone one in the tank, drug dealers, rapists, murderers, what have you, all quiet down and for 1.5-2 hours. We're enraptured by this treacly tossed off confection and become entwined in the lives on the screen, which, despite the dramatic twists, are SO MUCH BETTER than the mess we had made of our own lives. It's my best memory of my time in SD Jail, a really bad time in my life. By no means the best film either of them made but for a small amount of time life wasn't so bad. I love Robert Redford. He made lots of great, and a few not so great films, and when he was off the stage he was doing things to make life better for us all. I will miss you. .

By: jabo

jabo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:16:30 -0800

By: drewbage1847

drewbage1847 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:17:18 -0800

For me the two that i think of with him are The Sting (coincidentally filmed in part here in Pasadena - specifically the alley sequences towards the beginning don't know about later). That movie kicked off my fascination with con games. The other is Sneakers - as a young computer nerd, starting fresh at MIT when it was released, that movie may as well been written specifically for me! But I also remember when my now wife and I first watched The Way We Were. She was horrified by the ending where they run into each other years after they divorce and it's clear he hasn't been involved in his daughter's life. I reminded her that wasn't a typical for back then and it's exactly what my biological father did to my family. (Never did meet that man. Got a text from his step son saying he was dying and honestly felt nothing except "well what am I supposed to do with this?") Jinx to evilDoug and I for talking about the same silly movie!

By: at by

at by — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:17:34 -0800

What crossed my mind was the realization that he's the same age as my parents. I'm old, my parents are really old, Redford was really old. They grew up in a far more fucked up world than we did, they tried their best to make a better world for our generations, and at some point those new generations came of age and started fucking it up again. And yeah that's not how it actually happened, but right now when I'm feeling particularly struck by how the people we love affect our sense of time, it's kinda how it happened anyway.

By: Caxton1476

Caxton1476 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:23:08 -0800

. I loved so much of his work, one screen and as a director, it's impossible to pick a favorite. But his work as the narrator in A River Runs Through It stays in my head in ways hard to explain. The final passages of the film, as read by Redford? Totally heartbreaking.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:31:52 -0800

By: jabo

jabo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:33:04 -0800

Another film worth watching is The Great Milagro Beanfield War. Redford directed this Northern New Mexico based tale written by John Nichols. I read the trilogy when I first moved here and the film is a wonderful adaptation. A lot of locals were extras and it was filmed North of Santa Fe in the town of Truchas.

By: MrGuilt

MrGuilt — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:37:13 -0800

"Mah-ten" (Sindey Poitier's voice). God I love "Sneakers." .

By: infini

infini — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:43:25 -0800

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:52:40 -0800

Loved him in the Winter Soldier—his scene with Cap, where you're just starting to understand what's really going on, is a highlight of what's still my favorite MCU movie—but my favorite of his is still Sneakers, where he's the anchor of the group but also bears the secret that nearly dooms all of them. ⭐

By: dances_with_sneetches

dances_with_sneetches — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:02:25 -0800

Google AI said that Cary Grant and Gregory Peck worked together "on various films, including Charade and To Kill a Mockingbird" which gave me a kind of laugh. (For a moment, I thought, could they have appeared in cameo? No.)

By: BigHeartedGuy

BigHeartedGuy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:07:54 -0800

I saw out of Africa in the theater in the middle of my 'adults are boring, only stuff I like is cool' teen years. I was absolutely mesmerized (John Barry's score certainly didn't hurt). I can still remember how badly I wanted that central relationship to work. Safe travels Mr. Redford. .

By: Melismata

Melismata — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:10:21 -0800

By: Capt. Renault

Capt. Renault — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:13:50 -0800

I loved this man. Years ago, I went to a Gatsby exhibit in one of the grand houses of Newport, and they had one of his costumes on display. He was smaller physically than I'd expected, but hey, the man had Presence. Afterwards, I stood on the great lawn on that cliff over the sea, doing my best Redford-as-Gatsby pose, more Redford than Gatsby.

By: kitten kaboodle

kitten kaboodle — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:14:04 -0800

The brilliance of casting Famous Leftie Robert Redford as the leader of fascist Hydra in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was truly one of the many things that make that movie so great. For a lot of my life, he was almost as famous for his activism as for his movies, and of course for his friendship with Paul Newman (another famous leftie). I was obsessed for a while with Three Days of the Condor, but I hadn't seen it for a long time once that obsession faded, and when I did, that love scene weirded me out so much. But I kind of loved that about him—he could play the straight down the line romantic hero perfectly, but he wasn't afraid to mix it up. It's still kind of amazing that he and Newman only made two movies together because they're such a legendary pair, but what movies they were. Butch Cassidy is still a movie that I will stop and watch anytime. And I will never understand why Sneakers is not everywhere and on every Best list. He's just so great in it, trying to corral all the characters he works with.

By: Faintdreams

Faintdreams — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:16:22 -0800

. End of an Era.

