“I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made 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.” -Wyatt Earp on Doc Holiday
I think it's a natural law that everyone who watches Tombstone loves Doc. He's got the best lines in a film full of great lines. My absolute favorite is when he unequivocally calls Ike stupid to his face with "let's have a spelling contest!"
At the end when Doc looked at his feet and said "ill be damned" ....that was because he always thought he would die with his boots on (probably in a gun fight) He had lived his life gambling and fighting in places where everyone was his enemy and at the end he found out that not only was he going to die in peace...he had made a true friend and brother in Wyatt Earp....two things he would have never dreamed he would have....
that scene always gets me for that reason. his look, when he says it, is like a moment of realization that his wish to die with his boots on meant he would have missed one of the best parts of his life, even a book about his life by a friend. bittersweet moment.
Val Kilmer as Doc is up there in masterful performances like Heath as joker or Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the butcher. One of the most quotable movies! One of the best westerns ever made imo, though I’m not huge on that genre. Let’s go Leo, bringing that heat!
@TransCube i 1000% agree with you on Ledger's Joker performance. In general, i thought Ledger was a decent actor... and given time, he could have been great. But alas, he checked out too soon. For me, Jack is the BEST film Joker, just like Keaton is the BEST film Batman.
I just started his reaction and why do I feel like I’m going to go all the way to the end without him realizing who Val Kilmer is? Because I feel like this guy is that clueless. Like you could show him who Val Kilmer is before and he will forget right away Lmao
One of the most subtle signs of just what a badass Doc is, probably the reason Ringo is nervous about facing him at the end, is that gunplay scene when they first meet. Even though he’s visibly drunk, he’s able to copy Ringo’s entire routine after a single viewing.
Absolutely correct once Ringo saw that, he knew that he was out classed as a gunfighter!! Excellent scene!! Val Kilmer's portrayal and performance as Doc Holliday, to me, is definitely one of the top three roles of his career!!! Is portrayal of Jim Morrison and his role in Top Gun, the original, being the other two, IMHO!
That was good but even better is the scene where he says "I've got two guns for both of you" you have to watch closely it happens real fast Doc {Val Kilmer} spins each gun in opposite directions simultaneously
My sister and I had a theory that maaaaaybe....just maybe......Ringo is the bastard son of Doc Holliday. Two reasons why we thought this....1)when Doc says "Something around the eyes...reminds me of....ME" ....AND When Doc is in bed at that ranch, he tells Wyatt that Ringo wants revenge for BEING BORN.
So many great one liners in this movie, and Val Kilmer is phenomenal as Doc Holliday! “Oh…..Johnny……I forgot you were there. You may go now.” That kills me every time!
Yes, it was real. Doc had a dental practice on the east coast. When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (which at the time was always fatal), he headed out west. One of the reasons he was such a fearsome adversary is that he wasn't afraid to die. He knew he was dead already and he'd rather be shot than suffer the slow, painful death from tuberculosis.
Just to add, much of the reason the infected traveled west to Arizona n' such was because the drier weather made it harder for TB to survive, prolonging their life just by perhaps a year or so at least, if not longer. Still a better fate than being shoved into a Tuberculosis Asylum. (Now we have a shit load of haunted ass TB hospitals.)
When it comes to Docs wife, Kate, she was the best thing in the world for him. He was dying from tuberculosis, there was no cure back then. He was not a man that wanted to finish out his days taking it easy trying to extend a painful death. She took care of him and helped him live every day to the fullest until he sent her away. The scene where she’s at the window rolling the smoke as the doctor tells Doc he doesn’t have much time…. A lot of people see that and think she’s having evil thoughts of helping him die faster so she can take his money. What I see is her hearing that news and showing concern. But before she turns to Doc she collects herself and treats him as if he were perfectly healthy, which is what he’d want.
Yeah, 💯 It's sad how they broke up in the end. But they truly were perfect for each other. People from extreme privilege who lost almost everything when young due to sudden illness (his TB ruining his life plans, her parents dying suddenly). They were 1 in a million type personalities, born on opposite sides of the world, and they somehow found each other. I wish they had been able to make it work. Her drinking problem and recklessness was just too much of a liability for him (she was tricked while drunk into signing a statement saying he had committed some stagecoach robbery). So, I understand why he left, but it just makes me sad.
You unveiled one of the key lines in this story. I have seen this movie at least a hundred times, and never considered this. "Behold the pale horse. The man who sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him". Ringo predicted his own death and ultimate fate at the hands of the pale man. That was brilliant, good Sir.
Yes!! One of my favorite movies. Val Kilmer is astonishing. I was so happy to see him in the new Top Gun movie since his fight with cancer. Love him. Thanks for doing this one Leo.
Absolutely!! I was so enchanted my Val’s performance in this film. I had only seen him in his other popular films - Batman Forever, Top Gun, & Thunderheart. But this performance was a completely standout and he just looked & sounded so different.
@@susanconstable2113 He's one of the most criminally underrated actors in history. Real Genius, Top Secret, Heat, Tombstone, The Saint...he's magnificent in everything.
Seen this movie 100 times I’ve always got that Wyatt was “death” but never thought about Doc being the pale horse, him being pale and all. Even in the beginning at the wedding “what he mean by a sick horse was gonna come get us” specially since the Priest was talking to Ringo and Ringo literally gets killed by the “pale horse” that’s deep. Nice catch
@@ANDRE1mang Look up why. It was because the producers messed up and didn't enter the movie for consideration in time. That's why nothing in this movie was even nominated.
@@kathleenclark815 That is just horrible. There should have been so many Oscars for the cast as well as Best Movie I would think. I am sure there were other great movies that year ....but, unimaginable that they would not have gotten any.
What I like about the Ringo gun Twirling seen after rewatching the movie dozens of times is the suttle fear you see in Ringo's eyes after Doc copied & repeated back the same routine after seeing it once, while drunk, Ringo realized he F up.
Yup. Ringo knew he fucked up. He showed Doc his draw. It's a lot like a personal tic or habit that you do when you bluff at poker. Usually gunfighters only drew down on each other once, and the loser usually ended up dead, so there wasn't much of a problem if the losing guy saw your draw, because any of the personal little things, like tightening your eyes, or your mouth twitching right before you pulled your gun didn't get passed around because the guy that might have seen it was dead. That wasn't the case with Doc and Ringo. Doc saw Ringo's draw, and Ringo probably figured Doc was too drunk or sick to see it, but Doc mimicking the pistol twirling showed Ringo that Doc was both still in control, and had most likely seen his draw. It's also likely why every time the two meet after that, Ringo goes out of his way to avoid a fight with Doc, except when he got so drunk (right after the OK Corral shootout) he didn't care.
@@gunman462 It was not a myth. The Hollywood style "meet me at high noon the day after tomorrow and we'll settle it like men" thing is extremely dramatized and overinflated, and was not common by any means. That being said, the man-to-man duel did occasionally happen. I believe that Bill Hickok was challenged to a one on one duel over gambling debts somewhere in Missouri and killed the fellow that challenged him. Hickok was arrested for it, but I think he got off because the other guy publicly called him out in a saloon. The other example that comes to mind was somewhere in Kansas, between a fellow named Frank Love and another fellow named Richards, where one of them thought the other was sleeping with his wife. I'd have to find the reference in one of my books, but if I'm remembering right, the Love fellow went into a saloon to play cards, saw the Richards fellow at a table, sat down across from him, accused him of sleeping with his wife, and after a bit of back and forth, they both stood up, squared off, and shot each other. I'm fairly sure Love killed Richards, and was arrested and later released due to self defense. There are a few others. I can remember something about a gunfight between a California judge and a state senator where they were friends but later became enemies and one eventually challenged the other to a shoot out and the other accepted. I think that that one got formal dueling outlawed in California. Edit: Found it. I misspoke there a bit. The second fight was between a fellow named Frank LOVING and Lee RICHARDSON, not Love and Richards. Loving believed that Richardson was sleeping with his wife, and killed him in a one-on-one duel in a saloon in Dodge City. The California thing was (I kid you not) between California Supreme Court Chief Justice David Terry and United States Senator for California David Broderick. The men had been friends, but became political enemies, which culminated in a fatal duel between them wherein The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court shot and killed the US Senator for California. Shit was weird back then.
