TOMBSTONE * MOVIE REACTION and COMMENTARY ❤️ Doc Holliday | First Time Watching (1993)

[@craigmccuistian]

43:05 gunslingers in the old west typically die with their boots on. Doc didn’t expect that he would pass away in a bed with no boots on.

[@timothykalinowski504]

@@craigmccuistian Those were his real recorded last words. Nice detail in movie.

[@Kameleon676]

Since he was sick, he also wanted to die from other reasons, that's why he drank so much and took risks. In the end, the TB still got him.

[@ManOShevitz]

Iron Maiden!

[@BouillaBased]

In the Latin exchange between Doc and Ringo, Doc begins by saying "In vino veritas." It means "In wine, there's truth." He's agreeing that he's drunk, and punctuating the truth of what he said. Ringo responds with, "Age quod agis," which translates to "do (well) what you do." Ringo's challenging Doc to stick to drinking, since it's what he's even better known for than shooting. Doc then retorts with, "Credat judaeus Apella, non ego." That means, "Let the Jew Apella believe it, I'll not." It's a quote from Horace's Satires (Book 1, Satire V). For context, it's from a set of lines doubting the power of the gods to do what can be explained through nature. Ringo replies with, "Eventus stultorum magister." This means, "Experience is the teacher of fools." He's calling Doc a fool and threatening him with teaching him a lesson, through experience. The exchange ends with Doc's, "In pace requiescat." "May he rest in peace." That's Doc threatening to put Ringo in his grave.

[@williambranch4283]

Best comment anywhere.

[@danielhaas9612]

Well done.

[@Fred-vy1hm]

Great comment, veni vidi vici. 😊

[@keywesttexmex1]

Thank you 😊

[@nick_t_013]

Thank you for explaining that I never actually knew what it really said!

[@bigsarge8795]

Val Kilmer was robbed of an Oscar

[@davidward9737]

True

[@rekabyeroc1]

FOR REAL!

[@inhonoroftrip6320]

They didn't appreciate his being their huckleberry

[@Fred-vy1hm]

How could he be robbed when he wasn't even nominated? The truth is this came out too late in the awards season to gain any traction and wasn't a box office hit but became a cult classic later so while it was an Oscar worthy performance at the time it wasn't even on the radar.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

There are (too) many brilliant films and brilliant actors which never were recognized by the Academy. But what really, actually matters is how a performance like Kilmer's is recognized by viewers as being great.

[@davidpoole5595]

Notice ringo looks worried when doc starts twirling the cup Because he notices even in docs drunken state doc mimicked every spin of ringo's gun from start to finish after only seeing it one time Ringo doesn't step to doc again unless he is blindly drunk

[@tvdroid22]

Wyatt Earp was never hit by a bullet. Sometimes his clothes were, but never himself.

[@incredulousdisbelief9841]

If you've ever heard of the "Shootout at the O.K. Corral", this is the telling of that story. It really happened in Tombstone Arizona.

[@jaycehoward2771]

The actual story is truly more fascinating. I love this movie but Ike was the actual boss and Wyatt turned outlaw and was wanted for murder when he went on the last ride. It wasn't that far removed from the civil wat and tensions between North and South was very high and Ike Clanton used that to his advantage. The real story is on Netflix.

[@phil-1115]

@@jaycehoward2771 Wyatt Earp and The Cowboy War. I saw that too. Why didn't they make Tombstone more realistic? The true story is more exciting than the movie.

[@ridl8006]

dam... even Charlton Heston... "if they come up... they'll have to come up through us..." classic...

[@Black71Eagle]

Holliday was a genuine Ride or Die friend

[@Dystopia1111]

"Yeah, I got lots of friends." "I don't." Just 2 words, but so much implied meaning. One of the best moments of the whole movie after a couple re-watches.

[@BenWillyums]

Doc's "this is funny" line was historically the last thing he ever said, as recorded by a nurse.

[@ianjardine7324]

Doc always expected to die in a gunfight in fact his reckless lifestyle was almost certainly an attempt to die before his illness could kill him. But the fact he had absolutely no fear of death combined with his exceptional skill with his pistols meant no one was ever good enough to out draw him. His dry acerbic wit almost certainly meant he found it funny to die in bed after all the danger he'd deliberately put himself in.

[@markcarpenter6020]

​@@ianjardine7324actually doc wasn't as good with pistols as the legends say. In one fight he emptied his revolver at the guy missing every shot, threw it at him, and then while the guy was shooting at him walked over and stabbed him to death. He was however very good with a knife, and decent with rifles and shotguns and had absolutely no fear of death there is actually a psychiatric condition named after him doc Holliday syndrome. It happens when a person has completely accepted their death to the point even their own subconscious considers themselves already dead(it normally happens to sole survivors of accidents and battles, as well as in the terminally ill). The ironic part is when it happens to soldiers it actually increases their chances of survival. They will always stay calm no matter what is happening and will do things without the hesitation that someone afraid of dying would have.

[@DO_THE_WORK-k3d]

@@ianjardine7324 Correct. He always figured he'd die with his boots on.

