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A |
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A- |
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A |
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A+ |
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A+ |
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Simply The GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIE EVER
by JoofMorg (movies profile)
Jul 25, 2006
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This is the masterpiece of 20th century American movies. Forget "Citizen Kane" and arty nonsense about "auteurs", Sam Peckinpah was the real deal. As an elegy to the dying West, this movie has never been beaten. From the opening carnage in the town of Starbuck, through the Bunch's all too brief moment of peace in Angel's village, to their wasted but peveresly redemptive deaths, this is just a great movie from a director firing on all artistic cylinders. Tector, Lyle, Dutch and Mr Bishop hold true to themselves and so perish because there is no place for them in the new West of automobiles and machine guns. "$10000 cuts an awful lot of family ties". Indeed it does. It cuts them permanently. |
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