The Getaway

It’s my first time watching this influential Sam Peckinpah action movie, filled with famous Hollywood cast and crew. The worldview that Steve McQueen is super-cool and THIS is how it’s supposed to be done feels outdated. Yes, there are some cool filmmaking gimmicks, but overall it feels like the mindset is from a bygone era. The idea that a marriage, no matter how violent and dysfunctional, is supposed to go the distance also feels outmoded. It seems like Carol McCoy should do what Ali MacGraw did: drop out, move to New Mexico, and release a yoga video.