You left out the best part . You should've started the vid a few seconds earlier when Holden looks at the two guys and says"let's go". The looks in their eyes is priceless. You know he wasn't talking about leaving the town, but taking care of business, the other's knew it too. Other than "Unforgiven", and some of the lines in " The Professionals" ,( A movie Ryan also acted in) this is my favorite western. This is also my favorite Borgnine film. Sucks that Ryan had to chase Holden and Borgnine.
@90Sokol90 Yea, Holden was a master at doing that. And I don't know about you guys in Spain, but we Americans haven't made a really great western in 19 years.
@90Sokol90 In America, back in the 40's/50's60's, most big name movie star men were pretty much required to make at least 1 western movie it seems. Now, no one seems to think westerns are worth watching. But for me, some of the truest facts of life have been said in the dialogues of western movies. Simple, but very true things.
You have your The Good The Bad and The Ugly , Once Upon A Time In The West gunfight which is stand and stare and one or two shots at the most, (excellent). Here it's walk to a gunfight and more then one or two bullets are fired. (All f--king hell breaks loose) What fun to watch.
It would be even better if the "Let's go" part would be included.
One of the best finales EVER. Also, William Holden's best role. I didn't like him in his prettyboy roles, but once he aged he became pure badass, just like Sean Connery.
4:09 - 4:28 is a revelation. if i could be so bold as to infer dialogue... " we're not in it to win it, we're here to die, and whoever wants to play... is coming with us".
So what do you think about the Ernest Borgnine character not taking part in the final debauch.
What do you think?
I'm open to any interpretation.
I saw this movie in the theater at age 14 -- I could stick my head above the counter and therefore was 16 or 17 or whatever the fuck you had to be to see a movie without your parents.
I've never watched more than a clip or two of "Marty" (for which he won the Oscar in 1955), but for me, Borgnine's role in The Wild Bunch was his best.
Terrific movie.
Saw it in the theater again a year ago, a pub theater, told everybody in the lobby, Everytime Bill Holden says Let's go, you have to take a shot. :-)
The level of acting displayed in that movie, both by good guys (they are not really "good" guys, they're career criminials) as well as the evil ones, is FAR ABOVE what we see nowadays. Imagine, if they would try to make a remake thereof with the current crop of "movie stars" (heaven forbid!). Filmmakers would be hard pressed to even find three modern-day actors to fulfill the various characters of the movie satisfactorily. Days of filmmaking like that seem to be over... :-(
My favorite scene is when Holden takes a gulp out of the Tequila bottle, looks at the young Mexican girl he (obvious) just had fun with and back to the wall/ground. In these seconds it's quite noticeable that his own life is just flashing through his thoughts and he probably decides in these very seconds that there is NO reason to go on with it and just once do the right thing before going out with a bang. Not a word is spoken in that scene. That's acting of the highest order.
Don't mess with a bunch of pissed off old men. I feel like them most of the time. I love Ernest Borgnine's insane cackle and the smiles on their faces when they know what's going to happen. The Wild Bunch is a true classic!!!
Please no remake for this film it will be failure who ever is in it .This is a master piece of acting and directing that cannot be bettered by anyone.the music to fits it perfectly .
I with we had a switch that made us see it for the first time with every screening .
That film set the tone for all to come in film today. Good job Bloody Sam! Read the book by the same name "Bloody Sam" for and inside on the man Sam! You will not be disappointed!
@RavingInATractor It didn't have to be future tech; there were contemporary (for this movie's timeline) machine guns such as the Maxim machine gun that could have been used. I guess Sam Peckinpah probably didn't have the budget for one of them.
Yeah my friend said that it was racists. He such an idiot its a movie staged in Mexico with 4 American bank robbers & they get into a shootout with the Mexican Army after an exchange of money for rifles & gold & instead of allowing there friend to leave they kill him & they get into a shootout.
Watched this again this afternoon on D.V.D....Still reckon it's the best shoot out in any western,but The G.B.U. finale comes bloody close.....Hope they do'nt remake it would be crap.......
who is saying this movie is racial....please you are ignorant! Mexicans aren't a race...they are culture....second its a movie....maybe you're in a movie and you don't distinquish between reality and fiction....i feel sorry for you, one of the best westerns still today,
who is saying this movie is racial....please you are ignorant! Mexicans aren't a race...they are culture....second its a movie....maybe you're in a movie and you don't distinquish between reality and fiction....i feel sorry for you,
Playing Red Dead Redemption got me to re-watching a lot of Peckinpah, Corbucci, and Leone's work. I have an even bigger appreciation of this movie for it. :)
@John162708 I'm behind the times and I don't keep up with the newest things in Hollywood, because I think most new stuff, e.g. movies and music, suck. Anyway, please don't tell me they are going to remake this movie. Can't the no-talent bozos come up with good stuff from scratch? I mean, maybe the remake of "True Grit" was good, I don't know, but remaking it wasn't necessary, imo. Sorry, I'm not talking junk to you, I just read your comment and can't believe they're going to try to touch this.
@ToddSweeneyOnce Hey, no worries, they do not have a director or anything confirmed but there are supposed plans to remake the film. I'm personally going to wait until I hear who's involved. (No one complains when Shakespeare is remade into a movie.) Although I do understand your concerns, in particular that we lack really great older movies stars. I just can't imagine who would be able to come close to William Holden. (Best idea I had was Leonardo DiCaprio in 15-20 years.)
"The Wild Bunch" is such a wonderfully violent, bloody thriller and easily marks it as one of the best films of the 1960's, if not of all time. I love how Peckinpah does not spare any human in his sequences. If a kid gets caught, they're dead. If an animal gets caught, they're dead. If any living thing stands in the river of bullets or explosives, their dead. A truly great film, and understandably, on many peoples' great movies lists.