[@broodhunter21]

@@ianjardine7324 Gunfighters used to say that they wanted to die on their feet and not in bed, a more manly way of dying, They used to say they would "Die with their boots on." Which is how Doc assumed he would go out. When he is lying there and sees his bare feet, he says 'It's funny" because he was sure he would die "With his boot on."

[@alwaysdriveing]

There are MANY direct quotes in this movie. That exchange between Wyatt and Billy Bob was recorded by the newspaper man when it happened. Among others.

[@davidsumpter4933]

One thing you can say about Doc. He is a real one, a true friend to the end. This is arguably one of the best westerns ever made.

[@jp3813]

Many people believe that Val Kilmer deserved the Oscar for this role that year. The nominees for Best Supporting Actor in the 66th Academy Awards were: 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"; Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey, Christopher Walken as Vincenzo Coccotti, & Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley in "True Romance"; etc... Common criticisms: Jones - "He was just playing himself." Back in the early 90s, that style of acting wasn't typical of him yet. Fiennes - "Too one-dimensional." Those people exist in real life. Malkovich - "Plenty of more iconic villain performances in that decade." He wasn't competing w/ most of them. DiCaprio - "Playing disabled characters is typical Oscar bait." Some attendees were apparently surprised that he wasn't actually disabled. Postlethwaite - "Very few people even recall his performance." Likely due to the film being less popular. Kilmer - "He was just in his own world while the rest of the cast were actually on the same page." Would the movie be better w/o him? Kingsley - "Not as inventive or risky as most of the other choices." Subtlety is an art form. Penn - "Changing his appearance makes it seem like his acting is more chameleonic than it is." All actors utilize what's given to them. Oldman - "Merely chewed the scenery." This role is often compared to Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow, which got a nomination. Walken - "Only in one scene." Still more screen time than Beatrice Straight's win for Network. Hopper - "Remembered due to the great dialogue." Imagine Tommy Wiseau delivering the same lines.

[@VorchaKali]

Doc holiday had TUBERCULOSIS and that is why he looked so sickly

[@timmooney7528]

The narrator says he moved out West because of the dry air.

[@VorchaKali]

@timmooney7528 because he had tuberculosis

[@timmooney7528]

@@VorchaKali yes, because it was probably easier to breathe

[@duanelavely5481]

"Doc" Holiday was a dentist from Atlanta. After he contracted tuberculosis, he stopped dentistry & became a professional gambler & gunfighter. He died in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, Co. due to his tuberculosis.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Most reactors miss the opening voice over which describes Doc as having tuberculosis.

[@fusionaddict]

He was from Valdosta, actually.

[@garyseward1641]

He didn't die in a sanitarium. He died in the Hotel Glenwood.

[@brianmiller6055]

​@@fusionaddictborn in Griffin and moved to Valdosta when he was 12 or 13

[@michaelriddick7116]

"Thanks for always being there, Doc." 😢🥰😭😭😭😭 Thats basically the best compliment one man can give another 🥺🥺🥺🥺💔

[@JusBidniss]

"I'm your huckleberry" was a popular slang phrase of the time, which came from an earlier saying, "Just a huckleberry shy of a persimmon," where a persimmon is about the size of a lemon and a huckleberry about the size of a small blueberry, the idea being 'just about right' or 'pretty close to a perfect match'. The phrase later came to mean 'I'm the right man for the job' (as in, 'I'm that tiny huckleberry amount shy of perfection'), as Doc uses it here. An Internet myth sprang up a few years after this movie came out, where it was (falsely) alleged that the word Kilmer was saying in his southern drawl was 'hucklebearer', with the claim that a huckle was the handle of a casket (it was not, it referred to a hip joint's bony protrusion, usually in small animals), and further alleged that a 'hucklebearer' would refer to a pallbearer, as in a threat of taking his opponent's life. However, this made-up word 'hucklebearer' is found in no historical records at all earlier than this movie's release date. Kilmer himself says he was saying 'huckleberry', and even used the word in the title of his memoir ('I'm Your Huckleberry'). And all historical accounts of these events record Doc as saying 'huckleberry'. None of which makes any difference whatsoever to those who continue to perpetuate the 'hucklebearer' myth.

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

Either one is very fitting.

[@johnrogan9729]

Thank you for the excellent explanation. That settles it 100% for me (even though I never really doubted he said “huckleberry”).

[@JusBidniss]

@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 Fitting or not, one can be found in late 19th-century historical documents, while the other cannot be found in anything older than late 20th-century Internet chatrooms.

[@lanceuppercut6168]

Always heard 'huckleberry' but never knew the reference. I thought it had something to do with Huckleberry Finn to be honest, but even then had no idea. Thanks for taking the time to explain the reference :D Now I have to figure out what he meant be 'You're no daisy' xD

[@toddjackson3136]

​@lanceuppercut6168 Daisy was slang for near perfection as well. It came to be used as a term of praise if someone did what they were asked to do or did what they said they were going to do. So if a parent asked their child to do a chore and they did it promptly and well they would say, "Oh you're such a daisy!" As a means of praise. Doc, when he was explaining to Wyatt about the consuming hole in Ringo, was also describing himself. It's part of what made him so reckless and also successful. He wanted to die and revenge on the world. When Doc gets threatened by Ringo early in the movie he tells him "You're a daisy if you do." Or in otherwords, "you'll be a good boy if you take out the trash. " After he shoots Ringo in the end he's saying "you're no daisy!" Or "you didn't do the job I asked you to do!" It's was both a final insult to Ringo as he died and a statement of resentment that Doc was still alive.