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:28:42 -0800

kitten kaboodle: The brilliance of casting Famous Leftie Robert Redford as the leader of fascist Hydra in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was truly one of the many things that make that movie so great. Along with the fact that, had the timelines been different, Redford would certainly have been cast as Captain America.

By: Phlegmco(tm)

Phlegmco(tm) — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:42:07 -0800

I'm 60 so I remember how huge he was in the '70s and how great it was watching a lot of his films on local TV. The iconic role for me is, of course, Sundance in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That's the firs thing that comes to mind when I think of him and I imagine it'll always be that way. He wasn't an actor, he was a movie star, the last of of a certain type of movie star Hollywood used to specialize in. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, etc are movie stars, but Redford was a Movie Star. Perhaps I am being too subjective, due to how old I was when I first became aware of him. There always seemed to be something in reserve about his onscreen persona, as though there was something he wasn't quite ready to save with the audience. Not mystique, but certainly a first cousin to mystique. A life well lived and thank you, sir, for what you contributed. .

By: Ber

Ber — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:23:36 -0800

RIP to one of the last old school stars. That appearance in Winter Soldier was splendid and yes, it was the best Captain America movie. Glad to see some love for Sneakers here. I also am repeatedly heartbroken by the ending of A River Runs Through It. I don't know the extent of his involvement as a producer of the TV series Dark Winds. Hell, if he just used his influence to get it into production that's worth a slow hand clap alone. Bonus, the scene with his sitting in jail with George RR Martin.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:38:09 -0800

Watching Sneakers for the first time is a core filmmaking memory for me. Thirty years later, I got to work on All is Lost. He was at the beginning of my career and the end. RIP.

By: gauche

gauche — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:40:51 -0800

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:48:26 -0800

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:49:36 -0800

. Butch and Sundance and The Sting remain two of my favorites. Farewell and Godspeed.

By: jamjam

jamjam — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:55:43 -0800

what's the closest we got to the Redford/Newman concentration of male beauty? because that was some potent male beauty, the two of them True! And kind of weird since Newman was pretty close to the Greek ideal, and Redford closely approximated the Roman. Huxley talked about the distinction a little in his short story 'The Genius and the Goddess ".

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:10:07 -0800

Robert Redford and Steve McQueen were the two heartthrobs I swooned over as a teen. I always wish they had played together. Some one above mentioned Newman in terms of male beauty, but he wasn't a patch on those fellas. Every time I watch A River Runs Through it, I end up in tears. And if I reread McClean's amazing book, I can hear Redford's voice, and get a lump in my through. "Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." I think that was something Robert Redford took to heart. .

By: JohnFromGR

JohnFromGR — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:19:12 -0800

By: Rash

Rash — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:10 -0800

For tossing all of Jane Fonda's journalistic gear off the mountain in The Electric Horseman: .

By: Hactar

Hactar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:43:37 -0800

I once told a friend that in my experience, Redford hadn't made a bad movie. I was wrong of course, but what's interesting is how many really good movies he was in. They would have been good without him, but he elevated them to another level. I'm going to try to convince my wife to watch The Sting this weekend (she likes the movies I suggest, but it's always a bit of work to get something other than a fifties musical on the TV). .

By: ikahime

ikahime — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:58:24 -0800

By: luckynerd

luckynerd — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:23:43 -0800

By: brujita

brujita — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:47:08 -0800

Quiz Show should have won best picture. .

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:40:30 -0800

Butch, Sneakers and Sting...this will be my hat tip to such a talent. Making the popcorn now. .

By: jettloe

jettloe — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:59:56 -0800

I was an extra on SPY GAME and spent what seemed like hours walking behind Redford as he rehearsed the same line over and over again, "Tell Kepler in the map room the party's cancelled". Over and over again, trying different versions of the line, before the cameras were even rolling. His professionalism was inspiring and he had, of course, great natural beauty. And Tony Scott directed the whole scene in what looked like a pink tutu. #GoodTimes

By: buffalo

buffalo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:20:02 -0800

By: ashbury

ashbury — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:37:00 -0800

Robert a Redford always came across as the kind of person who deserved the reputation that they had. I'm guessing that his friends loved him to pieces. The Natural The Sting Three Days of the Condor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .

By: MarchHare

MarchHare — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:03:46 -0800

Someone on BlueSky this morning said "You'll never get fired for posting a Robert Redford quote" to which I replied "Let's see: 'Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?'"

By: DirtyOldTown

DirtyOldTown — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:21:29 -0800

I am assuming he was asked to stay. Otherwise, he wouldn't go.

By: Pouteria

Pouteria — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:22:43 -0800

And thus passes another of the cultural icons I simply took for granted, because he had always been there and always been so there. Being in my early 60s I was only a young child when I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, back in the day when we didn't even have TV in our region and you had to go to an actual movie theater with all its trappings to see a movie, when going to the movies was actually a big deal, and it is still one of my earliest and clearest childhood cultural memories. Then The Sting a few years later, and many of his films since. (I only recently saw A River Runs Through It and it is a beautiful piece of work.) Another very long life, very well lived. RIP, and thanks for working to make the world a better place.

