One of the greatest westerns ever made, it redefined the genre and revolutionized cinema. It showed audiences the real outlaws, instead of showing us clean cut gentleman The Wild Bunch showed us old rugged outlaws way past their prime. Sam Peckinpah was a genius filmmaker and he died too young (59). In my opinion The Wild Bunch is the Citizen Kane of the western genre. Peckinpah made many great underrated films such as Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Ballad of Cable Houge, and many other films. The Wild Bunch will forever be known as a masterpiece.
Normally seeing how a scene is shot can lessen it's impact on screen. Here it is so remarkable that suspension of disbelief doesn't even come into it. It is too awesome for that.
It's very good. For me the best pre-shootout sequences are in Once Upon A Time In The West, & The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. But maybe this one will grow on me.
@@scattjax3908 Once upon a time in the West is different,but just as good. I think the slience between Bronson and Fonda is one of the best slilences in the history of Film. It showcases what film is: Pictures.
I never gathered the Bunch could have escaped after they shot Mapache. They were massively outnumbered. I think the looks they gave eachother were a realization they could not escape, so why not take as many of them out as they could and exit in a blaze of glory? Ernest Borgnine's smile says, "They haven't shot back yet, so this may be the last thing we'll do, but it'll be the most fun".
Yeah. If they had tried to leave ... some one would have come after them. They were in charge there for a few seconds and everyone was afraid of them - but if they'd shown any sign of weakness - like trying to leave - that would be over. No ... they were surprised when there wasn't an instant response but then it's like "OK. We know how this is going to end - and we are ending it on our terms." Then Holden shoots the German General. .
This is easily the best western I have ever seen. The cast and acting and slow motion killing are what make this movie a classic. The last shootout is a masterpiece in film editing and bloodletting. One of my ten most favorite movies of all time.
You can make the case for earlier westerns that established the genre. But The Wild Bunch took it and expanded on it in a way that changed the way action movies were made forever. It's one of the greatest movies ever made, PERIOD.
@@randolphwhite3406 The Verdict. The Getaway. The French Connection. In Cold Blood. State of Grace. The Godfather.. In The Heat Of The Night. At Close Range. A Civil Action.
He was charming, unassuming, and well-mannered by all that I've read. His autobiography is a great read. And he lived a good, long life. Long enough to work on SpongeBob, which is a hard act to follow.
The walk gave the audience time to think why these men were doing what they were doing. These men realized they had outlived their way of life. They were not willing to confirm or change. They choose the warriors death. Pure genius by Peckinpah.
I saw the original theatrical release of this movie in 1969. The movie was much, much bloodier than the directors cut, especially the title sequence when robbing the bank. Excellent movie
Genius. From the walk off to assassinating the German general, who was really responsible for the death and violence of Mapache and his irregulars. That assassination turned the film from a story about outlaws in the waning days of the west and in the midst of the Mexican revolution into a political thriller, where a foreign power is checkmated by four American patriots who started off as outlaws but became heroes for their simple act of loyalty to one of their own. My favorite movie of all time.
"Let's go..." Totally brilliant. One of the greatest (most impactful) lines in movie-making history. Sam Peckinpah was a genius - greatly misunderstood and under appreciated by the Hollywood suits and bean counters. Imagine the movies he could have made if he were given a wider latitude. Say what you will, his movies were never boring.
As great as the shootout is, and its masterful, the build up with the preceding scene with the women, and then the walk give it the dramatic necessity it has to have. And what is missing from so much of today's cinema. That quiet scene, with the women, is really the payoff for the flashbacks. Holden realizes he's blown his personal life, and if he does not go back for Jaime, all of his preaching about honor means nothing. He makes the right choice, balanced on the head of a pin.
yes, the preceding scene is amazing in its own right...an Outlaw's Last Supper, complete with a crying unpaid whore, suggesting the futility of living....what's missing from PC Hollywood is anything approaching poetry, human truth, or a sense of life as we flawed human beings live it ua-cam.com/video/6c-W3XnXB_M/v-deo.html
This is called morality, sense of honor, right or wrong, in the world of renegade outlaws. There is that line of loyalty. There is a movie - one of my top 10 to 20 of all films I've enjoyed watching called "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. It's about honor and morality in the lives of "hit-men", where again, there is that line. I highly recommend to those that loved "The Wild Bunch.