[@johnscott4196]

Lol now y'all know where the term "stud" comes from. It's a male horse, a stallion which hasn't been neutered.

[@robertseverin1773]

Also means he has bred a mare under 5 intact male is a colt 5 and over that hasn't bred a mare is known as a horse amusingly enough but under5 or over they're a stud once they pop their cherry so to speak

[@jjack-zm4sr]

Val kilmer should have won an Oscar for his role

[@raybernal6829]

Not only that but he wasn't even nominated(best supporting actor).. Tommy Lee Jones won for his role in The Fugitive.

[@nick_t_013]

There was no one ever more deserving of an Oscar like Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday

[@jindas4217]

Johnny Ringo is also Kyle Reese from the Terminator. 😊

[@timmooney7528]

I'm surprised no one recognizes Frank Stallone, who Doc kills earlier in the movie. he looks just like his brother

[@DeanTurner-c2z]

Curly Bill was smoking Opium in the tent, usually the "Chinese laundry" was also the Opium den in the old west. Morgan the brother who was shot playing pool is buried in Colton California and Virgil was the Sheriff of San Bernardino County after leaving Tombstone, Wyatt is buried up by San Francisco in Culma California

[@hawkmaster381]

I've walked in the footsteps of the Earp brothers and Doc in Tombstone on that path to the OK Corral. Trust me, you can still feel a dark energy in the air in Tombstone. It's a mystical thing.

[@williambranch4283]

Me too, in 1991. OK Corral has been cordoned off for shekels now. Not the same.

[@Alcagaur1]

One of the best single line summaries of a character in cinema - "Mah hypocrisy . . goes only so far."

[@JnEricsonx]

Val signed a beautiful print of Doc when he's walking out of the woods with "You were just too high strung." :)

[@sca88]

The older guy who whose house a sick Doc stayed at is legendary actor Charleton Heston, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes.

[@VorchaKali]

Based on real events and one of the best Westerns ever made

[@jjack-zm4sr]

Partially true, watch the real story a wider and doc Holliday on KZbin. Still to this day they never knew who shot Ringo

[@jjack-zm4sr]

You're wrong , this movie is only partially true. Watch the real story of doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp on KZbin. Till this day they never knew who shot Ringo doc Holliday wasn't even in the area what happened

[@johnchitwood8799]

Only 50%, accurate, and completely wrong on the historical timeliness. Ringo committed suicide, Doc never touched him. WYATT EARP was better historically, and Dennis Quaid played the REAL Doc

[@johnchitwood8799]

​@@jjack-zm4srRingo shot Ringo

[@88997799]

Why does your post show one day ago when it was only uploaded two hours ago?

[@MrTech226]

Toy & Tori Real Wyatt Earp lived long enough to see "talkies", pioneering movies with sound as he was consultant for western movies with iconic actors such as William S Hart and Tom Mix, famous cowboy actors of their time. Kurt Russell aka Wyatt Earp named his son, Wyatt after his famous character.

[@MrTech226]

Toy & Tori Doc Holliday, Doctor of Dentistry/Gambler/Gunslinger was suffering Tuberculosis.

[@ImaCOTV]

It’s also likely that John Wayne had at least met Wyatt Earp while he was working as a prop man after he left USC.

[@rpfeifer2458]

A little more trivia - Charlton Heston was Moses in the Ten Commandments - the town sheriff was played by Harry Carey Jr who starred in many John Wayne westerns and whose father was also a big star in movies.

[@timmooney7528]

Heston also plays Taylor on Planet of the Apes. Robert Mitchum is the narrator.

[@ImaCOTV]

The narrator at the start and end of the movie is another legendary actor, Robert Mitchum. He was supposed to played the sheriff Ringo killed but was unavailable. Instead they hired legendary western character actor Harry Carey Jr., who did westerns with John Wayne, starting in the mid-1940s. Carey’s father, Harry Carey Sr. had been a western movie star in the silent movie era, and probably knew the real Wyatt Earp.

[@scallen3841]

Dana Delaney who plays the woman who is after wyatt , plays a nurse on a show called china beach

[@3Rayfire]

Also DCAU Lois Lane.

[@Fred-vy1hm]

Ed Bailey, the gambler Doc Holliday stabs at the start is portrayed by Sylvester Stallones brother Frank. 😊

[@EMarvinJohnson]

Michael Rooker played McMasters. I met him once. Super nice guy.