@@vishnu79 Thanks for the explanation, that was great. What comes to mind is the movie Appaloosa where, at the end, Viggo Mortensen had pistol already in hand pointed at the ground the begin the final duel.
Genetics cheated me out of ever having a glorious handlebar mustache, and I plan to have a conversation about it with God when I get to the Pearly Gates. I couldn't grow a decent mustache with Wyatt Earp putting a pistol to my head and threatening to make it into a canoe. LOL
Just a note to let you know, that bottle that Wyatt's girlfriend is drinking from contains Laudanum. Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium (by weight which is the equivalent of 1% morphine) dissolved in ethanol alcohol. It was one of the biggest addiction problems of that era.
The actor who played Doc Holliday went to a speech coach to learn how a southern aristocrat would talk in the day, what his accent would be like. He and the actor who played Ringo spent tens of hours by themselves working on all the moves, so it would all come out natural.
I think the only other thing in the movies that comes close to being as badass as Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn actually performing all those six shooter tricks would be Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin actually performing the swordfight scene in "The Princess Bride." I don't care how good CGI gets, it will never, ever be a substitute for actual human actors actually doing real life badass things on film.
@@billallen4793 It was a wrongful death. He went in for a repair of a damaged aortic valve caused by rheumatic fever as a teen. He passed due to a stroke and complications from the heart surgery by a surgeon who wasn't using standard practices. He was 61.
@@DocHolliday1851 damn! Dr's kill more than 250,000 people per year by accidents..smfh..it's just not normally a rich person who has a lousy Dr..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇲🤠
Man, one of my top three favorite movies, and halfway through, this is already my very favorite movie reaction I've ever seen on RUclips. I love watching my favorite movies with you, Leo! 👍 Mattie was hooked on laudanum, an over-the-counter opiate you could buy anywhere. When Curly Bill shot up the street, he was stumbling out of an opium tent - he had been "kicking the gong around," as Cab Callaway called it. You could just go smoke opium back then.
Same here! This is one of my favorite films of all time! Val Kilmer’s performance as Doc made it even more memorable. He stole the show for sure. And when I saw this thumbnail for movie reaction I instantly clicked! Love Leo’s reactions so much.
I'm a 60 years old man and I can always count on you to cheer me up with your insight and reactions. Keep up the good job Leo. I love all your channels. ❤
Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday is one of the most gangster character portrayals of all time. His quotes are legendary. My only gripe with this movie is all the side story love interest stuff. It just holds zero weight next to the meat and potatoes of this movies plot.
@@Luciphell They cut out the good part of stories all the time to make a better movie. They could have easily cut that crap out and made it a normal length film.
@@Luciphell good point...I honestly kind of forgot about that. But the actress was boring. Would have been better if they somehow made it more interesting. The contrast between every other scene and their love story was like night and day.
This isn't a word for word translation for what Doc and Ringo were saying to each other in Latin, but this is the general gist of what was meant. Wyatt: He's drunk. Doc (Latin): There is truth in wine. (or) When I drink, I tell the truth. Ringo (Latin): Do what you do best. Doc (Latin): I don't think drinking is what I do best. Ring (touches his gun) (Latin): Some people have to learn the hard way. Doc (Latin): Rest in peace. (or) It's your funeral.
The shootout at the Iron creek was real.....Wyatt really did walk out into the creek to confront Curly Bill with his shotgun. It played out pretty much exactly how it did in the movie. While the movie does take some liberties with history, its fairly accurate. One of the two cowboys that joined Wyatt is also the armorer/gunsmith for the movie. This is probably one of my favorite movies of any genre. Word has it that Kurt Russell was the one actually directing most of the film. Cosmatos was director in name only, or so the story goes. Loads of cool trivia for this movie. I like how they had some of the old timer actors from old westerns play cameo or bit parts in this movie too. Like Charleton Heston playing Hooker at the ranch they hold up in while Doc is dying. Doc Holliday is buried in Glenwood Springs, Colorado at the cemetery there.
Peter Sherayko (Texas Jack Vermilion) is also a living historian of the period. A walking encyclopedia, & a (Sort of) a friend. He heads “Caravan West”, & also organized the authentic cowboys/extras. As I understand it, the cowboys wearing red sashes was not a thing. (Though there was a “red sash gang” later, in another territory… Wyoming, if memory serves.)
I did my senoir thesis on Wyatt Earp and his impact on American culture. This surprisingly is the most accurate movie covering the events. It follows the historical events pretty closely . The casting is spot on. The dialog is often taken from primary source witnesses with the talking during the gunfight is often being direct or slightly modernized quotes from the real gunfight. There is some hollywood action and the vendetta ride is not nearly as violent as it was in real life. And Johnny Ringo comminted suicide. But a well researched and amazing movie beside all those dorky historic nit picks Kurt Russel played a huge part in the film being accurate. He is a life long Wyatt Earp history enthusiasts and pushed for it to be as accurate as possible. He even named his son ,Wyatt Russell, in honor Earp himself.
I've always heard that the movie Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner was the most accurate telling. Tombstone focused on the legend of Wyatt Earp, while there movie Wyatt Earp focused on the actual man himself.
@@woahblackbettybamalam he didnt have any shoes on, no horse and had been drinking for several days before being found dead with hole in his head. But you're probably right Doc Holiday teloported over to him and shot him right after pantsing him lol. Just kidding but it is entirely possible someone murded him. From what I gathered from Calvin and, i think Boessenecker, they made it seem like he had been drinking heavily when he shot himself and could have been wandering around after his horse ran off. But you bring up a good point there is a lot of debate about it. Just not Doc Holiday however
@@johncalloway5093 It is really accurate as well! The lighting and cinematography and costumes always stand out to me. I think they handle the relationship between the brothers the best, Johnny Behan being slimey. And Kurt Russel is spot on. Tbh it is apple's and oranges. Example the fight choreography is more accurate in Wyatt Earp. Doc getting shot in the hip. Where everyone is hit. While the Tombstone one has Ike Clanton grabbing guns and shooting back. He never did that, the only thing Ike Clanton did was run halfway across town. But as i said it lifts dilologue straight from the actual event. So it's a matter of personal opinion on what films captures what you find interesting about Earp and the gunfight. A PERFECT depiction would be a strange mix of both
@@woahblackbettybamalam "Ringo took part in the July 4th festivities and on July 8th, he left Tombstone for the last time, heading for the outlaw Bailiwick of Galeyville in the northern end of the Chiricahua Mountains. He packed along several bottles of booze. Near South Pass in the Dragoons, he ran into Deputy Billy Breakenridge, who later wrote, Ringo was “very drunk and reeling in the saddle.” Ringo was seen in Galeyville late on the night on July 9th. He continued drinking heavily. Two days later he left town and on the 13th, his horse got away from him, leaving him afoot. A shot was heard at a ranch house nearby and the next day, John Yoast, a teamster hauling wood near Turkey Creek found his body some 24 hours after he’d been shot in the head. In his hand was a pistol containing five cartridges. A cartridge belt was tied around his waist, upside down. A piece of his scalp was missing. His boots were missing and his feet were wrapped with an undershirt. An inquest was held and the body was buried. A coroner’s jury ruled it suicide." truewestmagazine.com/johnny-ringo-suicide/
Doc Holliday was literally on borrowed time for alot of his life. He was the definition of a gangster. He always thought he was going to die in the street in a gunfight and tried to go out like that for many years. Great movie. Great reaction. Surprisingly enough, this movie is fairly accurate.
