Originally posted by plawrence:
I like matt damon, also. I'm not much of an Affleck fan
"Butch & Sundance" was possibly the first in the modern genre of buddy comedy-dramas; Films based on the chemistry and repartee between the characters more than anything else.
(You may want to include the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby "Road" films, but I don't consider them to be "modern" in the same sense, and they were pretty much played strictly for laughs anyway.)
Anyway, I don't see how Damon and Affleck could possibly, on their best days, even hope to duplicate the chemistry of Newman-Redford.
This I think is the key. I don't particularly like Affleck but I'll happily admit he banthers well alongside Damon. But it's a completely different level of banther as to what they're good at. They don't banther like normal people would it's kind of a corny (forced) intellectual transaction they have. That's certainly NOT what you need for a Butch and Sundance remake.
That's not to say the film should be remade either but if is at least get the casting right.
