"I'm your huckleberry..." Fun Fact: Val Kilmer practiced for a long time on his quick-draw speed, and gave his character a Southern Aristocrat accent. The southern accent is an authentic touch, as Holliday was a cousin (several generations removed) of "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell. Western Connection Fact: The excerpt from William Shakespeare's "Henry the V" that is recited by Mr. Fabian is the same passage that Dutton Peabody speaks to himself while walking down the street in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), which I highly recommend. Historical Fact: The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true, and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. 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. 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.
@@JayBondReacts One "dying with their boots on" held significance during the gilded age in the American frontier. When Doc Holliday was in the process of dying he found it funny that he had subverted his own expectations despite such a raucous life lived. From Wikipedia: The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms says: "Die with your boots on was apparently first used in the late 19th century of deaths of cowboys and others in the American West who were killed in gun battles or hanged." He somehow made it through all these scrapes and died a death that did not at all match his lifestyle of years lived looking down the barrel of a gun.
Remarkable that the only damage Wyatt Earp suffered in the fight at the spring was a hole in his duster and a heel shot off one boot as he was dismounting.
If I recall, what was funny was Doc became a reckless gunfighter because he had TB, and would rather die in a gun fight than from the disease, but he was too damn good, so at the end, he died without his boots on in a hospice bed. It's been quite a few decades since I heard the story, so I may have made mistakes or left details out.
Fun fact: it was supposed to say “I’m your huckle bearer”. The handles on a casket were called huckles. To say “I’m your huckle bearer” means “I’ll carry you to your grave”.
Horns of a dilemma: You want to die in a gunfight, but your pride won't let you lose. He died in his hotel bed, since the sanitarium hadn't been built yet.
@@Mortismors People routinely leave cards and poker chips at his grave-site. Once brought an airline bottle of bourbon up there, took a few swigs, then poured the rest on his grave, so I could say I "had a drink" with Doc Holliday.
Everyone grew their own mustache except for the actor that played Behan. Doc looked at his feet & said "this is funny" because in the old west, "they died with their boots on" was an old saying meaning they would die in a gunfight. But Doc saw the irony in that he was dying & barefoot. There was a lot of differences made for the movie. It was done amazingly well. I've seen it several times & is in my collection. What a superb cast. Great reaction.
I grew up watching westerns because grandpa liked them. "Tombstone" is one of the best ever made, and my personal all-time favorite. This story romanticizes the history a lot but is fairly true to real life. A couple points: Doc Holliday looked sick and was coughing up blood all the time because he had tuberculosis for years. That disease can take a long time to kill a person. What struck Doc as funny at the moment of his death was that he was dying peaceably in bed with bare feet, instead of "dying with his boots on" by violence, which he'd basically been trying to do all that time. Big Nose Kate, Doc's girlfriend, gets a bad rap in this movie because much of her role in the events got cut out for story purposes. She was with Doc for years, and took care of him through his bad bouts with the TB. She knew he would never give up his way of life, but at the same time, she knew how sick he was. In reality, she broke up with him over his insistence on helping Wyatt in the war with the Cowboys, but they got back together. They didn't show it in the movie, but she was caring for him at the sanatorium when he died. I think it's pretty much the universal opinion that Val Kilmer stole this movie, which is quite the feat, considering the amazing cast. It's just plain wrong that he didn't get an Oscar for the Doc Holliday role. Finally, the cameo that you didn't recognize is the immortal, legendary, Hollywood god, Charlton Heston. He was big in westerns. He was big in everything. He was freaking Moses and Ben Hur, for crying out loud, with no CGI. 😉
Thank you so much for this! Especially about Kate, their whole dynamic in the movie felt so weird to me without knowing any of the real story so this clears things up alot. I'm immediately interested in learning more because I honestly had no idea these were real people and true events which only makes it that much better. I'm also shocked that Val Kilmer didn't get best supporting actor. He's the best! He has a huge range of emotion and lack thereof that it would be impossible to overlook him when considering awards. So strange!
Loved your comment wanted to add Doc was disappointed in Ringo because he hoped he was as good as his legend and that they would kill each other removing Wyatt's problem and ending Doc's suffering hence his reaction "your no daisy at all " although historians argue that this even happened.
Doc's end scenes is very nice & touching here. Even more so if Kate was also involved. In life, Wyatt wasn't there unfortunately. He didn't know Doc passed until afterwards. They had a falling out some time after the vendetta ride, but in the months nearing Doc's end they both met up again and worked it out. It's not clear if Kate was there up to Doc's last days. She has said she was. Though they broke up and got back together at times, Kate & Doc were a solid pair. Once, she even broke him out of jail after setting a fire in town. Doc passed in the Hotel Glenwood instead of a sanitarium. There's now a store located where the hotel stood. You can buy a copy of that booklet Wyatt gives to Doc at the end. I have one. It's a nice prop from the movie. The real Wyatt didn't write one. There's also a really nice The Making of tombstone video on UA-cam with some historic commentaries and interviews with the actors. It's fun.
Oh and one more Fact. Val KILMER himself Mentioned in an interview he Did about a year After his Throat Cancer Scare. I Thought, like everyone, that Doc was saying, " I'm Your Huckleberry"! But it was a Taunt That Doc said only twice , and only to Ringo. A HUCKLE is one of the Handles on the side of a Coffen. And in several parts of the South, including were Doc was from in Georgia, they didn't say Pole Barers, they said HUCKLE BARERS! Which is what Doc was Taunting Ringo with!
Favorite western of all time. My main reason for watching this is Kurt Russell and the surprisingly amazing performance of Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Fabulous ‼️👍
@@ieatpeopleand I actually never watched them until after Tombstone. Although, I’ve still not seen Willow…. I was in high school when it came out so you’d think I’d of seen it. Boyfriend wasn’t interested and bestie saw it without me…. The itch. Lol. I’d only seen him in Top Gun, Real Genius and Top Secret prior to Tombstone. Had to believe it’s the same actor considering his growth from start to Tombstone. Blew my mind.
Same. I only knew him as that jerk character from Top Gun before I saw Tombstone 😆 (I also didn't see Willow until after Tombstone 🤷♀️ Never seen "The Doors", though I am aware of its existence) He's also really great in The Saint. Not the best movie ever, but he's fantastic. A really great opportunity for an actor like him, since he is basically playing a bunch of characters in one. (Hard to explain that without spoilers, so I'm leaving that vague lol)
I'm pretty sure the 'not a chance' line was Wyatt turning down a job offer to join law enforcement (before he could even finish making the offer), not an ask to give up his seats.
I have been a diehard fan of Kurt Russell since Used Cars in 1980 and Val Kilmer since Top Secret, this is the best performance from both. Kilmer should’ve won an Oscar for this and he wasn’t even nominated. This is a great movie.👍
The "main guy" cameo that you don't recognize is Charlton Heston. He was an old western star and the NRA spokesman who coined the phrase, "You can take my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand." The funny part about Doc's death can be interpreted in a couple of ways. One, Doc always said he'd die with his boots on, meaning in a gun fight. Obviously, he didn't. Another way is the death tale that Morgan told about seeing a light. It could be suggested that's what Doc was seeing.
Right on, thank you! Didn't know that about Charlton Heston. That's a guy I've heard of because of Planet of the Apes but that's about the extent of my Charlton Heston knowledge until now! Poor doc though, honestly. Just wanted to go out fighting. I may have missed a line about him dying in his boots if it was in the movie or it just didn't click with me.
