Jose Chavez y Chavez

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Both Young Guns flicks are full of horseshite,

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Terrible opinion.

I watched both YG movies in the theaters as a teen, and I've loved them since then. In the early 2000's after probably a thousandth rewatch, I started researching the true story of Billy the Kid and realized that YG was a very loosely based true story. The real stories of the events in the YG movies would make for awesome film if done right. Last night while watching YG 1, I told my wife how they gave the wrong deaths to the wrong characters (like Bowdre dying at the McSween house, which was really a 5 day battle) and Doc dying at Stinking Springs in YG 2 (it was actually Bowdre). Those movies got me obsessed with the old west, and I agree that Chavez would be a good character to explore. He was also a pretty big badass in real life.

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Both Young Guns flicks are full of horseshite

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TO THE SOCCER BOARD WITH YOU

So much of Billy the Kid's story is based around rumor, legend, conjecture, and unreliable narrators that it's hard to say which is the most accurate. Just take all of them, average it out, and that's probably the closest you'll get.

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Billy wasn’t left handed.

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He was a good looking kid, had a way with women, dressed like a dandy and was a left hander. People said he was fond of whistling sad ballads.

I'm always surprised or impressed by the rewatchability whenever I find YG rotating back through basic cable every few years.