[@tommc4916]

Well spotted! Most folks don't catch his appearance here. 😃👍

[@inhonoroftrip6320]

YONDU!!!😭

[@tommc4916]

@@inhonoroftrip6320 I'M MARY POPPINS, Y'ALL🤣

[@Dystopia1111]

Merle on The Walking Dead (first couple seasons when it was still pretty good). A POS, but a fun and entertaining POS.

[@pasteye1671]

"I'm your huckleberry". When Tori says it, you go weak at the knees.

[@shainewhite2781]

"I'm your Huckleberry." This was the very first western movies I saw growing up. Based on true events. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe (RIP), Michael Biehn, Dana Delaney, Stephen Lang, Michael Rooker, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, (RIP),Joanna Pacula, Frank Stallone, Thomas Haden Church, Harry Carey, Jr (RIP), Jason Priestley, and Charlton Heston (RIP) Star in this epic Western. Narrated by Robert Mitchum (RIP).

[@19nzinga]

Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, & Unforgiven are three of the best western I’ve ever seen. Great reaction ladies. ❤

[@room22-1]

I visited Doc Holliday's probable grave, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It was an honor, being in his presence.

[@FrogLegs313]

Big Nose Kate was possibly the only person who really understood Doc. He contracted TB from treating his mother for it in his late teens and, knowing that there was nothing that could be done, decided that he would rather live what life as well as he could rather than live under the limitations imposed by the disease. Kate knew this and provided and cared for him right up until he passed away. Wyatt didn't learn of his passing for another two months after it happened. That makes then ending inaccurate in another way as Doc wouldn't have urged him to go find "that actress" since he had never approved of their relationship. That disapproval eventually led to a serious falling out between the two

[@JusBidniss]

At the end, when the narrator (Robert Mitchum) says Wyatt went to Hollywood and made friends with early Western screen legends, one such actor not named here was a young fellow named Marion Robert Morrison. Years later, after becoming famous, he said in an interview that he came up with his distinctive manner of walking and talking in Westerns by imitating Wyatt. That actor's screen name? John Wayne.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Great reaction ladies. You two are adorable. Here are a few facts you may have missed. During the intro to the movie they mentioned that Doc had moved out west to try to help his tuberculosis. Oh and BTW several of these characters were real people in history. Wyatt and Maddie were not married. I don't believe they had been together long enough to be common law even. She had been a saloon girl who Wyatt picked up in his travels. She was, of course. addicted to laudnum which was a liquid form of opium. The three guys who joined up with Wyatt and Doc were the 2 guys from the beginning who were involved in the shooting on the street and had to give their guns to the marshall, and the 3rd was a cowboy who didn't like the attacks on the women that night. He was the one who was dragged by the horse. Virgil lost the use of the arm, not the arm. They mentioned in the postscript speech that he and his wife moved to a town in California where despite the use of only the one arm he was hired as the sheriff. And Toy Doc's laugh at the end. There is an old expression mostly about men of action like lawmen and soldiers etc, that men like that die with their boots on. Meaning they don't just fade away in bed of old age. When Doc looked down as he was dying and saw his bare feet, he found it ironic and funny. There are a ton of movies I would suggest. We'll start off with just a few for now LOL. Please disregard any of these you may have already seen. The Sting (movie about a bunch of con men and grifters from back in the day), Silverado, Open Range and almost any John Wayne western ( The Cowboys, The Shootist, McClintock, Rio Bravo). For the Christmas season you might try White Christmas, Going My Way, or for that best acted performance of Scrooge ever, make that EVER, A Christmas Carol from 1951 starring Alastair Sim. Y'all did a great job. Wishing you 2 and all your channel mates a Merry Christmas and a very Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Stay safe and well.

[@kevinmarshall854]

When the sherriff got shot by Curly Bill and Wyatt was confronted with the other members of "the outlaws" and one says that Doc was to drunk to hit anything Doc takes out his guns and spins them in his hands "IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS!!!" Showing that he was still able to handle a gun better than every other person that was there. Doc was the GOAT!!!!

[@bobc538]

Man who played Moses in the '50s. Charlton Heston is the rancher who let them rest overnight. This movie has quite a few actors in it. Michael Bien the actor who portrayed Kyle Reese in the original Terminator plays. Johnny Ringo the nemesis of doc Holliday

[@undergroundwarrior70]

There are two documentaries, one about Wyatt Earp on Netflix about Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War, and one about John "Doc" Holliday on Amazon Prime. The one about Doc Holliday is mentioned that he and Johnny Ringo did meet, but there was no animosity between them. They did know about each other. Both documentaries are excellent.

[@randykling138]

The cousin that Doc loved was Mattie Holliday, who did become a nun and took the name Sister Mary Melanie. Sister Mary Melanie had another cousin, Margaret Mitchell, who was the author of Gone With the Wind. In that book, the character of Melanie Hamilton was based on Sister Mary Melanie.

[@HereticDuo]

what you missed in the saloon scene between Ringo & Doc was that Doc while being blind drunk as able to watch Ringo's gun play routine once and copy it PERFECTLY with his cup.