I only watched this because of a poster seen in the room of Revy from the anime series Black Lagoon. If you like violence to a John Woo degree, humor, and little twists, I strongly recommend Black Lagoon. (Authors Note: Watch from episode 1-the last one) XOX (none homosexual way to the male population because the "X's" are targeted to the female population...(I'm sorry (Wanted reference)).
I only watched this because of a poster seen on the anime series Black Lagoon...If you like lots of guns, and violence I personally suggest Black Lagoon. There are alot of Joh Woo, and others referenced in the series.
William Holden..Ernest Borgnine..Warren Oates..Ben Johnson.. They play the part of four men who've lived past their time.. The day of the outlaw is over..All they have left, is their word, and their fierce loyalty for each other.. They've got to go back and get their man.. It's a code they've lived by, and, there's no changing it, even if it means they could die.. Death awaits them, either way.. Perhaps, they've lived too long into the 20th Century..
My favourite film. Seen it loads of times over the years. For me it captures and probes the limits of morality, loyalty, love and the distinction between good and bad action. Things we could all do with thinking more about. Just hope no one tries to do a re-make of it. Heaven forbid...
A story about friendship and fierce loyalty. After this movie, it had to take 30 something years (until Unforgiven) for the westerns to get their glory back.
The actors called it "The Battle of Bloody Porch".....it was amazing. I counted 168 vs. four. I will have to look at it again though. What a movie and what an ending.
Holy Crap! What was the kill count? It was kinda like a combination of the movies Commando and Predator, big fight scene, but the cowboys were untouchable for most of the fight.
whatta movie....whatta scen... cowboys with 1911's.... what else does a man wanna see.. only thing that would make the scene any better would be some t&a
@FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509 the place they walk out of at the beginning of the clip is a whorehouse, and in the previous scene (and throughout the movie, really) there was plenty of quality t&a.
Thank WWI weapon technology for making this possible. Without the .45 Auto pistol (1911), the .30 cal. Browning machine gun (1917), the bag full of grenades, and the dynamite, this whole macabre ballet would not have been possible. Can you see them trying to do this scene set during the Civil War years using the muzzle loaders? You'd have to bring your lunch. This was right on!
@6061peb Didn't they have Gatling Guns way back in the Civil War? You just had to keep cranking them; you couldn't just hold down the trigger like you can with fully automatic weaponry now.
I always wonder, what was that Mexican officer thinking when he slit Angel's throat? That his friends would just stand and look?
It also proved that he was a poor leader, since his troops didn't react on his death. In fact, I think some of them were satisfied when he died. That is, till the Bunch has started the shootout.
@Wykletypl "A los gringos otra vez"... You're right that even in his drunken stupor he should've seen that they mean business. And no, obviously he wasn't such a great leader (for Huerta). And so heroes got rid of those Germans pretty quickly also. Before theWB die, they make a politically correct statement after all, hooray.
@Wykletypl He had to be one big fool, for not gauging his potential enemies correctly.. Stupidity and arrogance make lousy bed partners.. El General Mapache was just one more bandit, with a comic opera uniform.. And, what did he have for soldiers? A bunch of back alley, dressed up thugs..! The kind you'd see on any street corner, pool hall, through out the world.. You bet, some were glad he bought it! But, a shootout, it was..!
To whoever mentioned anything about racism or the stinking destiny manifest, Peckinpah adored Mexico. His outlook is that of a man from another time who detested bullshit above everything else. And The Wild Bunch is about five bad men who cross the frontier to die. "A traumatic poem about violence", is how New Yorker critic Pauline Kael (and Peckinpah's defender) described the movie, and that's just about right.
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@ToddSweeneyOnce So true friend. They hate us yet they swarm over here in droves like roaches devouring every resouece on their entry and then claiming they have a right to be here. lol You should take a drive through Los Angeles and see what a toilet it has become.
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@JarheadPatriot0311 Trash begets trash, doesn't it brother? In my state, we didn't hear about gang trouble until this migration of hoodlums started infiltrating. Now, drunk driving accidents are up, murder rates are higher and the number of crimes committed are up. Some contributors to society. They get government aid almost immediately upon arrival and we foot the damn bill. It's sickening!
Movie is great, including some unforgetable scenes. But there is one question I do not fully understand - why did Pike kill that German? Because he was the only serious threat for them if they got away after killing Mapache? Any ideas or is it so simple that is shamefull to ask about it?
@koruptos After killing Mapache the bunch were surprised that his army didn't start a shootout, so they initiated one in order to be killed in a hail of bullets. When Pike said, "let's go," he meant let's go and die. The Old West was dying at that point and they wanted to die with it.
really this shoot out is not that far fetched, especialy when fighting it out in an enclosed or semi enclosed space. The noise and smoke tends to confuse things and as this clip shows mexican soldiers are naturaly responding to a threat and rushing into a buzzsaw.
Sam Peckinpah was definatley not afraid to cross boundaries in his film-making...it's great to see a director with enough guts and knowledge of the real world to have his main characters hit and shoot innocents and women...many people in hollywood want to just pretend this never happens.Sam Peckinpah smashes the shit out of rules.
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This is the most virulently racist and brutally stupid bullshit that I have ever seen. You'd think that they would be content with stealing the mexican mans land, but no, the've got to make movies where they slaughter defenseless soldiers by the dozens. Ahh...the heroes of the American silver screen, they never change, do they ?
@Sdeath34 Its people like you who make the world annoying to live in. Is it your sole mission to be a massive waving dick in the face of people who want to enjoy a movie that is seen as a controverisal classic? What you don't think Americans think this movie has even the slightest undertones of being fucked up? Why the hell do you think its so controversial? And as for the historical element lets face it history is nothing more than a long line of little guys being fucked by the bigger guys.
@Sdeath34 Have you not seen this movie, dickhead? And I just love how Mexicans always take the moral ground when at the time their government was a dictatorship!
