"Lets go," says Pike Bishop (William Holden) to the rest of his small posse of aging outlaws. What they set out to do they knew they weren't coming back from. But they were going down, as they say, with guns a-blazing. It was 1914, and the Old West and its inhabitors were a dying breed, just like the old men who occupied the screen, led by William Holden and Warren Oates.

The men stand around a newly made automobile and scratch their heads and dismount from their horses. This is not the land they once knew. The only thing they know how to do is to retaliate, their last bit of angst mustered and thrown at the future and its neglect. Their blood that is dried in the sand is as fresh as it was when it was spilled.

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch speaks for the dead who roamed the West, always in anticipation and wonder.

Most Western films have a climatic shootout. WB's was contraversial, but revolutionary in the film and pop culture world in the late 1960's for its use of gratuitous violence. But as director Sam Peckinpah saw it, he was capturing the blood lust and violent world that was the Old West, and he rightfully remained unapologetic. Great ending sequence.

lets just get a head start on how the last one ended..

I love this thread

honestly, sometimes you people specialize in being class-A fags

Just because no one has commented on your shitty movie in over a week, doesnt make us fags.

Was Jorge's Affliction backpack the nail in our figurative coffins?

That's Magu's backpack

don't talk.

can i still type? cause thats what makes this fun

A battle between IHRM and edzeppe really is a battle for the ages. Two internet heavyweights going at it for sure.

Skitch Patterson makes this way less interesting, that's for sure.

hey guys, by posting in this thread, we sure are being a Wild Bunch

or a group of class-A fags.

We need to either kill these stupid threads or make them about movies that people in A+E actually want to talk about. Take a vote or something.

I just don't get how these threads are any different than other threads about films.

These threads are stickied.

I'm getting pretty tired of your new avatar.