[@herrzimm]

Doc's whole character is based upon "I'm dying, so why be AFRAID of doing anything I want to do".... As such, his relationship with his girl AND his friends is "I will be up for anything, because I don't want to live my life in fear". So, the drinking, the gambling, the night-life, the fighting, the gun-fighting.... it all made Doc feel "still alive". Any effort to slow down and "take it easy" was something that he just wasn't going to do, because that would be admitting DEFEAT to the "fear of death". As long as he kept doing what he wanted, he kept feeling alive, and therefor kept feeling as if there was something left to live FOR. Which is why he was so "ride or die" with Wyatt at every turn.

[@markcarpenter6020]

A lot of people are gonna mention this is based on real history and it does follow the major beats of the story. But please keep in mind it has been Hollywooded. The actual Earp's were closer to a rival criminal gang than heros. Heck even Wyatt's "wife"(they were never legally married) was a prostitute who had/was worked/working for Wyatt. (That's why that one cowboy called Wyatt's brother a pimp, because they were pimps). The real story of these people was not as sweet and wholesome as the movie makes out. I found that out, when during a family gathering, the movie came on TV. I had an uncle who was a huge wild west nerd. He knew in detail the history of all those famous gunslingers from Jessie James to Billy the kid and he absolutely tore this movie apart.

[@benjaminkirk4678]

@@markcarpenter6020 Exactly. People don’t realise a lot of these guys would rob one town blind and be a sheriff in a different town later, even Johnny ringo was a lawman a couple times. The earps also had some real shady dealings going with Ike Clanton, which ended up leading to most of the tension.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@benjaminkirk4678 lol they were living examples of my opinion that the only real difference between a crook and a cop is crooks tend to be more honest.

[@alwaysdriveing]

Exactly

[@TheRealMediaMan]

Stephen Lang is a underrated actor. He’s one of my favorites. A rare talent. Gods and Generals is one of my all time favorite films. His performance is nothing short of a masterpiece.

[@bkboy2384]

Kilmer owns this movie

[@shadowvessel]

Don't worry, you're not the first reactors that missed the tuberculosis explanation at the beginning...or the tent that was an opium den. Lol You guys are great, keep it up. 😊

[@jimtatro6550]

Val Kilmer gives a career best performance in this film, and it’s one of the best performances ever. He wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar, which is a travesty.

[@jjack-zm4sr]

Any real life interview Wyatt Earp said the doc was the fastest guy he knows with a six-shooter

[@markcarpenter6020]

But he wasn't actually a very good shot with it(fast and accurate are different things). Doc was actually much much better with a knife than a gun.

[@taylorcoley6329]

23:46 was that a Harold and Kumar reference? 😂 awesome reaction. I love this movie.

[@APigsEye]

What was funny to Doc on his deathbed was seeing his bare feet at the end of the bed. He always thought he would "die with his boots on" as did all gunfighters buried on boot hill.

[@lewismaddox4132]

They say that Tombstone is the lightening capitol of the world. All I know is Arizona gets a monsoonal flow from Mexico and thunder storms are a constant in the spring and summer months.

[@fast_richard]

The movie is based on true events, but where the history is uncertain they stick with the legend. Doc Holiday really did die of tuberculosis and Wyatt Earp was in many gunfights but was never touched by a bullet.

[@dunringill1747]

Based on history. Some of this was very real, some of this was Hollywood creativity. 18:23 - Curly Bill walked out of a Chinese Opium Den & was high as a kite. "That was funny" - Doc looked at his bare feet. Doc always thought he would "Die with his boots on" which means in a gunfight. At the beginning black and white scene they tell us that Doc Holiday had tuberculosis. One of my favorite scenes was the saloon gun trick / tin cup face off between Johnny Ringo & Doc Holiday. Both men were expert pistoleers. Both men knew exactly what skills to look for in their opponent. Both men walked away from that confrontation knowing that Doc Holiday was the better of the two.

[@sca88]

Tombstone is tourist attraction now with tours of all the relevant places.

[@k.delpino1124]

One of several films released on Christmas day of 1993. Most think that westerns are just imitations of a bygone era. The old west was as real as it gets and real stories like this are unquestioned. The life of Wyatt Earp, his allies, his family and exploits are true legendary stories. Among the great westerns in the modern era. The entire cast of players is unbeatable especially Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday, awe-inspiring. Plenty of drama, suspense and humor (light, dark). The most infamous gunfights ever filmed and extremely close to the mayhem of that time. The screenwriter Kevin Jarre was suppose to direct the movie, then the director credited for the film (George P. Cosmatos) actually had conflicts with cast and crew. Although Kurt Russell was lead actor, he himself stated that he was director of Tombstone and not Cosmatos. But Cosmatos was brought in as a "ghost director" as a frontman because Russell did not want it to be known that he was directing. RIP to Charlton Heston (Henry Hooker), Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp), Powers Booth (Curly Bill Brocius). Val Kilmer in his current condition still remains in good spirits. Although this was the edgiest adaptation about Earp and his posse, there was another film about the history released afterwards called "Wyatt Earp" (1994) directed by Kevin Costner and himself in the lead role, because he turned down Tombstone for lack of interest, wanted to make his own adaptation.

