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captainsolo
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27-Feb-2012, 2:15 AM

The Wild Bunch. Life-changing, devastating, bitter, revisionist, heartbreaking story of what happens when killers go to Mexico. Career performances from cast and crew. One of the great American films and greatest ever made. An easy film to become obsessed with. Masterpiece. True art in every sense of the word.

Balls cannot describe. One of the 8 films that made me love Westerns. (Ride the High Country, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Duck You Sucker!) This is one of those films that everyone needs to see.

And then you will find yourself fascinated with the self-destructive cantankerous hard drinking alcoholic bandanna wearing bearded figure in dark glasses. Sam and Leone made the Western what it is. (Yes, I know John Ford essentially created the Western format and kept redefining it for decades but for me it got too stale.)