I went to Tombstone a couple of years ago, and visited Boot hill cemetery, where the gang members that were killed at the Ok Corral were buried. It was like going back in time, walking through the town hearing the gunfire through the streets, from the reenactments. it was very surreal. They give you a pamphlet that shows a list of some of the ways people died in tombstone, and the movie did not exaggerate that. You could get shot just looking at someone the wrong way.
@@filthycasual8187 Not sure, I think it could be the other way around. It was given that name because those who were buried there had died with there boots on, but i heard there were many cemeteries name boot hill back in the day, because so many people died violent death in the streets. So maybe it caught on as a slang.
The Hollywood names involved in this movie is amazing! Val Kilmer, Dana Delany, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Powers Booth, Charlton Heston, Thomas Haden Church...this is a classic that will not be equaled for a long time
Yeah, it's pretty much a know fact that Val was stepped over by the Academy because he was kind of an asshole and hard to work with. This performance was what made me realize that the Oscars had no real credibility.
Many people believe that Val Kilmer deserved the Oscar that year for this role. The Best Supporting Actor category of the 66th Academy Awards is perhaps the most stacked in history: Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive" Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in "Schindler's List" John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire" Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" Pete Postlethwaite as Giuseppe Conlon in "In the Name of the Father" Other snubs include Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern in "Schindler's List", Sean Penn as David Kleinfeld in "Carlito's Way", certain actors in "True Romance", etc...
Val Kilmer’s portrayal of Doc Holiday is the best in movie history, IMO. So good! The Earps were a big family. James and Warren were two other brothers that weren’t mentioned in this movie. The Kevin Costner film “ Wyatt Earp “ , goes into more depth about his earlier years and the other family members.
Wyatt Earp was an extraordinary man. And every gunfight he was in, he never got shot. And Doc Holliday was a villain. And someone you did not want pissed at you. But they were real people. And they were friends.
Such an incredible epic western with an amazing cast! Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Booth, Dana Delaney, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Jason Priestley, Billy Zane, Stephen Lang, John Corbett, Joanna Pacula, Jon Tenney, Harry Carey Jr, Terry O'Quinn, Billy Bob Thornton and Charlton Heston. Narrated by Robert Mitchum.
That cast is a murderers' row of my very, very favorite male actors. If you had read the cast to me and not even told me what it was about, I would already want to see it. That's before we even get into how they knocked it clean out of the park. There's not a bad performance or an inappropriate casting anywhere in this movie. I already liked Michael Rooker and Terry O'Quinn before they got TV-famous on "The Walking Dead" and "Lost," respectively.
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 follows and how Wyatt told Ike that he is coming and hell is coming with him and the ending ride was Wyatt, Doc, Texas Jack Vermillion and Turkey Creek Johnson were the 4 Horsemen of the apocalypse.
Whoooaaa I never saw it that way until now! That riding scene in the end was one of my favorite movie shots of all time. Just sends chills down my back
One of my all time favorites! Hahaha this was hysterical. Doc was a real life legend. Look it up. “You can’t let these guys sling their dicks around town” it’s brilliant! 🔥
Wyatt and Doc Holiday's relationship has always fascinated me. They were on opposite sides of the law but best friends regardless. Wyatt helped Doc operate his criminal businesses in a more moral and strategic way and Doc helped Wyatt think in broader ways about going about his job.
Their real life friendship was very interesting! Wyatt even associating with Doc really affected his reputation and cost him gaining valuable positions in the community.
I've actually been to Tombstone when I lived out in Arizona. It's a beautiful land out there in the desert. The town is incredible and has so much to see and do. I saw the reenactment of the gunfight on my first trip, it was a lot of fun.
“Why… Johnny Tyler! Where you goin with that shotgun?…” This was Dr Holliday’s way of informing mr Tyler that if ‘he fuccs with them, you fucc with me’
The opening leaves a kind of hole in who the Cowboys were. They were actually originally dispossessed ranch hands and farmers, hence 'Cowboys'. A lot of them worked on cattle ranches. In the aftermath of the US Civil War, a lot of southern cowboys lost their jobs, as the lands they worked were repossessed by the US government. Most of that land would be returned to the original owners, who would rehire said ranch hands, but many had turned to crime just to sustain themselves in the meantime. Then, a lot of them, subsequently formed numerous gangs, who found pillaging, murder, and rape more favorable than working on a ranch. The Cowboys initially argued they were essentially a union arguing for better treatment and job protection for ranch hands. Kind of hard to claim that when you keep murdering and thieving and raping.
Wyatt's wife had a bad drug addiction. He ends up leaving her for the other woman. This is true in his real life. He died with the second woman in California in 1929.
Val Kilmer played the part of Doc holiday to perfection as a true southern gentleman who was loyal to the bitter end and deserved recognition by the awards that he never got.
Doc Holiday spent a significant portion of his youth in my hometown Valdosta, GA. There’s a plaque out front of the house currently sitting on the plot of land where he stayed.
The bottle Wyatt’s wife was constantly drinking from contained laudanum, a popular opioid painkiller at the time, it was given out for the slightest pain (depending on the doctor) and there was very little dose control, so addiction was rampant
Hey bud, love your reaction at the end when you realized it was based on a true story, priceless. This is a good example of where the "wild" in "the wild west" comes from, it was definitely a different time. Young Guns is another good western that's also based on a true story of Billy the Kid whom you may also have heard of.
25:12 I just love how Curly Bill warns Ringo by saying "Watch it Johnny...I hear he's real fast." Knowing that Doc was not some innocent bystander that was to be messed with. In the end Doc was always the fastest and he didn't even need to show it off.
Wyatt was a consultant for the old western movies in Hollywood. He and the woman you call the devil are buried next to each other he loved her until the end love your reactions.
Doc had Tuberculosis. A cigarette doesn't help but it wasn't making him sick either. My husband's grandparents lived in his old home in Georgia and the plumber they hired found hidden liquor in the walls and pipes. They gave it to the plumber. Just the thought of him having TB was enough for his grandpops to not want the relics. Wouldn't have done anything to anyone anyway.
Hell yeah!! I've been requesting this one for a minute now, it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Lovin the videos Leo, you do what you need to get by these bs copyright rules you don't gotta apologize! 🤘🏻
I can watch Tombstone over & over as I have & most likely will continue to do. One of my faves. Ur reactions Leo were great. Luved the look on ur face when u learned this movie was based on true events & that these characters were true identities. Doc Holiday became great friends with Wyatt Earp. You should Google the Doc too. Thnx Leo. Another great western that I hold as one of my faves is "Open Range". It's a long movie but it's very good starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall & Annette Bening. Believe me it's worth it.
Leo, Wyatt and Josephine were together for 47 years. The first woman was a girlfriend. She was addicted to Opioids. Died from an overdose. The famous shoot out took place October 1881. True Story. Love you, Bless you.
This movie had the perfect mix of factors to it. Historical fact, creative license, detail and amazing actors. Also man I didn't even know you did this kind of reaction. I haven't seen anything of you for awhile. Good to see you still doing your business.
I wouldn't say the law didn't do anything.. in reality, most of the characters were arrested multiple times, including Ringo. But in his case, when it came time for trial the law let him go as any witnesses were mysteriously missing or unwilling to testify.
I finally researched what was said in the tense Latin exchange between Doc and Ringo in the saloon. Doc in front of Ringo: “He reminds me of me, now I really hate him.” Wyatt: “Don’t mind Doc, he’s just drunk.” Doc in Latin: “In wine there is truth.” Ringo in Latin: “Do what you do best” Implying Doc is a drunk and he should stay out of Ringo’s way. Doc in Latin: “That is not what I’m best at.” Ringo in Latin: “Fools must learn by experience.” While clutching his gun. Doc in Latin: “It’s your funeral.” Then Ringo draws his gun and showboats as Doc stares at him disinterested. So badass! Doc Holiday is the greatest character of all time.
