June Movie of the Month: The Wild Bunch

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > June Movie of the Month: The Wild Bunch

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The Wild Bunch is a drat great film, especially the brutal opening and closing shootouts. Not just brutal in content, with a level of squibs that gave it an NC-17 rating upon rerelease in 1993, but in style as well. The constant cutting between action beats, with nary an instant to digest what just happened, leads to exhausting, confusing, and exciting scenes that capture just how violent these gunfights are. The film does a great job of showing how the titular bunch are the last of a dying breed, their horses and six-shooters no match for the updated firepower of cars or machine guns. Their way of life is over, but they refuse to go down without dragging as many people with them as possible.

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