I saw this show in 69 for the first time. I left with tears in my eyes. And I was not alone. I loved these guys because they had a code of honor and they sacrificed their lives for it. Their code was better than that of our leaders of today. The forces under Mapache were evil and ruthless. They were like the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan today. So, although the Wild Bunch were criminals, most Americans today would praise their efforts, because they fought aganst fascism and tyranny.
"the forces under Mapache were evil and ruthless" Ahh, I wonder where I've heard that rhetoric before. Ohh, that's right, that's the sort of rhetoric that leaders in the US have always used to justify the murder they perpetrate. "They are like the insurgents in Iraq today" Well, I've got to give you that one. Both their lands have been invaded by brutal neo-colonial thugs who take pleasure in killing defenseless people like dogs.
It's a virulently racist demagogue who's been reading a bit to much of his high school history textbook. Awww...how cute. There exists no border where you speak, for the land on both sides of that so-called "border" belongs to Mexico, and you have no viable claim to it. I love the sweet irony - 200 years ago, your government illegaly siezed that land, and now the Mexicans are slowly gaining it back. Justice is sweet :)
@Sdeath34 ... c'mon, lighten up a bit. it is a fucking movie. the movie had nothing racial in it at all. it was the whole mexican army against 4 gringos. in real life, all countries, again, all countries.... have slaughtered their own and foreigners. even yours. what do i have to do with it? .... i just look at a map and see the american borders.
@BTeamHooligan ... that just goes to show you how good the gringos were. aye no, los gringos otro vez... what you want? ....... we want angel. que hombres los gringos. no?
@surferlaments With all that, this is such a 'KISS MY GODDAMNED ASS' scene.. You know they're going to die, and they do go out in such a big, big, way..! I had gotten jumped by some teenage punks, and I put a serious hurtin' on their asses..! Oh, yea, I got my ass kicked, but, I gave 'em something to really think about..! That's why I love this movie! Especially this scene..! FUCK 'EM..!, I say..! FUCK 'EM ALL..!!!
@zipper179..... i know it is only a movie, but, even these gringos knew they were going to die. they went out in a blaze of glory. aye no, los gringos otro vez..... what you want?
@surferlaments Its like us British. We pretend to be civilised and better than other nations when in reality our economy is base on extortion, slavery, theft, drugs and murder. We invented concentration camps and installed apartheid. When you want to find the perpetrators of most of the bloodshed of last century it falls squarely at the feet of the British empire. Now its Americas turn to burn and rob the world.
@hsybcmpny ..... well, maybe so, but i thought we have been doing that already. i understand what you said though.... as i have read much about the british empire. you guys were all over the place in your hayday. even so, i still love the beatles and thank the british for that.
@surferlaments The Beatles? Fucking hell, I dont know how anyone can stand that smug little twat Mcartney. Little plastic paddy needs a good kicking. He harps on about being proud of Liverpool and of being English, I dont see him on fucking Lime street with the rest of the scousers or paying tax into the British economy. He wishes he had an iota of the talent that Lennon and Harrison had.
@hsybcmpny .....lol. what happened.....did i set you off? one had to grow up in the day when the beatles first hit the scene to say they loved the beatles. based on what i have read,, paul is probably is full of himself, so i can't argue that. your are right about john and george though. best wishes!
Too bad this clip doesn't show the beginning when William Holden looks at Warren Oates and Ben Johnson and says simply "let's go", and Oates answers "why not?" it's Holden's subtle way of saying "let's go down like heroes"
@jennifersman exactly so! That particular scene is actually the best in the movie along with the one that follows - when they three get out of the hause, look at the Dutch and he simply stands up. And Pike just smiles, because he knew, that with Dutch it will be pure formal. That is the strenght of the team of friends - professionals.
turely a badass movie! great cast! sure wish they would make movies like this again. i feel robbed i didnt see this in the theaters, born to damn late in life.
@xXDarkFire7Xx red dead redemption is'nt a remake its a completly different the only similarities are the setting of a dying west and the bloody shootouts
You're damn right! If this particular scene had been filmed today, the initial three minute walk would have been completely cut, all the blood, smoke, and half of the cast would be CG, that stupid fucking score from Requiem For A Dream would have slapped over the climactic shootout itself, and none of the main four would have died, so as to allow for the creation of sequels.
@sockpuppetmartinez not only that, but it would have that annoying overly shaky cam and we wouldn't know WTF is going on. you took the words right outta my fingers. Whats happened to the days of real squibs?! Thats one of the many things that ruined THE EXPENDABLES for me
@sockpuppetmartinez not only that, but it would have that annoying overly shaky cam and we wouldn't know WTF is going on. you took the words right outta my fingers. Whats happened to the days of real squibs?! Thats one of the many things that ruined THE EXPENDABLES for me
Odds don't appear to be very promising; in this day and age, it seems for every one Quentin Tarantino, there exist ten Michael Bays, Chris Nolans, Roland Emmerichs, J.J Abramses, James Camerons, M. Night Shyamalans, or any of a hundred other hack douchebags who rely solely upon false advertising and fandom hype than any stylistic merit.
Remember: WELL-FED IS BELT-FED!! When was the last film that had so many great actors? William (If you can't drink, don't walk) Holden, Ernest Borgnine, J
What a tense buildup to an incredible shootout.
MisterWordman 7 months ago
daaaaaaaaaaaam. all i gotta say
valflyinf 7 months ago
You left out the best part . You should've started the vid a few seconds earlier when Holden looks at the two guys and says"let's go". The looks in their eyes is priceless. You know he wasn't talking about leaving the town, but taking care of business, the other's knew it too. Other than "Unforgiven", and some of the lines in " The Professionals" ,( A movie Ryan also acted in) this is my favorite western. This is also my favorite Borgnine film. Sucks that Ryan had to chase Holden and Borgnine.
1misanthropist 7 months ago
@1misanthropist Totally agree, they talk with their looks. All know what will happen...
90Sokol90 7 months ago
@90Sokol90 Yea, Holden was a master at doing that. And I don't know about you guys in Spain, but we Americans haven't made a really great western in 19 years.