Love the music you've been listening to in your intros. Just recently went to a RHCP concert in Florida. One of the greatest bands of all time and the experience at any of their concerts will change your life.
"Wait.... was Wyatt Earp real?" - best reaction ever. Yes, this is based on actual events, but dramatized for the movie. It is such a monumentally famous story, I am sure there is some urban legend components to this story too. Even so, he and Doc were certainly real bad asses.
This was the 4th film Michael Biehn (Ringo) and Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp) where in together. The 1st was Terminator Biehn played Kyle Reese, Paxton was the third guy with Blue spiked hair that the Terminator rolls up on for clothes. 2nd film was the sequel Aliens Biehn was Cpt. Hicks, Paxton was Pvt. Hudson also I would like to mention Paxton was in the sequel Predator 2. The 3rd film they did you probably haven't seen is Navy Seals .
Saw this in the theaters when it came out! I know that everyone gushes over Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, and rightfully so. Dynamite performance. But, I don't think Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp gets enough shine. He's got some KILLER lines! "You gonna do somethin', or just stand there and bleed?" "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?" "The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...HELL'S COMMIN' WITH ME!!!" This movie is one of my all time favorites!
The director's cut is definitely worth a watch for those that haven't seen it. Cosmatos' commentary is interesting, although he doesn't give Kurt Russell enough of the credit. It also has deleted scenes that answer questions like how McMasters got caught by the cowboys, and what happened to Kate.
@@cullenbohannon1408 the director's cut came with a map of the territory. You could even download a faro game with movie characters onto a PC from the DVD. I'm not sure if it would work now.
I thought the Director's cut was okay. I have not listened to the full commentary by Cosmato yet thought. I was lucky enough to buy the Director's Cut DVD at a second hand media store!! It looks amazing.
Tombstone is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is a romanticized (but still accurate) version of the events, but yes, totally based on real events and real people. I am glad that you enjoyed it. The comraderie between the protagonists is so charming.
This is without a doubt the best reactions to this movie, so far. Of course, the best part was “was Wyatt Earp real?” That sealed it for me. You are funny as hell. Love your videos. Keep goin, brother.
The realization that this was a truish story about real people who did these things was golden. Doc. Holiday was a very bad man with nothing left to lose. He just happened to be on the right side of this story. The part was written to perfection and acted very well by Mr Kilmer.
Yup. This. Doc was actually in school to become a dentist. Hence the name, “Doc.” But no one wanted a dentist to work on them while they had tuberculosis. And the disease made it so he really couldn’t work any regular jobs. So gambling and nefarious activities became his life because, as you stated, he quite literally had nothing left to lose.
Yes most historians considered Doc Holliday to be a cold blooded killer and a trouble maker. which made the friendship between Doc and Wyatt odd considering Wyatt had a reputation as a law man. but the bromance between the two was solid .
@@erikcartman2749 yes! The relationship between the two actually cost Wyatt a bit of his reputation (and potentially a sheriffs position). Doc had helped Wyatt track down someone he was after while he was a Marshall I believe and also helped save his life… even when Doc himself was a wanted man.
One of the coolest things about Val Kilmers, Doc potrayal,,, he is one of the smoothest gangsters ever. Soft-spoken, humorous, frail and sickly, but will lay you right on down💯
Since you liked this one so much, you should check out Silverado with (a young) Kevin Costner and Danny Glover. I think you'd like it. Tombstone has got to be one of my all-time favorite westerns! I actually loved the fact that you didn't know it was based on true events until the end of the film. It's hard to believe that stuff really happened way back in the day, isn't it?
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"I was just foolin' about."
"I wasn't."
Coldest line ever.
“I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made 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.” -Wyatt Earp on Doc Holiday
This. Doc found a friend. Probably hard for him to come by.
And yet if you watch the 1986 version of stagecoach the person playing doc Holliday is Willie Nelson.
@@randiekay4994 who was much too old for the part.
@@melissamcfarlin6840 true
I love this quote! Everytime I read it!
When Kilmer says “I got two guns, one for each of you”, he spins them in opposite directions. It’s a trip to watch.
and he did it while holding his cup!
With two different size and caliber revolvers with different style grips. Val was fuckin ligit
I can’t even do that sober 😂
Wow, I never noticed that!
Kilmer as Doc Holliday was the best part of this great movie 😊
I think it's a natural law that everyone who watches Tombstone loves Doc. He's got the best lines in a film full of great lines. My absolute favorite is when he unequivocally calls Ike stupid to his face with "let's have a spelling contest!"
Val Kilmer played it in a way that made no sense but somehow it worked...a Southern Dandy.
I was an 11 yr old girl when this came out, of course I was in love w/ Iceman aka Val aka Doc!💜
At the end when Doc looked at his feet and said "ill be damned" ....that was because he always thought he would die with his boots on (probably in a gun fight)
He had lived his life gambling and fighting in places where everyone was his enemy and at the end he found out that not only was he going to die in peace...he had made a true friend and brother in Wyatt Earp....two things he would have never dreamed he would have....
that scene always gets me for that reason. his look, when he says it, is like a moment of realization that his wish to die with his boots on meant he would have missed one of the best parts of his life, even a book about his life by a friend. bittersweet moment.
You are so right.
He was thinking of his grandpa.
It's a family story.
Also, sort of related, when Morgan said _"I can't see a damn thing"_ when he died, he meant it literally. It wasn't some religious statement.
Val Kilmer should have won an oscar for his performance.
Absolutely
Val Kilmer as Doc is up there in masterful performances like Heath as joker or Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the butcher. One of the most quotable movies! One of the best westerns ever made imo, though I’m not huge on that genre. Let’s go Leo, bringing that heat!
I could not agree more.
@TransCube that has to be hands down one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read
@TransCube i 1000% agree with you on Ledger's Joker performance. In general, i thought Ledger was a decent actor... and given time, he could have been great. But alas, he checked out too soon. For me, Jack is the BEST film Joker, just like Keaton is the BEST film Batman.
@@coreyrees840 sometimes the truth hurts.
I just started his reaction and why do I feel like I’m going to go all the way to the end without him realizing who Val Kilmer is? Because I feel like this guy is that clueless. Like you could show him who Val Kilmer is before and he will forget right away Lmao
''I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY'' Best line in Cinema history when both times says it to that dude.
One of the most subtle signs of just what a badass Doc is, probably the reason Ringo is nervous about facing him at the end, is that gunplay scene when they first meet. Even though he’s visibly drunk, he’s able to copy Ringo’s entire routine after a single viewing.
Absolutely correct once Ringo saw that, he knew that he was out classed as a gunfighter!!
Excellent scene!! Val Kilmer's portrayal and performance as Doc Holliday, to me, is definitely one of the top three roles of his career!!!
Is portrayal of Jim Morrison and his role in Top Gun, the original, being the other two, IMHO!
That was good but even better is the scene where he says "I've got two guns for both of you" you have to watch closely it happens real fast Doc {Val Kilmer} spins each gun in opposite directions simultaneously
Doc is one of the best movie characters ever. Easily! Everything about the guy.
My sister and I had a theory that maaaaaybe....just maybe......Ringo is the bastard son of Doc Holliday. Two reasons why we thought this....1)when Doc says "Something around the eyes...reminds me of....ME" ....AND When Doc is in bed at that ranch, he tells Wyatt that Ringo wants revenge for BEING BORN.
Doc is only 30 years old during the OK Corral time period. Ringo was 31. So that theory is not possible.
So many great one liners in this movie, and Val Kilmer is phenomenal as Doc Holliday!
“Oh…..Johnny……I forgot you were there. You may go now.” That kills me every time!