[@rubbersole79]

Wyatt Earp worked as a movie consultant in Hollywood in his later years. A young wannabe set hand befriended him and adopted the way Wyatt walked and talked to perfection. He later changed his name to John Wayne.

[@vitamin3076]

35:20 panic mustache mode

[@OcotilloTom]

I had an ancestor that killed the last Earp in Arizona in a Gunfight on July 6th, 1900 in Wilcox. Warren Earp was the youngest of the Earp brothers. He didn't take part the gunfight in Tombstone but did take part in the Vendetta Ride afterwards. He was also a braggart and a drunk living off the fame of his brothers. He finally ran into someone, Johnny Boyette who was not "cowed" by his behavior. After the gunfight Virgil came to Wilcox to investigate for himself. He found what the family long expected, that Warren would meet his end due to his boorish behavior. El Mirage, Arizona

[@BlueSkyCrystals]

One of my top 5 favorite movies ever! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fun fact, the site of the OK Corral gunfight still exists in Tombstone, AZ and is now a museum.

[@davidyoung745]

When he was a young man working in the prop department of one of the Hollywood studios, Marion Michael Morison met Wyatt Earp and began playing chess with him. They became close friends, and when Morison became an actor and changed his name to John Wayne, he based his famous walk and slow drawling way of talking on his friend Wyatt Earp.

[@Bakura5445]

Wyatt Earp called Doc Holliday 'the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a pistol I've ever met'. Both are fascinating characters in American History, worth knowing a little about.

[@theviciouschickenofbristol4779]

"There's no normal life. There's just life." One of my favorites.

[@davidyoung745]

A great many lines from this movie are taken from newspaper accounts of the day. Doc’s “you’re a daisy if you do” when one of the cowboys at the OK Corral said “I’ve got you now you SOB” was one. Doc’s last words were supposedly “this is funny”. In the film it’s because he lived such a reckless life he never expected to die in bed, he expected to ‘die with his boots on’. And the whole shootout at the river with Wyatt Earp walking unscathed through a hail of bullets, yelling “No!” over and over again until he killed Curly Bill was taken from an account of one of the cowboys who was there.

[@jordanmc9015]

I wish I could watch this for the first time again. love this movie

[@mhemphill1]

Doc looked at his bare feet and said that’s funny because he was supposed to die with his boots on in battle. This is one of my favorite movies, and loved your reaction!

[@netzombiee646]

Referring to Val Kilmer flipping the coin across his fingers ... He does that or something similar in each of his movies ... Another cool hand feat he does in the movie, when Wyatt is about to arrest Curly Bill for shooting the town marshal, Doc comes out on the porch and starts talking to one of the cowboys ... When Doc pulls his pistols, he does a spin with each pistol ... What most people don't notice, he does opposite spins at the same time, one pistol flips forward and the other flips backwards (he does that while holding a shot glass) ... That's some talent

[@socalpaul487]

For Westerns, I recommend: "Shane" 1953, "The Shootist" 1976, "High Plains Drifter" 1973, "Pale Rider" 1985, "Unforgiven" 1992, "The Quick and the Dead" (1995), "Quigley Down Under" 1990, "Lonesome Dove" (Mini-series)1995, "The Outlaw Josey Wales" 1976, "Open Range" 2003, "Hang'em High" 1968, "Silverado" 1985, "True Grit" (Both versions), "Rio Bravo" 1959, "The Magnificent Seven" 1960. "Tombstone" 1993, "Rooster Cogburn" 1975, "Big Jake" 1971,"Chisum" 1970, "Support Your Local Sheriff" 1969. "Nevada Smith" 1966, "Tom Horn" 1980.

[@alanpeterson4939]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Jeremiah Johnson, The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch.

[@brianmckelley6691]

Dances With Wolves and Wyatt Earp 👍

[@DomLab-g2n]

38:18 "He needs a real hole through him." Lmfao @Toy 😂😂😂.. that's so savage I love it

[@johnsmathers190]

Doc was from Ga. He had caught TB. And moved west for the dryer climate. He was a dentist, but wasn't getting any business because of his health. What was funny, He always thought he would die with his boots on.

[@davidyoung745]

Of all the westerns I’ve seen, this is the most accurate depiction of the shootout at the OK Corral. It was actually an empty lot behind the corral about 12 foot by 15 foot. Not a big area at all for nearly 10 people to start blazing away at each other.

[@Uriahjw]

You can see Kurt Russell as a young boy in an episode of Gunsmoke. In fact, many "A" list stars starred on that show. The guy that said "Hell, I have lots of friends", played as Newly on gunsmoke as well.

[@kenbattor6350]

There is a movie about Wyatt Earp as a consultant on a western movie in 1929 Los Angeles. James Garner is Earp and Bruce Willis is Tom Mix. They both get caught up in a murder investigation.

