The coin walking is something Val kilmer does weather or not he's acting! My favorite scene is the train scene when he says I'm coming ya hear and hells coming with me!
My wife asks me what do you get out of watching someone react to movies or songs? I just love watching someone enjoy something I enjoy. It’s kind of a bond of sorts for me.
Amen!!! His best performace ever and compared to the others nominated that year he should've won easily. However, this movie didn't do well at the box office unfortunately and I think that plays into whether actors win or not (even though the Academy wouldn't agree with me saying that).
@@doclewis8927 It made more money than What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I think Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List had a strong case for best supporting actor that year.
Johnny Ringo showing his pistol skills during the Latin scene was his undoing. He showed Doc how fast he draws and which hand he's dominant with. He was already dead at that moment.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis is a curious disease, my understanding is that, depending on the virulence of the bacteria you have/your environment/lifestyle, it could drag its feet and take a decade+ to kill you, or if it's particularly aggressive it'll kill you in a matter of months. That's why Doc moved from Georgia out west, because the thought at the time was that warm dry air slowed the progression of the disease.
@@swordsmanfabian18 Yeah places like California , Arizona and Mexico we're good places to go if you had but yes it all comes down to how you take care of yourself. For Doc he drank all the time and that had it's negatives and positives.
@@advancedchiropractic667 No, he had TB before he became a dentist. He got it from his mother. In fact it was when the word got out that he had consumption he had to stop practicing and turned to gambling to make ends meet.
@@oduinn7948Imagine the hangovers those guys had from the horrible, cheap whiskey... but then again you could walk into the side store and buy morphine and opioids... or maybe the whiskey was made better back then.
Funny thing about Doc's death scene that took me so many years to understand, but it was still explained to me before I got it. Doc looks down the bed at his bare feet, chuckles and says "thats funny" then dies. He's laughing that he didn't go out with his boots on.
Apparently there is a deleted scene (either deleted or never filmed) where Doc Holliday and Wyatt are talking and Doc says that he expects to die in a gunfight in the street and the last thing he'll see are his boots, and Wyatt reassures him that he thinks that Doc will die, comfortable in his bed staring at his bare feet. The irony only makes sense then that Doc realizes that Wyatt's prediction was right, but not due to old age, but to illness.
It was taken from real life. Doc Holliday's reported last word were "This is funny" for exactly as you said: he always expected to die with his boots on, in a gunfight, so the darkly humorous irony of him dying slowly in bed without his boots was not lost on him, even at the very end.
Apparently, the scene where Wyatt walks into the open under fire at the river happened in real life. Bullets never touched Wyatt Earp - part of his legend.
Truth, I read some books about him and all this (from the movie) and he was not a quick draw by any means. What he was was calm under pressure and accurate of a shot. He did not rush or panic when things got chaotic.
"You're daisy if ya do" and "I'll be your huckleberry" were quoted by my father and I for years after we saw this movie. Though we've watched it several times since and quote it still. It's funny how certain lines by the right actor can really stick with you over the years. Thanks for watching this. Glad you liked it.
Funny, you should mention that. Wyatt's brothers didn't like Doc very much. They believed he was nothing but trouble for Wyatt, though they acknowledged that Doc was extremely loyal to Wyatt.
Well you can tell this movie stirred up alot of research from it's fans. But I am obsessed with the old west through to the 1900's.Every movie I watch that's based on reality, I research the hell out of them. Young Guns was based on alot of true history. "The Lincoln County Meat Wars". The Billy the Kid story is true to as much as they actually can verify.
Still real life doc holiday was not a dude to be trifled with,he may have not killed alot of people but he did shoot alot of people,though that was usually because of drunk folks with guns who think if a card game isnt going your way the other person must be cheating somehow.Henceforth guns got involved.
