The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]
by Sam Peckinpah
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, William HoldenDirector: Sam Peckinpah
Brand: HOLDEN,WILLIAM
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
Editor: Lou Lombardo
Producer: Phil Feldman
Producer: Roy N. Sickner
Writer: Roy N. Sickner
Writer: Walon Green
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: A great film faithfully reproduced.
Summary: 5 Stars
My reviews of blu-rays here are primarily about the transfer quality and getting your money's worth. I'm pleased to report that this is a superb transfer that does justice to the film, and definitely worth buying. As for the film itself, I can't add much to the praise that has been written below. It is a western classic, a great film, and it still holds up well after forty years. I'm old enough to have seen the original, and even then I was puzzled by all the reviews about the violence in the film. It didn't strike me as particularly gory then, and certainly not now considering what is routine on the screen, or on CSI for that matter. The actors are all in top form, the narrative is brisk, and an aching irony permeates the end of the film. It is well worth watching again and again, and surely is Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece. Some have noted Butch Cassidy coming out the same year. That was a corny, contrived film with an overlay of a dopey song that is a mouse compared to a lion as far as the Wild Bunch is concerned. It is totally obsolete while the Wild Bunch is timeless. DVD Review: Classic western
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was made in 1969, but you can't tell that from the Blu-ray version. The picture quality on Blu-ray with an HDTV is exceptional.
Not your typical John Wayne/Henry Fonda western. Sam Peckinpah does what Quentin Tarantino would have gotten away with in 1969. Lot of violence and a little off-kilter. A classic.
DVD Review: A Failed Epic
Summary: 3 Stars
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch was released in 1969, the same year as George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, probably the best western ever made. The Wild Bunch lacks the subtlety and humor found in Butch and Sundance. Every character, whether Anglo, Mexican or Indian is a stereotype. There is plenty of action, but not a single character one can identify with.
Peckinpah made a better western in 1973: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, with a score by Bob Dylan, who also appears in the film. The acting by Kris Kristofferson and James Coburn in Pat Garrett is superior to that of William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in The Wild Bunch, and the pacing of Pat Garrett is much better. The Wild Bunch, with a cast of thousands and nonstop violence, is just too long at 145 minutes with no breaks in the endless killing.
DVD Review: The wild Bunch
Summary: 5 Stars
William Holden's presence on screen is viewing pleasure,Wild Bunch a great film.Holden holds his own on the Wild bunch.On blu ray still good entertainment and a new experiance on our large screen T.V.DVD Review: BD vs The Director's Cut
Summary: 5 Stars
The reviewer comparing the BD vs the standard DVD releases missed one important point, I think. The director's cut of this film is 145 whereas the BD version is only 134. Ten minutes doesn't seem like much, but it does matter in this film.
Description of The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]
Director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor. It is said that The Wild Bunch rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all filmsOne of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene--a dusty Texas town in 1913--sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move... Kill 'Em!" --Tim Appelo
One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene--a dusty Texas town in 1913--sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move... Kill 'Em!" --Tim Appelo
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