1misanthropist 7 months ago
@1misanthropist I think the best westerns have already made, nowadays only few directors make really good films...
90Sokol90 7 months ago
@90Sokol90 In America, back in the 40's/50's60's, most big name movie star men were pretty much required to make at least 1 western movie it seems. Now, no one seems to think westerns are worth watching. But for me, some of the truest facts of life have been said in the dialogues of western movies. Simple, but very true things.
1misanthropist 7 months ago
You have your The Good The Bad and The Ugly , Once Upon A Time In The West gunfight which is stand and stare and one or two shots at the most, (excellent). Here it's walk to a gunfight and more then one or two bullets are fired. (All f--king hell breaks loose) What fun to watch.
scottjo63 7 months ago in playlist Favorite movie scenes
It would be even better if the "Let's go" part would be included.
One of the best finales EVER. Also, William Holden's best role. I didn't like him in his prettyboy roles, but once he aged he became pure badass, just like Sean Connery.
Sieglinde84 7 months ago
Best shoot out ever. Best Western ever.
pandaya 7 months ago
I am from Serbia and I love this film :)
knezevic92 7 months ago
@knezevic92 LOL, I am from Texas and love it too
democratichypocrit 7 months ago
My favourite scene is when that guy gets shot
berner 8 months ago
@berner lol, which one?
valflyinf 7 months ago
I think Warren Oats at 6:59 kind of says it all for me. Just...wow!
mightyrontor 8 months ago
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Cool, a M1911 pistol fires the first round (AND the second... at the German officer) before... ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!
This handgun celebrates 100th birthday this year (2011), if you haven't noticed by the model designation.
Back in the days where such a shootout might have taken place it was literally a brand-new design.
Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
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Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
Best Western Shootout Ever!!!
AG5551 8 months ago 3
4:09 - 4:28 is a revelation. if i could be so bold as to infer dialogue... " we're not in it to win it, we're here to die, and whoever wants to play... is coming with us".
MpowerdAPE 8 months ago
6 people dont know what real classics are
TotallyTank 8 months ago
REAL FUCKIN MEN!!!!
MrBluewatson 8 months ago
which is the guy who screams when he's firing the browning. I only Pike and Dutch
jcleaverchamberlinjr 8 months ago
What's the body count here???? This rivals Total Recall!!
braddyboy82 8 months ago
@braddyboy82 The body count may even rival the fourth Rambo movie!! O.O
Nathan920 8 months ago
@Nathan920 FUCK RAMBO!!
MrBluewatson 8 months ago 2
So what do you think about the Ernest Borgnine character not taking part in the final debauch.
What do you think?
I'm open to any interpretation.
I saw this movie in the theater at age 14 -- I could stick my head above the counter and therefore was 16 or 17 or whatever the fuck you had to be to see a movie without your parents.
Let me know.
brianallancobb 8 months ago
@brianallancobb
Perhaps he was already "finished" with it or just wasn't in a mood to do so...
Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
@Karamojo7mm
I've never watched more than a clip or two of "Marty" (for which he won the Oscar in 1955), but for me, Borgnine's role in The Wild Bunch was his best.
Terrific movie.
Saw it in the theater again a year ago, a pub theater, told everybody in the lobby, Everytime Bill Holden says Let's go, you have to take a shot. :-)
brianallancobb 8 months ago
@brianallancobb
The level of acting displayed in that movie, both by good guys (they are not really "good" guys, they're career criminials) as well as the evil ones, is FAR ABOVE what we see nowadays. Imagine, if they would try to make a remake thereof with the current crop of "movie stars" (heaven forbid!). Filmmakers would be hard pressed to even find three modern-day actors to fulfill the various characters of the movie satisfactorily. Days of filmmaking like that seem to be over... :-(
Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
@Karamojo7mm
My favorite scene (of a favorite movie) is Bill Holden doffing his hat at the numbnuts U.S. cavalry troops about to be sluiced into the Rio Grande.
Well, that and, Shall We Gather at the River, by the Temperance marchers just before the opening bloodbath (Peckinpagh was a notorious alcoholic).
brianallancobb 8 months ago
@brianallancobb
My favorite scene is when Holden takes a gulp out of the Tequila bottle, looks at the young Mexican girl he (obvious) just had fun with and back to the wall/ground. In these seconds it's quite noticeable that his own life is just flashing through his thoughts and he probably decides in these very seconds that there is NO reason to go on with it and just once do the right thing before going out with a bang. Not a word is spoken in that scene. That's acting of the highest order.
Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
@Karamojo7mm
Thanks, I'm going to try to find a clip of that scene. I think it's just moments before the scene here we're commenting on. Thanks again.
brianallancobb 8 months ago
@brianallancobb
Correct, Brian. The scene I mean is right before this one. Thank you also.
Karamojo7mm 8 months ago
Anyone know the name of the song that the Mexican soldiers are singing? Thanks.
krikorawesome 8 months ago
"santa amalia"
I just answered my own question.
krikorawesome 8 months ago
Don't mess with a bunch of pissed off old men. I feel like them most of the time. I love Ernest Borgnine's insane cackle and the smiles on their faces when they know what's going to happen. The Wild Bunch is a true classic!!!
moviefan633 8 months ago 2
Wow, incredible. You can really see how this influenced John Woo. Watching this is like watching a western version of A Better Tomorrow 2.
jayl1 9 months ago
Six people got massacred by the Gatling gun.
SuperTruefaith 9 months ago
That's how I wanna go out. Like Warren Oates on that machine gun, AUUUUUUUUUUUGGGHHH YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Gigrantula58 9 months ago 2
@Gigrantula58 lol! classic Warren oats!
SuperTruefaith 9 months ago
second: 2:33
princecharmonpoirtoi 9 months ago
iAh, los gringos otra vez!
princecharmonpoirtoi 9 months ago
i love the song at the biggining!
bogdan1988boieriu 9 months ago
Please no remake for this film it will be failure who ever is in it .This is a master piece of acting and directing that cannot be bettered by anyone.the music to fits it perfectly .