One of my favorite scenes is when they ask doc why he isnt in bed and he told them that wyatt is his friend. Creek said “hell i got lots of friends” docs best response” i dont”
The fact that this movie is based on a true story makes it even better. A kick butt story about a man named Wyatt, his bestfriend Doc, and Wyatt's brothers Virgil and Morgan. Doc Holliday had an interesting story. John Henry Holliday was born in 1851. His parents were well off so he was very well educated growing up learning various studies including math, rhetoric, grammar, history, Latin, French, and Ancient Greek. At the young age of 15, he was taking care of his mother who had tuberculosis when he then contracted tuberculosis (most likely from her) and she then passed... At 19, he went to college for dental surgery. Hence the name Doc aka Doctor Holliday. At 21, he became a dentist and had major success but his TB symptoms started getting worse causing him to move away to a dryer climate, Dallas, TX. He started up another dentist office with a parter and began to thrive but again, his TB continued to get worse and business declined leaving dentisty an impossible choice. He then decided to become a gambler as he had learned how to gamble as a child and with his skills he became one of the Old West's most famous gamblers, not to mention gunslinger as well, BUT he was alsp known as a cheat in cards. He continued to do dentistry jobs here and there but mostly gambling. Doc Holliday ends up rescuing Wyatt Earp, a very popular lawman, in Texas from a confrontation with a number of armed men who were angry with Earp. Holliday, who was playing cards at the time, drew his gun and aimed it at the head of one of the men, helping to defuse the situation without any bloodshed. Afterwards, Earp and Holliday became lifelong friends. A few years later, they're living in Arizona, some of the outlaws not taking well to Doc repeatedly threatening him and blaming him for a stagecoach robbery. Then the famous O.K. corral 30-second shootout occurred when in an attempt to disarm the cowboys turns into a deadly shootout, 3 cowboys being killed. The movie is pretty accurate of these accounts. In the aftermath, Virgil is shot and maimed and Morgan Earp was murdered. Doc is deputized by the Earp's. Unable to get justice Wyatt decides they will pursue the cowboys as a federal posse. They ambush a cowboy trying to ambush Virgil on the train. They track down these cowboys. The local sheriff issued a warrant for 5 of the federal posse members, Holliday being one. He spent his remainding years in Colorado where he passed away from TB in bed. On his de@th bed, he supposedly asked for a shot of whiskey. It's said that he believed he would to pass in a gunfight, so finding himself ending in bed, he reveled in the irony, his last words being "This is funny" Doc Holliday was in several wars and many more interesting things. Too much to say here even though I've already said too much... Hopefully someone found it interesting and may do more research 😊
the scene of the gunshot with the guy coming out the building with a wound to the throat. If you notice everyone reacts except Val Kilmer, he just stands there unflinching. Doc, always cool under fire.
I always say that every single line that Val Kilmer says is quotable. Hearing you say the same thing was awesome. It doesn't matter what situation he's in, as soon as he opens his mouth you like him more and more. You can't help but smile when he speaks. There's such a level of charm that I don't believe has been captured on film since.
One of the greatest westerns ever made! The story of Wyatt Earp and his brothers wanting to have a normal life, until the cowboys rolled into town, trying to ruin their lives, until Earp and his family fought back against them. I grew watching this movie 100 times.
Actually, it was the Earps that rolled into town. The Clanton Gang/Cowboys were there well before Wyatt and company showed up. They were outlaws for sure, but the Earps were not and (in the eyes of many locals) are still not seen as the "good guys" in Tombstone. At least a couple of their common-law wives were prostitutes, even when they were "married" to them, and they were not above treading on the other side of the law. Probably the best movie (entertainment-wise) about Tombstone ever made. Just not the most historically accurate.
Not only based on a true story, but one of the most accurate depictions of Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight. And yes, the way Curly Bill was killed, with Wyatt yelling NOOOO! with bullets flying by him actually happened that way.
@@antkemp Then you don’t know anything about the gunfight. It was practically a recreation of the gunfight (including Virgil switching his cane from one hand to another after Behain told them he disarmed the Clantons and Lawerys). There were parts that were just plot devices, like the red sashes, and Virgil and Morgan were shot months from each other. But the gunfight and Wyatt’s vengeance ride was very accurate. Might I suggest you read the book “Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend”, an incredible biography painstakingly researched. A fantastic read.
@@herbyragan7801 was just about to say this not only all that but that was a real exchange between doc and a cowboy in the gunfight at the ok corral Cowboy: "I got you now you son of a bitch". Doc: "your a daisy if you do".
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral you see here is pretty accurate. During the resulting inquiry, a judge had the many witnesses and the Earps all give sworn testimony. He found no grounds to charge the Earps with breaking the law. So, everything that went down, shot for shot and things they said have been in the court historical record for decades now.
They puffed up Doc a little too much. He was widely regarded as a public nuisance and a bully. If it weren't for his friendship with Wyatt, he would've been arrested and hanged. He also wasn't as good a shot as the movie makes him out to be.
