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hehheheh ..screw James Cameron :))))

And how can we not talk about the Kansas City move? I remember a great bastard, Stanley Tucci, in this film. It seems that Tarantino has become a master; some even see him in "Il divo" by Sorrentino.

I envy Punisher, who is no longer scandalized; he's cool. I keep being a fool and getting shocked when the young bandit Crazy Joe licks the earlobe of an elderly customer taken hostage during the train office robbery... If these themes are outdated, I wonder how outdated, for example, "No Country for Old Men," made by the Coen brothers just a couple of years ago and based on Cormac McCarthy's work, really is. In the final dream of that book, there's a whole theme from "The Wild Bunch"... Pike at one point says, "We have to use our brains today; guns are no longer enough." Paradoxically, with the use of human intellect, honorable banditry disappears, and this generates violence for the sake of violence. When Pike says, "Let's go!" it’s his moral redemption to go die trying to save Angel. In the original version (and not in the Italian dubbing), the younger Gorch brothers respond, "Why not?" excited by the new explosion of violence and not for a moral redemption like in the mind of old Pike, just as in Sheriff Bell's in the Coen brothers' film.

thank you nes ;-) and thank you dreamax...@vortex for understanding me. Among the countless facets and interpretations of this long film, the one that amazes me the most but which I deem true, since it’s easy to notice with attention, is the homosexual inclination of Dutch (Borgnine) towards the leader Pike Bishop (Holden). He is the only one who remains 100% loyal when the others in the gang mock him, he is the only one who doesn’t spend the night in the brothel and waits outside. In the scene where they are riddled with bullets, he reaches out his hand, screaming his name in a heartbreaking way...

@psycho what can we say about a film that pays homage to Peckinpah, which uses "real" brothers (the Keach, the Carradine, the Quaid, the Guest) to portray "historical" brothers (Jessie and Frank James, the Younger brothers, the Millers, the traitors Charly and Robert Ford), which perhaps demystifies the myth of Jessie James, which features the stunning soundtrack with spine-chilling guitar riffs by Ry Cooder, which was "inspired" by Sid Griffin for his band The Long Ryders? En passant, I would also add that two Italian music magazines took their names from two films by Sam Peckinpah...

Hellring continues to consider all cinema prior to the 80s as superfluous; the opportunity to portray a sick person or a character with a disability was already available to Dustin Hoffman twenty years earlier with the character of Rizzo, a crippled and tuberculous man in "Midnight Cowboy." That was indeed an extraordinary film, not typically Hollywood and devoid of the moral good intentions that plague, as you rightly point out, this film. After all, the director there was John Schlesinger, who was a true artist, while Barry Levinson is a craftsman...

"If these guys are the n.2 of country rock, how come there hasn't been a trace of them until now on Debaser?" Wow, you have unlimited faith in Debaser, as if it were the Supreme Court :-) I don't agree that this is the best lineup of Poco; the first album "Pickin' Up the Pieces" with Furay and Messina was very close to Buffalo Springfield and, for me, it’s superior to the Eagles... For me, this album marks the downward curve of Poco; I liked the first side of the LP, but the second was too slick.

Ps ..psycho I hadn't seen your post 18!!! see how we agree on Springsteen :-)

In another discussion, I had listed it among my favorite albums of 2009, and I don't give it a 5 only because their "Time Bomb High School" is even better. Pure old-school garage, in my opinion there's less of it than one might think ("Stick up for me"). It seems to me a great album of American roots that delves into the substance of this music, with organ work that recalls Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" (check "Something To Hold Onto") and certain ballads in the style of Petty and even Springsteen (in "Debris," they sound more like the good old Elvis Costello!!!). The fact is they're from Memphis, the birthplace of Alex Chilton, and you can hear it. Truly an outstanding album.

And let's also say that "Hello I Love You" is more or less a rip-off of "All Day and All of the Night" made by the Kinks three years earlier... the Doors' pop turn? with Morrison increasingly intoxicated and the band's musical direction in Krieger's hands, the risk was precisely that...