I with we had a switch that made us see it for the first time with every screening .
terrydalley 9 months ago
Jedna z najlepszych scen w historii kina:D a i sam film mega genialny
Lewcio69Stefcio 9 months ago
ahead of its time, great stuff!
TheShame311 9 months ago
love this movie...thanks for the share
HuckeyAwesome 9 months ago
Why does any one want to see a remake of what is a perfect film.
paulregret53 9 months ago
@paulregret53 why i wouldnt mind is because i still think that it would be still worth watching..... Movies nowadays just plain suck
MrBohica1776 9 months ago
i would love to see a remake of this movie but i am sure hollywood would screw it up
MrBohica1776 9 months ago
i love it how they smile when they go to get the guns
ewb879 10 months ago
It is a metaphor for Vietnam!
GeoS2Icarus 10 months ago
That film set the tone for all to come in film today. Good job Bloody Sam! Read the book by the same name "Bloody Sam" for and inside on the man Sam! You will not be disappointed!
blackmetalurgist 10 months ago
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One of the best westerns ever made!
drewske1984 10 months ago
If a call of duty game had 4-player co-op,
I imagine it would look something like this.
mhoov52 10 months ago
So unreconstructed, they won't pay the whores properly even though they know they're going to die....
pterob 10 months ago
when i die,i wanna go out like that,with my best friends by my side.
jojohernandez14 10 months ago
nothing like a bit of future tech to help out when in a tough spot
RavingInATractor 11 months ago
@RavingInATractor It didn't have to be future tech; there were contemporary (for this movie's timeline) machine guns such as the Maxim machine gun that could have been used. I guess Sam Peckinpah probably didn't have the budget for one of them.
Mazryonh 11 months ago
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RavingInATractor 11 months ago
Creators of Red Dead Redemption took experience from Sam Peckinpah movie, one of the best westerns ever!
79reynevan 11 months ago
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79reynevan 11 months ago
Yeah my friend said that it was racists. He such an idiot its a movie staged in Mexico with 4 American bank robbers & they get into a shootout with the Mexican Army after an exchange of money for rifles & gold & instead of allowing there friend to leave they kill him & they get into a shootout.
MrDNK1981 11 months ago
to wykletypl: " Heneral" had too much wine and women the night before.
jake3140 11 months ago
Watched this again this afternoon on D.V.D....Still reckon it's the best shoot out in any western,but The G.B.U. finale comes bloody close.....Hope they do'nt remake it would be crap.......
jim171149 11 months ago
NOOOOOOOOOOO....PIKE!!!!!,....PIKE!!!!!!!!!!
romeonarcizo 1 year ago 2
who is saying this movie is racial....please you are ignorant! Mexicans aren't a race...they are culture....second its a movie....maybe you're in a movie and you don't distinquish between reality and fiction....i feel sorry for you, one of the best westerns still today,
devilfan1965 1 year ago
who is saying this movie is racial....please you are ignorant! Mexicans aren't a race...they are culture....second its a movie....maybe you're in a movie and you don't distinquish between reality and fiction....i feel sorry for you,
devilfan1965 1 year ago
Playing Red Dead Redemption got me to re-watching a lot of Peckinpah, Corbucci, and Leone's work. I have an even bigger appreciation of this movie for it. :)
starlightangel20 1 year ago
Oh man, this ending is so masterful. As much as I'm hoping that the remake is good, I can't imagine anyone doing justice to this final sequence.
John162708 1 year ago
@John162708 I'm behind the times and I don't keep up with the newest things in Hollywood, because I think most new stuff, e.g. movies and music, suck. Anyway, please don't tell me they are going to remake this movie. Can't the no-talent bozos come up with good stuff from scratch? I mean, maybe the remake of "True Grit" was good, I don't know, but remaking it wasn't necessary, imo. Sorry, I'm not talking junk to you, I just read your comment and can't believe they're going to try to touch this.
ToddSweeneyOnce 9 months ago
@ToddSweeneyOnce Hey, no worries, they do not have a director or anything confirmed but there are supposed plans to remake the film. I'm personally going to wait until I hear who's involved. (No one complains when Shakespeare is remade into a movie.) Although I do understand your concerns, in particular that we lack really great older movies stars. I just can't imagine who would be able to come close to William Holden. (Best idea I had was Leonardo DiCaprio in 15-20 years.)
John162708 9 months ago
Good old Warren Oates. Nobody ever used machine gun so well in a hopeless last stand since Robert Taylor in Bataan.
deriter64 1 year ago
Ben Johnson is one of my favorite Hollywood cowboys of all time. He's the genuine article.. in whatever role he played.
I grew up watching that guy. Loved him in "The Undefeated."
Burnsengine 1 year ago
"The Wild Bunch" is such a wonderfully violent, bloody thriller and easily marks it as one of the best films of the 1960's, if not of all time. I love how Peckinpah does not spare any human in his sequences. If a kid gets caught, they're dead. If an animal gets caught, they're dead. If any living thing stands in the river of bullets or explosives, their dead. A truly great film, and understandably, on many peoples' great movies lists.
ABALLAM3 1 year ago
I only watched this because of a poster seen in the room of Revy from the anime series Black Lagoon. If you like violence to a John Woo degree, humor, and little twists, I strongly recommend Black Lagoon. (Authors Note: Watch from episode 1-the last one) XOX (none homosexual way to the male population because the "X's" are targeted to the female population...(I'm sorry (Wanted reference)).
GrimReaper1902 1 year ago
I only watched this because of a poster seen on the anime series Black Lagoon...If you like lots of guns, and violence I personally suggest Black Lagoon. There are alot of Joh Woo, and others referenced in the series.