This film is a Fantastic Western, with some Awesome mustaches. Val Kilmer is Perfect casting as Doc Holiday, his quick draw and his aristocratic accent were spot on.
If you genuinely don't know about this movie , you are in for a ride ! The whole cast in this movie is amazing ! Never a dull moment and I'm glad to see another generation watching this movie ! It's a classic for sure ! Edit : Fun fact : I'm your huckleberry , in the 14th or 15 century if you were seen as a " hero " or " rescued " somebody you would wear a huckleberry branch pinned to your over coat . Hence why when Doc said " I'm your huckleberry " the first time to Johnny Ringo - meaning since Wyatt wouldn't fight him and " give him what he wanted " . Doc stepped in and said that line meaning " I will save you , or rescue you " ( and give you what you want) The second time he says it when they met at the oak tree and the line was said again , back then a person that would put you in your coffin and bury you was called a huckle bearer (our version of Paul bearer today ) due to it being common that people buried back then were put in huckle wood coffins . So when it was said the second time he said it meaning. " this time I'm here to put you in your coffin . " Well scripted line and we'll used both times ! Val Kilmer is a genius for what he did for that roll . It was said that Doc's roll was gonna be given to someone else and I think that would have been a huge mistake !
Just here to say that the huckle bearer stuff is urban legend and has been thoroughly debunked - it's huckleberry at all times and always was. And the Arthurian legend/14th century etymology of that seems similarly as apocryphal as "huckle bearer" - the only mentions I can find of this being a thing are just poorly written internet articles that all seem to use the exact same language meaning they probably all stole it from one another and none of them source anything at all to prove it. It's far, FAR more likely that it was just a cute southern idiom - keep in mind that using fruits and flowers and plants as turns of phrase were very common back then. Hell, Doc himself later uses daisies, and people to this day still use peach that way ("Ain't she a peach?" "Isn't that a daisy?"). "I'm your Huckleberry" just meant "I'm your man" from southern slang, most likely.
The guy you didn't recognize, the rancher who helped take Doc in, that's Charlton Heston. He was in a lot of movies, but most famously as Moses in the Ten Commandments, the titular role in Ben Hur, and as Taylor in the original the Planet of the Apes.
Thanks! I haven't seen any of those movies, but feel obligated too. 😂 I have seen the last seen on the beach of Planet of the Apes thanks to social media sites but not the full movie. Kind of a spoiler though. Haha
When I figured out this movie was based on true events, I did some research on who those characters were and this movie fascinates me in learning about the events of Tombstone, Arizona.
At the end Robert Mitchem narrates and reveals that Earp died in Los Ageles and was friends with Western Movie Stars. In his last years he was an advisor for the old silent westerns in Hollywood. John Wayne was just beginning his acting career. He met, and studied, Earp on the movie sets. Wayne later said that whenever he played the part of an authoritative character, he imitated Wyatt Earp. To see him play one of these parts, is to see the ghost of Wyatt Earp.
Fun facts: The river scene is historically accurate. The shotgun Wyatt Earp used was loaned to him by Fred J. Dodge who worked for Wells Fargo as a detective. He also gave Wyatt Earp a job riding shotgun on the stage coach when he was younger before all of this.
Man you’re really on a roll with your movie selections. Lol when can we expect “Big Trouble in Little china”? That’s another awesome movie with Kurt Russell You’re honestly one of my favorite reactors. You have the personality for this .
Thank you so much! That means a lot. I'll probably do Big Trouble in Little China sooner than later because that's one I always see get brought up that I don't know much about except for Lo-Pan. Despite Halloween being my favorite movie, I'm realizing how many movies John Carpenter has done that I haven't seen.
@Jay Bond imo “Halloween” is definitely one of the greatest horror movies. I saw it for the first time when I was 7 or 8 on Halloween. It was my first horror movie and it scared the heck out of me.
There was a saying about men who lived that violent life that they would “die with their boots on”. So he thought it was funny to see his bare feet as he was dying.
Thanks Jay for doing this reaction. I saw this movie in the theatre multiple times when it was released. Greatest Western I saw in a show. And, the greatest amount of quotables!!! And yes, Val Kilmer stole the show. Now, throughout the film you kept saying Doc was sick. In the beginning they mentioned he had tuberculosis. You didn't catch that part I reckon. It's okay. I believe you understood by the end. ⭐
I am glad you enjoyed Tombstone. I was in my teens when this movie came out. My friends and me all enjoyed it. There was a small surge of Westerns that came out in the 90s one of witch was Unforgiven staring Clint Eastwood and Morgan freeman. I believe it did win some Oscar's and it's defenely worthy of a watch. I hope this video does well for you and your channel continues to grow.
Born, raised, and still live 1 hour from Tombstone, AZ. Grew up with all the wonderful western movies, and Tombstone is by far the best. All the basic facts surrounding Tombstone, the Cowboys, the Earps, Doc Holliday are real, maybe a little glamorized for the movie. Nevertheless the cast was top notch, authentic location scenery cannot be beat. Have been to Wyatt Earps gravesite in Colma California. There is dispute as to where Doc Holliday is buried. Some say "somewhere" in Glenwood Springs Colorado where he died. Some say Griffin Georgia where he was born.
A great movie. I love that the viewer spends most of the film wondering if Ringo or Doc, two of the deadliest gunfighters, is faster. When the climatic moment comes, Doc kills Ringo and holsters his gun before Ringo ever gets a shot off. Others may have mentioned in the comments, but the director had a nervous breakdown during filming so most of the movie was directed by Kurt Russell. Everyone on the film kept it a secret until the director died a few years ago. Give "Deadwood" a try if you get a hankering for a western. TV show, not movie, and the greatest western of the modern era.
That's interesting, haven't heard that Kurt directed a lot of it, that's pretty cool to see someone able to step up like that. I think I'm gonna give Deadwood a shot soon. I was with some friends on the weekend and mentioned it and they said I need to see it as well. Thanks for the recommendation!
Kevin Jarre didn’t have a nervous breakdown. He was fired by the studio. George Cosmatos became the director of record but both Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell confirmed that Kurt basically directed it.
Mattie Blaylock and Wyatt Earp were never formally married, and in "real life" by the time Wyatt met Josephine Marcus (the actress), Mattie had left Wyatt for another man.
I absolutely love this movie! Watched it so many damn times. One of those movies with a high rewatch ability. If you're ever out here in Arizona, take a trip down to tombstone.
Something that strikes me is the difference between what the younger generation knows of these true stories and what my generation knew of these true stories. I don't know where we all learned it from because it's not something we would have learned in school but everybody who was my age knew all of the stories and that was one of the things that made the movies such a big hit is that they were telling stories that we already knew. I don't know where we all learned about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, but we all knew about them already before the movie came out.
Yeah, I actually don't know. The only thing I was taught (being in Canada) was about the gold rush in the Yukon. I have heard the name Wyatt Earp a ton of times and but didn't know it was real. What's especially odd, is I was around 7 when this came out and there were lots of cowboy related things as I grew up but never in any historic sense.
Tombstone is a masterpiece! Easily one of my favorites!! As you described the wide shots and cinematography in this another great western came to mind. If you find the time I think you would enjoy Open Range with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. It is beautifully shot. The landscape and scenery almost become another character in the movie. Even if you don't react to it, it's well worth the watch on it's own!