He hated "High Noon" too. Seems like he hated any western that told it like it was with masterful execution, instead of glorifying things like he loved to.
"Let's go!" is a theme throughout the film and is used by both William Holden's character and by Robert Ryan's. Perhaps there was more significance to this line that would have been explained more in the 30-something minutes that was cut from Peckinpah's final cut and lost prior to the film's release.
+John Salisbury The phrase "Let's go!" was later used to good effect as the Ramones' rallying cry in their punk anthem BLITZKRIEG BOP ("Hey Ho, Let's go!"). I wonder if the Ramones were fans of THE WILD BUNCH?
As the makers of this documentary say, it is poetically patriotic that the first person to die after Mapache was the imperial German general (this took place in 1913, not long before the infamous Zimmerman telegram proposing to Mexico they could get the US if they joined Germany in WWI).
Along with Once Upon A Time In the West, an Italian western/verismo opera, it is my favorite western. I sometimes have a lower opinion of people who cannot detect that it’s truly about friendship...they just can’t get past the violence. They weren’t leaving without Angel and Mapache screwed up when he underestimated these dudes...four tough gringos who took on a Mexican army. Anyone viewing this flick can really see Peckinpah’s love of simple Mexican folk.
Hard to believe that William Holden was the third or fourth choice for the rile of Pike Bishop after Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and one or two others turned it down.. This was easily Holdens best performance and it revived his career which had faded out after 1960. There is no doubt that this movie is a classic and the final shootout has never been bettered although the great John Wayne said he hated the movie. This generation of actors was unique and for some unknown reason no one came along afterwards who even came close to replacing them.
I don't know if it was Holden's best, but it's up in the top three or four. I agree that this generation of actors was unique. I think this was one of Robert Ryan's best performances, who was also "past his prime." I like how Peckinpah used actors that other people had stopped paying attention to (Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in Ride the High Country, Warren Oates in everything).
Yeah Robert Ryan was great but he's nearly forgotten these days. Lawman starring Burt Lancaster was Ryan's last film when he was in remission from cancer, I thought it was a nice touch at the very end of the wildbunch when Robert Ryan took William Holdens unfired six gun from it's holster....the end of one era and the beginning of another.
@@gregoryknight9893 Lee Marvin showed he could do a range of roles by taking Paint Your Wagon. He wasn't a cardboard cowboy like John Wayne, movie after movie. Same as Kirk Douglas - an actor, not just a movie star.
ONE OF THE BEST ALL TIME WESTERNS EVER MADE, FANTASTIC DIALOGUE,WRITING, MUSIC SCORE, AND PLOT, EVERYTHING CAME TOGETHER, YOU DONT SEE WESTERNS OR MOVIES LIKE THIS ANYMORE ONLY SAM PECKINPAH COULD DO THIS, THANK YOU MR PECKINPAH , THEY DONT MAKE DIRECTORS LIKE YOU ANYMORE EITHER
You know it's a good film. When it all starts kicking off, you're not interested in the narration, you just want to watch the carnage and listen to the gunfire.
And a Steak House no Doubt. With a Bottle of Rotgut Cactus Juice... And it's Smokey and Dust Ridden. With Bad Lighting...and Extreme Cigar Smoke.My Kind of Cantina.
