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www.ram.org - : You think movies like Natural Born Killers or Pulp Fiction glorify violence? They pale in comparison to Sam Peckinpah's modern Western, The Wild Bunch. The difference between The Wild Bunch and later movies is that the killings are committed in a more detached manner, but yet have a curious sentimentality to them. This paradoxical mix is what puts Peckinpah's effort a notch higher than the ones by Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : I suppose ''The Wild Bunch'' is the most violent movie ever made. Hundreds of men, women and horses are slaughtered. A man is dragged behind a horse. Throats are slit, broken, strangled. Blood flows in an unending stream. Thanks to recent advances in special effects, the blood actually spurts when somebody gets shot; there are geysers of blood everywhere. A friend of mine describes ''The Wild Bunch'' as being 200 simultaneous blood transfusions with no recipients. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Violence comes in many shapes, sizes, and forms. Twenty-six years ago, when Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch was first released, it caused a stir because of its gritty, uncompromising style. The deaths in this film are neither sterile nor heroic. When a gun is fired, the result is inevitably messy. In many ways, especially in its determination not to glorify bloodshed, The Wild Bunch shares key themes with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven -- only this film came twenty-three years earlier. A classic in its original theatrical cut, The Wild Bunch is nevertheless improved with eleven minutes of footage restored. more...
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