@@Deadpixeleditz-mh2pn Fun Fact: Kilmer got the role for Jim Morrison after sending in some recordings of him performing with his The Doors cover band.
“I got two guns,” (swirls one pistol forwards and the other backwards while holding the shot glass in his hand) “one for each of ya.” Why the camera didn’t feature that flawless twirl from Val is beyond me.
Tombstone is one of those movies you can watch over again because the acting and the dialogue is so good. It iIS based on true-life events which have been depicted in countless movies and TV shows, including an episode of the old Star Trek. The Earps and Doc Holliday and most of the folks depicted were real people. Wyatt Earp died in1929.
Watch over again, I'm at 200 times and counting!!!, probably watch 200 more times, the only part I can't quote by heart, is the latin, except "In vino veritas, I knew that before the movie!!!!
my fav line is when buddy says "why you doing this doc?" "because Wyatt Earp is my friend." "Hell, I got lots of friends." then the pause and stoic face on Kilmer, "I don't."
Sadly "Kilmer" had throat/trachea cancer & can no longer eat. Use's a feeding tube. Always wears a scarf around his neck. Dunno if he can still act? He is much Loved & Missed.
A movie whose greatness starts with the screenplay, and the rest just follows. With period-appropriate language - "skin that smokewagon", "huckleberry", "lunger", etc - good actors can chew into it like a fine filet mignon. Beloved classic as a result!
The best part about the Bar scene is the Visual Storytelling done by Kilmer (as Holliday) and Michael Biehn (as Ringo). The reason why you see fear coming on to Ringo’s face while everybody else is laughing at Doc’s Cup Routine is that Ringo is the only one who is fast enough to see that Doc is copying his movements PERFECTLY. This shows Ringo that nothing he did was too fast for Doc to see and thus Doc is either just as fast or, more likely, faster than him. It’s also great Foreshadowing for the Duel at the Climax of the movie when Ringo tries whatever he can to get out of Dueling Doc because he’s not sure if he can win. Phenomenal Actors both of them. Biehn is one of the most underrated Actors ever and Kilmer deserved at least an Oscar nomination for this performance even though he would have still lost since no one was beating Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive that year…
This is when everyone else found out why Val Kilmer is my favorite actor. I saw it in the theater but most people caught it later on video. He's been sick over recent years and it's really affected his voice which makes it difficult for him. I'm not giving up though. 🥰🙏🏼 Val has yet to be nominated for an Oscar. They don't know sh*t. There have been a lot of movies made about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL was the classic one before this. Still, to me, TOMBSTONE is the best Western of all time even if it was made in the 90s, long past the heyday of the genre. It's full of great actors actually. You'd do good to just look them up on the IMDb and systematically go through their movies.
Every time I watch this movie it turns into a quote-a-long. I also misquote this movie to my cats when I tell them, “I’m coming, and Hello Kitty’s coming with me, you hear?”
Did you really just question Dana Delany's hotness??? Anyway, many people believe that Val Kilmer deserved the Oscar for this role that year. But here are the nominees for Best Supporting Actor in the 66th Academy Awards: Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive" Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth 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" Hence, which one do you even take out to nominate Val?
A couple of my favorite Val Kilmer movies are Real Genius,Willow,The Doors,The Island Of Dr.Moreau,The Ghost And The Darkness,At First Sight and of course Top Secret and Top Gun but I would luv to see you react to all of them,especially Willow cuz its just a classic!!
It's a stretch to count Terminator considering how short Paxton's part in that film is. That being said there is another film Near Dark directed by James Cameron's short term wife Katheryn Bigelow. That has Paxton and 2 other actors from Aliens, one of which was also in Terminator 2 - Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein. "Finger lickin good!"
Yes, another great Kilmer movie based on a true story. Though, interestingly enough, the real-life lions that movies is based on were maneless.. an odd subspecies in the Tsavo region, the males do not have manes.
The Saint, Heat, Willow, & this are my favorite Val Kilmer movies. Also grew up watching Batman Forever. Is it good? Not really lol but it’s nostalgic so I can’t help, but love it 🙈
This is one of my all time favorite movies! Poor Val fought throat cancer. He has a documentary on his life on Amazon Prime. He has been through a lot.
One more Val Kilmer flick for your list. One of his first. Real Genius. Mid-80’s, quirky comedy about a group of college age scientists. Very witty and Kilmer is nearly as quotable as he was in Tombstone...
