The Wild Bunch (1969) Movie Reaction! First Time Viewing!Two Filmmakers React!
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2022
- Well we're wrapping up Western Movie madness with a truly mad film, set in the sun setting wild west. William Holden Stars in this blood soaked masterpiece by Sam Peckinpah. Peckinah's style way big on machismo, guns, bare breasts and gouts of blood and guts spread about by endless slow motion gunplay . We find this to be a perfect end to our Western retrospective. enjoy my friends.
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You guys will appreciate this: when I was a grad film student at UCLA, in 1969 a bunch of us were asked if we were interested in seeing the rough cut of a forthcoming film. Those of us with a little time said yes (they didn't tell us in advance the name of the film). So we were bussed over to Warner Bros. to see a roughcut of...The Wild Bunch. We were all a bit taken aback by this radical take on the western and much discussion ensued on the way out. As we exited the screening room we observed Peckinpah and several studio execs anxiously scanning us, a motley lot of grad students, for our reaction.
Thank you for this
Wow, you lucky duck!
That’s so cool
Hollywood is enlisting Mel Gibson to remake this classic western. The days of imagination are long gone with the advent of shiftless Progressives who prefer to take another's pride and joy and place their name on it. Profit outweighs intellect.
I''m searching for this rough cut for 2 Decades now. 😭
Honestly, i would pay a thousand bucks for it
The "walkdown" scene where William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates and Ben Johnson walk back into Mapache's festa is a great use of cameras, angles and specific lenses, and it was all done spontaneously by Sam Peckinpah, on the set, on the day of the shoot. There were no pre-production drawings to describe the scene, Peckinpah just thought it up and did it. Real seat-of-the-pants filmmaking.
Yeah great scene
The greatest Western of all time and one of the greatest movies ever made, by one of the greatest, boldest, drunkest😉 Directors that ever lived.
Everytime i watch one of Sam's movies, i feel sad. Not because all of his movies are sad, but because he's gone, and we'll never see a new Peckinpah film.
It's hard to explain how much his movies connect to my unconciousness.
God bless Sam Peckinpah❤
I saw this in the theater when it came out. Absolutely a groundbreaking film.
This is my favorite western of all time, I love it over the dollars trilogy, tombstone and Unforgiven.
I respect all opinions
Peckinpah’s reputation for violence is really kind of unfair. He made several non-violent movies, like the Western romance “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and the Steve McQueen rodeo drama “Junior Bonner,” which were both great movies, but box office failures. Peckinpah famously said “When I use violence in a movie, everybody complains, but when I don’t, nobody even shows up to see it.”
My dad took me to see this when it came out. Westerns were his favorite genres and he thought with William Holden, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan, he thought it was going to be like an old timey western he grew up with. Boy was he wrong. He kept muttering to himself "I can't believe this" throughout the movie. I loved it. I believe he ever went to the movies again after this and just stuck with old movies on TV.
It seems like your Dad wasn't prepared for this, like EVERYBODY ELSE at that time😂
I still find the violence in The Wild Bunch, shocking. Granted we see a lot of violence in films today, of course, but it's the build up, the character development, the film really takes it's time (yeah I know the beginning starts off with a mass shootout, which was shocking too). Then when the bullets start to fly you feel them, it makes you squirm in your seat a little. The only recent film that made me squirm in my seat was Joker. That scene where Arthur stabs that guy in the neck, man that shook me. The films of Sam Peckinpah made me really fall in love with Mexico and it's people.
Hands down the best Western film ever made. Y'all reaction at 23:01 had me weak as hell in tears lmao. I had the same reaction too lol.
When I first saw this, we had just watched Shane 😂 I was a kid and was in a wheelchair recovering from a major surgery . This film was completely different than the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies I had seen before that. I don’t think I really liked it but it excited me as well . I didn’t watch this movie again for 20 years and it has become my favorite revisionist western . A movie that was so good, it was just so far ahead of it’s time that I think it is just now coming into it’s own, given the state of the world today. There’s so much more going on here than just a western. It’s a true masterpiece.
Hands down my favourite western. It's weird how this is the only reaction video for it.
Cause we’re knowledgeable
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"We're after men and I wish to God I was with them." Robert Ryan as Deke Thornton
There is so much to this movie. It is my favorite western of all time.
I've never seen a bad Peckinpah movie.
Killer Elite was terrible.
Both Holden and Borgnine were Oscar winners, and that is when the Oscars meant something.
Peckinpah is credited with bringing "slow motion" death to the silver screen.