Billy Bob Thornton as Johnny Tyler was a great choice, he really played the all-bark-no-bite role perfectly.
@@angercatalystomg I never even noticed that was him lol Holy geez
Yes, it was real. Doc had a dental practice on the east coast. When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (which at the time was always fatal), he headed out west. One of the reasons he was such a fearsome adversary is that he wasn't afraid to die. He knew he was dead already and he'd rather be shot than suffer the slow, painful death from tuberculosis.
Just to add, much of the reason the infected traveled west to Arizona n' such was because the drier weather made it harder for TB to survive, prolonging their life just by perhaps a year or so at least, if not longer.
Still a better fate than being shoved into a Tuberculosis Asylum. (Now we have a shit load of haunted ass TB hospitals.)
When it comes to Docs wife, Kate, she was the best thing in the world for him. He was dying from tuberculosis, there was no cure back then. He was not a man that wanted to finish out his days taking it easy trying to extend a painful death. She took care of him and helped him live every day to the fullest until he sent her away. The scene where she’s at the window rolling the smoke as the doctor tells Doc he doesn’t have much time…. A lot of people see that and think she’s having evil thoughts of helping him die faster so she can take his money. What I see is her hearing that news and showing concern. But before she turns to Doc she collects herself and treats him as if he were perfectly healthy, which is what he’d want.
Yes! Exactly this!
Yeah, 💯
It's sad how they broke up in the end. But they truly were perfect for each other.
People from extreme privilege who lost almost everything when young due to sudden illness (his TB ruining his life plans, her parents dying suddenly). They were 1 in a million type personalities, born on opposite sides of the world, and they somehow found each other. I wish they had been able to make it work.
Her drinking problem and recklessness was just too much of a liability for him (she was tricked while drunk into signing a statement saying he had committed some stagecoach robbery). So, I understand why he left, but it just makes me sad.
"Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens." Without a doubt, that is some of the baddest-ass badassery that ever assed bad.
You gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?
Doc gets the most great lines, but Wyatt's line about "make your head into a canoe" is easily the most badass line in this movie.
You unveiled one of the key lines in this story. I have seen this movie at least a hundred times, and never considered this. "Behold the pale horse. The man who sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him". Ringo predicted his own death and ultimate fate at the hands of the pale man. That was brilliant, good Sir.
Yes!! One of my favorite movies. Val Kilmer is astonishing. I was so happy to see him in the new Top Gun movie since his fight with cancer. Love him. Thanks for doing this one Leo.
Probably his best showing of his acting ability. He was amazing in this.
@@susanconstable2113 totally! And it's so different from everything else he's done
Absolutely!! I was so enchanted my Val’s performance in this film. I had only seen him in his other popular films - Batman Forever, Top Gun, & Thunderheart. But this performance was a completely standout and he just looked & sounded so different.
Scene breaks any grow man.
@@susanconstable2113 He's one of the most criminally underrated actors in history. Real Genius, Top Secret, Heat, Tombstone, The Saint...he's magnificent in everything.
Seen this movie 100 times I’ve always got that Wyatt was “death” but never thought about Doc being the pale horse, him being pale and all. Even in the beginning at the wedding “what he mean by a sick horse was gonna come get us” specially since the Priest was talking to Ringo and Ringo literally gets killed by the “pale horse” that’s deep. Nice catch
Amazing movie how Val Kilmer never received a Oscar for his portrayal of Hollywood is criminal
It was pretty packed that year during the Oscars but true!! This performance was phenomenal!
@@ANDRE1mang Look up why. It was because the producers messed up and didn't enter the movie for consideration in time. That's why nothing in this movie was even nominated.
@@kathleenclark815 That is just horrible. There should have been so many Oscars for the cast as well as Best Movie I would think. I am sure there were other great movies that year ....but, unimaginable that they would not have gotten any.
What I like about the Ringo gun Twirling seen after rewatching the movie dozens of times is the suttle fear you see in Ringo's eyes after Doc copied & repeated back the same routine after seeing it once, while drunk, Ringo realized he F up.
Yup. Ringo knew he fucked up. He showed Doc his draw. It's a lot like a personal tic or habit that you do when you bluff at poker. Usually gunfighters only drew down on each other once, and the loser usually ended up dead, so there wasn't much of a problem if the losing guy saw your draw, because any of the personal little things, like tightening your eyes, or your mouth twitching right before you pulled your gun didn't get passed around because the guy that might have seen it was dead.
That wasn't the case with Doc and Ringo. Doc saw Ringo's draw, and Ringo probably figured Doc was too drunk or sick to see it, but Doc mimicking the pistol twirling showed Ringo that Doc was both still in control, and had most likely seen his draw. It's also likely why every time the two meet after that, Ringo goes out of his way to avoid a fight with Doc, except when he got so drunk (right after the OK Corral shootout) he didn't care.
@@vishnu79 Here I was under the impression that the quick draw style gunfight was a myth.
@@gunman462 It was not a myth. The Hollywood style "meet me at high noon the day after tomorrow and we'll settle it like men" thing is extremely dramatized and overinflated, and was not common by any means.
That being said, the man-to-man duel did occasionally happen. I believe that Bill Hickok was challenged to a one on one duel over gambling debts somewhere in Missouri and killed the fellow that challenged him. Hickok was arrested for it, but I think he got off because the other guy publicly called him out in a saloon.
The other example that comes to mind was somewhere in Kansas, between a fellow named Frank Love and another fellow named Richards, where one of them thought the other was sleeping with his wife. I'd have to find the reference in one of my books, but if I'm remembering right, the Love fellow went into a saloon to play cards, saw the Richards fellow at a table, sat down across from him, accused him of sleeping with his wife, and after a bit of back and forth, they both stood up, squared off, and shot each other. I'm fairly sure Love killed Richards, and was arrested and later released due to self defense.
There are a few others. I can remember something about a gunfight between a California judge and a state senator where they were friends but later became enemies and one eventually challenged the other to a shoot out and the other accepted. I think that that one got formal dueling outlawed in California.
Edit: Found it. I misspoke there a bit. The second fight was between a fellow named Frank LOVING and Lee RICHARDSON, not Love and Richards. Loving believed that Richardson was sleeping with his wife, and killed him in a one-on-one duel in a saloon in Dodge City.
The California thing was (I kid you not) between California Supreme Court Chief Justice David Terry and United States Senator for California David Broderick. The men had been friends, but became political enemies, which culminated in a fatal duel between them wherein The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court shot and killed the US Senator for California.
Shit was weird back then.
@@vishnu79 Thanks for the explanation, that was great. What comes to mind is the movie Appaloosa where, at the end, Viggo Mortensen had pistol already in hand pointed at the ground the begin the final duel.
“Well I got two guns, one for each of ya”
Doc so cold with it too. Also the mustache game is strong with this movie lol
Genetics cheated me out of ever having a glorious handlebar mustache, and I plan to have a conversation about it with God when I get to the Pearly Gates. I couldn't grow a decent mustache with Wyatt Earp putting a pistol to my head and threatening to make it into a canoe. LOL
Just a note to let you know, that bottle that Wyatt's girlfriend is drinking from contains Laudanum. Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium (by weight which is the equivalent of 1% morphine) dissolved in ethanol alcohol. It was one of the biggest addiction problems of that era.
Sounds amazing
AND when Curly Bill is howling at the moon, he's just left an opium den.
The actor who played Doc Holliday went to a speech coach to learn how a southern aristocrat would talk in the day, what his accent would be like. He and the actor who played Ringo spent tens of hours by themselves working on all the moves, so it would all come out natural.
I think the only other thing in the movies that comes close to being as badass as Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn actually performing all those six shooter tricks would be Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin actually performing the swordfight scene in "The Princess Bride." I don't care how good CGI gets, it will never, ever be a substitute for actual human actors actually doing real life badass things on film.
