The Guys Review... Tombstone. The righteous, and violent tale of Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holiday, and the shooting at the OK Corral, and the surrounding events. Listen on as the guys review the movie, explore how film making has developed over the last 30 years, while Chris does some exploring with his toe. So grab your six shooters, your rifle, and your hat, and hop on this galloping horse as The Guys Review... Tombstone. Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/ EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.com IG: @TheGuysReviewPod TW: @The_GuysReview FB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYKXJhq9LbQ2VfR4K33kT9Q Please, Subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts from!! Thank you, -The Guys
Tombstone
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Tombstone
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre
Starring:
Kurt Russell
Val Kilmer
Michael Biehn
Powers Boothe
Robert Burke
Dana Delany
Sam Elliott
Stephen Lang
Joanna Pacula
Bill Paxton
Jason Priestley
Michael Rooker
Jon Tenney
Billy Zane
Charlton Heston
Released: Dec 24 1993
Budget: $25M ($48.1M in 2021)
Box Office: $56.5M ($108.7M in 2021)
Ratings: IMDb 7.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes 74%
Metacritic 50% Google Users 91%
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Plot: (Tuckers notes from https://www.moviehousememories.com/tombstone-1993-summary/)
Tombstone and the surrounding area of Cochise County are controlled by the ultra-violent, outlaw gang known as the Cowboys in 1879. The Cowboys are identified by the red sashes that they wear around the waists. The gang is led by “Curly Bill” Brocius (Powers Boothe) and his second in command, Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn). As the film begins, the Cowboys ride into a Mexican town and interrupt the wedding of a local police officer. The gang proceeds to kill the attending policemen, as well as a priest who curses them for their violence. The educated Ringo tells Curly Bill that the priest was quoting the bible and referencing the infamous fourth horseman of the apocalypse before the gunman killed him.
Meanwhile, Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) arrives in Tucson, Arizona where he reunites with his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) and their wives. The retired police officer has plans to settle down in Tombstone and begin a business with his brothers. At the same time, Wyatt’s friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) makes his way to Tombstone with his traveling companion Big Nose Kate (Joanna Pacula) in hopes that the dry climate will mitigate his tuberculosis.
Once in Tombstone, Wyatt takes over an interest in a Pharaoh game at a local saloon from the abusive Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton). Wyatt is approached by Mayor John Clum (Terry O’Quinn) who tries to convince Wyatt to become a law enforcement officer, but Wyatt tells him that he wants to remain retired. The Earps make a deal with the local corrupt Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan (Jon Tenney) to purchase lots for homes at the edge of town. Actors Josephine Marcus (Dana Delany) and Mr. Fabian (Billy Zane) also arrive in town the same day as Wyatt and his brothers, as does Holiday.
The violence continues to increase in town and Virgil begins to have difficulty turning a blind eye to the Cowboys’ dirty deeds. Additionally, the Cowboys appear to not appreciate the Earps and Holiday in town either and make veiled threats against them. At the same time, a romance begins to blossom between Wyatt and Josephine despite Wyatt living with his common-law wife Mattie Blaylock (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson). Mattie is succumbing to an addiction to laudanum.
One-night, Curly Bill begins shooting up the town after he leaves an opium den. The town law enforcement officer, Marshall Fred White (Harry Carey Jr.), goes out into the street to disarm the intoxicated gunman. Curly Bill shoots White while playing around with his guns. Wyatt knocks Curly Bill out and disarms him, placing him in custody. The arrest angers two Cowboys, Ike and Billy Clanton (Stephen Lang and Thomas Haden Church), who demand that Wyatt release their leader. Holiday and Virgil rush in to back up Wyatt and Curly Bill is placed into jail. However, a few days later, the criminal case against Curly Bill is dismissed due to a lack of witnesses.
Virgil reaches his limit and his conscious compels him to become the new town marshal. Wyatt is furious with his brothers as Morgan becomes Virgil’s deputy. Virgil implements an ordinance that everyone is required to surrender their firearms in the town limits. The Cowboys are not fond of Virgil’s law, and the Clantons get into a confrontation with Virgil after getting drunk one night at the saloon. The Clantons return the next day with some other Cowboys, drunk and armed. Virgil decides to go down and disarm them at the OK Corral. Wyatt, Holiday, and Morgan join him. A gun fight ensues in which Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers are killed. Virgil and Morgan are both wounded in the exchange. Ike Clanton is the only survivor of the Cowboys in the gunfight.
A short time later, the Cowboys enact revenge on the Earps, killing Morgan and severely wounding Virgil. Virgil survives the attack but loses the use of his arm. Wyatt and his family decide to leave Tombstone. Before leaving, Wyatt tells Curly Bill that it is over, but the gang leader tells Ike to take some men and kill Wyatt and Virgil. At the train station, Wyatt has anticipated the ambush and kills one of the gunmen and disarms Ike. Wyatt is joined by Holiday and three former Cowboys, Sherman McMasters (Michael Rooker), “Turkey Creek” Jack Johnson (Buck Taylor), and John “Texas Jack” Vermillion (Peter Sherayko). Wyatt has taken up the badge of a U.S. Marshall and warns Ike that he is coming to kill all the Cowboys before turning the Cowboy loose.