My maternal grandfather took me to see this when I was thirteen. Grandfather was a western fan from way back and I saw a number of 'em with him from the time I was four years old or so. My grandfather also had to petition my parents for permission for me to see an R-rated movie. The opening sequence is just as compelling as the scene alluded to here. My childhood takeaway from this movie is Bo Hopkins' character invoking his kid sister's 'black cat's @ss' when he's left behind at the beginning of the movie. I was thinking at the time, 'Did I hear that right?' The interesting thing for me is that one week later I was transferring to a new school and I had four day period of slack before I had to report to my new school. I was able to ride my bicycle up to the theater, buy a ticket and stroll right in to the 1 PM matinee and see The Wild Bunch (1969) by myself no questions asked.
It was always a fairly straightforward story to me. The world changed. Pike knew that people like him had no place in it. They had to consider a new way of thinking. In the end, they realized that they were too *wild* for this modern world, and they chose to exit it on their own terms.
A great movie, not just a great Western but all movies. They were men, that had conviction and principle, right or wrong by the standards of any time period and they stuck them to the death. Wonderfully acted and directed. I can't imagine any other actors playing those characters then or now. They sure don't make em like that anymore. Today's movies don't come close to the quality and content of the Wild Bunch. I hope they never try to remake it.
This, this was THE WALK. Made 25 years (filmed in spring, 1968) before The Walk in Tombstone. As much as I like Tombstone, this is THE WALK for all ages.
When you get so disgusted at the enemy, the desire to wipe them out surpasses the desire to survive the assault, but amazingly, sometimes you are able to walk away.
Would have liked sitting around at the end of a day of shoots, passing around a bottle of tequila and listening to the cast and crew rip it up. Great movie.
Peckenpaw was a pion- eering hero. He broke the mold, more so - he shattered the heretofore illusion of the old west. The gunman, dressed in tight pants with white hat, a single six-gun strapped to one thigh, always clean shaven, and waiting for the bad guy to draw his weapon and fire first - then only afterward pulling his own and drilling the bad guy dead center simply never happened. It's fantasy, completely unrealistic. Not that there's anything really wrong with story books. But conversely, there's nothing wrong with being more authen- tic either. And in the 'real' wild west there was no such thing as the real good guy and the real bad guy. Nearly always, any man who wore a gun spent some time being one, and some time being the other. Fantasy is merely an intellectual reprieve in an emotional world.
I believe it is the best shootout in a western! Peckinpah was a genius! RIP... I read about a rumour that Mel Gibson is going to make or direct I'm not sure which?, a remake of this classic movie, but I wonder if will be as good as the original??? 😲🤞
THE finest Western ever made. and no one--------------Mel Gibson or whoever----------should ever touch this Masterpiece. ------------No one. --------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
There's some worthwhile stuff in this doc, but it's ruined by that asinine Ken Burns style of getting some schmuck to recite someone else's reminiscences, and then state that person's name. It's goddamn irritating. Judy Garland.
Incorrect machine gun, the Browning 1917 was not invented until 1917 and not in production until April 1918 and it saw scant use in WWI. This movie is set before WWI, so a British Maxim machine gun or a Colt Potato Digger machine gun is more appropriate.
An M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun would have been great (see Rough Riders- 1997) but the Colt-Vickers M1915, which came out in 1912, resembles the M1917 a lot and the M1917 as a stand in for that isn't too bad.
One of the best of the west , a gang who is running out of places to run an into a new era the 20th century an they should had been dead long ago , a posse on their tail headed by one of gang , all they want to do it make on e more big heist an end up in Mexico , then the General who hires them an after successfully doing the heist the General hold one of their own , they try an buy Him back , no dice , but they already knew that would happen so the hell with it , an start blasting away ---EPIC
Yeh yeh thats exactly what I saw in Ernest Borgnines grin.the final glutt ov a born killer,for a moment there you think he and William Holden have a chance,but soon realise its the end .this film could not be made better by anyone Sam peckingpah was d man. BIGGZ
I always saw the finale as the men shooting on the Mexicans because of a mix of things. They lost Angel, which gave them anger and resentment, and the Mexicans thought they could just do it and get away with it. Their "last stand" then becomes a mix of revenge and a "fuck you" to all of them who thought they could kill one of them and walk away from it.