Such a great movie. Rip Bill Paxton. Man was a legend
That man could be anyone. Even a pile of s**t in Weird Science!!!
Powers Booth gone too not long ago. Everybody getting old. ☹️
What happened with Paxton??..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
@@billallen4793 It was a wrongful death. He went in for a repair of a damaged aortic valve caused by rheumatic fever as a teen. He passed due to a stroke and complications from the heart surgery by a surgeon who wasn't using standard practices. He was 61.
@@DocHolliday1851 damn! Dr's kill more than 250,000 people per year by accidents..smfh..it's just not normally a rich person who has a lousy Dr..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇲🤠
Man, one of my top three favorite movies, and halfway through, this is already my very favorite movie reaction I've ever seen on RUclips. I love watching my favorite movies with you, Leo! 👍
Mattie was hooked on laudanum, an over-the-counter opiate you could buy anywhere. When Curly Bill shot up the street, he was stumbling out of an opium tent - he had been "kicking the gong around," as Cab Callaway called it. You could just go smoke opium back then.
Same here! This is one of my favorite films of all time! Val Kilmer’s performance as Doc made it even more memorable. He stole the show for sure. And when I saw this thumbnail for movie reaction I instantly clicked! Love Leo’s reactions so much.
I'm a 60 years old man and I can always count on you to cheer me up with your insight and reactions. Keep up the good job Leo. I love all your channels. ❤
I myself just turned 60 on the 10th of November. Mr. Video’s reactions and commentary always makes me LITERALLY lol and cheers me up as well:)
Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday is one of the most gangster character portrayals of all time. His quotes are legendary.
My only gripe with this movie is all the side story love interest stuff. It just holds zero weight next to the meat and potatoes of this movies plot.
It's based loosely/mostly on a true story. That is part of the story, for better or worse.
@@Luciphell They cut out the good part of stories all the time to make a better movie. They could have easily cut that crap out and made it a normal length film.
@DemonWarriorKoji Wrong. Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Michael Biehn and Sam Elliott are for the considerably large female audience.
@@Annonymous0283745 If they cut out the actress, how would they explain Wyatt's future. I thought it tied into the story very well.
@@Luciphell good point...I honestly kind of forgot about that. But the actress was boring. Would have been better if they somehow made it more interesting. The contrast between every other scene and their love story was like night and day.
This isn't a word for word translation for what Doc and Ringo were saying to each other in Latin, but this is the general gist of what was meant.
Wyatt: He's drunk.
Doc (Latin): There is truth in wine. (or) When I drink, I tell the truth.
Ringo (Latin): Do what you do best.
Doc (Latin): I don't think drinking is what I do best.
Ring (touches his gun) (Latin): Some people have to learn the hard way.
Doc (Latin): Rest in peace. (or) It's your funeral.
The shootout at the Iron creek was real.....Wyatt really did walk out into the creek to confront Curly Bill with his shotgun. It played out pretty much exactly how it did in the movie. While the movie does take some liberties with history, its fairly accurate. One of the two cowboys that joined Wyatt is also the armorer/gunsmith for the movie. This is probably one of my favorite movies of any genre. Word has it that Kurt Russell was the one actually directing most of the film. Cosmatos was director in name only, or so the story goes. Loads of cool trivia for this movie. I like how they had some of the old timer actors from old westerns play cameo or bit parts in this movie too. Like Charleton Heston playing Hooker at the ranch they hold up in while Doc is dying. Doc Holliday is buried in Glenwood Springs, Colorado at the cemetery there.
"One of the two cowboys that joined Wyatt is also the armorer/gunsmith for the movie" , (o.k corral1881) they must have been spry for their age
@@davidnowhere2637 hardee har har. They wrote 'cowboys' not 'Cowboys'. ;)
Peter Sherayko (Texas Jack Vermilion) is also a living historian of the period. A walking encyclopedia, & a (Sort of) a friend. He heads “Caravan West”, & also organized the authentic cowboys/extras. As I understand it, the cowboys wearing red sashes was not a thing. (Though there was a “red sash gang” later, in another territory… Wyoming, if memory serves.)
Also, Wyatt had never even been scratched by any bullets even thought there were hundreds shot at him.
Also, one of the supporting actors real name is Wyatt Earp. A direct descendant of the famous Wyatt. He played Billy Claiborne.
One of the most quotable movies of all time, and certainly the most quotable western. And Val’s Doc is perfection.
I did my senoir thesis on Wyatt Earp and his impact on American culture. This surprisingly is the most accurate movie covering the events.
It follows the historical events pretty closely . The casting is spot on. The dialog is often taken from primary source witnesses with the talking during the gunfight is often being direct or slightly modernized quotes from the real gunfight. There is some hollywood action and the vendetta ride is not nearly as violent as it was in real life. And Johnny Ringo comminted suicide. But a well researched and amazing movie beside all those dorky historic nit picks
Kurt Russel played a huge part in the film being accurate. He is a life long Wyatt Earp history enthusiasts and pushed for it to be as accurate as possible. He even named his son ,Wyatt Russell, in honor Earp himself.
Ringo committed suicide with his pants pulled down? I doubt it tbh
I've always heard that the movie Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner was the most accurate telling. Tombstone focused on the legend of Wyatt Earp, while there movie Wyatt Earp focused on the actual man himself.
@@woahblackbettybamalam he didnt have any shoes on, no horse and had been drinking for several days before being found dead with hole in his head. But you're probably right Doc Holiday teloported over to him and shot him right after pantsing him lol. Just kidding but it is entirely possible someone murded him.
From what I gathered from Calvin and, i think Boessenecker, they made it seem like he had been drinking heavily when he shot himself and could have been wandering around after his horse ran off. But you bring up a good point there is a lot of debate about it. Just not Doc Holiday however
@@johncalloway5093 It is really accurate as well! The lighting and cinematography and costumes always stand out to me. I think they handle the relationship between the brothers the best, Johnny Behan being slimey. And Kurt Russel is spot on. Tbh it is apple's and oranges. Example the fight choreography is more accurate in Wyatt Earp. Doc getting shot in the hip. Where everyone is hit. While the Tombstone one has Ike Clanton grabbing guns and shooting back. He never did that, the only thing Ike Clanton did was run halfway across town. But as i said it lifts dilologue straight from the actual event.
So it's a matter of personal opinion on what films captures what you find interesting about Earp and the gunfight. A PERFECT depiction would be a strange mix of both
@@woahblackbettybamalam "Ringo took part in the July 4th festivities and on July 8th, he left Tombstone for the last time, heading for the outlaw Bailiwick of Galeyville in the northern end of the Chiricahua Mountains. He packed along several bottles of booze. Near South Pass in the Dragoons, he
ran into Deputy Billy Breakenridge, who later wrote, Ringo was “very drunk and reeling in the saddle.”
Ringo was seen in Galeyville late on the night on July 9th. He continued drinking heavily. Two days later he left town and on the 13th, his horse got away from him, leaving him afoot. A shot was heard at a ranch house nearby and the next day, John Yoast, a teamster
hauling wood near Turkey Creek found his body some 24 hours after he’d been shot in the head. In his hand was a pistol containing five cartridges. A cartridge belt was tied around his waist, upside down. A piece of his scalp was missing. His boots were missing and his feet were wrapped with an undershirt. An inquest was held and the body was buried. A coroner’s jury ruled it suicide."
truewestmagazine.com/johnny-ringo-suicide/
Doc Holliday was literally on borrowed time for alot of his life. He was the definition of a gangster. He always thought he was going to die in the street in a gunfight and tried to go out like that for many years. Great movie. Great reaction. Surprisingly enough, this movie is fairly accurate.
I went to Tombstone a couple of years ago, and visited Boot hill cemetery, where the gang members that were killed at the Ok Corral were buried. It was like going back in time, walking through the town hearing the gunfire through the streets, from the reenactments. it was very surreal. They give you a pamphlet that shows a list of some of the ways people died in tombstone, and the movie did not exaggerate that. You could get shot just looking at someone the wrong way.