I really enjoy the gun spinning/cup spinning scene. How they trade barbs in Latin. You can see Doc watching each spin move Ringo makes. Not only did Doc spin his cup, he matched Ringo's routine exactly.
Another western for you to try is OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. It isn't anchored to historical figures as was Tombstone, but it is an accurate portrayal of the social and political dynamic of the time.
When Doc says I've got two guns one for each of you he spins his guns in opposite directions while holding a shot glass...I always thought that was awesome
There are two movies I recall seeing in the theater every weekend. This and The Crow I have a friend who calls me Huckleberry. And yes, the quotable lines in this movie are abundant. If no one mentioned it Doc had tuberculosis.
They mentioned it at the beginning of the film but only called it a lunger throughout so I just kept with "he's sick" because I forgot what exactly he had and never heard the term lunger before. 😂
Doc Holliday's actual last words as reported by his nurses were "This is funny." It's been interpreted by many people (including some who knew him) to refer to him dying peacefully in bed of an illness and not in a fight. Have you never seen Planet of the Apes? Charleton Heston? His best movie is probably Ben Hur, but Planet of the Apes is more fun.
Doc said 'This is funny' because he always said he'd die with his boots on. In the hospital bed he looked at his bare feet and said that famous line. Doc was a dentist, can you believe it, A DENTIST. That's why they called him Doc.. I told my dentist that and he was amazed.
I heard that Charlton Heston was a last minute replacement for Robert Mitchum who had injured himself just before filming began. So they got Mitchum to record the opening and closing voice overs. After the James Stewart version of Destry Rides Again this is my fave western. Blazing Saddles spoofs Marlene Dietrichs performance in Destry. Wait... Soylent Green is what now? 🙄
So happy you reacted to Tombstone. My dad was always into westerns and I never understood the appeal until I watched this one. I love the cinematography the shots are so beautiful and the overlay with the sweeping music playing, the dialogue, it's perfect!! The scene with McMasters was weird, because they did film where he meets with Ringo and they kill him, they just cut it out, you can watch it, it's floating around youtube. There are definitely some other good westerns out there, I would recommend Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. The new Magnificent Seven with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. Oh and 3:10 to Yuma (the newer one) and Young Guns from the 80s. Great reaction as always and also love your shirt!!
Oh I'll have to look up that McMasters scene. That seems like an odd thing to cut but I guess the movie was already over 2 hours. Thanks for those recommendations. I remember hearing about Magnificent 7 and 310 to Yuma but just kinda ignored them. 😂 Thank you again!
Johnny Ringo wasn't pissed at Doc after the gun twirling display, he was showing fear because Doc repeated his routine move for move while drunk and realized Doc was a better gunfighter.
Thanks for a great reaction to this movie! Long time subscriber. The movie is the closest to the true story of all Wyatt Earp movies. Some scenes and dialog came right from the Tombstone Epitaph. You can get reprints of the Earp-Clanton trial today. I grew up near the town of Tombstone Arizona. The town is still there and looks like the movie. The Earp's and Clanton's still live there and in fact Wyatt Earp III played Billy Claiborne in the movie. The Birdcage theater is there with the bullet holes still in the ceiling. Wyatt Earp was a consultant on the early movie westerns. Famous movie cowboys Tom Mix and William S Hart were pallbearers at Wyatt Earp's funeral. Wyatt Earp's saloon, the Oriental is still there and is now a variety store called Eileen's. Many in Tombstone still wear guns. I interviewed one of the Clanton's, a store owner in Tombstone, and he still had nothing good to say about the Earp's.
The Gunfight at the OK Corral is perhaps the most accurate historical scene in film. It is choreographed from the coroner's inquest record, right down to where combatants stood and who shot whom. Hollywood's dramtic exception is arming Doc with a five shot double-barreled shotgun and two 60 shooters.
Yeah, when I saw his name in the credits it blew my mind. I even compared pictures of him in Don't Breathe to Ike and it's still hard to make the connection lol
You've now seen the best Western ever. May I suggest Silverado as a good Western. It was written by Laurence Kasden, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Maybe tied with “A Fistful of Dollars” or “High Plains Drifter” for me. “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” also very good Westerns.
Another of my favorite westerns with an all star cast is Young Guns. Not as historically accurate as this movie. But still a good movie about a group of pals.
"This is funny" were reportedly Holliday's last words before dying. The movie is a mixture of history and myth. Ringo's death was ruled a suicide (for instance) and a subsequent claim that Holliday shot him is regarded a hoax. However, it plays great in the movie. Key points like the gunfight at OK Corral are true. There was reportedly a church burning that day. And I've heard fans credit this film for getting many details of the action correct.
Oh awesome! When I saw the fire of the church I had just assumed it was the Cowboys messing about but it was for historical accuracy! And an awesome shot for the walk down. Very cool!
For younger viewers of "Tombstone" and other westerns, I hope this sparks more curiosity about the history of the American West (beyond Red Dead Redemption!) In reality, even though the actors are much older, these were real people in their 20's who left family and friends to look for adventure in Tombstone-not unlike the Gen Z and Millennial nomads of today.
Nothing like the, tough as nails, Virgil Earp saying, "I still got one good arm to hold you with." The cast was superb, ut the surprise was the hidden Jason Priestly from a show called Beverly Hills 90210. I didn't watch the show, but he was extremely well known, and nobody realized it was him.
The on actor you missed, and I was so impressed at how many you nailed!!! The guy that really liked the actor and touched his hand in the stage scene was "Jason Priestly"!!!
That's great! Even if I knew he was on this, I think it would have fooled me still. I watched 90210 back in the day but he looked so different from what was in my head.
Mayor Clum did NOT want to take Wyatt's seat in the balcony! He was going to ask Wyatt to be a marshall and Wyatt cut him off before he could even ask the question- Not a prayer!"
This film was beyond important to the genre of Westerns... It was the connective tissue between the Golden Hollywood Westerns and the modern era. The town sheriff Fred was played by Harry Carey Jr (who starred in multiple John Ford epics), Buck Taylor ('Newly' from the TV series Gunsmoke) played Jack 'Turkey Creek' Johnson and that was Charlton Heston (The Big Country, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, etc) in the cameo as Henry Hooker... Plus the legendary Robert Mitchum as the voice over narrator at the beginning and end of the movie.
30.06 Cameo is the man himself. Moses and the 10 Commandments as well as a very very good actor.... Mr Charlton Heston. A man I grew up on watching his performances over the years. R.I.P. Mr Charlton Heston.
Other people have likely recommended, but if you want one of the best of the best of the classic Westerns, definitely watch "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." It's right at that perfect point between the tropes and themes of the more fairy tale style westerns, and the more gritty and realistic modern westerns.
I was born and raised In Arizona.. still live here! I live out west of Arizona on some land... and let me tell you... it is just as beautiful as some of the shots in this movie (Of course filmed in Arizona) Other than typical 110+ Weather half the year or more lol... It's great out here!
That's great! I've got some friends out there that I hope visit sometime. Hope to see it for myself at some point but that weather. 😂 As a chilly Canadian man, I'll melt.
@@JayBondReacts You probably would! Lmao. Well.. if you ever get that chance.. you will love it.. as long as you visit between Nov-Feb! The rest of the year is hot! haha.. But seriously... Arizona is beautiful in most places! :) If you do come down.. you should visit Tombstone... it's awesome!