GrimReaper1902 1 year ago
I loved Warren Oates!!
nycdweller 1 year ago
William Holden..Ernest Borgnine..Warren Oates..Ben Johnson.. They play the part of four men who've lived past their time.. The day of the outlaw is over..All they have left, is their word, and their fierce loyalty for each other.. They've got to go back and get their man.. It's a code they've lived by, and, there's no changing it, even if it means they could die.. Death awaits them, either way.. Perhaps, they've lived too long into the 20th Century..
zipper179 1 year ago
My brother was 15 years old, you think about that, on your way to hell
thelaughguy1 1 year ago
My favourite film. Seen it loads of times over the years. For me it captures and probes the limits of morality, loyalty, love and the distinction between good and bad action. Things we could all do with thinking more about. Just hope no one tries to do a re-make of it. Heaven forbid...
teech16 1 year ago
Something made me curious- These rifles that protagonists are using here- are these M1895 Trenchguns?
Wykletypl 1 year ago
@Wykletypl Could be, the movie takes place in 1913, so it's entirely possible.
Hotshotter3000 1 year ago
Pike...don`t tell `im pike. Sorry you have to be british to get this
glenn1340 1 year ago
A story about friendship and fierce loyalty. After this movie, it had to take 30 something years (until Unforgiven) for the westerns to get their glory back.
belgarion65 1 year ago 11
The Gorch bros. Heh, what kind of mother coulda produced those two?
cosmicdingo 1 year ago 8
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MadScout 9 months ago
The actors called it "The Battle of Bloody Porch".....it was amazing. I counted 168 vs. four. I will have to look at it again though. What a movie and what an ending.
IamPaladin 1 year ago
Holy Crap! What was the kill count? It was kinda like a combination of the movies Commando and Predator, big fight scene, but the cowboys were untouchable for most of the fight.
DrBananaKing7000 1 year ago
great scene
Halo56691 1 year ago
whatta movie....whatta scen... cowboys with 1911's.... what else does a man wanna see.. only thing that would make the scene any better would be some t&a
FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509 1 year ago
@FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509 the place they walk out of at the beginning of the clip is a whorehouse, and in the previous scene (and throughout the movie, really) there was plenty of quality t&a.
TheBackOfTheBoat 1 year ago
Thank WWI weapon technology for making this possible. Without the .45 Auto pistol (1911), the .30 cal. Browning machine gun (1917), the bag full of grenades, and the dynamite, this whole macabre ballet would not have been possible. Can you see them trying to do this scene set during the Civil War years using the muzzle loaders? You'd have to bring your lunch. This was right on!
6061peb 1 year ago
@6061peb Didn't they have Gatling Guns way back in the Civil War? You just had to keep cranking them; you couldn't just hold down the trigger like you can with fully automatic weaponry now.
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DesignatedMember 11 months ago
Without a doubt the best shoot out in cinema history. Will there ever be another Sam Peckinpah?
mikser 1 year ago 2
At last, a German officer is always an ennemy officer
ViejoCabo 1 year ago
Great sequence from 3:49 to 4:25.
You know it's going to kick off big style but it ramps up the tension.
JimmyJunkster 1 year ago
I always wonder, what was that Mexican officer thinking when he slit Angel's throat? That his friends would just stand and look?
It also proved that he was a poor leader, since his troops didn't react on his death. In fact, I think some of them were satisfied when he died. That is, till the Bunch has started the shootout.
Wykletypl 1 year ago 2
@Wykletypl "A los gringos otra vez"... You're right that even in his drunken stupor he should've seen that they mean business. And no, obviously he wasn't such a great leader (for Huerta). And so heroes got rid of those Germans pretty quickly also. Before theWB die, they make a politically correct statement after all, hooray.
SH67 1 year ago
@Wykletypl He had to be one big fool, for not gauging his potential enemies correctly.. Stupidity and arrogance make lousy bed partners.. El General Mapache was just one more bandit, with a comic opera uniform.. And, what did he have for soldiers? A bunch of back alley, dressed up thugs..! The kind you'd see on any street corner, pool hall, through out the world.. You bet, some were glad he bought it! But, a shootout, it was..!
zipper179 1 year ago
Damn, not sure why commentators had to turn this into a race war. Great fucking movie
pbruinsrock 1 year ago
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Bitch!! -shoots bitch-
ngomez0077 1 year ago
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Looks like nothing much has changed in Mexico for the past 100 years huh?
JarheadPatriot0311 1 year ago
darn mexicans lol
MrXXFatalisXX 1 year ago
To whoever mentioned anything about racism or the stinking destiny manifest, Peckinpah adored Mexico. His outlook is that of a man from another time who detested bullshit above everything else. And The Wild Bunch is about five bad men who cross the frontier to die. "A traumatic poem about violence", is how New Yorker critic Pauline Kael (and Peckinpah's defender) described the movie, and that's just about right.
miramamimira 1 year ago
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It seems I can't even watch the best ending of a movie ever without seeing some ignorant prick spouting hatred for Americans. Go fuck yourself.
ToddSweeneyOnce 1 year ago
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@ToddSweeneyOnce So true friend. They hate us yet they swarm over here in droves like roaches devouring every resouece on their entry and then claiming they have a right to be here. lol You should take a drive through Los Angeles and see what a toilet it has become.
JarheadPatriot0311 1 year ago
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@JarheadPatriot0311 Trash begets trash, doesn't it brother? In my state, we didn't hear about gang trouble until this migration of hoodlums started infiltrating. Now, drunk driving accidents are up, murder rates are higher and the number of crimes committed are up. Some contributors to society. They get government aid almost immediately upon arrival and we foot the damn bill. It's sickening!
ToddSweeneyOnce 1 year ago
@ToddSweeneyOnce I bet the Natives said the same thing in their day.
swassontelus 1 year ago
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@swassontelus Which part? Certainly not the drunk driving?