The ending is silly, in real life the four dudes would have been killed in seconds! BTW, today, 7/8/2022, L. Q. Jones died at 94 years of age, he was in the film. I guess he got his liquor money!
not a fan of this, after Bonnie and Clyde this film took the violence to the next level and of course now it's off the charts both in films and in our society. This is definitely a "guy" film , it taps into all that imaginary macho bullshit that guys tend to imagine exists. It's also a very American film with all the heroes macho Americans and all the bad guys, disgusting Mexicans. I think the movie goes on too long and should've been cut by about 20 minutes. I remember when this film came out, it was very controversial mainly because of the opening slo-mo massacre. It doesn't look like too much now but again I find some of this movie tedious and boring, and I love movies, especially westerns.
That scene never gets old. What superb acting, even the Mexican extras are perfect.
One of the greatest westerns ever made, it redefined the genre and revolutionized cinema. It showed audiences the real outlaws, instead of showing us clean cut gentleman The Wild Bunch showed us old rugged outlaws way past their prime. Sam Peckinpah was a genius filmmaker and he died too young (59). In my opinion The Wild Bunch is the Citizen Kane of the western genre. Peckinpah made many great underrated films such as Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Ballad of Cable Houge, and many other films. The Wild Bunch will forever be known as a masterpiece.
True-the best western ever. Thats why it killed the whole western-genre. No one could make shootout-scenes like Peckinpah.
Unforgiven killed off the genre
@@stevec7770 A great western too. Gene Hackman steals the show.
@Arnett Cooper a comment on Steve C about Unforgiven.
One of the 3 greatest films ever made regardless of genre.
Normally seeing how a scene is shot can lessen it's impact on screen. Here it is so remarkable that suspension of disbelief doesn't even come into it. It is too awesome for that.
Well said, Funky.
probably the best Western of all time
I agree
Once Upon a Time in The West
I was in high school in '69. Nobody could believe a western like that could be made. It was great. It was unbelievable
Probably the best film ever made quite honestly.
@@MaximusWolfe BUENÍSIMO
"The walk" is the best pre-shootout sequence ever filmed. Nothing has ever come close to it.
It's very good. For me the best pre-shootout sequences are in Once Upon A Time In The West, & The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. But maybe this one will grow on me.
Just discovered the walk inspired that of the four Ghostbusters when facing Zuul.
Best Western Ever.
@@scattjax3908 Once upon a time in the West is different,but just as good. I think the slience between Bronson and Fonda is one of the best slilences in the history of Film. It showcases what film is: Pictures.
I never gathered the Bunch could have escaped after they shot Mapache.
They were massively outnumbered.
I think the looks they gave eachother were a realization they could not escape,
so why not take as many of them out as they could and exit in a blaze of glory?
Ernest Borgnine's smile says,
"They haven't shot back yet,
so this may be the last thing we'll do, but it'll be the most fun".
Yeah. If they had tried to leave ... some one would have come after them. They were in charge there for a few seconds and everyone was afraid of them - but if they'd shown any sign of weakness - like trying to leave - that would be over. No ... they were surprised when there wasn't an instant response but then it's like "OK. We know how this is going to end - and we are ending it on our terms." Then Holden shoots the German General.
.
Fantastic cast acting and action
Nah they could have just backed out and run the fuck off. Sure they'd get chased but they'd make it out of there.
This is easily the best western I have ever seen. The cast and acting and slow motion killing are what make this movie a classic. The last shootout is a masterpiece in film editing and bloodletting. One of my ten most favorite movies of all time.
foodfudd another movie, Extreme Prejudice, had a shoot out at the end of that film, honoring The Wild Bunch!
You can make the case for earlier westerns that established the genre. But The Wild Bunch took it and expanded on it in a way that changed the way action movies were made forever. It's one of the greatest movies ever made, PERIOD.
