Robert Redfords 25 best movies ranked- with Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid number 1.

I’d call ATPM his best work.

I really like Jeremiah Johnson.

Agreed R1. And I would rank Three Days of the Condor higher.

What the fuck is ATPM

All The President’s Men R4

Loved Three Days of the Condor. Loved Jeremiah Johnson. Loved The Candidate, ATPM, The Way We Were, Brubaker, oh, hell. I'm just a fan. He's made a few not so good movies, but I don't think he's ever made a bad movie. And if they include what he has directed than Ordinary People has to be #1. Thanks OP. I think this week we will have Robert Redford Film Festival at our house.

Buck never would have rated Ordinary People #3. He did wonder from time to time, though, why Bob didn't play Calvin.

For directing, A River Runs Through It. Wonderful movie.

Ah, thanks R4.

Hard to make this call since Robert Redford is such a boring, shallow actor. He plays so many loners because all he cares about is his own pretty face. He eve insisted on changing the ending of 'The Way We Were' so that he leaves Babs instead of the reverse.

*even*

Three Days of the Condor is the movie I'm most likely to rewatch, that or Barefoot in the Park. I've seen ATPM at least three times now. And I've never watched Butch Cassidy all the way through.

He’s great in the scene that begins at 1:33 (and it’s a brilliantly shot scene).

A Totally Pathetic Moron, r4.

The Way We Were

In ATPM, the actress who plays the staffer in Colson’s office — the very pretty girl Bernstein meets on the rooftop restaurant at the Kennedy Center — is Penny Peyser. She went on to have a halfway decent tv career, and is quite a character.

She said Redford didn’t want her for the part because her father was a Republican politician! Peyser had to explain that her dad was a Rockefeller Republican who opposed Nixon. She was begrudgingly given the part. Always thought that was a bit dickish of Redford.

She’s gorgeous in the movie, a real 70s beauty.

R13 Hahaha. BTW how did you like TWWW & JJ & BCATSD & BITP & ARRTI?

Jeremiah Johnson was his best.

r12 He was a proper dilf.

I hit the first burst of puberty around 1970-71 and he was what PEOPLE magazine would have called SEXIEST MAN ALIVE if it had existed then.

To me he was blond imperfection. Masculine beauty. Masturbation material. My older sisters were critical of his skin. I would have licked it.

A blond guy who was uber masculine. A man.

r19 Great post-love the phase masturbation material. It really is the perfect summary. He was sooo dreamy.

Ye Gods! What kind of vulgarian cunt includes (let alone ranks 12/25) The Winter Fucking Soldier in a list of top Robert Redford films and leaves out Jeremiah Johnson and The Electric Horseman?

The list made me realise out of that era he’s probably the leading man I care least for. I like The Way We Were, All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and maybe Three Days in places (although it’s nothing next to Day of the Jackal), but most of the others are pretty boring to me

r22 Who is your favourite leading man from this era?

R23 I think I even preferred George Segal in King Rat, WAOVW, A Touch of Class, Flirting with Disaster and others to anything Robert Redford has done.

Also Warren Beatty, Paul Newman are favourites of mine. Brits like Alan Bates and Albert Finney. Jack Nicholson.

Robert Redford was perfection back in the day…I met him at a campaign rally in CT for Toby Moffett….he arrived about 2 hours late on a hot and humid August day. Not a hair was out of place…I rushed passed the gated area and was able to say a few words at which time he touched my arm and winked at me….i am a white woman who was very hot back in the day. Unfortunately he is NOT as tall as he appears on screen. I lived in CT all my life so met Paul Newman too….but that’s a story for another day!

[quote]A blond guy who was uber masculine. A man

Redford gets his blondness out of a bottle. dear.

I don't really have a favorite...okay, The Sting, which is sort of forgotten.

Worst? Everything else, especially Butch Cassidy.

[quote] I lived in CT all my life so met Paul Newman too….but that’s a story for another day!

Can’t wait!

The Way We Were

The Great Gatsby = Epic FAIL. That's because Bobby cannot project emotion beyond what he sees in the mirror.

His biggest stinker was, without doubt "The Legend of Bagger Vance". Gosh, what an awful turd.

R30 in fairness there hasn’t been a good Great Gatsby adaptation. They just can’t seem to get it right.

Cannot stand Redford.

I actually liked "Lions for Lambs", which he both directed and starred.

And when I say "I liked it", I'm actually meaning "I only see this film since it features a twinkish Andrew Garfield in his feature film debut".

Constipated actor

He was so beautiful back in the day.

r24 Now I like Warren Beatty. Did Clint Eastwood do anything for you? r27 I liked his film with Demi Moore where he tried to buy a night between the sheets with her?

R32 That's because the beauty of Gatsby is the words, the writing. Not the story. It is nothing that can be caught on film.

R37 no Eastwood does very little for me as an actor.

r39 Al Pacino?

Handsome enough, but a cipher onscreen in terms of acting.

Out Of Africa was included. It was one of the best movies he was in. He's not good in it and he's the reason it's a very good/great movie instead of a classic.

r42 Can you think of a Robert Redford movie that you consider underrated?

Not really, R42. The movies that I've seen in that list range from good to excellent. I can't think of one that he's in that's underrated. His directing stands out to me, as I love Quiz Show. Ordinary People is excellent but it's hard for me to rewatch. I'm glad they included Captain America: Winter Soldier.

Redford’s performance in the mediocre Inside Daisy Clover is good. He actually showed some emotion in his early movies. The bad part was his being horrified that they made the character - not him, the character - actively gay with references in other scenes.