YMMV / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

• Awesome Music: The Bob Dylan soundtrack, particularly "Knockin' on "Heaven's Door".
• Better on DVD: The DVD gives you the option of either the Theatrical Cut, the Director's Cut, or the Extended Edition.
• Tear Jerker: Baker was a burned out sheriff just biding his time till he could finish his boat float down the river and out of the territory. But Garrett convinces (paid) him to help raid a cabin where Garrett suspects Billy's gang is hiding. During said raid, Baker is wounded several times including being gutshot (nearly always fatal in the time period, but slow) and stumbles away from the fight. The sequence ends with him siting beside the river, watching the setting sun with his wife, who had come too, in tears as he knows that he is certainly dead. The fact that "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was written for this scene doubles the effect.
• Vindicated by History: The film was neglected at the time, but is now seen as one of Sam Peckinpah's best films, especially after his original version was seen.

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