Arthur Penn did it a year earlier with Bonnie & Clyde. But Peckinpah perfected it😂
HongKong Directors like John Woo are always credited für inventing the "Heroic Bloodshed" Genre.
For me it's Sam Peckinpah.
The whole walk thing and the (quite unnecessary😂) battle of bloody Porch.
Just Poetic
@@cld6619 Thanks for the real story about the slow-mo origins. Nothing like knowing where a phenomenon was birthed.
In 1969, I saw this film when I was nine (9) years old at our local Fox Theatre in Riverside, California. The inherent brutality of the gunfighting scenes was shocking and almost sickening as I remember it! The "throat cutting scene" of Angel was traumatizing to say the least especially because it was filmed in "point of view," and in slow motion! This production is forever etched in my sensitive mind!
To anyone on this site I suggest watching this film in its entirety before Hollywood remakes it. No actor should be forgotten because they live in another era.
Simply the best western ( if u call it that) ever made. Casting is unbelievable. And that scene blowing up the bridge. Remember all live action, nothing digital there. Acting great and Holdens mini speech about staying together so well done. Have seen it many times. This along with Paths of Glory and Best Years of Our Lives my 3 favorite flicks.
Some good taste.
love love love this movie
It was the most violent and graphic film of that time. John Woo took a lot of inspiration from this director for his action style, as well as a lot of slow motion.
Interesting meta context is that dude playing Mapache is playing a version of the real-life bad guys he fought when he was a youth in Mexico.
I was in my teens when this film was first released. Yes, it was VERY graphic for that time.Some critics weren't very kind. At some point you guys you need to watch The Getaway. Starring Steve McQueen. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Thanks for your reactions!
Some WW2 combat vets must have had a rough time seeing that unprecedented shootout in the theaters in '69.
Peckinpah was a veteran too.
Great reaction. The Wild Bunch is one of my all time favourite films, and it certainly repays repeat viewings. There are so many themes and motifs packed into it that are easily missed first time round. For example, for a tough, violent western it's absolutely packed with children: from the kids playing "ants vs scorpions" at the start, to the child in military uniform who shoots Pike at the end. And certain phrases ("let's go!", "why not?") crop up over and over again, but with a deeper resonance as the film progresses. And then there's the use of laughter. There are several key scenes that end with laughter: the scene where the bunch realise they've only got washers from their raid; the scene where Lyle announces his engagement - but also the scene where Mapache's troops laugh mercilessly at Angel when they capture him. And the film ends with Thornton and Sykes laughing at the absurdity of their situation. One final fact: three big (and very different) westerns came out in 1969: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And Strother Martin's in all three. :)
That dusty old man was played by Edmond O'Brian. Favorite line; "Who the hell are they!"
I always lmao by the line that came before by Ben Johnson: Silver Rings😂
Mapache is played by Emilio Fernández, who was a great Mexican director from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (roughly between 1936-1956). Apparently, he and Peckinpah became really good drinking buddies during the shoot.
Apache's crony who tries to get the guns from them, is played by Alfonso Arau, who most people my age recognize from Three Amigos as El Guapo. Incidentally, he's also a director.
As far as war movies go, I hope you don't do just English language ones and try to look at, at least, one foreign language film. Here are my recommendations:
Three Kings
Gallipoli
The Battle of Algiers (French/Algerian)
Fires on the Plain (Japanese)
The Big Red One
Come and See (Russian)
The Thin Red Line
Paths of Glory
Attack (1956)
Went The Day Well?
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (South Korea)
Soldier of Orange (Dutch)
A fine list, but you missed Peckinpah’s amazingly nihilistic WWII film Cross of Iron.
Arau was also in Used Cars with Kurt Russell.He also directed Like Water For Chocolate, A Walk In The Clouds and Picking Up The Pieces.
Difference in the violence between Wild Bunch and something like The Searchers is in part because Wild Bunch was made in 1968 and 1969, after the production code was done away with and the MPAA rating system was put in place. Previously, films had to be censored to get a seal of approval for a wide release. Peckinpah had even made a few in that era, but the new rules this time around, since it didn’t have to be appropriate for all audiences, he could tell a story with more brutality without jeopardizing the movie’s financial prospects.
Sam Peckinpah once said that when he fought in the war, death looked kind of slow motion to him, that's the real reason he filmed so much of it this way instead of the traditional; western quick shot death scenes. What's funny is that many other veterans agree and many others disagree with this, saying that seeing people shot didn't look slo-mo to them at all. lol I guess it depends upon the trauma of the person. Also the dragging parts are purposeful to show the aimlessness of these guys. They crave a purpose and action and wildness. Things slow down and we FEEL it! - Great reaction fellas!
