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Post by Vercetti on Jan 29, 2006 22:00:55 GMT
Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984)The Wild Bunch
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Post by Omar on Jan 30, 2006 1:00:23 GMT
1. Major Dundee (1965) I have five of his films ready to watch.
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Post by RNL on Jan 30, 2006 1:09:44 GMT
1. Straw Dogs (1971) 7/10 2. The Wild Bunch (1969) 7/10
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Post by jake on Jan 31, 2006 14:25:26 GMT
1. The Wild Bunch (1969) 2. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) 3. Straw Dogs (1971) Very interested in Pat Garrett.
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Post by Valenti on Aug 14, 2006 8:05:35 GMT
Straw Dogs - - A film that made me go, "Jesus, Christ!" once or twice. I really do feel for Hoffman's character, but I do think he brought a lot of his trouble on himself. My favorite scene is the ending, and the one during the siege when Hoffman has just finished beating one of the Englishmen to death with a fire poker, and he's looking down at the body, his eyes not showing through the glasses, while another Englishmen looks on in awe. The Wild Bunch - - Another spectacular Western from Peckinpah...one of my favorites from the genre. The plot in itself isn't too hard to grasp, but this movie is just overflowing with nostalgia, the emotion emanating from all of the characters...summed up in one line: "We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closing fast." Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia - - I absolutely adore this film. I'll sum up my thoughts on it, post later tonight. Watch this space, anyone who's interested. The Ballad of Cable Hogue - The Getaway - The Killer Elite - The Osterman Weekend - Ugh. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid -
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Post by Capo on Oct 1, 2006 13:57:10 GMT
1. The Straw Dogs 1971
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Post by Valenti on Oct 5, 2006 1:31:57 GMT
Why such a low opinion of Straw Dogs, Capo? I thought it was great.
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Post by RNL on Oct 5, 2006 2:00:18 GMT
So did I. A provocative film about the complexities and difficulties of moral systems that totally avoids any kind of moralism or moral stance itself.
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Post by Capo on Oct 9, 2006 2:12:08 GMT
I need to see it again, for sure. I remember laughing at it, and not wanting to, the same way I did at The Exorcist. But I was talking to somebody the other day, who said they held reservations for Cronenberg's A History of Violence because it more or less made all the same points Peckinpah was making thirty years ago.
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Post by Marty on Oct 9, 2006 14:42:53 GMT
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Post by Valenti on Oct 10, 2006 10:35:41 GMT
I think that Tommy Lee Jones' film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada shared a few similarities with Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia...
Has anyone else noticed them?
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Post by RNL on Oct 13, 2006 0:38:03 GMT
I was talking to somebody the other day, who said they held reservations for Cronenberg's A History of Violence because it more or less made all the same points Peckinpah was making thirty years ago. I don't see more than a surface similarity there. Did that someone explain any further?
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Post by Capo on Oct 13, 2006 16:53:14 GMT
No. I didn't ask.
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Post by lugosi on Dec 18, 2006 11:37:00 GMT
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 2, 2008 0:41:31 GMT
1. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) 8/10 2. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 7/10 3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) 7/10 4. Straw Dogs (1971) 6/10 5. Cross of Iron (1977) 6/10 6. Ride the High Country (1962) 5/10 7. The Wild Bunch (1969) 5/10 8. The Deadly Companions (1961) 4/10 9. Major Dundee (1965) 3/10
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Post by quentincompson on Nov 3, 2008 0:28:26 GMT
1.The Wild Bunch 6/10 2.Major Dundee 4/10
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