[@insrtcowjoke]

0:20 - Excellent! I've always been a fan of lots of TTs! 😁

[@TrackMaster844]

Tombstone is indeed a real town in Arizona, named by the man who first started mining over there. He was told all he’d find was his tombstone, guess who had the last laugh? 😆

[@tjmaverick1765]

You should watch Broken Trail and Open Range with Robert Duvall.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Producer's note: We have a reaction to Open Range. What a film! :)

[@jessierodriguez7168]

Broken trail is a true story

[@JusBidniss]

Doc was originally a dentist from Georgia, who contracted tuberculosis and moved out West in hopes the dry climate would ease the symptoms (this is mentioned in the black-and-white expository voiceover in the beginning). The tent Curly Bill came out of high as a kite was an opium den, the 19th-century equivalent of a crack house, where the proprietors (usually the Chinese immigrants, who had the connections) would sell the opium as a blend smoked in pipes or hookahs. This is why the red-sash Cowboy in the 'Reckoning' montage put Wyatt's gun in his mouth -- he thought he'd got hold of the pipe. Josephine's family may or may not have been rich, depending on which version of historical records you believe. One version has her raised the daughter of a rich immigrant baker. Another has her as a young grifter and prostitute, in between acting gigs.

[@shag139]

Y’all are too young but Charlton Heston was the guy who let Doc stay at his house towards the end. Heston is super famous and been in a ton of movies (Planet of the Apes, Ben Hur, Ten Commandments, Earthquake, Midway, Airport 75. He also narrates the opening sequence to Armageddon with Bruce Willis. He was also Arnold’s boss with the eyepatch in True Lies

[@christopherwatters6813]

Great reaction video, Tori and Toy! You're both always very entertaining to watch. I love Tombstone; definitely my favorite Western that I grew up with. My favorite Val Kilmer performance of all time.

[@nathanpark1058]

I saw this like 20 or more years ago when it came out, but until today, I always thought Doc Holiday said "I'm your Huckleberry." What he actually said was "I'll be your Huckle Bearer." That's what they called the pall bearer back then.

[@tvdroid22]

Doc planned the whole meeting to save Wyatt. He knew Johnny Ringo would get pulled in when he flashed that badge, that's why he asked Wyatt about it. Remember, Ringo was backing out til he saw the badge. Doc knew he had to provoke him.

[@MisterBourgolini]

I can sum this up. Toy: This is some crazy horse hockey! Tori: Dang! And I thought I saw violence in a John Wayne western! The only western movies that I clearly remember in the 1990s was "City Slickers" and "Tombstone." Of course "City Slickers" was a comedic western.

[@3Rayfire]

What y'all never picked up on was that Doc Holliday was the apex predator in Tombstone as far as individual gunfighting and EVERYBODY knew it. That's why Johnny Turner froze solid when Doc called him out. This is in regard to quickdraw speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness. Doc does NOT hesitate always has a plan and always is thinking fast. Ringo was probably number two but their drunk meeting in the oriental proved to Ringo that Doc even drunk is on top of things. When Ringo was drunk he wanted to take Doc on, but Curly Bill knew he would lose against a fresh and healthy Doc. Also at that time Doc stacked the deck by having already drawn one of his pistols and having it behind his back so he wouldn't have to draw. At their final meeting Ringo was sober and lucid and fully aware that he was facing Doc instead of Wyatt and tried.... tried backing out. In short, Doc Holliday was HIM. As to why Doc was out there sick as a dog, Doc became a gunslinger because he didn't want to go out sad. He thought that he would get to die a quick death in some glorious gunfight having fun. Thing is, he was too good at gunfighting. That's why Ringo wasn't a Daisy. "You're a daisy if you do." Doc would've been happy if someone could've killed him.

[@KatyMorgan-t1u]

i find it amusing that ya didnt know any of the events in this movie as its based on real events , the fight at the ok corral and so on , maybe i know about it cuz i am in the state this all happen in and it was taught in our school, shrugs it goes down the check box list of what really happen with hollywood flare of course !

[@philmakris8507]

When Doc says "it's funny" he means he sees the light

[@curtisdyoung3350]

Doc Holiday’s final words “This is funny” was referring to the irony that he was barefoot. His claim was always that he would die with his boots on. (meaning: as the result of a gunfight.)

[@danfreeman5301]

In all fairness, Tori has many fine toy qualities as well 😂❤

[@jhilal2385]

Val Kilmer for the ladies: "Heat" (1995) western humor: "Maverick" (1994) The top westerns I would recommend to my friends as "must see": "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) Great westerns to mess with the ladies emotions, also "must see": ""The Cowboys" (1972) "The Shootist" (1976) "3:10 to Yuma" (2007 remake) from a book by Elmore Leonard, directed by James Mangold ("The Wolverine", "Logan") "True Grit" (2010 remake)

[@kevincaulder96]

A couple of westerns for you. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, CHISUM, and BANDELERO! Its amazing how women love the westerns when they give them a chance. Keep going and enjoy

[@lokithecat7225]

One of the lasting tropes in Westerns is that "the West" is somehow better at the end. Like the Good guys might all die, stopping the Bad guys... or bringing Justice. Disney tends to go the other direction, where the Characters are better off at the end.

