From: howddgrhol@yayoo.com   
      
   I saw Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and I can say that it is...   
   something.   
      
   Kris Kristofferson plays a very unkidlike Billy the Kid and James Coburn   
   is  lawman Pat Garrett, out to bring Billy down. Various recognizable   
   actors appear -- Hal Holbrook, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, and   
   most notably Bob Dylan as a semi-henchman of Billy with an odd smile and   
   the aspect of guy who doesn't really know where he is.   
      
   Things happen but the usual cause and effect in movies is missing, and   
   so are the usual motivations of characters. Everything seems to be   
   happening in a dream. Coburn as always has a strong presence, but what   
   he is really after is never really clear.   
      
   At one point several of Billy's henchmen walk in on Garrett sitting at a   
   table in a general store. They chat for a bit, only to have Garrett   
   suddenly draw a gun. He orders Bob Dylan to walk over to the canned   
   goods and start reading the labels, which he does through the rest of   
   the scene. He orders another man to knock out one of his partners, pull   
   the hat over the eyes of a second, and then drink half a bottle of   
   whiskey before being shot. Meanwhile, Dylan continues to read "Spinach.   
   Beans. Succotash. More spinach..."   
      
   People seem to fear death but also unwilling to avoid it, throwing away   
   their lives with regrets but only the barest reflection or hesitation.   
      
   It's not exactly bad, and it has a number of very striking scenes,   
   especially one when Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is playing. But   
   it''s not hard to see why the studio was supposedly irate when they saw   
   the rough cut -- I don't see any way to re-edit it to turn it into a   
   coherent movie.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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