This is basically Tarantino before Tarantino even down to the footshots.
You should check out Peckinpah’s early classic, Ride the High Country. In it’s way, it’s as influential to 60s westerns as Wild Bunch was to the 70s. It’s what set the tone for things like the John Wayne True Grit, but is wayyy better.
Thanks for this! My #1 top western. Peckinpah had a gift for making incredible movies.
I’m looking forward to your take on this one. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it over the years,but as I grow older the film takes on new meaning. There is definitely a sense of characters who know they exist at the end of an era. I don’t think I appreciated it quite as much when I was younger.
Exactly. And there is something subversive about this movie; it’s subtle and easy to miss if you just view it as another western with those same old character actors but it definitely lives up to the tag line on one of the movie posters: “Nine men who came too late and stayed too long.”
Totally agree ...they know their dinosaurs .Even Robert Ryan whose hunting them is the same .like a heroic resignation
You guys are the only ones on YT viewing this film. I bet the others have heard of its reputation and don't want to watch it. Nice of you to do so.
I saw the wall bunch when it first came out I'm 71 years old it is a classic it showed the real wild west how people just killed each other the violence of it and bad men there's no honor among thieves classic
Love this film. Up there with my favourite Westerns and action films
Hey guys you are great, so much movie and filming knowledge, love your reactions! You should watch Straw Dogs (1971.) Another controversial masterpice from Sam Peckinpah!
this is one of my fav movies of all time i love the wild bunch
The wild bunch know that there era has come to an end .I think they see a motor car and the look of disgust on their faces is funny as fuck.
They decide to go out on there own terms and it's glorious...pure carnage .They must have took a hundred bullets each in the end but they gave them hell with that gatling gun.....SWEET
Hell yes!! LETS GO!!!
Thank you for reacting to this film. This is one of my all-time favorite films.
Peckinpah created some great films. The Wild Bunch is good but Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is even better at crossing the boundaries of the worlds of the old and new west. My favorite is Sam's eulogy for the classic western: Ride the High Country. Brilliant works.
I have not seen that one (Bring me the Head...). Adding to my queue.
You should watch "The Professionals". Similar themes, ,less traffic, big stars, and a few years earlier.
One of the great Nietzschean scenes in the shoot out. The becoming by violence. F... glorious. Somebody said Straw Dogs was a Fascist film- damn right it is. Shame we never got Pecks Tet 68 nam
I love this movie. The casting was perfect no "Hollywood" violence or ending.. Also it you do War movies I would suggest Cross of Iron.
Yep I really enjoyed Cross of Iron too. It seems to be a largely overlooked and forgotten film these days.
Ah, great minds! You're right, very few people in America know "Cross of Iron" exists but it has a much higher profile in Europe. It's a legendary production among German actors old enough to have been in it. Years ago I drank a lot of alcohol with a guy whose dad is in it somewhere as sort of a swing stunt guy type of person. One of the legends about "Cross of Iron" was that they could only book five stuntmen to do all the battle scenes so the makeup department had all kinds of fun changing their appearance for each scene so nobody would notice.
I suppose we can thank the filmmaking gods that Peckinpah didn't hook up with Klaus Kinski on this - I can't imagine nobody thought of that, but if someone did then obviously sanity won the day. "Cross of Iron" did well enough in Europe and elsewhere for someone to try and make a sequel, but none of the original cast came back and by all accounts it's not very good at all.
masterpiece.
You’ll be the first to react to any of Peckinpah’s movies, and this is the one that changed everything that came after it.
Not to toot my own horn but it’s cause we know films. I own all these movies on dvd
Can’t wait. Love to see your take on Bonnie and Clyde too. Arthur Penn pushed the envelope with the violence, which Peckinpah then took to a whole other level with the slow motion stuff, which I think only worked in this film.
Great film.
Guy on the right looking like good ol' Steve... :D
Peckinpah was a genius, unfortunately could not overcome his demons. Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs are his masterpieces. Many other good ones.
Love the channel guys! Since your starting war films I’d recommend Uncommon Valor (1983) staring Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze.
Great to compare this with Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, which has similiar themes and came out the same year.
Great respect for your review. A Masterpeice by Peckinpah.
Nice reaction. War movie recommendation, Attack with Brian Keith and Jack Palance. First movie to deal with eliminating a commanding officer by subordinates. A groundbreaking movie!
haven't seen this for a long time.....time to see it again
The film was given an R (restricted for over eighteen years of age) rating here in Australia - because of the violence.
Amongst my top five westerns.
