On 17-Dec-2009, DaveS wrote:

Boy I don't know. I really liked the film and still can picture
different scenes. Particularly the obsessed hunting quality of the
journalist brother's fishing style. Also the portrayal of the
famdamily and the bro's family, those ARE like some of the Western
folk like when I came out from NJ. And the bar in Helena? dead on. Did
the Lolo stuff put you off? Yeah there were scary people like that.
Still probably are out on the edge.

The edge of lawlessness? . . . reminded me of Park City when the main
business was still the mine and the 30 cars of high grade shipped out
each week. Where you could work the mine if you couldn't make tuition
for a semester. Smoke a joint and no one cared, the ski lodge just
barely making it and Ziggy (keep the knives away from him) Vet of the
10th Mountain division soaking out his old bones and gin in the
communal tubs at the ex-whorehouse we all holed up in. Pop Jencks for
ice cream, and a decent doc in the dispensary if he was sober.

I loved that film and should rent it this weekend. It reflected
accurately I feel the unapologetic West I fled to after each winter
week of classes at BYU. And the truth be told, these people were not
that different than the working people I grew up with, several of whom
died too early like the one brother and a very few who went on to
edamucated middle class respectability like the other brother.

I have no idea why that movie was so popular with yuppies. I do know
that Redford has a real feel for the inter-mountain West. I loved
"downhill skier" too.

Dave

Ditto to the above
It was well directed , well photographed and great acting
A good story as was the original

Roger Ebert