FIRST TIME WATCHING: Tombstone (1993) REACTION (Movie Commentary)
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Everyone in the old west had firearms for protection and hunting. Firearms are as American as Apple pie.
One of my favorite movies
This is his best performance. They hand out awards just popularity!
React to 48 hrs.🙂
Val Kilmer is a method actor. He lost, I think, 60 pounds to look more sickly for this role. As for Westerns this is one of the greatest. If you want to check more out, any Eastwood movie, Chato's Land, the White Buffalo, 3:10 to Yuma would be my recommendations. Similar but different I would recommend Jeremiah Johnson and A Man Called Horse. Mountain man movies, same era
The scene where Doc and Ringo first meet and exchange Latin is even greater if you know what they said lol Loosely translated it starts with Doc: " In wine there is truth " Ringo replies "Do what you do best" implying he is a drunkard. Doc pointing his finger in the air as if to correct Ringo states " Drinking is not what I am best at". Ringo touching his finger to the handle of his revolver says, " Fools must learn by experience" Doc ends the exchange by telling Ringo "It's Your funeral!" Bad Ass
Thanks… that’s really interesting to know..
Thank you. I always wondered what they were saying in that scene lol.
Is it historically accurate? No. Is it one of the best scenes in one of the greatest historical movies of all time? Hell yes!
@@65firered EXACTLY!!! Hell Yeas!!
That's awesome! Thank you for this. 😁
Val Kilmer should have got the Oscar for his role, but he didn't even get nominated. The lines written for the character of Doc are amazing: "I'm your huckleberry" "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave" "I know, let's have a spelling contest" etc.
to me his best line was in rsponse to "hell i got a lot of friends" Doc says "i don't" that spoke volumes of him and wyatt
"That's the rumor" & "I've not yet begun to defile myself" ...and so many more lines. super Oscar Snub
Oh Johny I forgot you were there. I apologize, you may go
It is such an iconic role.
He was great, but TLJ was better in The Fugitive and deserved it
Val Kilmer's incredible acting prowess was revealed by this film, in my opinion. In the scene where Doc says "I have two guns, one for each of you," and pulls the second revolver, he spins them. But the guns are spun in opposite directions. This may seem like a simple trick, but actually spinning two guns at the same time in opposite directions is a very high skill talent. Val leaned so hard into this role. You may also see that he rides a horse differently than everyone else. He got a riding instructor to teach him how cavalry officers of the day would ride. Doc's father in real life was a cavalry officer and likely taught Doc how to ride in his youth. Val went into this role 100% and he got something better than an Oscar, in my opinion. He is immortalized in this film.
Kilmer got so shafted on this performance! It’s my favorite of all his roles. He should have won an Oscar…and they all should have won for Best Mustache lolol
A quick note about Val Kilmer's accent; it is a regional dialect from around Savannah circa 1860. Unfortunately, because of the civil war, very few men from Savannah circa 1860 survived, and therefore this accent was nearly lost completely. Kilmer said in an interview that the authentic accent was too slow to speak on camera, so his 'Doc' picks up the pace slightly.
Yep, I remember when this movie came out that a lot of my fellow Southerners were muttering that they'd never heard any Southerner talk like that (Val Kilmer's Doc). I pointed out to them that they'd never been around any of the old, Blue-blood, former plantation owning families then, because they speak with an accent very similar to Doc's.
I’ve heard this particular accent from three different people. Two from South Carolina and the third in the Savanna, Georgia area. So pockets of this accent did survive into the 20th century.
@@Kesedrith Yes, I knew a Savannah heiress from the Tidewater Plantation days and she had the feminine version of that accent.
Part of my family lives in Tombstone Arizona. The old section of town still has the real places that all these things took place, preserved. As you could see, the gunfight at the OK corral only took a little over 60 seconds, and the OK corral is really nothing more than a vacant lot. I've been there many times. Wyatt Earp was never shot in his entire life. (The closest he came was a bullet went through his coat.) He worked as a technical advisor in Hollywood for early westerns and died in 1929. His wife (The mystery lady) lived well into the 1940's. My favorite real quote from him was "Fast is good, but accuracy is lethal."
That's interesting. It the same point that William Munny and Little Bill made in Unforgiven :) Glad to know that Hackman's and Eastwood's gunfight philosophy have some legit, real world provenance!
I love Tombstone, AZ. Dressed up in old clothes and got a photo with my wife. It's neat how the mine is right under the town.
