Beans! Succatash! Beets! Spinach!

The first thirty minutes of this film are perfect. A few melodramatic moments and overuse of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" (which is probably the worst Dylan song anyway) slightly mar the middle third, but the ending brings it right back up again. I'll be adding this to my collection shortly.

530

A profound meditation on the vanishing free spirits of the American Frontier. An elegy punctuated by gunfire. An eccentric, iconoclastic vision, and one of our best American films.

#576

not bad!

You'll find few bigger fans of Peckinpah than me, but this is admittedly not very involving. The film drags and its characters are completely uninteresting and one-dimensional bores. It's essentially a poor man's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, or even The Wild Bunch - a film about the death of the old West and the men who would rather die with it than move on without it. Watch those instead. Also, Bob Dylan sucks. His songs are boring, his poetry is terrible and now we know he can't act worth shit.

more outlaw cussin%u2019, liquor swilling, dusty vistas, bloody shootouts, ladies of the night and iterations of knocking on heaven%u2019s door then all the shot glasses in your local cantina. all that being said, this is still a rather blah peckinpah.

A wonderful Peckinpah film. It's full of violence yet none of it is overblown, it's very staightforward and matter of fact, as if there's no other possible end for these characters. The really nice cinematography and soundtack set the mood for a meditative look into Peckinpah's view of human nature.

In a way the characters of this movie are complete Western stereotypes -- swagger, machismo and all. In another way they're representative of human nature in general. A lot of this film is about the conventions of the Western film genre and why those conventions are silly at best. Also, Bob Dylan! I'm not sure what the point of his character in the movie was, but hey, Bob Dylan! Also, much of the soundtrack supplied by, hey, Bob Dylan!

# 525

"Keep the change!"

James Coburn (in the role as Pat Garret) hunt down Kris Kristoffersen (as Billy the Kid) in a film that ask for contemplation and careful consideration for it's characters and how they act. Peckinpah depict the shoot-outs in an elegant manner, but show the violence as pitially destruvtive. One of Peckpah's most melancholic and heartfelt films.