Was Boot Hill Cemetery named after the slang, or was it the other way around?
@@filthycasual8187 Not sure, I think it could be the other way around. It was given that name because those who were buried there had died with there boots on, but i heard there were many cemeteries name boot hill back in the day, because so many people died violent death in the streets. So maybe it caught on as a slang.
At The Birdcage you can see the Coffins with the glass windows they used in the Movie!
The Hollywood names involved in this movie is amazing! Val Kilmer, Dana Delany, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Powers Booth, Charlton Heston, Thomas Haden Church...this is a classic that will not be equaled for a long time
Steven Lang, and Billy Zane too.
What a film! Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is off the scale. What a performance. Keep up the good work man. Greetings from England 🇬🇧
Yeah, it's pretty much a know fact that Val was stepped over by the Academy because he was kind of an asshole and hard to work with. This performance was what made me realize that the Oscars had no real credibility.
Tombstone might just be my favorite western of all time. Such a good cast and fantastic acting in this.
You going hard hard on Val Kilmers portrayal of Doc Holiday was my favorite
It never gets old to see people experience his genius in this film
Many people believe that Val Kilmer deserved the Oscar that year for this role. The Best Supporting Actor category of the 66th Academy Awards is perhaps the most stacked in history:
Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive"
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in "Schindler's List"
John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire"
Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
Pete Postlethwaite as Giuseppe Conlon in "In the Name of the Father"
Other snubs include Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern in "Schindler's List", Sean Penn as David Kleinfeld in "Carlito's Way", certain actors in "True Romance", etc...
True.... That Year there were alot of Awesome Nominiees....... Stiff Competition......
I suppose I'd have to go with Leo out of all of those choices
@@brandondavis1039 It went to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive
he should have at least been nominated
@@seanhoddy3129 Only 5 nominees allowed. Gonna have to replace somebody in the list.
Val Kilmer’s portrayal of Doc Holiday is the best in movie history, IMO. So good! The Earps were a big family. James and Warren were two other brothers that weren’t mentioned in this movie. The Kevin Costner film “ Wyatt Earp “ , goes into more depth about his earlier years and the other family members.
Wyatt Earp was an extraordinary man. And every gunfight he was in, he never got shot. And Doc Holliday was a villain. And someone you did not want pissed at you. But they were real people. And they were friends.
Such an incredible epic western with an amazing cast! Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Booth, Dana Delaney, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Jason Priestley, Billy Zane, Stephen Lang, John Corbett, Joanna Pacula, Jon Tenney, Harry Carey Jr, Terry O'Quinn, Billy Bob Thornton and Charlton Heston.
Narrated by Robert Mitchum.
Robert Mitchum was the definition of cool.
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One of the greatest casts ever assembled and such a great classic movie.
@@jimmyzee7040 when we think of best ensemble cast definitely top of the list.
That cast is a murderers' row of my very, very favorite male actors. If you had read the cast to me and not even told me what it was about, I would already want to see it. That's before we even get into how they knocked it clean out of the park. There's not a bad performance or an inappropriate casting anywhere in this movie. I already liked Michael Rooker and Terry O'Quinn before they got TV-famous on "The Walking Dead" and "Lost," respectively.
I've been watching this movie since it came out, but I never realized how gangster it really is. Awesome take.
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 follows and how Wyatt told Ike that he is coming and hell is coming with him and the ending ride was Wyatt, Doc, Texas Jack Vermillion and Turkey Creek Johnson were the 4 Horsemen of the apocalypse.
Whoooaaa I never saw it that way until now! That riding scene in the end was one of my favorite movie shots of all time. Just sends chills down my back
And Wyatt was, in fact, riding a "pale" horse - not sick, but light colored.
LOL "this was real?" "these were real thugs" ... cracked me up
One of my all time favorites! Hahaha this was hysterical. Doc was a real life legend. Look it up. “You can’t let these guys sling their dicks around town” it’s brilliant! 🔥
In response to your comment life in a boom town was to quote Charles Dickens "it was the best of times and the worst of times" life was fast and cheap
Kurt Russell is a badass , the "you die first" scene is one of the best scenes ever committed to film
Wyatt and Doc Holiday's relationship has always fascinated me. They were on opposite sides of the law but best friends regardless. Wyatt helped Doc operate his criminal businesses in a more moral and strategic way and Doc helped Wyatt think in broader ways about going about his job.
Their real life friendship was very interesting! Wyatt even associating with Doc really affected his reputation and cost him gaining valuable positions in the community.
I've actually been to Tombstone when I lived out in Arizona. It's a beautiful land out there in the desert. The town is incredible and has so much to see and do. I saw the reenactment of the gunfight on my first trip, it was a lot of fun.
“Why… Johnny Tyler! Where you goin with that shotgun?…”
This was Dr Holliday’s way of informing mr Tyler that if ‘he fuccs with them, you fucc with me’
I've never laughed so hard at an intro before, my man you got the voice of an angel
The opening leaves a kind of hole in who the Cowboys were. They were actually originally dispossessed ranch hands and farmers, hence 'Cowboys'. A lot of them worked on cattle ranches. In the aftermath of the US Civil War, a lot of southern cowboys lost their jobs, as the lands they worked were repossessed by the US government. Most of that land would be returned to the original owners, who would rehire said ranch hands, but many had turned to crime just to sustain themselves in the meantime. Then, a lot of them, subsequently formed numerous gangs, who found pillaging, murder, and rape more favorable than working on a ranch. The Cowboys initially argued they were essentially a union arguing for better treatment and job protection for ranch hands. Kind of hard to claim that when you keep murdering and thieving and raping.
Wyatt's wife had a bad drug addiction. He ends up leaving her for the other woman. This is true in his real life. He died with the second woman in California in 1929.
Best part was the reaction to it being based on actual events... hilarious! Great vid.
Val Kilmer played the part of Doc holiday to perfection as a true southern gentleman who was loyal to the bitter end and deserved recognition by the awards that he never got.
Doc Holiday spent a significant portion of his youth in my hometown Valdosta, GA. There’s a plaque out front of the house currently sitting on the plot of land where he stayed.
Watching you realize that this was a true story was magical, Leo.
Yes! This is Based on the Real Story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Legendary Shoot out at The OK Corral!! Tombstone is still there!
Wyatt was a real person. The tale of him at the creek, was considered true and verified by those who fought along side him.
The bottle Wyatt’s wife was constantly drinking from contained laudanum, a popular opioid painkiller at the time, it was given out for the slightest pain (depending on the doctor) and there was very little dose control, so addiction was rampant
Hey bud, love your reaction at the end when you realized it was based on a true story, priceless.
This is a good example of where the "wild" in "the wild west" comes from, it was definitely a different time.
Young Guns is another good western that's also based on a true story of Billy the Kid whom you may also have heard of.
Love young guns!
25:12 I just love how Curly Bill warns Ringo by saying "Watch it Johnny...I hear he's real fast." Knowing that Doc was not some innocent bystander that was to be messed with. In the end Doc was always the fastest and he didn't even need to show it off.
Im so glad you finally reacted to this movie!! I've been asking you for months to react to Tombstone. Loved it Leo!!!
Val Kilmer deserved an award for his role.
Wyatt was a consultant for the old western movies in Hollywood. He and the woman you call the devil are buried next to each other he loved her until the end love your reactions.
No need to apologize! Looks like you are doing what needs to be done to deliver your content!
I get kinda annoyed when people talk to much but Leo, is apart of the movie 😂😂😂😂😂😂 he doesn't annoy me one bit. He cracks me up ❤️ Him
Doc had Tuberculosis. A cigarette doesn't help but it wasn't making him sick either. My husband's grandparents lived in his old home in Georgia and the plumber they hired found hidden liquor in the walls and pipes. They gave it to the plumber. Just the thought of him having TB was enough for his grandpops to not want the relics. Wouldn't have done anything to anyone anyway.