During the shootout with curly bill, at the River/stream, his coat and hat was riddled with bullet holes.
If you believe the witnesses, that is.
I did three half hours podcast episodes about Doc Holliday. A truly fascinating story
@@gagereed486 Yes. I was surprised that that scene actually occurred. I thought it was something made up for the film in order to show how badass Wyatt was but he really was a badass. It’s shocking that he didn’t even get wounded when that went down.
@@MsAppassionata pure luck combined with a level of not giving a fuck to create an incredible moment in history
I’m just glad someone stuck around long enough to tell us about it
Right when he died, Doc said, "This is funny..." It was known that gunfighters died in a fight, with their boots on, not in a bed... barefoot. He died completely different from what he imagined, and it was funny to him. A lot of this movie is based on real events. When he slaps the bejeebus out of Billy Bob Thorton, that was based on an account of Wyatt Earp from his time in Dodge City. The movie Wyatt Earp with Costner as Earp is more historically accurate, but this one beats it for sheer bad-assery. Love this western! And it's one of the most accurate portrayals of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Most movies about Earp or Tombstone end with that fight. This movie launches from there to the "Earp Vendetta Ride" - also amazing in its own right. And his speech to Ike Clanton at the station in Tuscon... chills.
I concur on the comparison with the movie Wyatt Earp. I felt the portrayal of Holiday was a bit more true to his psychosis, as well.
I watched a scientific based reenactment of the shootout based upon all the known FACTS of the case and it was found to be an embarrassing display of marksmanship for even the low standards of the time. People missing from literally 3-4 feet away and then basically running around firing in a blind panic.
Val Kilmer’s role in this movie made me proud of my last name.
"Did everyone in this town have a gun?"
Nope. Everyone in the WEST had a gun, sometimes even the women too. Until sometime in the late 1800's, infrastructure was too loose for the usual law and order. No phones, small towns, limited resources and not enough lawmen in one place. Your best chance of survival against criminals was to handle yourself accordingly.
not really that accurate, the wild west wasn't really like how it is in movies, Tombstone for example was the most violent city in the "wild" west and it had at most murders a year. IE you were not really likely to get shot back then
Yep, just the way it is today!!!!🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
@@houseofaction thank you. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to here people call it the Wild West, when it was actually less violent than Chicago is now. lol
The thing about this movie is how 3D and brilliant the villains were. Michael Beihn was brilliant as Ringo. Totally sociopathic and deadly but very intelligent as well, which made him even more dangerous. Powers Boothe as Curly Bill was also brilliant. The writers spent time to develop the villains as well as the heroes to make sure this movie worked. Definitely on my top 10 Westerns of all time
Agreed, especially that one little exchange between the two white watching the play about the man who made a deal with the devil.
Curly Bill: “I’d take the deal, the crawfish and drill that ol’ devil in the ass……what about you Johnny, what would you do?”
Johnny Ringo: “I already did it!”
It's like that for the "heroes" as well. I mean, Doc is a drunken gambler who is dying of consumption- and deep down, this is a movie about Wyatt Earp leaving his neglected wife, for a newer, hotter model. In truth, they stayed together and loved each other for the rest of their lives, but he still dumped his wife for an actress. Lol. There are lots of great characters in this whole thing. But you can never beat Doc Holiday. He should have won an oscar.
@@jenbcamping Wyatt's wife and Doc really would have made the perfect couple. Both hopelessly addicted and on a one way destination.
"ARE YOU GONNA DO SOMETHING OR JUST STAND THERE AND BLEED?" 🔥🔥🔥
That Chubby Numbnuts was Billy Bob Thorton!
@@jamesalexander5623 Correct, and the card cheat Doc stabbed was Frank Stallone, Sly's brother.
Dude, Tombstone may be a popular movie among the movie reaction channels, but one of the absolute peaks of Val Kilmer’s career.
His portrayal as Jim Morrison in the 1991 movie
“The Doors”
Reaction channels have barely touched this movie.
But if you’re not afraid to be first, and take the lead,
“The Doors” is an Oscar worthy performance from Val Kilmer, in the greatest rock n roll movie of them all.
Agreed !!
I agree more people need to check out Oliver stones the doors.
but I feel like all the music throughout the movie may be hard to not get copyrighted
The only trouble with recommending the Doors is that many reactors are too young to really know anything about Jim Morrison. My mom loved the Doors, so I knew something about him, but the performance won't dazzle as much if you have never heard of the man.
