First off, I love The Wild Bunch.
Saw it in a Chicago Loop theater in the morning; watched it from the middle and then all the way through.
But, and you knew there'd be a but......
Recently a lot of fellas lamented the glorification of murderous outlaws such as Bonnie and Clyde. While The Wild Bunch is fiction, doesn't it also present a rather "nice" picture of "honorable" outlaws? Because of films like The Wild Bunch,
I can't get my shorts in a bunch over the Bonnie and Clyde type movies where the criminals do in some LEOs and innocent bystanders.
As mature adults, and I think we are, we can distinguish between fictional crimesters and the real thing. I think Quentin Tarantino said it best when he commented that gangsters are interesting people that fascinate a lot of us, and then he added, "but you wouldn't want them as neighbors."