One my favorite movies of all time.
what are the other 9?
@@randolphwhite3406 The Verdict. The Getaway. The French Connection. In Cold Blood. State of Grace. The Godfather.. In The Heat Of The Night. At Close Range. A Civil Action.
Ernest Borgnine looks as mean as hell!..but he was a gentleman in real life apparently.
He was charming, unassuming, and well-mannered by all that I've read. His autobiography is a great read. And he lived a good, long life. Long enough to work on SpongeBob, which is a hard act to follow.
The best Western ever made, along with an awesome cast.
The walk gave the audience time to think why these men were doing what they were doing. These men realized they had outlived their way of life. They were not willing to confirm or change. They choose the warriors death. Pure genius by Peckinpah.
Nothing left to say!👏
I saw the original theatrical release of this movie in 1969. The movie was much, much bloodier than the directors cut, especially the title sequence when robbing the bank. Excellent movie
Genius. From the walk off to assassinating the German general, who was really responsible for the death and violence of Mapache and his irregulars. That assassination turned the film from a story about outlaws in the waning days of the west and in the midst of the Mexican revolution into a political thriller, where a foreign power is checkmated by four American patriots who started off as outlaws but became heroes for their simple act of loyalty to one of their own. My favorite movie of all time.
The entire universe stopped, momentarilly to watch them die like men
Try watching Pekinpah's gritty ''Bring me the head of Alfredo''
Thanks for posting! Love that scene! ❤
My fav movie of all time! Then Butch n Sundance Kid!
"Let's go..."
Totally brilliant.
One of the greatest (most impactful) lines in movie-making history.
Sam Peckinpah was a genius - greatly misunderstood and under appreciated by the Hollywood suits and bean counters.
Imagine the movies he could have made if he were given a wider latitude.
Say what you will, his movies were never boring.
"... Why not?"
@@TerrorHawk111
Exactly! 👍
As great as the shootout is, and its masterful, the build up with the preceding scene with the women, and then the walk give it the dramatic necessity it has to have. And what is missing from so much of today's cinema. That quiet scene, with the women, is really the payoff for the flashbacks. Holden realizes he's blown his personal life, and if he does not go back for Jaime, all of his preaching about honor means nothing. He makes the right choice, balanced on the head of a pin.
Hollywood doesn’t make art today, it makes noise.
yes, the preceding scene is amazing in its own right...an Outlaw's Last Supper, complete with a crying unpaid whore, suggesting the futility of living....what's missing from PC Hollywood is anything approaching poetry, human truth, or a sense of life as we flawed human beings live it
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Perfect comment bro. Pike decides to go and Dutch/Lyle/Tector follow him without hesitating.
They redeemed themselves by dying like they did, gold meant nothing in the end.
I was 16 when I saw this masterpiece.I went into the cinema as a boy and came out a man!!
This is called morality, sense of honor, right or wrong, in the world of renegade outlaws. There is that line of loyalty.
There is a movie - one of my top 10 to 20 of all films I've enjoyed watching called "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.
It's about honor and morality in the lives of "hit-men", where again, there is that line.
I highly recommend to those that loved "The Wild Bunch.
pure genius peck was.....nothing like his films ty sam
Master piece!
I read somewhere that John Wayne hated this movie because it destroyed the myth of old the Wild West, the one portrayed by Wayne
Terry Barton maybe he was jealous?
Sorry Mr Wayne, the old west was not all unicorns & rainbows 🌈
He did 1 great western-Red river. In the 60s he mostly played John Wayne.
He hated "High Noon" too. Seems like he hated any western that told it like it was with masterful execution, instead of glorifying things like he loved to.
Hell! even the Wild West wasn't wild all the time.....
La plus grande scène de ciné du plus grand film de tous les temps!!!! Fan absolu!
"Let's go!" is a theme throughout the film and is used by both William Holden's character and by Robert Ryan's. Perhaps there was more significance to this line that would have been explained more in the 30-something minutes that was cut from Peckinpah's final cut and lost prior to the film's release.