@@maxducoudray I disagree. The movie is a self-contained story so you don’t necessarily need to know much, (or anything) going into it.
And he’s seen a couple Val Kilmer films now, so I think his performance can be appreciated even if you know little of the real life man.
The movie will dazzle all on it’s own as it’s brilliant and visionary filmmaking.
Not going into specifics as to avoid spoilers.
@@spiritscar I’d take the bet that people who don’t know the Doors will be less interested in this film. Maybe we’ll find out if he chooses to watch it. 🤷♂️
When Doc tells him "I got two guns one for each of you" if you look closely he flips one gun forward and one he flips backwards. It looks so hard to do.
I also noticed he is holding his metal cup in of his hands as well when does it.
"Are you gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?" An immortal line. Oh! And "I'm your huckleberry"
You're a daisy if you do. Is one of my faves too. The whole movie is loaded
well, bye.
@@sunnyday_lemonbars that's a cold one,lol
I love when Doc says " Your a Daisey if ya do" I think he is warning the guy that when he is buried a Daisey will grow over his grave. and the other saying " I am Your Huckleberry " slang usage of huckleberry was “the right person for the job.” In both instances of Holliday using the phrase in the film, Johnny Ringo is hoping to spark violence. What Holliday is saying to Johnny Ringo is that if he’s looking for trouble, Holliday’s the guy to give it to him.
That is interesting, I've always that the "you're a daisy if you do" was just Doc saying he would like Ringo to draw in flowery southern gentleman speak; similar to calling a pretty lady a peach for serving a drink.
"I'm your huckleberry" has many meanings. A huckle is part of a casket that the pallbearers hold on to, to carry the coffin at a funeral. In this context doc saying "I'm your huckleberry", in a Old southern Georgian dialect is literally him saying "I'll be your hucklebearer(pallbearer) that carries you to your final resting place" 😉
In that time period, calling someone or something a daisy was the equivalent of us calling someone/something awesome or amazing. When he says "you're a daisy if you do" he was basically saying you're awesome/amazing if you do. Towards the end when he says "Why you're not a daisy at all" he's basically telling Johnny Ringo that Ringo was over-hyped compared to his actual abilities.
since Tom Sawyer was one of the most popular books of this time period, i assumed Doc was saying i'm your "Huckleberry" (Finn) which was Tom Sawyer's playmate and opponent, when they "played/fought."
So I thought he meant,
"I'll play games with you."
"I'll be the Huckleberry Finn to your Tom Sawyer."
It's similar to how we use pop culture (tom sawyer was the pop culture back then) to say things like, he's "jedi" when it comes to accounting. (taken from star wars)
Or that guy is a dog whisperer (taken from the movie "horse whisperer")
we use terms like padawan and godfather because they leaked out of entertainment into our vernacular.
But....i dont know. I was just connecting my own dots.
"pallbearer" sounds more like the real reason he says "huckle bearer"
@@slchance8839 Wow that makes so much sense. I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen this explanation
All the mustaches in this movie are real. They were told to grow their own. Bowler hats were actually more popular than cowboy hats back then. Alot of what Doc says in this movie was really the words that Holliday used. Wyatt really used the but of a gun to know people out and all the gunfights he was in, he was never hit once.
A bustle was added padding under a woman's dress that accentuated her booty (often to a ridiculous proportion). So, Doc's lady friend wearing no bustle means she didn't want to be sitting on a wad of material for a long horse ride, and it means her true figure was more obvious to Doc as well.
Big Nose Kate was Doc's real lady friend.
Her "true figure" was probably already well known to Doc by then. And the bustle's purpose wasn't actually to accent her "booty" per se. It was to support the train of the dress and to add fullness to the skirt, (since the fashions of those times included a relatively straight-falling, flat front) and make a more eye-catching design. It also helped to accentuate/exaggerate the tiny waists.
Actually, the bustle was there to keep the heavy weight of the dress from dragging. There were several layers of fabric and the constant weight was quite painful. And it became fashionable.
bustle was used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses, worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging. Heavy fabric tended to pull the back of a skirt down and flatten it. It later became fashion
My favorite thing is that Wyatt walking out into the middle of the water, screaming "NO!!" over and over, and somehow not dying is actually the most historically accurate portrayal in the whole movie.
