Here's how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behindThe Wild Bunchat the time ... more
of the film's 1969 release: "I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times.The Wild Bunchis simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. ...
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Here's how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behindThe Wild Bunchat the time ... more
of the film's 1969 release: "I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times.The Wild Bunchis simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. ...
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Nine men who came too late and stayed too long! This Original Director's Cut restores it ... more
to a complete pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 theatrical debut. The image is letterboxed the colour renewed the stereo soundtrack remixed and rei...
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By any standard, director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch, a powerful tale of hangdog ... more
desperadoes bound by a code of honour, rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films. This original Director's Cut rest...
Director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch, a powerful tale of hangdog desperados bound ... more
by a code of honor, rates as one of the all-time greatest Westers. In 1994 it was restores to a complete, pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 release - and this new high-definition transfer showcases it to renewed blood-and-thunder effect. Watch William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and more great stars saddle up for the roles of a lifetime.
Production Year: 1939 - Westerns - Director: John Ford - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Donald Meek, Tim Holt
Production Year: 1941 - Westerns - Director: Fritz Lang - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Barton MacLane, Robert Young
Production Year: 1966 - Westerns - Director: Howard Hawks - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Asner, Michele Carey
Production Year: 1976 - Westerns - Director: Irvin Kershner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Richard Harris
Advantages: A must see for all lovers of long historical epics. Disadvantages: Could have shown more detail in the battle scenes.
This is an impressive looking production with sumptuous costumes and sets and a rousing score from Vangelis. The Director's Cut includes extra footage, as is to be expected.
Oliver Stone chose a largely European cast for the film, with Colin Farrell as Alexander and Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy. In this film there are several Irish actors, including Farrell, so the main accent is of course Irish, which makes a change from the (by now) traditional British accents in film epics.
It would be refreshing if a director had his historical cast adopt an accent authentic to the time and place i.e. in this case Macedonian or Greek. Val Kilmer, who plays Philip, Alexander's father, does change his, but to an Irish one like Farrell. Angelina Jolie, who plays Alexander's manipulative mother, is the only one who attempts a Mediterranean delivery ...
Advantages: A superlative mix of visceral violence and affecting themes. Disadvantages: It makes other westerns look bad.
Overview
An explosive, action packed Western spectacular directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Review
WildBunch starts unassumingly enough, with pleasant multi-angled vistas of a typically idyllic looking wild west town, bustling with people just going about there business amongst some sort of parade and seemingly we're watching the beginning of a dull and dreary Sunday morning western.
But then...
BOOM! All freaking hell breaks loose. What was once an innocent little outback town quickly turns into a hellish warzone with gunfire zipping and cracking all around. Every rifle round resembles a resounding cannon shot as panic descends and chaos reigns. No one is spared amidst the confusion of the proceeding bloody gunfight. This is no clean-cut bloodless wuss-fest of a Western folks. This is as shockingly brutal, as viscerally violent ...
Advantages: Finally its on DVD Disadvantages: lacks in the special features
DVD that comes in a limited edition folding pyramid box, which can get annoying but admittedly does look cool.
Being a special edition the movie is the Director’s cut containing over thirty minuets of unseen footage. (Total running time 124 min)
The special features aren’t anything to shout about you get the obligatory Trailer and subtitles, the promo reel is basically a best bits of the movie backed with classical music. The audio commentary is by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, which give you an insightful look at how the movie was made.
The picture quality is anything you would expect from a DVD but what is cool is that you get a choice of 5.1 and DTS, which sound amazing.
If you are more bothered about special features then this may not be for you but if like me you see them as a bonus on top of a great film ...
"...There's never been a greater movie about loyalty among men than this..." (USA Today, p.4D, 07/03/1995)
"...Virtually every character in THE WILD BUNCH is a fully fleshed-out, complex portrait of humanity....It's a tale that is just as important and pertinent as ever..." (Variety, 27/02/1995)
DVD Description
As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Ernest Borgnine star as the leaders of a grizzled crew of Texan bandits who ride to Mexico, where, one by one, they are unceremoniously slaughtered by a Mexican revolutionary. The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used ageing Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
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