@@deadheadwannabe6874 While enjoyable, Silverado was your generic classic Western movie. The plot, the characters, and the setting were all Western tropes. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it. If you want to see a production that looks and feels more authentic, Broken Trail is the one to watch. You get to see what life was like for some women of the West and it was very cruel to them. The acting performances by Robert Duval and Thomas Haden Church ( Church was in Tombstone too) were stellar. The only thing with Broken Trail is that it was a mini series of 4 parts. It still is a winner and is worth reviewing if Mello wishes to do anymore Westerns.
Tombstone is based off the (supposedly) real events of Wyatt Earp and his brothers and their fight at the OK Corral. The whole story is near mythical because of the different ways it was told. Some say Wyatt and his brothers were murderers who ran in there and killed unarmed people, while others say they were justified. Also, Val Kilmer as Dr Holliday, the tubercolosis-ridden gunslinger is probably the best depiction of the real figure ever. If you're into some solid westerns based off real events, I'd suggest the 1995 movie, Wild Bill, starring Jeff Bridges as "Wild" Bill Hicock, but there's another solid western horror called Ravenous.
It's in the top 5, but I would say at least the original Magnificent 7 and 3:10 to Yuma were better. Hidalgo was good as well, although strictly speaking that was more an adventure movie starring a cowboy as opposed to a true western.
Val Kilmer MADE this movie. I remember the first time me and my brothers watched it, all we could talk about was Doc Holliday. It was probably the first time I was completely blown away by an actor's performance.
This was actually one of my last gifts to my grandmother before she passed away for her birthday..she absolutely LOVED this move and would watch it when ever it came on..so I got her the Directors Cut version of the movie on DVD as a b-day present for her. I'm actually a fan of westerns myself..hard not to be with my upbringing lol. My mother grew up on old westerns and working around horses, she was an honest to goodness cowgirl at heart and if my parents had actually stayed together I'd be living on a farm somewhere out in the middle of no where cause my mom was used to raising animals and my dad was used to crops..it's one thing all my family can agree on is that if my dad hadn't slept around and pissed off my mom I'd probably be on a ranch with them right now. My mom and I used to watch an OLD TV game show where they would do things right out of an old west movie as competitions..nobody ever thought to keep the old tapes back in the day apparently and now there's not even a DVD release and episodes are scarce with only a few clips even on RU-vid. Also..I learned how to do the gun spinning scene from the bar using a NERF Hammershot revolver just to impress my grandma and she loved the fact I learned it for her.
Doc is that bro that you want on your side when shit goes sideways, He a stone-cold killer, he that friend that tells you the truth no matter if you want to hear it or not. He the best character in this movie. Reason Doc is the way his because he is dying and he living every day to the fullest. great reaction again Mel. "Your Daisy if you do"
This was the first R-rated movie that my parents took me to see. I was around twelve when it came out. Wyatt’s first wife was very sick, as she was seriously addicted to Laudnum, which was literally liquid Morphine mixed with alcohol, and sometimes other drugs like Cocaine. You could buy it pretty much anywhere back then. It was made for bad coughs and headaches, but as you might expect, tons of people just got hooked on it and became junkies.
I've never been a huge fan of Val Kilmer, but it's absolutely criminal that he didn't get an Oscar nomination for this movie. Actually, checking IMDB, this film was nominated for 2 MTV movie awards, and that's all. That's just as big an oversight as Kilmer not being nominated.
@@jp3813 sometimes I wish they would just nominate those who earned it and not just 5 people. If there were 6 or 7 stellar performances that year, then those people should get the nomination. Why limit how many can get nominated?
There was Hollywood politics in play. Remember, Kevin Costner's 'Wyatt Earp' was the big studio darling and everything possible was done to hamper 'Tombstone', even so far as the Costner film buying up every western costume they could lay their hands on in Hollywood - many of the costumes in this movie were actually flown in from Italy.
@@tonysoto8949 You're imagining opinions that were never stated here. If Val was nominated, I wouldn't have objected to it. The fact of the matter is, it was a strong year for that category, and would've been justified to expand beyond five nominations. Quite frankly, Ralph Fiennes was the one who got robbed.
Exactly! Doc's advantage was that he shot right from where he drew. Ringo's disadvantage was that he extended his arm after he drew; it made all the difference in the world. And like you said, Doc learned that in the saloon.
@@squishydough2866 He didn't win any awards, but ask anybody who's seen this movie and it's unanimously agreed upon that he was the best part of the movie (and that's nothing against the rest of the cast. They were really good too.)