I love that they had a cameo of Charlton Heston. The lead actor in my favorite two movies of all time Ben Hur and Ten Commandments original versions.
Incredible movie and super good reaction. Thanks
Sidenote, I’ve visited Tombstone several times through the years. Controversy still exists…
His cameo was unexpected and caused a murmur throughout the theater.
Um original Ben Hur and Ten Commandments were made way before Charlton was born I believe and they were silent. Those were great for their time. Ramon Navaro played the lead role in Ben Hur. You can watch it here on youtube.
Doc had a death wish bc he was suffering more and more everyday. And I love his “ride or die” attitude with Wyatt. That’s why I think he is so endearing and oh yeah, he’s a bad ass.
I had to pause my viewing of your commentary.
I about died laughing when you said “too many butthurt beta male cowboys…”
That’s the line of the week ladies and gentlemen!
The scene When Wyatt walked into the river was based off actual events. Him and his group were outnumbered by the cowboys. He went forward alone, wearing a long duster coat. Shot after shot, the cowboys missed him, only hitting the lose ends of his jacket.
The real Wyatt Earp had that destiny thing going. That shootout at the river really happened. When they looked at Wyatt's coat after, it had ten bullet holes in it. He wasn't touched.
I don’t know where you heard that river shootout was real but the movie depiction is more western myth than historical reality.
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Doesn’t diminish the awesomeness of the film and badassery of the scene.
There’s the myths, then there’s the reality.
Have you ever seen the John Wayne western, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance”
Great, fascinating film that touches on this aspect.
@@spiritscar I was going to say something about how it's a bit nitpicky since this is a film and all. But I actually just wanted to say thanks. Thanks for that link. There's a lot of cool content on that channel I had no idea about.
Of all the quotes Doc laid on us, “I don’t” has always been my favorite. Even now, decades later.
More actors to mention who were in this movie.
12:15 Guy with glasses is Jason Priestley from Beverly Hills 90210 fame
12:16 The actor guy who Jason Priestley shakes hands with is Billy Zane when he had hair
07:53 is Billy Bob Thornton back when he was chubby
And of course, the main antagonists are Powers Boothe and Michael Biehn. Michael was of course in Terminator 1, The Abyss, Aliens, etc.
Interesting thing to note, both Michael Biehn and the late Bill Paxton worked alongside each other in Aliens back in 1986, 7 years before Tombstone
They were in navy seals together too
My favourite Val Kilmer role was "Willow" from 1988. In it Kilmer plays the swordsman and antihero Madmartigan. "Willow" was inspired by the LOTR books, and as such, was an early example of how fun fantasy movies could be. I could also mention a little known crime thriller from 1992 set in an Sioux reservation, called "Thunderheart," where Kilmer plays the FBI agent called in to investigate a desolate murder site. The height of his career was between 1986 and 1997 (from Top Gun to The saint). It's true that he did some decent projects after that too. Small scale thrillers like "Spartan" in 2004 or "Kiss kiss bang bang" in 2005. But at least by the end of the 90's his career trailed off and seldom loooked back. A shame really, because on screen he can be electric, and given the right material he will outshine even the most famous co-star.
Seeing that you’re a big fan, I’d point you to the recent doc called “Val” ( Prime Video ) if you haven’t seen it. It’s quite a view into his life post-throat cancer.
@@thomascanfield9165 Thanks for the tip.😃
I also liked him in Real Genius, and the movie Wonderland based off the murders. He plays porn star Jonny Wad
my favorite is Real Genius followed closely behind by Top Secret!
@@sunnyday_lemonbars Well, I've seen them both, and they were entertaining.
Did you ever hear of the rule of Bill? It states that any film instantly becomes awesome the moment Bill Paxton appears on screen.
It took a couple decades before Predator 2 came to be considered awesome.
@@spiritscar Impossible. That film also starred Gary Busey.
@@John_Locke_108 I’m with you.
I always liked Predator 2. I thought it was a fun and interesting take to plant the Predator in the city.
But you may or may not be aware, Predator 2 for the longest time was dismissed and disregarded as an unworthy sequel.
It’s really only been the last few years that people have warmed up to it and accepted Predator 2 as a worthy sequel.
I worked (very little) with the producer on this film, Jim Jacks, when I was living in Phoenix. He came to town looking for saloon girls for the movie and I was part of the posse that scoured the strip clubs with him. One of those girls has a VERY interesting story about Kurt Russell, by the way.
