Category: films seen in 2003

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: 1972, dir. John Huston. Seen on DVD.
I did a really idiotic thing, although in my defense, I didn’t realize it until it was too late. I watched The Wild Bunch for the first time a couple of days before I saw The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. And after you’ve seen The Wild Bunch, most other Westerns will seem terribly contrived and shallow, especially a frivolous, light-hearted sort of Western.

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The Wild Bunch: 1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah. Seen on DVD (Warner Bros “restored director’s cut”).
The Wild Bunch is one of those movies that sucks you in and holds you tight and you know it’s going to be a long ride and you may not like all of it but it doesn’t matter, there you are, in the grip of the movie for nearly 2.5 hours.
However, it would have been even more absorbing if I’d seen it in the right order and without the annoyances caused by a poor DVD.

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