The cast only in this movie is outstanding but Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday makes this movie "chef's kiss."
Hell yeah!! I've been requesting this one for a minute now, it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Lovin the videos Leo, you do what you need to get by these bs copyright rules you don't gotta apologize! 🤘🏻
This is one of THE best movies ever. Amazing acting and cast. One of my top 2 favorite Westerns ever!
I can watch Tombstone over & over as I have & most likely will continue to do. One of my faves. Ur reactions Leo were great. Luved the look on ur face when u learned this movie was based on true events & that these characters were true identities. Doc Holiday became great friends with Wyatt Earp. You should Google the Doc too. Thnx Leo. Another great western that I hold as one of my faves is "Open Range". It's a long movie but it's very good starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall & Annette Bening. Believe me it's worth it.
18:11 Wow, I just realized Johnny was a chubby Billy Bob Thornton
Leo, Wyatt and Josephine were together for 47 years. The first woman was a girlfriend. She was addicted to Opioids. Died from an overdose. The famous shoot out took place October 1881. True Story. Love you, Bless you.
This movie had the perfect mix of factors to it. Historical fact, creative license, detail and amazing actors. Also man I didn't even know you did this kind of reaction. I haven't seen anything of you for awhile. Good to see you still doing your business.
I wouldn't say the law didn't do anything.. in reality, most of the characters were arrested multiple times, including Ringo. But in his case, when it came time for trial the law let him go as any witnesses were mysteriously missing or unwilling to testify.
I finally researched what was said in the tense Latin exchange between Doc and Ringo in the saloon.
Doc in front of Ringo: “He reminds me of me, now I really hate him.”
Wyatt: “Don’t mind Doc, he’s just drunk.”
Doc in Latin: “In wine there is truth.”
Ringo in Latin: “Do what you do best” Implying Doc is a drunk and he should stay out of Ringo’s way.
Doc in Latin: “That is not what I’m best at.”
Ringo in Latin: “Fools must learn by experience.” While clutching his gun.
Doc in Latin: “It’s your funeral.”
Then Ringo draws his gun and showboats as Doc stares at him disinterested. So badass! Doc Holiday is the greatest character of all time.
Yes 🔥🔥🔥 one of my all time favorite movies with my favorite reactor 😂🙌🏼 atta baby Leo!
Glad you liked the movie man. Awesome reaction. This was mine and my best friends favorite movie. R.I.P. Chris, the real Doc Holliday.
This is one of the greatest movies of all time Val Kilmer absolutely kills and steals the show
Love the music you've been listening to in your intros. Just recently went to a RHCP concert in Florida. One of the greatest bands of all time and the experience at any of their concerts will change your life.
"Wait.... was Wyatt Earp real?" - best reaction ever. Yes, this is based on actual events, but dramatized for the movie. It is such a monumentally famous story, I am sure there is some urban legend components to this story too. Even so, he and Doc were certainly real bad asses.
Not dramatised by much... in fact, they confirmed the OK corral scene was almost spot on accurate.
This was the 4th film Michael Biehn (Ringo) and Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp) where in together. The 1st was Terminator Biehn played Kyle Reese, Paxton was the third guy with Blue spiked hair that the Terminator rolls up on for clothes. 2nd film was the sequel Aliens Biehn was Cpt. Hicks, Paxton was Pvt. Hudson also I would like to mention Paxton was in the sequel Predator 2. The 3rd film they did you probably haven't seen is Navy Seals .
Has he completed the Bill Paxton Death Trifecta?
Saw this in the theaters when it came out!
I know that everyone gushes over Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, and rightfully so. Dynamite performance. But, I don't think Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp gets enough shine. He's got some KILLER lines!
"You gonna do somethin', or just stand there and bleed?"
"You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?"
"The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...HELL'S COMMIN' WITH ME!!!"
This movie is one of my all time favorites!
One of the greatest western movies ever made. And the fact that is based on true story makes it even greater 🤠.
Easily my favourite movie of the 90s, kurt russel (Wyatt) and Val Kilmer (Doc) absolutely killed it. One of my favourite duos of all time
Yes! I’ve been there and it’s such a cool experience
Of all the tombstone movie reactions I’ve seen, this is so far my favorite.
The director's cut is definitely worth a watch for those that haven't seen it. Cosmatos' commentary is interesting, although he doesn't give Kurt Russell enough of the credit. It also has deleted scenes that answer questions like how McMasters got caught by the cowboys, and what happened to Kate.
I didn't know there was a directors cut thanks! I'm one of those people that has to have every cut there is! haha!
@@cullenbohannon1408 the director's cut came with a map of the territory. You could even download a faro game with movie characters onto a PC from the DVD. I'm not sure if it would work now.
Yes the Directors cut is great! They cut out a couple scenes that I wish they hadn’t just for continuities sake
I thought the Director's cut was okay. I have not listened to the full commentary by Cosmato yet thought. I was lucky enough to buy the Director's Cut DVD at a second hand media store!! It looks amazing.
Tombstone is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is a romanticized (but still accurate) version of the events, but yes, totally based on real events and real people. I am glad that you enjoyed it. The comraderie between the protagonists is so charming.
It's crazy that 2 of my favorite reaction channels did this movie this week! It's a good one
"I want the shotty Johnny!" Verily I say, the potentiality of a multiplicity of meanings behind such an expression leaves me bedazzled!
This is without a doubt the best reactions to this movie, so far. Of course, the best part was “was Wyatt Earp real?” That sealed it for me. You are funny as hell. Love your videos. Keep goin, brother.
I never get tired of this movie. Ever. You should visit Tombstone AZ sometime.
The realization that this was a truish story about real people who did these things was golden. Doc. Holiday was a very bad man with nothing left to lose. He just happened to be on the right side of this story. The part was written to perfection and acted very well by Mr Kilmer.
Yup. This. Doc was actually in school to become a dentist. Hence the name, “Doc.” But no one wanted a dentist to work on them while they had tuberculosis. And the disease made it so he really couldn’t work any regular jobs. So gambling and nefarious activities became his life because, as you stated, he quite literally had nothing left to lose.
Yes most historians considered Doc Holliday to be a cold blooded killer and a trouble maker. which made the friendship between Doc and Wyatt odd considering Wyatt had a reputation as a law man. but the bromance between the two was solid .
@@erikcartman2749 yes! The relationship between the two actually cost Wyatt a bit of his reputation (and potentially a sheriffs position). Doc had helped Wyatt track down someone he was after while he was a Marshall I believe and also helped save his life… even when Doc himself was a wanted man.
You the goat man! I love your channel, I love your reactions, you really make my day 😊. Thank you and love all the way from Australia
Theo already traumatised by one “red wedding” and this movie opens up with another 😄
Great reaction, seriously. I've been watching your reactions for a long while now and this is one of your best. Great movie.
This is one of my dad's favorite movies, I've seen it so many times! 😂
Fuck me I’m old.
Same. Its a dad fav. And shawshank
One of the coolest things about Val Kilmers, Doc potrayal,,, he is one of the smoothest gangsters ever. Soft-spoken, humorous, frail and sickly, but will lay you right on down💯
Since you liked this one so much, you should check out Silverado with (a young) Kevin Costner and Danny Glover. I think you'd like it. Tombstone has got to be one of my all-time favorite westerns! I actually loved the fact that you didn't know it was based on true events until the end of the film. It's hard to believe that stuff really happened way back in the day, isn't it?
I second watching Silverado........ and another "Early" gang movie..... "Gangs of New York" it is set about 20 years before Tombstone.......
"i'm your Huckleberry" in my top 5 cinema moments/lines
The moment you relies this was a true story I got goosebumps.