YMMV / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• Award Snub: Though it had an otherwise strong showing at the Oscars, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross were all snubbed for their excellent work. All three were nominated at Bafta however where Redford and Ross won (they were also competing for other movies back when an actor's work could be grouped up).
• Awesome Music: The Academy Award winning and utterly delightful "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Butch and Etta goof around on a bicycle, while Burt Bacharach plays in the background.
• Critical Dissonance: Some critics initially panned the movie as mediocre or bad (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert revealed on their special "The Movies That Made Us Critics" that they both found it overrated), but over time critical opinion has swung to praising the movie instead, counting it among the greatest movies of all time.
• Draco in Leather Pants: AFI's list of the greatest cinematic heroes included the pair of Butch & Sundance. Though they're remarkably charismatic and avoid violence until necessary, the two unrepentant criminals are still quite far from being heroes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The duo's pursuers, Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore, are fairly popular for characters who only appear from a distance, due to their tracking skills and status as The Dreaded Hero Antagonists.
• He's Just Hiding: An odd case considering the film is based on real people. While nothing more was heard from the Sundance Kid after the shootout in Bolivia, there's some fleeting historical evidence that Butch maybe survived and went straight, leading to the film's ambiguous final freeze frame.
• Ho Yay: Butch and Sundance are closer to each other than either is to Etta. Paul Newman even described the film as a love story between two guys.
• It Was His Sled: The movie is the Trope Namer for Bolivian Army Ending. How do you think the movie ends?
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
  • “You just keep thinking Butch, that’s what you’re good at.”
  • "Who are those guys?"
  • "You crazy? The fall will probably kill ya."
  • For the soundboard prank call community, many will recognize Ted Cassidy's character as the typical visual depiction of frequent prank call victim Meat Grinder Mike.
• One True Threesome: Butch and The Kid both seem to have a thing for Etta, but damned if there wasn't a heap of Ho Yay going on between them too.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Sam Elliott makes his film debut as one of the card players in Sundance's introductory scene. He would later marry Katharine Ross.
  • Cloris Leachman plays a prostitute.
• Signature Scene:
  • Robbing the train with dynamite.
  • The bicycle ride with anachronistic song accompaniment.
  • The "rules".
  • From the cliff to the river.
  • The Bolivian Army Ending.
• Tear Jerker: The ending, as the duo are presumably killed in the shootout.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: William Goldman said that many young people saw the super posse as a metaphor for the government and authority during the years of anti-war protests. He said his students said the similarity lay in the relentlessness by which both "would hunt you down."

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