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They Were Right the First Time

By Erik Gregers​en on November 16, 2011

Pointlessly gigantic, but somewhat interesting, like a great edifice built out of tinfoil. Many scenes are just puffed up out of all proportion on their “significance.” A quiet dance in a empty hall between Kristofferson and Huppert lasts 4 minutes with the town band building to a climax, and this is after an equally long roller-skate dance number involving the whole town. The picture is also full of risible historical details like that: a grubby, hardscrabble Wyoming town where everyone has a pair of roller skates.