"When you side with a man, you stick with him. If you can't, your like some animal"

That line is spoken by Pike Bishop (William Holden) halfway through the film and to me it sums up the code of honour these men live by, it may not always make sense but to them it's a way of life and they are far to old and Stubborn to change.
The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's final nail in the coffin of the traditional western, it's bloody and violent, a film inhabited by real men's men, there's no hero's here, only grizzled veterans who have done whatever it takes to survive in this unforgiving period of history.
One of the best cast…

One of my favourite films of all time,I watched this for the first time on blu-ray and was astounded at the quality of EVERYTHING. Peckinpah directs this 1969 masterpiece with genuine love for the genre and with real vigour in his quest to re-establish himself in the film industry after his troubled time on "Major Dundee" and his firing from "The Cincinnati Kid" .
Shot in Mexico, this was a labour of love for Peckinpah who cast some of the best middle-aged actors around at the time. Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates,Robert Ryan and a rejuvenated William Holden give arguably some of the best performances of their careers in this blood-soaked epic. Holden especially is perfectly cast as the ageing leader…

I had this crazy hockey coach when I was thirteen. His name was Stephen but he told everyone to call him Flint. He was a punk rocker. He played in a band called Rope. He shaved his head and had these big, twelve hole, cherry leather Doc Martins. He wore an old army surplus jacket with the word "Fight" written on the back in red paint. We all thought he was the coolest guy on the planet. 

Some coaches gave pep talks before games. Others would lead the team in a prayer...
Flint would show up minutes before game time. He’d come into our dressing room with a large ghetto blaster. He’d play us Fugazi’s Waiting Room at full volume. When…

Ol sammy, combative guy supposedly. This is the movie that basically defines peckinpah. When this movie was released it shocked audiences with the violence. It was even more shockingly violent than the Bonnie and Clyde that shocked audiences with its violence 2 years earlier. There’s more to this movie than violence tho. Peckinpah loved Mexico and its people, he insisted on filming there and hiring hundreds of locals as extras. The shoot was tough, it was hot as hell, the insects where unrelenting, and lets just say the craft services wasn’t up to par, there was a lack of many services entitled Hollywood actors would normally be used to, u could see how that might effect one. Peckinpahs unrelenting style…

Almost, but not quite, Pike (William Holden), the outlaw at the center of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, is persuaded onto the side of "General" Mapache (Emilio Fernandez), who runs a militia within the Federales (The Mexican Army) just after the Tragic Ten Days of February 1913, when a seizure of violence swept through the northern part of Mexico, democratically elected Francisco Madero was killed, and Huertistas in the employ of the new President acted to rid the militias of revolutionary activity. Pike's bunch delivers to this militia the weapons that will help it stave off the revolutionaries like Pancho Villa, threatening to overtake the North.

At this moment of history, myths of ethno-identity became very expensive; as the contemporary…