When Doc said "this is funny", he's making reference to the old idea that a cowboy should die with his boots on, when he saw his bare feet, that was funny to him
I love that. I had never heard that saying before, which is probably part of my lack of Western knowledge. Live by the sword, die by the sword in a sense.
I'm not sure if anyone else in the comments said it, so if they did my apologies. The reason why Doc looked at his bare feet and said 'This is funny'. It's a reference to him assuming that he'd die with his boots on as he was a gunfighter. Great reaction, and probably my all time favorite movie.
I grew up in Arizona, and I assure you, its a real place and this is a true story, though it did get the Hollywood treatment. Wyatt Earp had a well known reputation as a badass lawman (though he had a foot on both sides of the law, like most men back then, It wasn't weird). So when he came to Tombstone, people knew who he was and thry were hungry for law and order. When the Mayor approached him in the Birdcage, he wasn't asking for their seats. He was asming him to be their law man. Regarding the Cowboys, don't confuse the gang with the profession. Its like, if you and your friends formed a gang and called it The Accountants. Its just a name. True cowboys, then and now, are some of the hardest working, respectful, honest people you could ever hope to meet.
Hi Jay, My first reaction with you. Just came across you. I liked that you did not talk to much. Some reactors stop the movie and talk for 5 minutes about what they have seen. You did everything just right. I am going to keep you. Another GREAT WESTERN is #TRUE GRIT with JOHN WAYNE. And the remake about 8 years ogo with JEFF BRIDGES AND MATT DANON. IT IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY. BOTH ARE GREAT MOVIES. I will see you later. Bless You.
Thank you. I can't promise I won't talk more in some movies, but I try to balance it. Usually we HAVE to so we cut away from the movie enough that we don't get our videos blocked. I was lucky with this one. 😂
The man you said you probably didn’t recognize is Charlton Heston. Also one of the Cowboys that joined up with the Earps was Buck Taylor who played Newly on Gunsmoke.
Another Western you would enjoy that not a lot of people have reacted to is the Quick and the Dead. The cast is amazing. Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and young Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. It is directed by Sam Raimi.
My mother lives just over the hill from the movie set where they shot half of the film. We got to see the smoke from the burning building scene, and the fireworks for the funeral scene from her back porch. Pretty cool.
My personal belief, if he sees the light in the tunnel, symbolized in his eyes while the other guy didn’t but he accidentally moved a bit and it showed a light off set/ or he did but not when we could actually speak it. I love Doc. He reminds me of like Captain Jack Sparrow. Funny, serious, one hell of a character
This was my into to westerns as a little kid. It's a great classic for someone new. I also played RDR2 and was really sad as soon as I saw Arthur Morgan showing consumption(tuberculosis) signs. It was like, "Gd not again. Why!?". 30:31 There's a comp vid with a lot of deleted scenes and there's a meeting between McMaster, Ringo, & Ike. They blasted him for not rejoining them and choosing to stay with Wyatt.
What Doc thought was funny. About the most famous legend is " a cowboy always dies with his boots on. " Meaning they were killed in a gun fight, stampede, on the trail, etc.. in other words, in "action" of some sort, and usually fairly young, never of old age or natural causes. And Doc saw himself dying there, in bed, with no boots on. That's why the camera angle was so prominently what it was. i
Real events. The shootout and Ok Corral in Tombstone AZ was real. The shootout in the creek vs Curly Bill was real too. Doc Holliday had tuberculosis. He looked at his bare feet and thought it was funny he died without his boots on. He thought he’d die in a gunfight. So many good lines, so many good actors. Curly Bill was Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo. Sam Elliott, Kurt Russel, Bill Paxton, Val Kilmer. Jason Priestly played Billy. Charlton Heston played the owner of the ranch where Doc stayed. Charlton played Moses in the Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, lots of famous movies. Great western.
The amount of reaction videos to this movie is quite pleasing to me. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and seeing it get the recognition it deserves makes me so happy. I’ve been to the real tombstone and it is such a cool place. Wyatt’s home, the birdcage theatre and some other places featured in the movie are still standing. It’s worth the trip to go and visit!
I really want to go! It sounds like so much fun. When I found out it was real, I immediately had to look it up and see that it's a tourist spot. So cool!
Doc's last words in this movie are a direct quote. He always thought he would die in a gunfight, so it was funny to him that he didn't die with his boots on. Tuberculosis didn't have a cure back then, so Doc was essentially a dead man walking. He had time to come to terms with the fact that he was currently suffering a long death and decided: fuck it. To me, Kate's enabling felt more like her way to make his last days on earth enjoyable. She was also acting as someone who could make sure Doc got at least enough help to learn how long he had left to live. I do have some Western recommendations. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Hidalgo (2004) The Quick and the Dead (1995) Cowboys & Aliens (2011) Bone Tomahawk (2015) Silverado (1985) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Young Guns (1988)
Nice, thank you! I've got at least 5 of those Westerns on my list, so that's reassuring. Appreciate the recommendations and the comments. It's so weird when I watch these reactions back while making the edit. There are some things I say that I'm like "why didn't I see Kate helping him live out the rest of his life" etc. but I guess it comes with the territory of reactions. Haha
Charlton Heston, the OG in the cameo, is also knows as Moses for his lead in the 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments" but he also killed his part in 1959 for "Ben-Hur". The chariot race in Ben-Hur is a magnificent showing of the big movie days with massive sets. The actual death of Johnny Ringo was nothing like in this movie; I've visited his grave next to a creek in Arizona. It's private property but the landowner allows visitors and even has a fence-crossing there to reach the grave. Evidence says both Wyatt and Doc had already left the state but it's still up for argument. The cowboys were rustlers moving cattle and horses back and forth with Mexico but never wore red sashes; why be obvious about it. But overall, it's a good movie and glad you reacted to it.
Interesting. Thanks! Yeah I figured the red sashes may be for viewers to recognize them easier but then again gang members now have different colored bandanas to recognize eachother which thinking about it seems foolish. It's wild to me that these things happened even if not completely accurate, I just had no idea they were real people until I started reading these comments.
@@JayBondReacts Years ago I lived in El Paso and went to several meetings with Leon Metz, a local historian. He pointed out several places downtown where gunfights happened, and we went to the grave of John Wesley Hardin. Leon’s gone now but he led me to Bob Boze Bell and some of his books. Bob now has UA-cam videos about various western occurrences including Tombstone, Doc, and the Earps. One video of his is “Did Doc Holliday Kill Johnny Ringo….Or Not?”. If you’re still interested that’s a good one to see. Video too about the OK Corral 140th anniversary, etc. Also he has talks on Billy the Kid and his death by Pat Garrett. I’ve been to the spot Garrett was himself murdered outside Las Cruces, NM. I just found it all so interesting while living there, and later visiting the areas. It’s history and that keeps my interest.
That's very cool. I'd definitely be interested in check out some of those videos. I probably don't want to get too into other western lore of stories I haven't seen so that I can be mostly surprised by I'll check out some more Wyatt Earp stuff for now. Thank you. Love that you got to experience that. Being able to go to the actual locations after hearing about it all is so cool!
One of my favorite actors plays Curley Bill, Powers Boothe. For a very interesting western check out "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" It has comedy, drama, action and is a great Coen Brothers movie. A cast of great actors including Liam Neeson, James Franco, and Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs.