ToddSweeneyOnce 1 year ago
Movie is great, including some unforgetable scenes. But there is one question I do not fully understand - why did Pike kill that German? Because he was the only serious threat for them if they got away after killing Mapache? Any ideas or is it so simple that is shamefull to ask about it?
koruptos 1 year ago
@koruptos After killing Mapache the bunch were surprised that his army didn't start a shootout, so they initiated one in order to be killed in a hail of bullets. When Pike said, "let's go," he meant let's go and die. The Old West was dying at that point and they wanted to die with it.
schizophrantic 1 year ago
The best Western ever made. Sam was like Leonardo de Vinci with a camera!
SuperRAINONE 1 year ago 2
7:11 Pike never did have any luck with women.
shanghaibenny2 1 year ago
Doing what is right! The American way! Watching this scene makes me proud to be an American. We need more heroes like these.
shadowpsfp 1 year ago
really this shoot out is not that far fetched, especialy when fighting it out in an enclosed or semi enclosed space. The noise and smoke tends to confuse things and as this clip shows mexican soldiers are naturaly responding to a threat and rushing into a buzzsaw.
cptviolenc 1 year ago
Sam Peckinpah was definatley not afraid to cross boundaries in his film-making...it's great to see a director with enough guts and knowledge of the real world to have his main characters hit and shoot innocents and women...many people in hollywood want to just pretend this never happens.Sam Peckinpah smashes the shit out of rules.
fidellah23 1 year ago 2
danm that beat royaly the arnold movies!!!
simoncarl70 1 year ago
A movie made like 40 years ago has one of the most intense and hardcore action scenes I've ever seen.
generalflood 1 year ago
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This is the most virulently racist and brutally stupid bullshit that I have ever seen. You'd think that they would be content with stealing the mexican mans land, but no, the've got to make movies where they slaughter defenseless soldiers by the dozens. Ahh...the heroes of the American silver screen, they never change, do they ?
Sdeath34 1 year ago
@Sdeath34 Its people like you who make the world annoying to live in. Is it your sole mission to be a massive waving dick in the face of people who want to enjoy a movie that is seen as a controverisal classic? What you don't think Americans think this movie has even the slightest undertones of being fucked up? Why the hell do you think its so controversial? And as for the historical element lets face it history is nothing more than a long line of little guys being fucked by the bigger guys.
xTheTKx 1 year ago 4
@Sdeath34 You totally missed the point of the movie. Did you even see the whole thing?
Redgrant80 1 year ago
@Sdeath34 Have you not seen this movie, dickhead? And I just love how Mexicans always take the moral ground when at the time their government was a dictatorship!
AmericanOutlaw87 1 year ago
What a fucking film... one word... "SUPERB"
seanbl1 1 year ago
These guys know the true meaning of friendship.
ALEXisSPANISH 1 year ago
This is the best western ever, no one can go even close
draghci 1 year ago
I saw this show in 69 for the first time. I left with tears in my eyes. And I was not alone. I loved these guys because they had a code of honor and they sacrificed their lives for it. Their code was better than that of our leaders of today. The forces under Mapache were evil and ruthless. They were like the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan today. So, although the Wild Bunch were criminals, most Americans today would praise their efforts, because they fought aganst fascism and tyranny.
KENZOWAL 1 year ago
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@KENZOWAL
"the forces under Mapache were evil and ruthless" Ahh, I wonder where I've heard that rhetoric before. Ohh, that's right, that's the sort of rhetoric that leaders in the US have always used to justify the murder they perpetrate. "They are like the insurgents in Iraq today" Well, I've got to give you that one. Both their lands have been invaded by brutal neo-colonial thugs who take pleasure in killing defenseless people like dogs.
Sdeath34 1 year ago
that's the best way..... shoot them before they cross the border.
surferlaments 1 year ago
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@surferlaments
It's a virulently racist demagogue who's been reading a bit to much of his high school history textbook. Awww...how cute. There exists no border where you speak, for the land on both sides of that so-called "border" belongs to Mexico, and you have no viable claim to it. I love the sweet irony - 200 years ago, your government illegaly siezed that land, and now the Mexicans are slowly gaining it back. Justice is sweet :)
Sdeath34 1 year ago
@Sdeath34 ... c'mon, lighten up a bit. it is a fucking movie. the movie had nothing racial in it at all. it was the whole mexican army against 4 gringos. in real life, all countries, again, all countries.... have slaughtered their own and foreigners. even yours. what do i have to do with it? .... i just look at a map and see the american borders.
surferlaments 1 year ago 73
@surferlaments Uhh, yeah. They were going to save their Mexican friend.
BTeamHooligan 1 year ago
@BTeamHooligan ... that just goes to show you how good the gringos were. aye no, los gringos otro vez... what you want? ....... we want angel. que hombres los gringos. no?
surferlaments 1 year ago
@surferlaments With all that, this is such a 'KISS MY GODDAMNED ASS' scene.. You know they're going to die, and they do go out in such a big, big, way..! I had gotten jumped by some teenage punks, and I put a serious hurtin' on their asses..! Oh, yea, I got my ass kicked, but, I gave 'em something to really think about..! That's why I love this movie! Especially this scene..! FUCK 'EM..!, I say..! FUCK 'EM ALL..!!!
zipper179 1 year ago
@zipper179..... i know it is only a movie, but, even these gringos knew they were going to die. they went out in a blaze of glory. aye no, los gringos otro vez..... what you want?
surferlaments 1 year ago
@surferlaments Its like us British. We pretend to be civilised and better than other nations when in reality our economy is base on extortion, slavery, theft, drugs and murder. We invented concentration camps and installed apartheid. When you want to find the perpetrators of most of the bloodshed of last century it falls squarely at the feet of the British empire. Now its Americas turn to burn and rob the world.
hsybcmpny 1 year ago
@hsybcmpny ..... well, maybe so, but i thought we have been doing that already. i understand what you said though.... as i have read much about the british empire. you guys were all over the place in your hayday. even so, i still love the beatles and thank the british for that.
surferlaments 1 year ago
@surferlaments The Beatles? Fucking hell, I dont know how anyone can stand that smug little twat Mcartney. Little plastic paddy needs a good kicking. He harps on about being proud of Liverpool and of being English, I dont see him on fucking Lime street with the rest of the scousers or paying tax into the British economy. He wishes he had an iota of the talent that Lennon and Harrison had.
hsybcmpny 1 year ago
@hsybcmpny .....lol. what happened.....did i set you off? one had to grow up in the day when the beatles first hit the scene to say they loved the beatles. based on what i have read,, paul is probably is full of himself, so i can't argue that. your are right about john and george though. best wishes!
surferlaments 1 year ago
@hsybcmpny Yeah, we bomb and blow up countries and then send them money, that we don't have, to rebuild. How frickin' stupid is that?