+John Salisbury The phrase "Let's go!" was later used to good effect as the Ramones' rallying cry in their punk anthem BLITZKRIEG BOP ("Hey Ho, Let's go!"). I wonder if the Ramones were fans of THE WILD BUNCH?
It's too bad that 30 minutes was lost because it could be released.
There's still 4 hours of unreleased footage of The Wild Bunch in Warner Brother's archives.
Formidable el final, insuperable, por su realismo. Sam eres un genio.
As the makers of this documentary say, it is poetically patriotic that the first person to die after Mapache was the imperial German general (this took place in 1913, not long before the infamous Zimmerman telegram proposing to Mexico they could get the US if they joined Germany in WWI).
thats pretty well documented..germans wanted Mexico in their side in both wars..
El mejor western de todos los tiempos. Un genio Sam Peckinpah,. Bring me the head of Alfredo García es otro Diamante del Cine, una obra maestra.
One of my Top 5 Westerns.
Ernest Borgnine was such a versatile actor. He could do cowboy drama and McHale's Navy comedy.
Exactly, and he could be a scary and convincing Devil in the Devils Rain movie! 👻😲😈👹
Borgnine was a national treasure
Along with Once Upon A Time In the West, an Italian western/verismo opera, it is my favorite western. I sometimes have a lower opinion of people who cannot detect that it’s truly about friendship...they just can’t get past the violence. They weren’t leaving without Angel and Mapache screwed up when he underestimated these dudes...four tough gringos who took on a Mexican army. Anyone viewing this flick can really see Peckinpah’s love of simple Mexican folk.
Hard to believe that William Holden was the third or fourth choice for the rile of Pike Bishop after Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and one or two others turned it down.. This was easily Holdens best performance and it revived his career which had faded out after 1960. There is no doubt that this movie is a classic and the final shootout has never been bettered although the great John Wayne said he hated the movie. This generation of actors was unique and for some unknown reason no one came along afterwards who even came close to replacing them.
I don't know if it was Holden's best, but it's up in the top three or four. I agree that this generation of actors was unique. I think this was one of Robert Ryan's best performances, who was also "past his prime." I like how Peckinpah used actors that other people had stopped paying attention to (Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in Ride the High Country, Warren Oates in everything).
Yeah Robert Ryan was great but he's nearly forgotten these days. Lawman starring Burt Lancaster was Ryan's last film when he was in remission from cancer, I thought it was a nice touch at the very end of the wildbunch when Robert Ryan took William Holdens unfired six gun from it's holster....the end of one era and the beginning of another.
Lee Marvin.... Sam wanted him but Lee's agent talked him out of it.... So Lee went to do Paint Your Wagon....
@@gregoryknight9893 Lee Marvin showed he could do a range of roles by taking Paint Your Wagon. He wasn't a cardboard cowboy like John Wayne, movie after movie. Same as Kirk Douglas - an actor, not just a movie star.
William Holdens black waist coat....perfect.
Sam couldn't find love but he sure loved Mexico and Mexicans
ONE OF THE BEST ALL TIME WESTERNS EVER MADE, FANTASTIC DIALOGUE,WRITING, MUSIC SCORE, AND PLOT, EVERYTHING CAME TOGETHER, YOU DONT SEE WESTERNS OR MOVIES LIKE THIS ANYMORE ONLY SAM PECKINPAH COULD DO THIS, THANK YOU MR PECKINPAH , THEY DONT MAKE DIRECTORS LIKE YOU ANYMORE EITHER
You know it's a good film.
When it all starts kicking off, you're not interested in the narration, you just want to watch the carnage and listen to the gunfire.
Ernest Borgnine was a Gentleman amongst Gentlemen!!!!!!!!
"Pike and Dutch"...great name for an American restaurant !!
