What the heck, a dissenting opinion: I still don't like it. I deliberately watched it again and tried to look at it anew but alas, I still found it annoying. Just strikes me as Hollywood or somebody trying to do something "cool" with something historic. Ends up contrived to me. And I like Jeff Bridges. At the end of the movie, I didn't take a liking to Wild Bill. Was that the point, to besmerch an American icon? Maybe, knowing Hollywood.
It's also possible that this weekend being such an exceptional weekend for watching westerns (Searchers, Silverado, Open Range), that this one just wasn't as good as the others. It didn't connect with me. Still.
BP