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Summary: Leaving well enough alone--a cautionary tale
Review: What a disappointment! I am a long time Wild Bunch fan and finally got around to getting my letterbox director's cut, sat down before the tube after my children of tender years retired for the night and was totally let down. The restored materials add nothing, and in my view actually detract from the film. What's added, as near as I can tell, are a couple of cheesy scenes such as showing Robert Ryan's arrest in a whorehouse as Holden escapes (thereby detracting from the mystery of the Ryan/Holden relationship), some footage of the Gorch brothers frolicking with naked women, and some awful Cable Hogue-ish funny music to a couple of scenes. Stick to the original theatrical cut, but definitely in letterbox. Sometimes cuts are made for a reason and should be left to rest in peace.
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Summary: Excellent, One of the best ever made.
Review: This Movie from start to finish is awesome, the acting of the gritty veteran actors in it are superb, from the main star William Holden down to the smallest character in the movie. This is one of the few Movies where you will love the bad guy by the end of it.The Director did an outstanding job with location shots and recreating a realistic setting. I really cant find 1 single fault in this entire film, I first saw it the year it was released at the Drive in and even as a young kid, i am 38 now, I was overwhelmed by it, and loved it, it was very bloody and a few times gory but that just fits in with the way it was made. If you a western Movie fan or a Wiliam Holden fan or just a fan of great movies, not only from the Actors but the directors,writers and everyone else involved you must see this film. A five out of five or ten out of ten.
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Summary: The Greatest Adventure Of Them All!
Review: This is one of the most uncompromisingly intense motion pictures I've ever seen. "The Wild Bunch" is a shoot-'em-up western, however including many themes of then modern 1969. Perhaps the great appeal of the film is that it is so epical and fast-paced; hardly even giving room for one to breathe. The denoument of the 144-minute extravaganza is quite bloody and Gothic; when the leader of the 1913 outlaws, Pike (William Holden) and his gang get shot by Mexican revolutionist types, ending their reign through the Southwest. Highly recommended by me for partiularly older viewers who are able to take nearly two and a half hours of bloodshed!!
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Summary: the best western ever made "bar none"
Review: I saw this movie in 1969 when first made and i was blown away.I saw it again weeks later and they, "who's they"? the" censors had got to it and cut hell out of it.
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Summary: A masterpiece of honor, loyalty, and the old west
Review: The greatest Amnerican western ever made.(I feel Leone's Itallians are better).The violence was so mind-blowing and unprecendented that it's style is still copied today...NOTE: to all directors using slow motion blood letting still, follow SAving Pvt. Ryan, try intense, unrelenting action.
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Summary: The Best Western!
Review: I consider this film the best of the genre. Mr. Woo knows what I'm talking about. Forget everything else, and, please, spend a few bucks to see the wildest of the westerns.
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Summary: greatest western ever made
Review: The Wild Bunch blew me away in 1969 when I saw it at the Chicago Theatre and it does every time I do now. great viuals... the best editing ive ever seen... bill holden's best part ever... great ensemble cast...inspiring sountrack by jerry goldsmith...trust.. loyalty.. honor..
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Summary: One of the great westerns
Review: This ground breaking film depicts the true feelings of the West and the desperate men who were outlaws. The cinematography is excellent, with a stunning opening and closing sequence. The slow motion depiction of the final battle is mind bending in its suggestion of comradeship amongst the gang. The close ups are tremendous and the casting of Wm Holden was inspired, also Robert Ryan as the pursuer.
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Summary: arguably the greatest action epic ever made
Review: Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece The Wild Bunch (1969) applies Homeric values to a gang of outlaws whose time has past. The moral resurrection achieved by the Bunch's final, unforgettable act has shattering emotional and poetic impact. The Wild Bunch is at least as good as The Seven Samurai and, to my mind, better. Its contemporary reference to Vietnam was widely recognized at the time of release. Several of the greatest American movie actors perform at their peak, notably, of course, Holden and Ryan. If the film is too hard to take for you, it's a reflection on your values, not the film's greatness. Its influence has been profound. With Bonnie and Clyde (1968) it redefined movie violence, yet all the blood and gore of films since are a corruption of its originality and power. Women hate this film because its values hearken back to heroic times.
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Summary: A TRUE WORK OF CINEMATIC ART.
Review: THE WILD BUNCH IS WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF THE BEST WESTERNS I HAVE EVER SEEN. DIRECTOR SAM PECKINPAH PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS FOR THIS TRULY MAGNIFICENT PIECE OF WORK. THIS IS ABOUT TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF PURE EXCITEMENT.
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