ToddSweeneyOnce 9 months ago
@surferlaments Who said racial? They came for their mexican compadre! I love when holden kill that German fucker to start it off.
hebekid 10 months ago
YOU CAN"T GO BACK!
g5uk 1 year ago
i dont get it...did he not saw the kid and the other guy on the roof? if you have a chaingun with so many rounds you can send all to hell:/
xazoulini1 1 year ago
This is cinematic art ! The characters , the story , the editing , the whole movie - the good old days!
omegamann71 1 year ago
Next 2 the ''GOOD,BAD & THE UGLY ''THE WILD BUNCH is D BEST!!!
gman82able 1 year ago
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They should send these guys to Arizona.
TheJoeyD27 1 year ago
Terry and me
g5uk 1 year ago
Too bad this clip doesn't show the beginning when William Holden looks at Warren Oates and Ben Johnson and says simply "let's go", and Oates answers "why not?" it's Holden's subtle way of saying "let's go down like heroes"
jennifersman 1 year ago 4
@jennifersman you are so right!!
newfieboy58 1 year ago
@jennifersman exactly so! That particular scene is actually the best in the movie along with the one that follows - when they three get out of the hause, look at the Dutch and he simply stands up. And Pike just smiles, because he knew, that with Dutch it will be pure formal. That is the strenght of the team of friends - professionals.
koruptos 1 year ago
turely a badass movie! great cast! sure wish they would make movies like this again. i feel robbed i didnt see this in the theaters, born to damn late in life.
thank you for uploading friend.
hanno21664 1 year ago
He! He! He!.......Terry Osborn
g5uk 1 year ago
"Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war"
jporcel100 1 year ago
The video game remake of this movie is already out, I think its called "Red Dead Redemption" or something like that.
xXDarkFire7Xx 1 year ago
@xXDarkFire7Xx Red Dead Redemption certainly owes a lot to this movie. Not sure I'd call it a remake. Maybe the closest thing, though.
captainredneck1983 1 year ago
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OH..MY..GOD does nobody here understand sarcasm???
xXDarkFire7Xx 1 year ago
@xXDarkFire7Xx That's not it. ANYONE can see the similarities.
captainredneck1983 1 year ago
I wanted this played at my wedding reception on a big screen behind the baquet table.
Spartacus217 1 year ago
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xXDarkFire7Xx 1 year ago
@xXDarkFire7Xx red dead redemption is'nt a remake its a completly different the only similarities are the setting of a dying west and the bloody shootouts
thecheteam 1 year ago
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ummm, dude. did you seriously not get the sarcasm in that? god ur dumb...
xXDarkFire7Xx 1 year ago
Let those damn brick loving mini van ridin ass beaners DIE!!!!
dbz6116 1 year ago
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
TexasSwamp 1 year ago 2
You're damn right! If this particular scene had been filmed today, the initial three minute walk would have been completely cut, all the blood, smoke, and half of the cast would be CG, that stupid fucking score from Requiem For A Dream would have slapped over the climactic shootout itself, and none of the main four would have died, so as to allow for the creation of sequels.
sockpuppetmartinez 1 year ago 57
WELL SAID
gman82able 1 year ago
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Th3Mach1ne 1 year ago
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@sockpuppetmartinez not only that, but it would have that annoying overly shaky cam and we wouldn't know WTF is going on. you took the words right outta my fingers. Whats happened to the days of real squibs?! Thats one of the many things that ruined THE EXPENDABLES for me
Th3Mach1ne 1 year ago
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@sockpuppetmartinez not only that, but it would have that annoying overly shaky cam and we wouldn't know WTF is going on. you took the words right outta my fingers. Whats happened to the days of real squibs?! Thats one of the many things that ruined THE EXPENDABLES for me
Th3Mach1ne 1 year ago
@sockpuppetmartinez Well, come on, if they had Quentin Tarantino do it, it might not have been so bad. But I see what you mean.
phxsns1 1 year ago
Odds don't appear to be very promising; in this day and age, it seems for every one Quentin Tarantino, there exist ten Michael Bays, Chris Nolans, Roland Emmerichs, J.J Abramses, James Camerons, M. Night Shyamalans, or any of a hundred other hack douchebags who rely solely upon false advertising and fandom hype than any stylistic merit.
sockpuppetmartinez 1 year ago
@sockpuppetmartinez Michael Bay-Bad
Chris Nolan-Ok, even though The Dark Knight was incredibly overrated
Roland Emmerich-He's good at what he does, but who honestly cares?
JJ Abrams-Star Trek was good, but honestly I just need to see him do more
James Cameron-Terminator 1 & 2 and Aliens are classics are far as I'm concerned, but Avatar was very overrated
M Night Shyamalan- I honestly have not seen anything he has done and don't plan to.
phxsns1 1 year ago
@sockpuppetmartinez Creativity and artistry in movies have gone the way of the gunslinger, unfortunately.
TheBackOfTheBoat 1 year ago
@sockpuppetmartinez yeah your not right in any way
mrqueticoman 1 year ago
Remember: WELL-FED IS BELT-FED!! When was the last film that had so many great actors? William (If you can't drink, don't walk) Holden, Ernest Borgnine, J