Always love stories like these kudos!
oh hey, awesome that you came here to comment!
You can't just leave us hanging on the story like that.
@@DrLipkin Not my story to tell, but let's say it involved carnal knowledge on one of the film sets.
@@CrocodilePile An oak, indeed.
Great reaction! This movie has so many great quotable lines! The confrontation scene in the bar between Doc and Ringo is up there as one of the all time best scenes in cinema history!
I've seen a ton of Westerns and this one is still my favorite. Great reaction.
Definitely a top 10 western. Check out The Long Riders, Silverado, Shane (a really old one), The Magnificent Seven, Outlaw Josey Whales, McClintock and Big Jake.
This is a great movie with a stacked cast and a fountain of quotes. Then you add Val Kilmer’s career defining performance and it’s an instant classic.
Two things Doc did you may not have noticed.
1. When Doc flips his guns when he says “I have one for both of you” he twirwls the guns in the opposite directions. IMO it's to show he is capable to kill him
2. At the Tombstone showdown, Doc is the only one who advances when the Earps stop.
No doubt Tombstone was/is a GREAT movie and Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer absolutely nailed it !
Several other actors in this film were very good as well but had lesser roles - checkout any number of Sam Elliot’s films - he is an incredible actor and natural baddass with just speech !
BTW, my compliments to your channel - your editing is GREAT and your commentary is damn near perfect. Not too overwhelming but enough to keep the audience in touch with your review - very good job !
I am now a subscriber of your channel not just because of content but the way you present the material.
Thank you for reacting to this movie. You did such a good job. You like the movIe that Val is in "The Ghost and The Darkness" this is a true story. There is another western just as good as Tombstone it is a mini show "Lonesome Dove"
The Ghost and the Darkness is the 3rd best Val Kilmer movie after Heat and Tombstone. Great movie.
Ghost and the darkness is definitely an amazing film.
In my humble opinion, Val OWNS this role! Over the decades I have seen several actors play Doc.. however..
Val Kilmer was legendary in Tombstone, if you want to see another great role you need to check out "Young Guns" and Emilio Estavez as Billy the Kid.
Val Kilmer was also very charismatic and funny in the movie 'Willow'. And he was awesome in 'Felon', a cool prison movie which is often overlooked
Love this movie, love your reaction! Dances With Wolves is insanely good, and I highly recommend it. :)
For sure, if he wants to explore more of this era that would be a great one. A really good option.
"Oh Doc. Taking the commentary right out of my mouth." 🤣🤣🤣
Part of the magic of Val in that character. 🤩
A fair amount of historical accuracy too. Wyatt wasn’t as pure as the movie depicts. Doc didn’t kill Ringo. More likely it was suicide but they did find him propped up against a tree with a single gun shot to the head. Not quite the way it was filmed in the movie, but Wyatt did pretty much cut Curly Bill in half with a shotgun.
I would recommend Open Range as another good modern western.
This has been and probably always will be my favorite western of all time. There is many great westerns that come close, but this one is just too good.
Hi, It is just about everyone's favorite western. Because it is a TRUE STORY. Happen in OCTOBER, 1881 Tombstone, Ariz. The famous shoot out at the O.K. Corral. The Earp brothers and Doc went on trial for the shoot out. The judge found them not guilty. Look it up on the internet. Great story to read. True stories are always better than fiction.
I've been to Tombstone 5 times. My Brother lives in AZ .... I try to go out the end of October and watch the Reenactment. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened on the same day as my Birthday!
That was great, thank you. Super reaction. Love this movie for so many reasons. When i was a kid, the greatest western at that time for me was the Magnificent Seven because of the assembly of actors. (Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughan, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz and Eli Wallach). Watching Tombstone gives me the same chills. So many great actors together in one movie.
For this film, they used videos of Sam Elliot that were originally shot back in the 1800's.
Yes! After he helped the Union win at Gettysburg!
I've watched this movie a million times. This and Young Guns 1 and 2. Great Westerns. Doc is of course my favorite. Love the way Val played him.
This is my favorite western. Great cast. You may also like the 1985 western Silverado which also had a damn good cast including Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum and more. Check it out when you get a chance. The Quick and The Dead starring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Leo Dicaprio and more is also a fun one. The man with no name trilogy starring Clint Eastwood is a must for anyone getting into westerns as well. Start with A Fistful of Dollars.
