Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

[RobertScorpio]

I just saw this movie two nights ago, not long after seeing the Wild Bunch. Both movies being directed by Sam Peckinpah.

Garcia is a strange movie. Let me see if I can explain this plot.

Some Mexican babe is pregnant with some dude's baby. The father of the child has skipped out and so the babe's dad wants the loser father killed; and his head brought to him as proof.

Warren Oats, who wears goofy glasses, is hired to find this Garcia fellow, and bring his head back.

The movie is good, but rambles around like a Steven Soderbergh film and, IMO, suffers for it. It tries to get by with Quenten Tarrintio kind of dialog, for its time, and just meanders so much I found myself wanting the movie to get over just so I could get on with my life.....

I give it a C-

Anyone else ever see this movie?? And what did you think of it...

Rob

 

[J.T.B.]

^ I should say I haven't watched this movie for at least 15 years. I pretty much agree with everything you said about the movie, but I end up liking it more. All the characters are interesting (in a real downer sort of way) and Oates himself is terrific. They say the movie is more about how Peckinpah saw himself at that time than anything else: A burned out drunk whose bosses have used him up. It's a hang-on-and-go-on-the-ride type of movie, and I liked the strange ride enough to give it a B.

--Justin

 

[RobertScorpio]

^ I should say I haven't watched this movie for at least 15 years. I pretty much agree with everything you said about the movie, but I end up liking it more. All the characters are interesting (in a real downer sort of way) and Oates himself is terrific. They say the movie is more about how Peckinpah saw himself at that time than anything else: A burned out drunk whose bosses have used him up. It's a hang-on-and-go-on-the-ride type of movie, and I liked the strange ride enough to give it a B.

--Justin

Oh..dont get me wrong, I thought Warren Oats was great, everyone one..I just felt they spent too much time messing around...and how about Kris Kristofferson's scene with Oat's babe..what the hell was that all about???

Rob

 

[ToddPence]

Was chosen as one of the fifty worst films of all time in Michael and Harry Medved's 1980 book that was one of the first studies to treat bad films as a cultural phenomenom.

 

[Harvey]

I haven't seen it, but it is notable as one of the only films by Peckinpah that was released as the director had intended.