Some of the most epic mustaches in cinema. A fantastic, action pack western with so many famous faces it’s impossible to count them all, but among them, you’ve got Michael Biehn, Michael Rooker, Sly’s brother Frank getting stabbed by Doc Holiday, Billy Zane, Pedro Armendariz Jr as the priest at the beginning, he and his father were pretty big in Mexican cinema and tv back in the day, screen legend Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker, so many and of course Kurt Russell. The music, also amazing, the use of natural light, like those sunsets, beautiful. Kurt really gave a great performance as Wyatt Earp, one hell of a talented actor. I wonder if you’ve seen him in another pretty cool movie he did, Escape from New York. If you haven’t I strongly recommend you watch it, it’s a classic.
Honestly so good. I'm glad this was recommended a bunch it immediately makes me more open to westerns in general. I haven't seen Kurt Russell much, honestly. I haven't seen Escape from New York but it's on the list. I mostly remember him from Captain Ron I think? 🤔😂
@@JayBondReacts I gotchu with the Kurt Russell recommendations. The Thing (1982) Bone Tomahawk (2015) Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Tango and Cash (1989) Stargate (1994) Poseidon (2006) Miracle (2004) And if you **really** want to go into his back catalogue, there's the first movie I ever saw him in as a kid on the Disney Channel: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) His son, Wyatt Russell, is in Overlord (2018) and I **highly** recommend watching it. He looks and sounds **just** like his dad. EDIT: I worked at Suncoast as a teenager and because I remember a shitload of movie trivia, I got to sort and shelve the boxes of random DVDs we got in shipping and walk the store floor to help people who were having trouble finding something. I'd always recommend other movies that have the same actor in them. I love being able to do that for people who do reaction videos.
@@quicksilvermad That's a great list, thanks. I already planned to check out a few of those already too! Bone Tomahawk is one that I watched when it came out, but need to rewatch cause I think it was overhyped for me. The "wishbone" kill is wild though. Overlord was great! I don't think I made the connection that his son was in it. 😂
@@JayBondReacts Bone Tomahawk has some really good sound design. The scene with the throat bone was waaaay too realistic. And the wishbone kill is the first thing I've seen in a horror movie where I had to put my hand up in front of the screen to block it because it looked too real. EDIT: Scratch that. I had to shield my eyes during Martyrs. That movie made me cry for like an hour after I saw it.
@@JayBondReacts I mentioned it in a comment already, but here's a bunch of westerns to check out: 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Hidalgo (2004) The Quick and the Dead (1995) Cowboys & Aliens (2011) Bone Tomahawk (2015) Silverado (1985) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Young Guns (1988)
“I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler, and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six gun I ever knew.” -Wyatt Earp speaking of Doc Holiday
"I'm your huckleberry..."
Fun Fact: Val Kilmer practiced for a long time on his quick-draw speed, and gave his character a Southern Aristocrat accent. The southern accent is an authentic touch, as Holliday was a cousin (several generations removed) of "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell.
Western Connection Fact: The excerpt from William Shakespeare's "Henry the V" that is recited by Mr. Fabian is the same passage that Dutton Peabody speaks to himself while walking down the street in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), which I highly recommend.
Historical Fact: The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true, and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. 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. 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.
Thanks for this. The Historical Fact is crazy! Can't believe he did that!
Jay Bond ...You are welcome!
Go in Peace and Walk with God! 😎 👍
@@JayBondReacts One "dying with their boots on" held significance during the gilded age in the American frontier. When Doc Holliday was in the process of dying he found it funny that he had subverted his own expectations despite such a raucous life lived. From Wikipedia: The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms says: "Die with your boots on was apparently first used in the late 19th century of deaths of cowboys and others in the American West who were killed in gun battles or hanged." He somehow made it through all these scrapes and died a death that did not at all match his lifestyle of years lived looking down the barrel of a gun.
Remarkable that the only damage Wyatt Earp suffered in the fight at the spring was a hole in his duster and a heel shot off one boot as he was dismounting.
Doc Holliday was actually a dentist from Georgia. He contracted Tuberculosis and moved out west for the dry air. Unfortunately there was no cure then.
If I recall, what was funny was Doc became a reckless gunfighter because he had TB, and would rather die in a gun fight than from the disease, but he was too damn good, so at the end, he died without his boots on in a hospice bed. It's been quite a few decades since I heard the story, so I may have made mistakes or left details out.
You can still visit his grave in Glenwood Springs Colorado. There is a hot springs pool now where he used to have a shack down by the river.
Fun fact: it was supposed to say “I’m your huckle bearer”. The handles on a casket were called huckles. To say “I’m your huckle bearer”
means “I’ll carry you to your grave”.
Horns of a dilemma: You want to die in a gunfight, but your pride won't let you lose. He died in his hotel bed, since the sanitarium hadn't been built yet.
@@Mortismors People routinely leave cards and poker chips at his grave-site. Once brought an airline bottle of bourbon up there, took a few swigs, then poured the rest on his grave, so I could say I "had a drink" with Doc Holliday.
Everyone grew their own mustache except for the actor that played Behan. Doc looked at his feet & said "this is funny" because in the old west, "they died with their boots on" was an old saying meaning they would die in a gunfight. But Doc saw the irony in that he was dying & barefoot. There was a lot of differences made for the movie. It was done amazingly well. I've seen it several times & is in my collection. What a superb cast. Great reaction.
I grew up watching westerns because grandpa liked them. "Tombstone" is one of the best ever made, and my personal all-time favorite. This story romanticizes the history a lot but is fairly true to real life. A couple points:
Doc Holliday looked sick and was coughing up blood all the time because he had tuberculosis for years. That disease can take a long time to kill a person. What struck Doc as funny at the moment of his death was that he was dying peaceably in bed with bare feet, instead of "dying with his boots on" by violence, which he'd basically been trying to do all that time.
Big Nose Kate, Doc's girlfriend, gets a bad rap in this movie because much of her role in the events got cut out for story purposes. She was with Doc for years, and took care of him through his bad bouts with the TB. She knew he would never give up his way of life, but at the same time, she knew how sick he was. In reality, she broke up with him over his insistence on helping Wyatt in the war with the Cowboys, but they got back together. They didn't show it in the movie, but she was caring for him at the sanatorium when he died.
I think it's pretty much the universal opinion that Val Kilmer stole this movie, which is quite the feat, considering the amazing cast. It's just plain wrong that he didn't get an Oscar for the Doc Holliday role.
Finally, the cameo that you didn't recognize is the immortal, legendary, Hollywood god, Charlton Heston. He was big in westerns. He was big in everything. He was freaking Moses and Ben Hur, for crying out loud, with no CGI. 😉
Thank you so much for this! Especially about Kate, their whole dynamic in the movie felt so weird to me without knowing any of the real story so this clears things up alot. I'm immediately interested in learning more because I honestly had no idea these were real people and true events which only makes it that much better.
I'm also shocked that Val Kilmer didn't get best supporting actor. He's the best! He has a huge range of emotion and lack thereof that it would be impossible to overlook him when considering awards. So strange!
Loved your comment wanted to add Doc was disappointed in Ringo because he hoped he was as good as his legend and that they would kill each other removing Wyatt's problem and ending Doc's suffering hence his reaction "your no daisy at all " although historians argue that this even happened.
