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Sam Peckinpah directed 14 films and most of them where very good films. Which was your favorite?

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Voted for the only one I have seen....Convoy!

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Straw Dogs...thoroughly disturbing movie but that's the buttons it was trying to push.

I voted for the Wild Bunch, but Ride the High Country is a very close second.

STAW DOGS was a surprising good film.  :thumbup:

You don't hear much about that film.

CROSS of IRON...was the sh!T! that was the last movie I saw on TV,before I went to rehab.I like all his films though.

I'm still trying to figure out if I've seen CROSS OF IRON. This is one film along with KILLER ELITE that I don't believe I've seen of his yet.

Quote from: Scott on January 23, 2007, 09:53:43 PM
I'm still trying to figure out if I've seen CROSS OF IRON. This is one film along with KILLER ELITE that I don't believe I've seen of his yet.

It stars James Coburn as a German soldier during WWII,and it's basically seen through  the eyes of the "bad"guys,the German army. Amazing battle scenes ecspecially the climax.Try it,I Guarentte you'll like it. :thumbup:

Killer Elite is pretty bad.  One or two good scenes, and that's really it.

The Wild Bunch is the best of his that I've seen, but there are a number I haven't gotten to yet, unfortunately.  In particular, I want to see Ride the High Country, Cross of Iron, and the Getaway.

RCMercant if Jame Coburn is in it then I probably haven't seen it. Next time I subscribe to Netflix I'll put it on my first 3 films to rent. Sounds like a great film.

I had to pick The Killer Elite, of all his movies that I've seen this is the one that I enjoyed the most, but they're all so good that if you ask me tomorrow I'll have a different answer. Mr. Peckinpah's films have always managed to connect with me in some way.

The Wild Bunch.

THE WILD BUNCH is definately a good one and everyones favorite. I picked THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE. Something about that film I liked a lot.

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Voted for The Wild Bunch. But he had a run of films from that up until The Getaway where I thought he did no wrong.

I also like Ride the High Country a lot. There are a few I haven't seen like The Deadly Companions and Bring Me the Head..... I've only seen a badly edited version of Pat Garrett and...., so my opinion of it is skewed.

The Getaway is overrated, to me anyway, as is Major Dundee. I might have like Cross of Iron more if I hadn't read the much better book around the same time.

The Killer Elite, The Ostermann Weekend, Convoy are crap for the most part to me. A master wasting his skills with too much booze, coke, and ego. Give me Junior Bonner and ....Cable Hogue over these anyday, since they show he was capable of more than plastering the screen with machismo, blood squibs, and slo-mo violence.

My 2nd favorite Peckinpah flick is Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Man, talk about a crazy movie that was way ahead of its time!

Quote from: Torgo on January 31, 2007, 11:40:39 PM
My 2nd favorite Peckinpah flick is Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Man, talk about a crazy movie that was way ahead of its time!

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I do think the ending is a little too abrupt.  I expected an unhappy ending, but this one was just blah.  As opposed to the ending of The Wild Bunch.

Still like the flick though.





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BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA is a neat film. Enjoyed it a lot when it showed on FLIX (or ENCORE) a couple years ago.

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I own all of these except THE DEADLY COMPANIONS on DVD.  THE WILD BUNCH is my favorite, although I think STRAW DOGS is Peckinpah's finest film.  CROSS OF IRON is a good WWII flick told from the German perspective.  As for multiple viewings, I've probably seen THE WILD BUNCH and THE GETAWAY more times than any of the others.  Heck, I like 'em all for one reason or another.

At our local grocery store they are selling MAJOR DUNDEE on DVD for $4.99. Almost picked it up. Maybe later.

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Scott - is that the standard version of MAJOR DUNDEE or the restored version that was released in selected theaters a couple of years ago?  I bought the restored version last year and I really enjoyed it.  If they are selling it for $4.99 now I'll be aggravated . . . I think I paid about $20 for it last year.

I'll check it out later this week Burgomaster, but I'm sure it's not the restored version.