The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Dear Amazon, Post this as I agree with the other person.
With HD picking up in popularity, I would appreciate it if you could offer a way to filter DVD reviews so that we can see reviews that are HD-specific. I am not interested in getting an HD version of a disc I already have in SD if the HD version is no better in image quality.

Dear Amazon,

With HD picking up in popularity, I would appreciate it if you could offer a way to filter DVD reviews so that we can see reviews that are HD-specific. I am not interested in getting an HD version of a disk I already have in SD if the HD version is no better in image quality.

The five-star rating is based on the movie itself. It's always been one of my favorites (I currently own it in SD and would upgrade to the HD version if I knew the audio/video quality was improved over the SD version).

Thanks...

The Wild Bunch is a brutal masterpiece of a western. It depicts the end of the western era (the film is set in 1913) through a group of ageing outlaws who just want to pull off one more big job. In fact the west has already ended but they dont realise it yet.

From the opening bank raid to the bloodbath ending the film is brilliantly realised by Peckinpah. The casting is perfection. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oats and Robert Ryan all give memorable performances. Although the film is actually quite depressing, it is strangely compelling viewing and the reason for this is that the characters do gain our sympathy. Curiously watching it again recently it occured to me that this film is the dark side of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Except in The Wild Bunch the cameras don't freeze at the end...

Ultimately the main credit goes to Sam Peckinpah who made a number of classic films. This is one of his best - a great movie.

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is a vicious, visceral tale of a group of outlaws during the height of the Mexican Revolution. It is a bloody affair, filled with shootouts and gore that can even make action moves blush. It's not the type of Western you take your significant other to.

William Holden and Ernest Borgnine lead an all star cast in this triumph of a film. Throughout it echoes the thoughts and feelings of the Mexican Revolution. A very powerful film thats influence is still evident today.

This two disc edition brings the movie back to as close to Peckinpah's original vision as possible. It's a full 145 minutes, better than the predecessors. Also included is a commentary from the Peckinpah biographers, a few deleted scenes, more featuretttes, one which is the Oscar nominated feature worked on by the biographers.

Must Have.
It's quite and experience.

If you have never seen this film is 70mm on a big screen, I recommend this HD version of it on a 50 or 60 inch HDTV (I, unfortunately, due to space limitations, have a 46"). Holden, Borgnine and Ryan have never been better and some of their lines are classic like Holden ("when you side with a man, you stick with him all the way or we're all lost!!) (If he moves, kill him). This film set the standard for all the anti-westerns to come including "The Unforgiven", "The Long Riders" and even the current "The Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford" Along with the modern western, "Straw Dogs" (great performance by Hoffman), "Bunch" is recommendend to all cinema fanatics.