Doc's end scenes is very nice & touching here. Even more so if Kate was also involved. In life, Wyatt wasn't there unfortunately. He didn't know Doc passed until afterwards. They had a falling out some time after the vendetta ride, but in the months nearing Doc's end they both met up again and worked it out. It's not clear if Kate was there up to Doc's last days. She has said she was. Though they broke up and got back together at times, Kate & Doc were a solid pair. Once, she even broke him out of jail after setting a fire in town. Doc passed in the Hotel Glenwood instead of a sanitarium. There's now a store located where the hotel stood.
You can buy a copy of that booklet Wyatt gives to Doc at the end. I have one. It's a nice prop from the movie. The real Wyatt didn't write one. There's also a really nice The Making of tombstone video on UA-cam with some historic commentaries and interviews with the actors. It's fun.
Oh and one more Fact. Val KILMER himself Mentioned in an interview he Did about a year After his Throat Cancer Scare. I Thought, like everyone, that Doc was saying, " I'm Your Huckleberry"! But it was a Taunt That Doc said only twice , and only to Ringo. A HUCKLE is one of the Handles on the side of a Coffen. And in several parts of the South, including were Doc was from in Georgia, they didn't say Pole Barers, they said HUCKLE BARERS! Which is what Doc was Taunting Ringo with!
Favorite western of all time. My main reason for watching this is Kurt Russell and the surprisingly amazing performance of Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Fabulous ‼️👍
I did NOT like Val Kilmer prior to this film. His acting in this film was perfection, he IS Doc Holiday. Loved him after this.
You didn’t like him in Willow?!?
You didn't like him in, "The Doors"?
@@ieatpeopleand I actually never watched them until after Tombstone. Although, I’ve still not seen Willow…. I was in high school when it came out so you’d think I’d of seen it. Boyfriend wasn’t interested and bestie saw it without me…. The itch. Lol. I’d only seen him in Top Gun, Real Genius and Top Secret prior to Tombstone. Had to believe it’s the same actor considering his growth from start to Tombstone. Blew my mind.
@@jeanine6328 Well, go on give Willow a shot, good movie. 👍
Same. I only knew him as that jerk character from Top Gun before I saw Tombstone 😆 (I also didn't see Willow until after Tombstone 🤷♀️ Never seen "The Doors", though I am aware of its existence)
He's also really great in The Saint. Not the best movie ever, but he's fantastic. A really great opportunity for an actor like him, since he is basically playing a bunch of characters in one. (Hard to explain that without spoilers, so I'm leaving that vague lol)
I'm pretty sure the 'not a chance' line was Wyatt turning down a job offer to join law enforcement (before he could even finish making the offer), not an ask to give up his seats.
I have been a diehard fan of Kurt Russell since Used Cars in 1980 and Val Kilmer since Top Secret, this is the best performance from both. Kilmer should’ve won an Oscar for this and he wasn’t even nominated. This is a great movie.👍
Captain Ron! And I agree about Kilmer should have received an Oscar.
Even mentioning Used Cars and Top Secret makes you one cool MF 😎
I remember Russell when he was a teen Disney star.
The "main guy" cameo that you don't recognize is Charlton Heston. He was an old western star and the NRA spokesman who coined the phrase, "You can take my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand." The funny part about Doc's death can be interpreted in a couple of ways. One, Doc always said he'd die with his boots on, meaning in a gun fight. Obviously, he didn't. Another way is the death tale that Morgan told about seeing a light. It could be suggested that's what Doc was seeing.
Right on, thank you! Didn't know that about Charlton Heston. That's a guy I've heard of because of Planet of the Apes but that's about the extent of my Charlton Heston knowledge until now! Poor doc though, honestly. Just wanted to go out fighting. I may have missed a line about him dying in his boots if it was in the movie or it just didn't click with me.
@@JayBondReacts It wasn't in the movie. Just a folk tale.
@@JayBondReacts Heston also starred in some of the biggest epic movies of the 50s, including Ben Hur.
This film is a Fantastic Western, with some Awesome mustaches.
Val Kilmer is Perfect casting as Doc Holiday, his quick draw and his aristocratic accent were spot on.
Whatever anyone says about the movie, the moustache game is on point 🤠
This movie has stood the test of time.
If you genuinely don't know about this movie , you are in for a ride ! The whole cast in this movie is amazing ! Never a dull moment and I'm glad to see another generation watching this movie ! It's a classic for sure ! Edit :
Fun fact : I'm your huckleberry , in the 14th or 15 century if you were seen as a " hero " or " rescued " somebody you would wear a huckleberry branch pinned to your over coat . Hence why when Doc said " I'm your huckleberry " the first time to Johnny Ringo - meaning since Wyatt wouldn't fight him and " give him what he wanted " . Doc stepped in and said that line meaning " I will save you , or rescue you " ( and give you what you want)
The second time he says it when they met at the oak tree and the line was said again , back then a person that would put you in your coffin and bury you was called a huckle bearer (our version of Paul bearer today ) due to it being common that people buried back then were put in huckle wood coffins . So when it was said the second time he said it meaning. " this time I'm here to put you in your coffin . " Well scripted line and we'll used both times ! Val Kilmer is a genius for what he did for that roll . It was said that Doc's roll was gonna be given to someone else and I think that would have been a huge mistake !
Just here to say that the huckle bearer stuff is urban legend and has been thoroughly debunked - it's huckleberry at all times and always was. And the Arthurian legend/14th century etymology of that seems similarly as apocryphal as "huckle bearer" - the only mentions I can find of this being a thing are just poorly written internet articles that all seem to use the exact same language meaning they probably all stole it from one another and none of them source anything at all to prove it. It's far, FAR more likely that it was just a cute southern idiom - keep in mind that using fruits and flowers and plants as turns of phrase were very common back then. Hell, Doc himself later uses daisies, and people to this day still use peach that way ("Ain't she a peach?" "Isn't that a daisy?"). "I'm your Huckleberry" just meant "I'm your man" from southern slang, most likely.
The guy you didn't recognize, the rancher who helped take Doc in, that's Charlton Heston. He was in a lot of movies, but most famously as Moses in the Ten Commandments, the titular role in Ben Hur, and as Taylor in the original the Planet of the Apes.
Thanks! I haven't seen any of those movies, but feel obligated too. 😂 I have seen the last seen on the beach of Planet of the Apes thanks to social media sites but not the full movie. Kind of a spoiler though. Haha
And the narration is done by Robert Mitchum.
When I figured out this movie was based on true events, I did some research on who those characters were and this movie fascinates me in learning about the events of Tombstone, Arizona.
At the end Robert Mitchem narrates and reveals that Earp died in Los Ageles and was friends with Western Movie Stars. In his last years he was an advisor for the old silent westerns in Hollywood. John Wayne was just beginning his acting career. He met, and studied, Earp on the movie sets. Wayne later said that whenever he played the part of an authoritative character, he imitated Wyatt Earp. To see him play one of these parts, is to see the ghost of Wyatt Earp.
Fun facts: The river scene is historically accurate. The shotgun Wyatt Earp used was loaned to him by Fred J. Dodge who worked for Wells Fargo as a detective. He also gave Wyatt Earp a job riding shotgun on the stage coach when he was younger before all of this.
Man you’re really on a roll with your movie selections.
