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Rating:  - Marshal has one "L" & Val robbed of recognition by peers & reviewers...
First of All to Amazon all writers: United States Marshal is spelled with one "L", or seen as US Marshal, and Wyatt Earp was a Deputy US Marshal, as the region or federal US Marshal is and was a Presidential appointee who hires Deputy US Marshals. The olde West would be the time in history that saw the highest death rate of some 50-70 Deputy US Marshal per year. The US Marshal Service is in charge of ALL federal prisoners once they have seen a US Judge and/or are incarcerated in prison or escaped Federal prisoners, they do Witness Security (not the FBI--as portrayed in "My Blue Heaven"), they have a 15 Most Wanted List (not a mere 10 of the FBI), they do all duties pertaining to the Federal Court system--including the security of all the Supreme Court Judges, and they have arrest powers in all 50 states plus all the US territories as well as working with Interpol. They took Noriega into custody, did everything from John Gotti trials, Timothy McVeigh trial, Assassination attempt on Pope trials to the Twin Towers trials of 1990's.
Secondly--Val Kilmer truly was robbed of an academy award nomination and soared in every scene he appeared in, to the enjoyment of this viewer. His portrayal of a diseased with TB, highly educated former dentist, now card-whiz at poker, gun-toting crack shot was masterful & perfect. I would align Val's performance in the same category of scene-stealing-memorable performances as Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow but also to the Academy nominated Dustin Hoffman for his portrayal of a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy"(1969). The 1993 Academy evidently had blinders on while preferring to nominate movies like: "SCHINDLER'S LIST", "The Fugitive", "In the Name of the Father", "The Piano",and "The Remains of the Day" While ignoring Val Kilmer with his head-and-shoulders-above the acting jobs of that year--the Academy chose instead to award top honor supporting oscar to: TOMMY LEE JONES for his boringly monotone version of a too old guy huffing & puffing or yelling his way through each scene in "The Fugitive"; then Leonardo DiCaprio in the unmemorable acting of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"; Ralph Fiennes in the only oscar worthy of recognition role of "Schindler's List"; as was worthy of quirky and demented John Malkovich in "In the Line of Fire"; while long stretch of a part worth even mentioning Pete Postlethwaite in "In the Name of the Father". Of course the common people are always disappointed by what the dim bulbs of the Academy picks...usually going to their "time will tell how wrong they were" decisions that usually ignore the acting or work that shines for years long after Academy choices have disappeared from viewing eyes & ears. My more recent example of Academy "huh?" decisions would be for any of the series of Lord of the Rings...as the first one generated comments from the Academy of: 'there were so many in that movie that were worthy of recognition that it would be wrong just to nominate one or two'--so they ignored the whole movie and did not nominate any of the cast of actors! Giant, behemoth: "HUH?"
And to those few that did not like this movie...I direct you to the huge number of of pages (37) or almost 380 comments of reviews that whole-heartedly adore, admire and recommend this film to others. Try to find another movie with this much input. "Tombstone" ROCKS and the only thing missing was more scenes with Doc Holiday by Val Kilmer!
Rating: - Buy This Movie Now!
Wyatt Earp has one of the most remarkable stories in the history of the American West. While this may take some artistic liberties (more than Costner's Wyatt Earp) it is still one of the greates westerns of all time. Russell and Kilmer are phenominal in their best performances and the entire ensemble cast is perfect. You feel like they had the best time of their lives making this wonderful movie. Tombstone and Wyatt Earp may be about the same subject but both are vastly different, nearly equally great films and while I love Costner's film I will give the slightest edge to Tombstone and rate it as one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time.
Rating: - Tombstone
This has to be one of the best movies that Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer have ever performmed in. Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday makes his part so
believeable that it seems like actual footage from the era.
We have watched it every time it has been on the cable and now we can
watch it whenever the notion strikes. "I'm your Huckleberry" - the
most memorable line of the movie.
Rating: - One of the best
This is one of, if not the best western I have ever seen. It surpasses Wyatt Earp (with Kevin Costner) by far. Love Val Kilmner the most.
Rating: - Greatest Movie of All Time
Without a doubt my favorite movie, and not just in westerns, but all genres.
The only info I wanted to add, was to advise people to make sure they buy the DVD that comes in the black packaging, and not the DVD titled Tombstone - The Director's Cut (Vista Series) (1993).
The latter adds deleted scenes back into the movie, and gives the movie a whole new feel, which is definitely not a better feel, to say the least. They were deleted for a reason, and it should have stayed that way. To add, this version doesn't even include the theatrical version, so you're stuck with a DVD you'll probably never use again.
What's unfortunate, is the former (black packaging) does not come with these deleted scenes, but you're not missing anything.
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