Wyatt’s posse systematically kills all the Cowboys that they encounter. In one incident, Wyatt’s group finds themselves pinned in by Curly Bill and his gang near a creek. Wyatt walks directly into the line of fire and kills the Cowboys’ leader and several of his men while simultaneously avoiding being shot hit himself. Holiday’s health continues to deteriorate while they are on the hunt for Cowboys. Wyatt is forced to leave Holiday at Henry Hooker’s (Charlton Heston) ranch when he is challenged by Ringo to a one on one gun fight. Before leaving, Holiday tells Wyatt that he can’t beat the Cowboy gunfighter. However, Holiday shows up to the gun fight in Wyatt’s place and kills Ringo. With the leadership eliminated, Wyatt’s group finishes the job of killing the remaining Cowboys.
Sometime after the events in Tombstone, Holiday is sent to a sanatorium in Colorado where he is slowly dying from tuberculosis. Wyatt continually visits his friend despite Holiday’s requests for him not to. Holiday implores Wyatt to forget him and pursue Josephine to begin a new life together. Wyatt leaves his old friend, who dies shortly afterwards. Wyatt reunites with Josephine and they begin a romance together that lasted until his death in 1929.
Stephens Notes:
-This movie is REALLY 90's, the overacting, music, cinematography
-The early part of the movie, up until the Cowboys meet Wyatt Erp was pretty slow pacing-wise
-Doc Holiday is the best character in the movie... Great attitude and not giving a fuck.
-Mattie shown being in active opioid addiction is surprising for a film made in 1993.
-I like that scene when Bill walks out of the opium den, and the camera tracks up, along with his high. Then comes back down, when the marshal comes out.
-Did Curly Bill mean to shoot the marshal?
-I like to symbolism of Wyatt changing jackets after being sworn in.
-When they're walking to the OK Corral, the building on fire, see one guy throw one bucket of water on it then run away. Hilarious.
-The ol' Mexican standoff
-They lit up Thomas Hayden Church's character, damn
-What does "You're a daisy if you do" mean? And "Im your huckleberry"?
-Wyatt is eating with chop sticks after the shootout, is that period correct?
-The whole storm scene is super overly dramatic
-Wyatt has literal blood on his hands, very subtle
-When Wyatt is leaving with Morgans body, Curly Bill is sitting in front of a store that says, "Fresh Fish Delivered Daily"... Where from and how? There wasn't ice then.
-Have to admit good horse stunt work on the film
-Got to wonder how legal it is/was just going after the whole gang. Assuming they all killed people?
-Curly Bill is a shitty shot when he's in water...
-Wonder if there were tension about Doc Holiday getting all the best lines?
-Is Billy, with the glasses, who touches Billy Zanes hand, is he gay?
-How did Doc beat Wyatt to Johnny Ringo?
-It's actually pretty dangerous to ride a horse full speed through a grass field like that, if there's a hole or something you don't see, you can take a header.
-Docs last words, "I'll be damned though, this is funny"
-So Wyatt left Mattie and got Josephine, lived happily ever after?
Top Five Trivia of the movie:
5: The tombstone at the beginning of the movie that states, "Here lies Lester Moore, Four Slugs from a .44, No Les No more," is a real tombstone in Tombstone, AZ.
4: The filmmakers behind Tombstone paid attention to historical accuracy and even put Wyatt Earp's real life fifth cousin, Wyatt Earp III, in the movie as Billy Claiborne.
3: all of the lines spoken by the actors during the pivotal scene at the O.K. Corral are said to be historically accurate, based on different historical sources, like newspaper reports from Tombstone that chronicled the famous shootout, so Doc Holiday did say, 'You're a daisy if you do!'
2: In the film, Curly Bill is depicted as deliberately shooting Fred White, killing him instantly. In reality, Curly Bill claimed that the gun accidentally discharged as White attempted to take the weapon from him. White, who had been shot in the groin, not in the chest as portrayed in the film, survived for two days and corroborated Brocius' story before succumbing to his injuries. It was White's testimony, not a lack of witnesses, that ultimately exonerated Curly Bill. For his part, Bill expressed genuine remorse over White's death, as he had personally liked the marshal, despite their being on opposite sides of the law.
1: As extraordinary as the scene is in which Wyatt kills Curly Bill Brocius in the creek, it is true. During the shoot-out in the creek, when Wyatt kills Curly Bill, the next person he shoots is Johnny Barnes (the cowboy who yells "Jesus Christ!"). As in real life, Wyatt shoots Barnes in the stomach. However, Barnes was not killed on-site. He managed to escape, and died in a farmhouse. However, before dying, he told the story of how Wyatt really did walk into a hail of Curly Bill's gunfire unscathed, walked right up to Bill, and shot him point blank with both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun.
TOP 5
Stephen:
1 Breakfast club
2 T2
3 Sandlot
4 Back to the Future
5 Mail order brides
Chris:
1. sandlots
2. T2
3. trick r treat
4. rocky horror picture show
5. hubie halloween
Trey:
1) Boondocks Saints
2) Mail Order Brides
3) Tombstone
4) Drunk stoned brilliant dead
5) Sandlot
Tucker:
1. Beer review
2. T2
3. Tombstone
4. Gross Pointe Blank
5. My Cousin Vinny
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