The montages are absolutely god awful.

I did find it strange to have the montages go so long to be honest. I felt George Hill could have did away with some of it and added something else, but that's just my opinion.

If you're not taking any steps forward, you're not moving at all.

Yep it was kind of more like an intermission. They could have taken care of it just by saying "6 months later, in Bolivia" or however long it took.



Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

Hear hear. Interesting how I didn't remember them at all when I watched the film the other week. Man, they stick out like...well, like an awkward montage in an otherwise really short movie.

And you're wrong.

Each to their own I suppose. I thought the montage was very classy. At that time mainstream movies were breaking out of their narrative shell and this was a great technique for doing so.

True. The vocal white bread "skat" -- Burt Bacharach, 'nuff said -- during the montages was awful, as well. The point was to quickly get us through the transition to Bolivia. Montages and split screens were something of a thing back then, but even so, it was too long and too tedious.

i never understood them

For me, that's part of the film's offbeat charm. But to each their own.