And a Steak House no Doubt. With a Bottle of Rotgut Cactus Juice... And it's Smokey and Dust Ridden. With Bad Lighting...and Extreme Cigar Smoke.My Kind of Cantina.
Tastin' those steaks right now...lol !
+Mike Jenkins that is Dutch's wet dream because he absolutely adores and loves Pike.
My maternal grandfather took me to see this when I was thirteen. Grandfather was a western fan from way back and I saw a number of 'em with him from the time I was four years old or so. My grandfather also had to petition my parents for permission for me to see an R-rated movie. The opening sequence is just as compelling as the scene alluded to here. My childhood takeaway from this movie is Bo Hopkins' character invoking his kid sister's 'black cat's @ss' when he's left behind at the beginning of the movie. I was thinking at the time, 'Did I hear that right?' The interesting thing for me is that one week later I was transferring to a new school and I had four day period of slack before I had to report to my new school. I was able to ride my bicycle up to the theater, buy a ticket and stroll right in to the 1 PM matinee and see The Wild Bunch (1969) by myself no questions asked.
"we have to start thinking beyond our guns"
It was always a fairly straightforward story to me. The world changed. Pike knew that people like him had no place in it. They had to consider a new way of thinking. In the end, they realized that they were too *wild* for this modern world, and they chose to exit it on their own terms.
brilliant analysis
Let's go!
When great actors walked the earth..
None like them now!
The most impressionable movie of my life. Released the summer of 69. I was 15.
We stick together, otherwise were finished.. all of us!!
best shootout ever
I have always loved this movie.
A truly classic movie ending.
A great movie, not just a great Western but all movies. They were men, that had conviction and principle, right or wrong by the standards of any time period and they stuck them to the death. Wonderfully acted and directed. I can't imagine any other actors playing those characters then or now. They sure don't make em like that anymore. Today's movies don't come close to the quality and content of the Wild Bunch. I hope they never try to remake it.
Arguably the greatest film ever produced.
This, this was THE WALK. Made 25 years (filmed in spring, 1968) before The Walk in Tombstone. As much as I like Tombstone, this is THE WALK for all ages.
now THATS what i was looking for thanks ;)
When you get so disgusted at the enemy, the desire to wipe them out surpasses the desire to survive the assault, but amazingly, sometimes you are able to walk away.
the best western of all time. I still love it. William Holden was the best.
Its magic when he mows down everything in pure wrath and desperation!
That would have been cool to have been there on the set.
這是經典中的經典作品，This is coolest walking ever 👍🎼🎵
I saw this movie when it first came out in theaters.
Would have liked sitting around at the end of a day of shoots, passing around a bottle of tequila and listening to the cast and crew rip it up. Great movie.
"THE WILD BUNCH"..................................ONE ...CULT MOVIE !!!
The drums man those drums
..
The ammo belt from the machine gun is clearly not right! Someone must have been feeding it off camera!
Peckenpaw was a pion-
eering hero. He broke the mold, more so - he shattered the heretofore illusion of the old west.
The gunman, dressed in tight pants with white hat, a single six-gun strapped to one thigh, always clean shaven, and waiting for the bad guy to draw his weapon and fire first - then only afterward pulling his own and drilling the bad guy dead center simply never happened. It's fantasy,
completely unrealistic.
Not that there's anything really wrong with story books. But conversely, there's nothing wrong with being more authen-
tic either.
And in the 'real' wild west
there was no such thing as the real good guy and the real bad guy. Nearly always, any man who wore a gun spent some time being one, and some time being the other.
Fantasy is merely an intellectual reprieve in an emotional world.
Master piece of western movie
Now THAT is a Western
THE WILD BUNCH AND THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID CLASSICS
great
What at ending!
The greatest Western of all time
I believe it is the best shootout in a western! Peckinpah was a genius! RIP... I read about a rumour that Mel Gibson is going to make or direct I'm not sure which?, a remake of this classic movie, but I wonder if will be as good as the original??? 😲🤞
No chance. He'd be unable to refrain from shoehorning in one or other of his obsessions (e.g. that all the English are despicable).