My all time favorite movie. The cast, directing, music, and writing are all perfect. The most quotable movie ever.
Yes! Val gave one of the best performances in HISTORY! I feel like not enough people know about it. love Doc! Love Val!
"There's no normal life, Wyatt; there's just life. Now get on with it."
Hands down Vals best performance ever!! He was straight up robbed that year he should have won an Oscar for this role.
I don't think I've been this excited to watch a reaction video, ever! Can't wait to watch you fall in love with this film!!
FUN FACT! Shakespeare was considered low & working class entertainment at this time - the rich watched new plays. Most low and working class people had favorite Shakespeare plays and whole soliloquies they could and would quote often. There is even record of a gang war breaking out due to an argument over who the best Shakespearian acting troupe was. This would change when the Neuvo Riche Industrialists brought those plays with them into the upper classes. So all of these criminals and lawmen in this time & place would have been very familiar with Shakespeare.
A “daisy” back then was a southern adjective for something being the best or top of its class, a “huckleberry” was a word used to describe an unwanted or inferior substitute, so Doc is saying to Ringo (twice) “you wanted Wyatt but you got me!”
"Butthurt, beta-male cowboys. " that's the funniest thing I've ever heard
Agree on all the Val Kilmer being hosed out of at least an Oscar nod. He was absolutely epic as Doc, as was all of the writing for his dialogue. "He was just too high strung."
The lines "Hell I've got alot of friends"
And then Doc saying "I don't" Is beautiful in it's own way.
It’s funny how many people don’t recognize the guy the Kurt slaps around at the beginning lol 😂. Mr Billy Bob
22:00 What Doc said was, "you're a daisy if you do." I thought a 'daisy' was something demeaning at first. But the I learned that a 'daisy' meant excellent, or something along those lines. Not sure how the term came to be. So Doc was basically saying, if that guy managed to kill him, then he's the MAN. Note that when he killed Ringo, he said, "you're no daisy. No daisy at all," meaning that Ringo didn't have what it takes.
There was a Star Trek episode (TOS) that reversed the theme and portrayed the Earps and Doc Holiday as the antagonists.
Val's best performance ever. The fact he didnt win an Oscar was a travesty.
Tombstone is in my top three favorite westerns in doc Holliday portrayed by Val Kilmer epic favorite line he says (i'll be your huckleberry)
Ike Clanton was shot 1887 by a lawman who tried to arrest him for cattle rustling, 6 years after the events in Tombstone.
There is so much to love about this movie. This is one of the first movies released on DVD as it was filmed digitally.
The actor playing Johnny Ringo is Kyle Reese in Terminator!
This was based on a true story. Doc was a dentist from Ga. He had TB so moved west to a less humidity place, and began to be a gambler. There was a shoot out at the OK Correll in October of 1881. Wyatt died in California in 1929.
the scene in the stream with curly bill and Wyatt when they were ambushed was based on eye witness account of a cowboy who was mortally wounded at the shootout and made it to a local ranch, telling the rancher the story before he passed.
another fun western is Silverado with Kevin Costner, Jeff Goldbloom, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline . Sooo much fun!
Also, around the same time this movie came out, Kevin Costner also made a Wyatt Earp movie called “Wyatt Earp” but it goes deeper into his life. Both are great movies!!!
Also love how Doc started the entire fight at the OK Corral with his wink lol
Imagine being the most feared gunman in the west then dying to a dude that can barely breathe.
John Henry(Doc) Holliday was just 36 when he passed away. Such an icon.
My FAVORITE LINE: "I'll be your Huckleberry." Love DOC!!!
Wen he dies and laughs , While looking at his feet... it's cause they say he always said he would die with his boots on...that's y he chuckled
Nice reaction. 'Glad your 2nd Western was TOMBSTONE. 'Great movie. One of my favorite Westerns, for sure. Right up there with it is this:
OPEN RANGE (2003) Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall
Also from actor Kevin Costner (directed by him as well):
DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
Kevin Costner, Graham Greene.
Peace -
Just add Clint's Unforgiven 1992 and you get some best Western's done since Sergio Leone.
Don’t forget Appaloosa
Great reaction man! Seeing you watch and enjoy this movie for the first time makes me appreciate it all the more. You did a good job of including all the classic moments in this video. Thumbs up 👍
Val Kilmer absolutely killed it. Doc Holiday is one of my favorite characters ever in movie history. Sadly he was robbed of an award
To this day my brother and I use the line "Where you going with that shotgun" as an expression to ask what's the hurry?