Lol when can we expect “Big Trouble in Little china”? That’s another awesome movie with Kurt Russell
You’re honestly one of my favorite reactors. You have the personality for this .
Thank you so much! That means a lot. I'll probably do Big Trouble in Little China sooner than later because that's one I always see get brought up that I don't know much about except for Lo-Pan. Despite Halloween being my favorite movie, I'm realizing how many movies John Carpenter has done that I haven't seen.
@Jay Bond imo “Halloween” is definitely one of the greatest horror movies. I saw it for the first time when I was 7 or 8 on Halloween. It was my first horror movie and it scared the heck out of me.
There was a saying about men who lived that violent life that they would “die with their boots on”. So he thought it was funny to see his bare feet as he was dying.
John Wayne said he met and studied Wyett Erp so he could play a real cowboy .
Wow, that's pretty cool. It's shocking how it wasn't all that long ago. Kinda blows my mind a bit.
Thanks Jay for doing this reaction. I saw this movie in the theatre multiple times when it was released. Greatest Western I saw in a show. And, the greatest amount of quotables!!! And yes, Val Kilmer stole the show. Now, throughout the film you kept saying Doc was sick. In the beginning they mentioned he had tuberculosis. You didn't catch that part I reckon. It's okay. I believe you understood by the end. ⭐
I find that this movie surprises people. It's much better than you would think.
I am glad you enjoyed Tombstone. I was in my teens when this movie came out. My friends and me all enjoyed it. There was a small surge of Westerns that came out in the 90s one of witch was Unforgiven staring Clint Eastwood and Morgan freeman. I believe it did win some Oscar's and it's defenely worthy of a watch. I hope this video does well for you and your channel continues to grow.
Thank you so much! I plan to watch Unforgiven at some point as well. I haven't seen much Clint Eastwood so it's almost mandatory at this point. 😂
Born, raised, and still live 1 hour from Tombstone, AZ. Grew up with all the wonderful western movies, and Tombstone is by far the best. All the basic facts surrounding Tombstone, the Cowboys, the Earps, Doc Holliday are real, maybe a little glamorized for the movie. Nevertheless the cast was top notch, authentic location scenery cannot be beat. Have been to Wyatt Earps gravesite in Colma California. There is dispute as to where Doc Holliday is buried. Some say "somewhere" in Glenwood Springs Colorado where he died. Some say Griffin Georgia where he was born.
A great movie. I love that the viewer spends most of the film wondering if Ringo or Doc, two of the deadliest gunfighters, is faster. When the climatic moment comes, Doc kills Ringo and holsters his gun before Ringo ever gets a shot off. Others may have mentioned in the comments, but the director had a nervous breakdown during filming so most of the movie was directed by Kurt Russell. Everyone on the film kept it a secret until the director died a few years ago. Give "Deadwood" a try if you get a hankering for a western. TV show, not movie, and the greatest western of the modern era.
That's interesting, haven't heard that Kurt directed a lot of it, that's pretty cool to see someone able to step up like that. I think I'm gonna give Deadwood a shot soon. I was with some friends on the weekend and mentioned it and they said I need to see it as well. Thanks for the recommendation!
Kevin Jarre didn’t have a nervous breakdown. He was fired by the studio. George Cosmatos became the director of record but both Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell confirmed that Kurt basically directed it.
"This is funny" were the actual last words of Doc Holiday.
Mattie Blaylock and Wyatt Earp were never formally married, and in "real life" by the time Wyatt met Josephine Marcus (the actress), Mattie had left Wyatt for another man.
I absolutely love this movie! Watched it so many damn times. One of those movies with a high rewatch ability.
If you're ever out here in Arizona, take a trip down to tombstone.
Oh hell yeah! One day I'll try to get out there!
Something that strikes me is the difference between what the younger generation knows of these true stories and what my generation knew of these true stories. I don't know where we all learned it from because it's not something we would have learned in school but everybody who was my age knew all of the stories and that was one of the things that made the movies such a big hit is that they were telling stories that we already knew.
I don't know where we all learned about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, but we all knew about them already before the movie came out.
Yeah, I actually don't know. The only thing I was taught (being in Canada) was about the gold rush in the Yukon. I have heard the name Wyatt Earp a ton of times and but didn't know it was real. What's especially odd, is I was around 7 when this came out and there were lots of cowboy related things as I grew up but never in any historic sense.
Kilmer killed it in this movie. 3:10 to Yuma is another really good western. (The newer version w bale & crow)
He didn't want his chair he was going to ask him to be the new Marshall That's what everybody wants him to do
Kate was good to Doc. He's dying of TB. She wanted him to enjoy what life he had left, not lay around and waste his final days away.
Tombstone is a masterpiece! Easily one of my favorites!! As you described the wide shots and cinematography in this another great western came to mind. If you find the time I think you would enjoy Open Range with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. It is beautifully shot. The landscape and scenery almost become another character in the movie. Even if you don't react to it, it's well worth the watch on it's own!
Awesome, thank you! If it's not already on my list, I'll add it. Appreciate it.
I really enjoy the gun spinning/cup spinning scene. How they trade barbs in Latin. You can see Doc watching each spin move Ringo makes. Not only did Doc spin his cup, he matched Ringo's routine exactly.
Another western for you to try is OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. It isn't anchored to historical figures as was Tombstone, but it is an accurate portrayal of the social and political dynamic of the time.
Y'all Open Range is so good. Lonesome Dove, too.
When Doc says I've got two guns one for each of you he spins his guns in opposite directions while holding a shot glass...I always thought that was awesome
So good! Loved that.
What Doc thought was funny when he was dying was that he didn’t “die with his boots on.” He was barefoot
Top Gun Val Kilmer Sweat = Exercise
Tombstone Val Kilmer Sweat = Tuberculosis
(Also, why he's referred to as a "lunger" several times)
VAL KILMER(R.I.P.!) KILLS IT
Doc getting sick at the end while fighting is like your top player getting disconnected in the final circle in Warzone.
There are two movies I recall seeing in the theater every weekend. This and The Crow
I have a friend who calls me Huckleberry. And yes, the quotable lines in this movie are abundant.
If no one mentioned it Doc had tuberculosis.
They mentioned it at the beginning of the film but only called it a lunger throughout so I just kept with "he's sick" because I forgot what exactly he had and never heard the term lunger before. 😂
@@JayBondReacts And that's why he's pictured as sweating all the time.
Doc Holliday's actual last words as reported by his nurses were "This is funny." It's been interpreted by many people (including some who knew him) to refer to him dying peacefully in bed of an illness and not in a fight. Have you never seen Planet of the Apes? Charleton Heston? His best movie is probably Ben Hur, but Planet of the Apes is more fun.
Thanks! No, I haven't seen Planet of the Apes. I saw the first remake when it came out I think but that was it.
Doc said 'This is funny' because he always said he'd die with his boots on. In the hospital bed he looked at his bare feet and said that famous line. Doc was a dentist, can you believe it, A DENTIST. That's why they called him Doc.. I told my dentist that and he was amazed.
I heard that Charlton Heston was a last minute replacement for Robert Mitchum who had injured himself just before filming began. So they got Mitchum to record the opening and closing voice overs. After the James Stewart version of Destry Rides Again this is my fave western. Blazing Saddles spoofs Marlene Dietrichs performance in Destry.
Wait... Soylent Green is what now? 🙄
Doc was actually in a coma for a month before he died, he said those words before he went into the coma.