By: straight

straight — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:11 -0800

And I will never understand why Sneakers is not everywhere and on every Best list. I loved Sneakers when I saw it as a teenager and I was really looking forward to watching it with my nerdy teen daughters. But I decided to rewatch it myself and was really bummed out by some of the mean-spirited "humor" at the expense of women. I couldn't bring myself to recommend it to them. There's still plenty of crap in movies, but I'm grateful that particular flavor of crap is a lot less common now. It's still a fantastic heist movie, but that's why it wouldn't be on my list. We did watch Redford in All Is Lost together, and we all loved it. What an incredible movie and performance. Not many actors who could have pulled that off.

By: Token Meme

Token Meme — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:40:18 -0800

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:41:51 -0800

Loved his work. no one seems to have any complaints about his behaviour. Steven Soderbergh would like a word. (There ain't no saints in Hollywood.)

By: SoundInhabitant

SoundInhabitant — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:43:34 -0800

All of the above - still a few of his films on my list, but my father made sure we saw All the King's Men, The Sting, and Butch Cassidy growing up. I laughed until I cried watching A Walk in the Woods with Redford and Nolte two or three years ago. Redford leveraged his receding good looks to both elevate Nolte's character portrayal past boorish buffoonery and offer some critique of his own legacy of "respectability." .

By: of strange foe

of strange foe — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:57:00 -0800

I first learned of his name in Hongkong romance novels -- often times some handsome guy would be compared to '罗拔列福' and found wanting. Finally understood what the fuss was about after watching "Out of Africa". Just the other day I was thinking that to have given both Brad Pitt and Scarlett in their breakout roles ("A River Runs Through It", "The Horse Whisperer") in major movies is quite an achievement for any director. .

By: Mister Moofoo

Mister Moofoo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:59:36 -0800

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:35:01 -0800

no one seems to have any complaints about his behaviour. Steven Soderbergh would like a word. (There ain't no saints in Hollywood.) Wait, what happened between those two?

By: gtrwolf

gtrwolf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:44:51 -0800

By: bryon

bryon — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:52:44 -0800

By: mike3k

mike3k — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:57:18 -0800

By: JoeXIII007

JoeXIII007 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:18:29 -0800

By: honey badger

honey badger — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:21:28 -0800

. Thanks for so many movies but my fave was The Way We Were

By: UhOhChongo!

UhOhChongo! — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:41:39 -0800

By: rory

rory — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:38:00 -0800

Wait, what happened between those two? A falling out over a poached movie: Soderbergh was contacted by Baltimore Pictures to direct [Quiz Show], but the assistant of Mark Johnson, the head of Baltimore Pictures, happened to be married to the head of Robert Redford's production company, Wildwood, so the script was also sent to Redford. And one day, while Soderbergh was shooting King of the Hill (which Redford had agreed to produce in the aftermath of sex, lies), he got a phone call from Johnson saying, in so many words, that Redford was doing the project and Soderbergh would not be. This understandably put a bit of a dent in Soderbergh's relationship with Redford, and Redford ultimately backed out of producing King of the Hill.

By: cedar key

cedar key — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:21:47 -0800

My favorite desert my wife makes, is called " Better Than Robert Redford".

By: rochrobbb

rochrobbb — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:49:49 -0800

Nthing Sneakers. I'm a fan of Bill Bryson's work, and if I'd ever met him, I'd be tempted to ask what his family thought of that his character in A Walk In The Woods was played by Robert Redford (I would expect much teasing).

By: xtian

xtian — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:58:05 -0800

God speed!

By: drworm

drworm — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:28:32 -0800

By: filtergik

filtergik — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:39:20 -0800

Beyond admiration, he moved me. More than a few times, so as to remove all chance of flukes. Seeing a few recommendations for more recent movies I have not seen, I feel sure he will move me again. Craftsman. .

By: joannemerriam

joannemerriam — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:10:21 -0800

By: Gadgetenvy

Gadgetenvy — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:05:17 -0800

. I'd jump off a cliff with you anytime, Sundance.

By: condour75

condour75 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:19:14 -0800

By: jadepearl

jadepearl — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:17:46 -0800

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:27:33 -0800

I had forgotten about Three Days of the Condor. My wife and I were in Manhattan, visiting museums on the east side, when we came upon a street that was closed because a movie was being filmed. Turned out it was Condor, and it was fun to see that scene in the movie. I don't think we saw Redford, though. Time to see it again.

By: Ink-stained wretch

Ink-stained wretch — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:52:40 -0800

By: MexicanYenta

MexicanYenta — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:56:58 -0800

Butch and Sundance are together again. .

By: grubi

grubi — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:47:01 -0800

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:21:54 -0800

"Somebody say '1, 2, 3, go'" "123go"