[@Odessa-James]

Stephen Lang, who plays Ike Clanton here, has changed a lot over the years! If you know him from “Avatar” and “Don't Breathe”, you almost don't recognize him here!

[@sectiondrecords4580]

great reaction! Thanks. Tombstone is a real town and this movie is most likely the closest we will get to what actually happened. The Birdcage Theater is still standing in Tombstone today bullet holes and all. Wyatt Earps Saloon the Oriental is now a clothing/variety store. The original Oriental Saloon doors are on display inside. Doc Holliday was a real dentist from the South. Wyatt Earp was a consultant to Hollywood's early westerns and influenced John Wayne and many other stars.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

A little P.S. ladies. Tombstone is a town in Arizona. The shootout they had where Morgan and Virgil both got shot was the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral. When Wyatt went in to the river and was taking on all the Cowboys. That was roughly based on a real event. When he was still a lawman he got into a gunfight with several bad guys and after it was over they found nearly a dozen bullet holes in his coat. He wasn't hit. In fact in all his years of living in the wild west he was never ever shot. Wyatt worked as a consultant in later years. That's why they mentioned the 2 western actors at his funeral. They say that John Wayne developed his style of walking in his cowboy movies after watching how Wyatt walked and moved. Okay, I'm done now. No really, I mean it. Thus endeth the lesson for today! ; ))

[@brianmckelley6691]

Doc Holliday was actually just that! He got a PhD in dentistry from the University of Pennsylvania.

[@TheRealMadmartigan]

Doc said "This is funny" While looking at his feet, because Doc always believed he would die with his boots on. And of course, he didn't.

[@mannybrucesalvador]

Wyatt Earp in an interview yrs later said Doc Holliday was the fastest gunslinger he ever saw 😳 Doc was a bad boy 😎

[@mikealvarez2322]

BTW, the movie is basically historically accurate.

[@markcarpenter6020]

Like hell it is. It follows the general outline but it's been Hollywooded up a LOT. I had an uncle who was an old west nerd and he tore this movie apart when he saw it on cable. The first thing that annoyed the hell out of him was the Earp's weren't exactly good guys. They were closer to a rival criminal group.(He hated how history has kinda white washed Wyatt). Heck even Wyatt' "wife"(they were never legally married) was a prostitute that worked for him. And he absolutely hated the changes to doc, he actually respected doc(he had no respect for Wyatt, a crooked cop)

[@mikealvarez2322]

@markcarpenter6020 I see we have a purest here. All historical movies must be historically accurate. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN wouldn't come close to that standard. FYI, TOMBSTONE is not a Documentary, it's a Movie and directors and writers have to have a certain amount of artistic license. Yes, Mattie was a prostitute and so were a lot of single women in the old West. They didn't have a lot of employment opportunities back then so they turned to the world's oldest profession and if they could they would hitch up with any single man that they could. As for which side of the law a man was on, that depended on the circumstances. Back then there were no computer files on people and it wasn't uncommon for a man to drift from one side of the law to the other. All this said the movie is as historically accurate as it can possibly be and still tell an interesting story. Let's face it, the 2 primary purposes of a movie is to make money and entertain. If you want historical accuracy watch a good documentary or the channels Reel History and Vlogging Through History or in some cases The Fat Electrician.

[@mikealvarez2322]

​@@markcarpenter6020 I see you are the purest when it comes to movies based on historical events. If Hollywood had your mind set we'd have movies that were 5 hours long, bore people to death, and wouldn't make a dime. If you want 100% accuracy in a movie watch a documentary. I can easily take apart even the best movies based on historical events like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or GLORY. Of course Mattie was probably a prostitute. Many single women had no choice since there were few work opportunities for them.

[@mikealvarez2322]

​@@markcarpenter6020 I see we have a purest here. No movie based on historical events is 100% accurate, not even the venerated SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. There are 2 goals in making a movie; 1. make money, 2. entertainment. Directors have to be allowed some artistic license in order to tell a story in a given amount of time. If you want 100% historical accuracy watch a documentary or the Reel History or Vlogging Through History or the Fat Electrician in certain cases. TOMBSTONE follows the Earp story fairly well. Some things are embellished, some things are left out, and some things are added.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@mikealvarez2322 It's fairly far from the real life people and gives a distorted view of them. Yes things are changed but the changes in tombstone are kinda extreme in places.

[@ChrisWilson-ik3tl]

This is funny line said by Doc. He always used to say he would die with his boots on. In a gunfight. When he noticed his bare feet his last words, This is funny.

[@letitiabeausoleil4025]

I love how you guys wear your hearts on your sleeves. Great movie.

[@sandbagger57]

Doc Holiday was a brilliant student and young dentist who went west because of Tuberculosis. His Hungarian girlfriend was big nose Kate. Wyatt Earp's Jewish lady was Josephine Marcus. She protected his legend through the Lake book about him and the popular TV show that was made from it.

[@mikealvarez2322]

I grew up with High O'Brien as Wyatt Earp.

[@happisakshappiplace.6588]

Ike Clanton in the film is played by Stephen Lang who was Col. Quaritch the villain from Avatar 1/2.