THE finest Western ever made. and no one--------------Mel Gibson or whoever----------should ever touch this Masterpiece. ------------No one. --------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
If they try to remake this movie it will be the biggest tragedy in the history of Holly Weed.
Supposedly planned by Mel Gibson....
Lets go best scene ever
esa pelicula esta bien chingona una de las mojores de su categoria.
Awesome movie
Make a little cgi on restoration, namely flames on machinegun: guys act like shooting, soundeffects of firing but no flames in some shots.
There's some worthwhile stuff in this doc, but it's ruined by that asinine Ken Burns style of getting some schmuck to recite someone else's reminiscences, and then state that person's name.
It's goddamn irritating. Judy Garland.
Sam Had His Sh-t Together!
Incorrect machine gun, the Browning 1917 was not invented until 1917 and not in production until April 1918 and it saw scant use in WWI. This movie is set before WWI, so a British Maxim machine gun or a Colt Potato Digger machine gun is more appropriate.
i thought i was the only one who notice that. good eyes
Perhaps they couldn't get the right machine-gun at the time? It happens.
So fucking what still a great film
Watch and sleep
An M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun would have been great (see Rough Riders- 1997) but the Colt-Vickers M1915, which came out in 1912, resembles the M1917 a lot and the M1917 as a stand in for that isn't too bad.
The guy at 37 second probably didn't know the film was rolling.....😵
Peckinpah was a genius...period.
One of the best of the west , a gang who is running out of places to run an into a new era the 20th century an they should had been dead long ago , a posse on their tail headed by one of gang , all they want to do it make on e more big heist an end up in Mexico , then the General who hires them an after successfully doing the heist the General hold one of their own , they try an buy Him back , no dice , but they already knew that would happen so the hell with it , an start blasting away ---EPIC
Ah. Los gringos, otra vez. His manner, his expression, and five words sum up the universal "WTF now".
Amazing fucking film.
Capolavoro immenso
The American dream, going out in a hail of righteous gunfire.
Yeh yeh thats exactly what I saw in Ernest Borgnines grin.the final glutt ov a born killer,for a moment there you think he and William Holden have a chance,but soon realise its the end .this film could not be made better by anyone Sam peckingpah was d man. BIGGZ
best film ever
I bet Alec Baldwin’s Armorer could’ve learned a couple things on this movie set
sam was the best
Great western. They don't make 'em like that.
Professional soldiers to the end
I always saw the finale as the men shooting on the Mexicans because of a mix of things. They lost Angel, which gave them anger and resentment, and the Mexicans thought they could just do it and get away with it. Their "last stand" then becomes a mix of revenge and a "fuck you" to all of them who thought they could kill one of them and walk away from it.
Parras, Coahuila
The ending is silly, in real life the four dudes would have been killed in seconds! BTW, today, 7/8/2022, L. Q. Jones died at 94 years of age, he was in the film. I guess he got his liquor money!
Angel is just an escuse for them to die...
Its most of all an excuse for Pike.
He let so many people down (Thornton, Crazy Lee....).
Angel would be one too much.
This film is about the death of masculinity.
And what a glorious death it was.
The only decent way to go...
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Pike! PIKE!!!!!
Ilpiubelwesterndi sempre
not a fan of this, after Bonnie and Clyde this film took the violence to the next level and of course now it's off the charts both in films and in our society. This is definitely a "guy" film , it taps into all that imaginary macho bullshit that guys tend to imagine exists. It's also a very American film with all the heroes macho Americans and all the bad guys, disgusting Mexicans. I think the movie goes on too long and should've been cut by about 20 minutes. I remember when this film came out, it was very controversial mainly because of the opening slo-mo massacre. It doesn't look like too much now but again I find some of this movie tedious and boring, and I love movies, especially westerns.