"Too many butthurt beta male cowboys"
That line alone made me a new fan
This movie was amazing. Unforgiven, young guns and 3:10 to Yuma were also great western movies
A bustle is a padded undergarment used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. Bustles are worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging. Heavy fabric tended to pull the back of a skirt down
One of my favorite bits of foreshadowing in that movie is at the beginning when the priest quotes Revelations: Behold the Pale Horse, he that sat upon it was death and hell followed with him.
Wyatt at the train station: You tell em I'm coming. And hell's coming with me.
Great flick. Hard to find anyone capable of writing anything half as good these days.
My favourite western is Deadwood. One of the best series ever. 3 short seasons of absolute greatness. Made me a western fan!
"I'm your huckleberry" is one of the greatest lines ever
Doc was so incredibly badass in this film.
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When they found Stillwell's body, the guy Wyatt shot at the train depot, they saw that he'd emptied his guns into him. So during the entire time of the vendetta ride there was a warrant for his arrest for murder.
And at the incident at the creek where Wyatt basically cut Curly Bill in half with his shotgun, his trenchcoat was full of bullet holes, but Wyatt never got a scratch. It is at that moment Wyatt seems to have had a revelation similar to the one that got to Jules in PULP FICTION because that is where the real "vendetta ride" ended. Everything after that was pure Hollywood (including the shooting of Ringo since Doc Holliday was in Colorado at the time).
One other thing about Doc they didn't put into the movie for obvious reasons is that he was a virulent anti-semite and that he and Wyatt had a major falling out over his affair with Josephine (not because he was already married but because she was a Jew).
The Birdcage theater still stands and is open today it still has over 140 bullet holes from back in the day
Just an interesting historical note: when Curly Bill Brocious shot Fred White, Wyatt Earp testified on his behalf at his trial that the shooting was accidental. Brocious was handing over his guns peacefully when one of them went off spontaneously. He was acquitted of White's murder.
After the fight at the UK Corral dark in his Wyatt Earp and his brother's got put on trial for murder but they got acquitted and after that is when the two brothers were shot and then that's when the ending happened this movie is pretty spot on almost to the words that were said
Wyatt was the luckiest gunman ever. Both him and Curly had double barrel 12gauges loaded with triple aught buckshot (basically a fist-full of .32s firing at the same time), and they were 50feet from each other before Wyatt let loose both barrels. Anything at that range became ground chuck. And when he tried to ride away, his gun belt slid down his legs hobbling him around his knees. So all the while this is happening, Curly's boys kept on shooting at him. Finally, after getting his belt up, Wyatt rides back to his buddies and that's where he found his coat shredded on both sides from triple aught buck and .45s, three holes through his pants, his saddle horn sheared off, the heel of one of his boots shot off, five through the crown of his hat, and three through the brim.
His guardian angel was working overtime that day.
That Heat shootout scene is so realistic (from a tactical perspective) that they use it to train American Green Berets at Fort Bragg and marines training at MCRD San Diego.
Your editing, with the blurred out movie I the background, is fantastic. This is the most badass movie of all time….quotes for days.
Wyatt Earp quote about Doc Holiday:
I found him a loyal friend and good company.
He was a Dentist whom necessity made him a Gambler.
A Gentleman whom Disease made him a Vagabond.
A Philosopher whom whom life had made him a caustic wit.
A long lean Blonde fellow nearly Dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful Gambler and Nerviest, speediest, deadliest Man with a Six Gun I ever knew….
My all time favorite movie. I’ve watched it hundreds of times and still catch something new every time
This Kilmer role will forever go down as a GOAT character. Honestly everyone kills it in this movie but Holliday just puts it over the top.
Everyone needs a friend like Doc, the ride or die OG.
I hope you caught the parallel from the beginning of the movie where Johnny Ringo was quoting Revelations where Death rides on a pale horse and hell followed with him and how Wyatt told Ike that he is coming and hell is coming with him.
Oh and not many people catch it, but Virgil says he had a run in with a couple Cowboys before they got to Tombstone. Then Curly Bill shows up to thr wedding with two red sashes.
The mustaches in this movie are glorious
One liner in this movie are something else. Also the mustache are real, all of them
Val Kilmer’s best role, hands down. Funny, badass, and touching.