Best western ever!!!!!
3 movies I made it thru without falling asleep The Man Who Would Be King , The Lord Of The Rings , and NO.1 The Wild Bunch
both my fav dirextors do slow mo sam and john woo
I saw it the day it came out and when Holden said "If they move, kill 'em"...that's when the john wayne western era ended.
I hope the Sydney Pollack/Robert Redford mountain man movie "Jeremiah Johnson" 1972 is on your list.
@Brad1980 no them films weren't violent like this film .John Wayne wouldn't just start blasting guns like that
I like Wayne's body of work but you hit the nail on the head " when this film came out. The Wayne era was finished"
really happy I found this channel.
Kudos gentlemen. Fantastic reviews.
How about a movie that is really well made, but not reviewed yet.
`~ Seabiscut ~
Great Cast, Great story, cinematography, directing, the whole nine yards.
If you do "war" and don't do Patton, I will be very miffed.
Good choice, thank you. I was at the premier just before I moved away from London 1969. War movies? Will you give "A Bridge Too Far" your consideration?
Cross of Iron is a great little war film by Peckinpah, and thoroughly depressing just like a good war film should be.
Great film
Bo Hopkins should have played Billy the Kid. Kristofferson is okay, but Hopkins was the perfect fit for Billy. I still love that film, though.
Great western. As a fan of Bill Holden, I have a soft spot for this one. You should check out The Revengers. Another Bill Holden vehicle and a classic. Ernie Borgnine is also in it, along with Woody Strode.
Great hanging out with you guys. Like hanging out with my own buds watchin' movies. 🤠👍
PS: I agree it wouldn't hurt to take a western break for a minute.
need to check out The Professionals when you get a chance
Major Major Major Major.
If it's war movies, Major Major and Lt. Orr should be in one of them...
Need watch sandpebbles 1 day .my fav Steve McQueen movie after Papillion
Great movie!
If they only had some body armour, now that would've been a fair fight!
Cross of Iron is a great war movie from Sam peckinpah......
I seen this movie in 1970 when it was an x rated film later it was changed to r and cut lots of the gore out the three sherifs getting shot with a pump action the blood covered the whole screen and the end the bloody ending is cut to hell wish they bring it back as I remember it
Now you need to do The Long Riders
Best ending ever
A hack like Tarantino wishes he could make a film half as good as this. Wishes, but will never manage.
I cannot STAND that load of crap with Django in the title.
This movie tricks you. It looks like a western but it's not really a western, at all. It takes place in the west (Texas and Mexico) where a lot of people still ride horses and dress like cowboys - but it simply isn't the period of the old west (which ended with the 1880s). This movie takes place in (or perhaps just before) the World War One era (1914-1918). There is a motor car, there is a machine gun, there are WWI-style army uniforms, and there are Colt M-1911 semi-automatic pistols (which were the standard US military sidearm from WWI through Vietnam). So it's like a neo-western, or post-western of some sort.
I think you guys are missing the brilliance of this movie….there are so many layers.excellent direction , brilliant acting, fantastic cinematography by Lucien Ballard and an excellent screenplay…..summing up you are too flippant in your critique.
Sam the Man was the master of the slow motion blood bath, that has now become cliche.
Without a doubt the best Western ever made! The way you reviewed this movie was just plain pitiful.
My appreciation of Strother Martin and LQ Jones has never been higher
WAR?
Enemy at the Gates
Casualties of War
Please.....
17:20 El Guapo
We raped the horses, and rode off on the women!
A woman once ask Peckinpah ..... why did you make this movie ?
She was a film critic for Reader's Digest Magazine, who, along with other film critics, was invited to see the film in the Bahamas. Bunch was part of Warner Bros's summer movie lineup. A young Roger Ebert was there too, and he defended the film.
I'd be curious to see what they think of "Cross of Iron" - Sam Peckinpah's war movie and his last gasp, unless you really like "Convoy." It never got much attention here, although it did very well overseas, but there's a great cast led by James Coburn and Maximilian Schell with James Mason and David Warner supporting alongside a truckload of great German actors who you'll have seen here and there. Peckinpah was usually at loggerheads with his producers but the guy running "Cross of Iron" ended up not quite having the resources he was supposed to have to make a big budget Sam Peckinpah WWII action film but I'm not sure you'd notice. There's an extended battle scene in the middle where due to Richard Attenborough hogging all the tanks for "A Bridge Too Far" in Holland, Peckinpah had to make it work with only two tanks, and only one of them could move, and it's still pretty damn' great. Now, clearly Peckinpah was in decline for this one - it was around this time that he tried to quit drinking by switching to cocaine - and they think he might have suffered an undiagnosed heart attack during production but he was so damn' drunk all the time that he didn't notice - but it's still worth a look.
