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Thank you to Hugo Boss for requesting this on my Reactr page! I was very excited to tick off another Western and it's clear that the developers of Red Dead Redemption 2 were influenced by this movie (along with others, I'm sure) because the similarities were uncanny at times. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this movie and my reaction! Thank you so much for watching. 😊

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Tombstone (1993) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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SEAN ƴü KAY

I'll be your Huckleberry. Excited to see your reaction. Thank-you for the content, as always.

Perry Campbell

Can’t wait to watch. How many iconic Movies these 2 actors were in together? Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton??? Terminator, Aliens, now Tombstone crazy!!!

Nathan Jasper

"Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave." Doc was so cool and Val played him perfectly. Absolute legends, both of them.

Perry Campbell

Another Great reaction ❤️ There was some Major older Superstar actors your generation probably didn’t notice Robert Mitchum, Charlton Heston. The Actor who played Ike his make was amazing, He was a major Villain in James Cameron movies. On your reaction, I love it when tell us what you’re thinking. I guess Docs girlfriend was Toxic trying get him excited when doctor left 😂 not a bad way to go.

Brian

A very minor gripe, but I’m not a fan of over praising a film when recommending it to someone. It leaves nowhere to go but down with viewer expectations, and puts a lot of pressure on the viewer (especially in a YT reaction setting)

Brian

With every rewatch, I appreciate Val’s performance even more. Every choice he makes is absolute perfection. Damn near every line he has is quotable. But it will always be his delivery of “I don’t” that will always crush me

Brian

I should say for Tombstone, it’s fairly safe to hype up. I’ve encountered very few people that thought this film didn’t deliver in every way

Movies with KL

While I understand where you're coming from, I want to make it clear that knowing someone's enthusiasm about a movie prior to watching it never puts any pressure on me to enjoy the movie too. Just go look at the YouTube comments on my reactions to: Passengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Pulp Fiction, and Man of Steel. These reactions have the most dislikes on my entire channel because I didn't receive them in the same way that most viewers did and I openly explained my reasons why, because I am always honest in my reactions and have been since Day 1. (And Passengers was a movie that my own mother recommended to me!) People wouldn't exactly get hooked into my reactions if I have low expectations with every single movie because that would reduce my own excitement for it. I go into every movie hoping that I'm going to enjoy it, because nearly every movie has people who really like it. When it comes to Reactr requests, every single movie is requested by a person who really enjoys that movie. How they show their enthusiasm in their notes to me is up to them. As long as they don't spoil the movie itself, I don't care what they say. I joked that Hugo was setting a high bar by saying Tombstone was the "Endgame/Godfather of Westerns", but I didn't feel pressured to feel the same. His analogy was a way for him to communicate how he feels about the movie. I love that for him, and I think we should refrain from referring to certain styles of enthusiasm as "over-praising".

Movies with KL

To add, there are two major circumstances of expectation setting where I tend to feel a little bit of pressure (and where I can kind of be a bit bothered as well). The first is when people try to "prepare" me for a movie by either telling me directly that it's emotional/heavy or telling me that I'll need tissues for it. What's ironic is that I think they tell me this so that I *will* react emotionally, but knowing ahead of time that it's coming can actually *prevent* my emotions from coming out because I was prepared for it. 😂 The second is when people try to stop me from reacting to a movie altogether because "nobody likes it". While this doesn't give me much pressure for the reaction itself, it does weigh on me more from the "Am I using my time efficiently?" point-of-view, especially if I end up feeling the same way about the movie.

Chris Elkins

Back in the day when DVD's and DVD players first came out and this was the first ever DVD I bought and used to watch this reaction ! Probably one of my favorite westerns of all times right up there with the 2010 remake of True Grit. So many great actors in this movie and one is almost always missed, Billy Bob Thornton played the dealer that Wyatt bullied and through out of the bar. It happens again... Bill Paxton's character doesn't make it to the end of a film. Thanks for the great watch along, glad I still had my DVD collection !

Tyler Foster

Yes, Wyatt Earp and his brothers and the Cowboy gang were all real. I would say the movie is loosely based on the true story, but then, I think pretty much any movie based on true stories like this (with the possible exception of war movies) would have to be pretty loosely based simply because the kind of record-keeping to make a more accurate movie doesn't exist. Since Earp was real, there have been many, many movies made about him. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), My Darling Clementine (1946), Hour of the Gun (1967), Doc (1971), and Sunset (1988) all feature Earp as a character, just to name a few. In fact, Tombstone was one half of a classic Armageddon/Deep Impact scenario, as Wyatt Earp (1994), directed by Raiders of the Lost Ark screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, would come out six months after Tombstone. Tombstone was written by Kevin Jarre, who was given the opportunity to make his directorial debut with the movie. However, he became overwhelmed and was fired a month into filming. George P. Cosmatos was hired to replace him. Cosmatos was what they call a "workman-like" director, someone who knows the nuts-and-bolts technique to complete the film but is not likely to have much of a stylistic touch. However, according to several people involved with the production, Cosmatos was a front, a ghost director to hide the real director: Kurt Russell, who agreed to take over after Jarre was fired. Kilmer has supported the story that Russell secretly directed the film, and Russell himself finally admitted it in this interview from 2006, after Cosmatos passed away in 2005: https://www.truewestmagazine.com/the-western-godfather/ No idea whose cut it is, since the actual director is up in the air, but there was a DVD release of a Director's Cut back in 2002, which runs 14 minutes longer than the theatrical cut shown here. I seem to recall Mattie and Wyatt have more of a definitive goodbye in that version, although that is the only difference I can remember off the top of my head. Based on that above interview, Russell seems to believe there's an even longer cut that could hypothetically be made, but it seems unlikely that he'll do it given that interview is 20 years old now. This alternate version of the film has never made it to HD, probably because it would have to be completely reassembled, which is more time consuming and expensive. There are indeed no subtitles for the Latin. Attempt to encourage you to get to True Grit (2010) sometime this year: You seemed to enjoy that this had a different feel than the Dollars movies. Well, I think True Grit would be yet another, different vibe. Other possibilities: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), more Leone with Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Magnificent Seven (1968), and Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995).