Tombstone is definetly based on a true story, you can still see reenactments daily in Tombstone. They did make quite a few changes, there's been a few documentaries and behind the scenes that are interesting. For Val, I definetly recommend real genius, top gun, thunderheart, the doors, willow, true romance, ghost & the darkness, the saint, & Salton sea. He was even batman. People forget how many good movies he made.
Doc's last words being "That's funny..." are on account of the fact that, after living life as hard and wild as Doc did he still managed not do die with his boots on- passing like a respectable gentleman in a bed.
Actually, I think he was referring to seeing a tunnel and light as he was passing. Something the pragmatic, likely atheist Holliday hadn't expected to see.
Val Kilmer WILL BE in the Top Gun sequel. He stepped out of the spot light after being diagnosed with throat cancer. He now has a trache in his neck and its hard for him to talk and to be understood. But he is still with us and that is HUGE !!!
My dude. I'm a fairly new subscriber, and I crack up whenever I see folks your age watch this movie and talk about the characters as if they were fiction. I teach college, and it helps me to see how little younger people know about history. No knock on you, it's not your fault. It's our fault. The teachers' fault. Keep up the good work though, man. I do dig your reactions.
Amen. Not here, and not now, but I've seen a number of Blazing Saddles reactions that don't understand why the Hitler actor saying "They lose me after the bunker scene" is funny.
@@seanthomas6346 I'm an educational researcher and you're 1000% correct about the state of Education as an institution and a profession. Generations are missing out on a great deal of knowledge and, in turn, optimism. More will also if things don't improve Right Now. Thank you for sharing this.
This is one of my favorite movies !!! So incredibly well done and Val Kilmer was the GOAT !!! Since I saw this years ago, I've read everything I could get my hands on about Doc and Wyatt
For me it's between Tombstone and Unforgiven for the best westerns of the 90's, as for 2000s, 3:10 to Yuma, Assassination of Jesse James, and Open Range.
Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Henry Ford is a MASTERPIECE in filmmaking and acting!! If awards had any credibility, then that movie shoulda swept EVERYTHING!,
Unforgiven is my favorite Western hands down. It's in my top 5 favorite movies period. Although for other 90s Westerns I've always had a soft spot for The Quick and the Dead with Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe and Gene Hackman. It maybe basic for a Western but it's entertaining as Hell.
@@chaospoet True, Unforgiven is in MY top ten, The Quick and the Dead I was surprised by its cast, could have been better but by todays standards, its basic Western qualities are an achievement.
30:38 Sam Elliott is always great in Westerns or a Western character(Big Lebowski). I know I have mentioned this before, but Elliott's performance as Gen. John Buford is immaculate.
A relatively recent and very unusual Kurt Russell western that I highly recommend is 2015's "Bone Tomahawk." It has great acting, great characters and great dialog and is more of a suspense movie with horror elements set in the latter days of the old west.
Tons of great people in this movie... Ike was the military baddy in Avatar. Jonny Ringo in both Terminator and Aliens. Morgan Earp was in Terminator and Aliens too come to think of it.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday was classic. Val character looked so bad because he had what they called back then "consumption " which is TB.. I think you should react to Good Will Hunting if you have not already seen it. It would be interesting to see your reaction to it.
The last shot of the opening dialogue is from a silent movie called The Great Train Robbery. The audience reportedly screamed in terror when he shot at the screen. Oh and by the way, the Cowboys didn't wear red sashes. This is supposedly the filmmakers capitalizing on the "hood" crime movies of the Crips and Bloods.
MsMasters was a Cowboy, when he resigned by giving Earp his red sash, and pledging to assist. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Texas Jack Vermillion were not. It was McMasters who was dragged to death through the brush.
To be honest, I felt bad for Mattie. They could've at least dignified her with a death scene or mention of her death that wasn't 20 seconds before the credits.
I've seen Stephen Lang in a few other movies (the Conan remake, Public enemies...) but to me he will always be colonel Quarrich from Avatar. A perfect choice. I was also impressed how he noticed Billy Bob Thornton, who looks so different here. His accent is easy to recognize though.
Truly iconic performance by Val Kilmer. It's a crime he didn't even get nominated for best supporting actor. Please react to another excellent western, "Silverado" 1985. Great cast, strong performances. Scott Glenn, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Dennehy, Linda Hunt and John Cleese... Well worth checking out.