Sound Problem
I am giving this movie 5 stars, because the 1988 Turner version is one of the greatest movies ever made. This is disc 2. The new re-recut version has some new merits, but overall isn't as good as the Turner version. The problem with this disc, which is huge, is that there is a flaw on the transfer. During the last few minutes, the sound is totally whacked. The Dylan song used just before, and during the end credits is all askew and warped. I bought this disc and noticed it. Then I rented it and the same problem was there. I don't know when, or if, this problem will ever be addressed or fixed. And I can't seem to find anyone else who mentions it in posts. I'd love feedback on this. The movie is a masterpiece. One of the greatest westerns ever with Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, Rio Bravo -- but this transfer has this huge flaw. It's like if the Mona Lisa had a smashed tomato in the top right corner. Or someone spray painted their gang symbols on it. All this emotion, and drama is built up and at the end the flow is cut and lost. Anyone have any thoughts on this? (The old VHS had perfect sound [but was pan-and-scan, not letterbox], the very old laserdisc [if anyone remembers these] was letterboxed and perfect sound - but laserdiscs are like 8-tracks now.)

Pat and Billy
A great western, one of the best. They don't make them like this anymore.
Beautiful photography and Dylan's music made it even better.
Many thanks to Amazon for super service.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
I have always felt that Sam Peckinpah was one of the most under rated directors of the great American Western, and of other genres as well. (i.e. Straw Dogs). Superbly shot and well acted (except for, maybe, Bob Dylan - Of course he can't sing either, but is always worth watching and listening to, if you can decipher the mumbling).

A Mishmash
Take a Billy the Kid script and throw James Colburn together with Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan and you get an incongruous film unworthy of Sam Peckinpah.

I still gave it three stars because it has a few moments and the movie has value as a seventies cultural piece.
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Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
A true classic with a great Bob Dylan playing a character pretty much like the real Bob Dylan... enigmatic and terse with a phrase. My sons thought it dragged a bit but I was pretty pleased with the stars and with the plot. Not a perfect piece but certainly one worth watching and owning.