Cross of iron is a fantastic film.When James Coburn says to the idiot officer in the end " I'll show you where the iron cross are earned "
And the child they take care of in the barracks is a very touching part to the film
It's spelled Strother not Struther alleged cinefiles...
It dragged ? Without time to develop the characters you will not be pulling for them. Guess you want 90 minutes of shootouts. Summer of love was 1967!
With Pecks the violence isn't just violence it's meta violence. Only thing I've seen with the same power Uli Edel's 2006 The Baarder Minhoff Complex. West German Red Terror 70s. Gudren Eslin the blonde pure Aryain beauty the fanatatical face of absolute terrorism. You feel the full weight of every bullet. And it's a stunning action film as good as big Tom. Ironical that Putin as a KGB officer actually supported them in Dresden 80s. Jeez what a disappointment he turned out to be. But the film is total porno mini skirts glamour. Only Tom is in the same league for action.
Cross of iron if you want to stay in the pekingpah vein
Kelly's heroes otherwise
I was about to recommend Cross of Iron too. Just to keep up the Pekinpah theme. Kelly’s heroes would also be fun.
Why not both?
Great reaction, except I can't hear what ya'll are saying half the goddamn time!
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Pleeeease do shane. I neeeed it
just have real life gun shots.
Fantastic picture quality for a 54 year-old movie, it looked like it was filmed last week with 'hyper-technirama 70mm' camera's. BTW, the last 15 minutes of 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' are radically different from the last 15 minutes of 'The Wild Bunch' although just as cinematically magical and mesmerising.
I first saw it in re-release in the 80's at the Cinerama Dome - oh man, that was something
I think so too.
Quite nobody praises "Pat Garrett" like it should be.
Sam's last "real" Western is like a best of Album, full of brilliant Setpieces.
It never shocked or stunned me like the Wild Bunch, but it's still among the greatest Westerns ever.
And the Soundtrack is better🙂
Are you two part of the Spielberg family? uncanny resemblance.
Yeah the black guy is a dead ringer for Spielberg
This did not come in the "Summer of Love". That was 1967 this was in 1969. You called it a "Modern Western". I disagree. I think this was actually the first "Post Modern" western. Ahead of it's time with the bloody violence and realistic character motivations. I love good westerns and say I'd have to rank it somewhere in my top five!
Once Upon A Time is more brutal because it's more judicious. Pecky's just gratuitous and it loses impact quickly.
the "summer of love" was actually '67. the year that brought us "cool hand luke," "bedazzled," "the dirty dozen," "the graduate,: "el dorado," "in cold blood" and "bonnie and clyde." "bonnie and clyde" was the film that brought film "violence" and the gangster genre into the modern era. without it "the wild bunch" and "the godfather" could've never been made.
it was cool and innovative at the time but i think enough is enough. i'm kinda tired of all the ridiculous violence in films. 60 years of this crap is enough. its time to move onto more productive social pursuits.
Not too likely
Par de weones, como no han visto este peliculon, vivían en marte o en el inframundo.....
Great film to end a western era with. This film represents outlaws at the end of an era. The wild west was getting awful civilized. When the industrial revolution took over the wild west. There was that odd transition when we went from horses and six shooters to cars and machine guns. Those two worlds had that overlap before the west was dried up completely. I think a good war movie to start with would be the war that put the world into full industrialization: WWI. It was the last war where people fought in skirmish lines. And what a bloody awful war it was. So with the death of the west came WWI, and a couple of WWI films to kick off your war theme would be 1914, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, SERGEANT YORK, and of course the stellar classic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Lawrence shows an often forgotten aspect of WWI, the fight in the Middle East against the Ottoman Turks. Speaking of the Turks, the Australian film, GALLIPOLI, starring a very young Mel Gibson, shows another forgotten aspect, the contribution of Australia in the war. They lost over 8,000 men in the Gallipoli campaign. Or if you guys go with war films through the eras of history, which might be a cool idea, start with 300. I know it's a comic book movie, but it's also an ancient history war film. You just have to understand the movie is being told my one soldier to his other fellow soldiers. He's embellishing the story, so there's some stretch of the imagination. But it's also based on a real battle too, just told with a pinch of salt here and there. It's a badass movie though. If you've not already seen it. Either way, whatever you guys go with, I'm here for it. Western and war films are a couple of my favorite subgenres. I could go on and on, but I'll just wait for the next one. Thanks guys.