So happy you reacted to Tombstone. My dad was always into westerns and I never understood the appeal until I watched this one. I love the cinematography the shots are so beautiful and the overlay with the sweeping music playing, the dialogue, it's perfect!! The scene with McMasters was weird, because they did film where he meets with Ringo and they kill him, they just cut it out, you can watch it, it's floating around youtube. There are definitely some other good westerns out there, I would recommend Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. The new Magnificent Seven with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. Oh and 3:10 to Yuma (the newer one) and Young Guns from the 80s. Great reaction as always and also love your shirt!!
Oh I'll have to look up that McMasters scene. That seems like an odd thing to cut but I guess the movie was already over 2 hours. Thanks for those recommendations. I remember hearing about Magnificent 7 and 310 to Yuma but just kinda ignored them. 😂 Thank you again!
Johnny Ringo wasn't pissed at Doc after the gun twirling display, he was showing fear because Doc repeated his routine move for move while drunk and realized Doc was a better gunfighter.
Not only repeated it, but did it with an unbalanced tin cup.
Thanks for a great reaction to this movie! Long time subscriber. The movie is the closest to the true story of all Wyatt Earp movies. Some scenes and dialog came right from the Tombstone Epitaph. You can get reprints of the Earp-Clanton trial today. I grew up near the town of Tombstone Arizona. The town is still there and looks like the movie. The Earp's and Clanton's still live there and in fact Wyatt Earp III played Billy Claiborne in the movie. The Birdcage theater is there with the bullet holes still in the ceiling. Wyatt Earp was a consultant on the early movie westerns. Famous movie cowboys Tom Mix and William S Hart were pallbearers at Wyatt Earp's funeral. Wyatt Earp's saloon, the Oriental is still there and is now a variety store called Eileen's. Many in Tombstone still wear guns. I interviewed one of the Clanton's, a store owner in Tombstone, and he still had nothing good to say about the Earp's.
The Gunfight at the OK Corral is perhaps the most accurate historical scene in film. It is choreographed from the coroner's inquest record, right down to where combatants stood and who shot whom. Hollywood's dramtic exception is arming Doc with a five shot double-barreled shotgun and two 60 shooters.
Docs last line was funny because he always said he would never live long enough to die in bed with his boots off.
They say this movie was the most historically accurate to what happened.
When "Doc" said "this is funny": was because cowboys were supposed to die with their boots on and he was barefoot!!!
12:13 - Ike Clanton is played by an almost unrecognizable Stephen Lang, the villain from Avatar.
Yeah, when I saw his name in the credits it blew my mind. I even compared pictures of him in Don't Breathe to Ike and it's still hard to make the connection lol
You've now seen the best Western ever. May I suggest Silverado as a good Western. It was written by Laurence Kasden, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
I'll have to add this to the list. Thanks!
Maybe tied with “A Fistful of Dollars” or “High Plains Drifter” for me. “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” also very good Westerns.
I Second "Silverado"....... and Raise "Quigley Down Under" with Tom Selleck.......
Another of my favorite westerns with an all star cast is Young Guns. Not as historically accurate as this movie. But still a good movie about a group of pals.
This movie even had a big name as the narrator: Robert Mitchum.
"This is funny" were reportedly Holliday's last words before dying.
The movie is a mixture of history and myth. Ringo's death was ruled a suicide (for instance) and a subsequent claim that Holliday shot him is regarded a hoax. However, it plays great in the movie.
Key points like the gunfight at OK Corral are true. There was reportedly a church burning that day. And I've heard fans credit this film for getting many details of the action correct.
Oh awesome! When I saw the fire of the church I had just assumed it was the Cowboys messing about but it was for historical accuracy! And an awesome shot for the walk down. Very cool!
Doc actually died after a month in a coma. He said those words before he went into the coma.
For younger viewers of "Tombstone" and other westerns, I hope this sparks more curiosity about the history of the American West (beyond Red Dead Redemption!) In reality, even though the actors are much older, these were real people in their 20's who left family and friends to look for adventure in Tombstone-not unlike the Gen Z and Millennial nomads of today.
Nothing like the, tough as nails, Virgil Earp saying, "I still got one good arm to hold you with." The cast was superb, ut the surprise was the hidden Jason Priestly from a show called Beverly Hills 90210. I didn't watch the show, but he was extremely well known, and nobody realized it was him.
I watched the show and didn't realize that was Jason Priestley, mind you haven't seen him in like 20+ years probably. 😂
@@JayBondReacts He did a great job. Most people at the time didn't notice.
The on actor you missed, and I was so impressed at how many you nailed!!! The guy that really liked the actor and touched his hand in the stage scene was "Jason Priestly"!!!
That's great! Even if I knew he was on this, I think it would have fooled me still. I watched 90210 back in the day but he looked so different from what was in my head.
Re funny part Doc was referring to when he was dying … Out west, gunfighters always died with their boots on … which he didn’t
Thanks! Haven't heard that before.
Mayor Clum did NOT want to take Wyatt's seat in the balcony! He was going to ask Wyatt to be a marshall and Wyatt cut him off before he could even ask the question- Not a prayer!"
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I will never get tired of watching it. I'd love to see you react to my FAVORITE movie, The Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers is on my list but I know I have to be careful with that one because of the music.
Actually wyatt came with 5 brothers
This film was beyond important to the genre of Westerns... It was the connective tissue between the Golden Hollywood Westerns and the modern era. The town sheriff Fred was played by Harry Carey Jr (who starred in multiple John Ford epics), Buck Taylor ('Newly' from the TV series Gunsmoke) played Jack 'Turkey Creek' Johnson and that was Charlton Heston (The Big Country, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, etc) in the cameo as Henry Hooker... Plus the legendary Robert Mitchum as the voice over narrator at the beginning and end of the movie.
30.06 Cameo is the man himself. Moses and the 10 Commandments as well as a very very good actor.... Mr Charlton Heston. A man I grew up on watching his performances over the years. R.I.P. Mr Charlton Heston.
Other people have likely recommended, but if you want one of the best of the best of the classic Westerns, definitely watch "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." It's right at that perfect point between the tropes and themes of the more fairy tale style westerns, and the more gritty and realistic modern westerns.
Awesome, thanks! I don't believe anyone has recommended this yet. Appreciate that. I'd love to get some base knowledge of some of the best.
I was born and raised In Arizona.. still live here! I live out west of Arizona on some land... and let me tell you... it is just as beautiful as some of the shots in this movie (Of course filmed in Arizona) Other than typical 110+ Weather half the year or more lol... It's great out here!
That's great! I've got some friends out there that I hope visit sometime. Hope to see it for myself at some point but that weather. 😂 As a chilly Canadian man, I'll melt.
@@JayBondReacts You probably would! Lmao. Well.. if you ever get that chance.. you will love it.. as long as you visit between Nov-Feb! The rest of the year is hot! haha.. But seriously... Arizona is beautiful in most places! :) If you do come down.. you should visit Tombstone... it's awesome!
When Doc said "this is funny", he's making reference to the old idea that a cowboy should die with his boots on, when he saw his bare feet, that was funny to him
I love that. I had never heard that saying before, which is probably part of my lack of Western knowledge. Live by the sword, die by the sword in a sense.
I'm just happy that somebody recognized Michael Beihn. I l Ioved your comments about the shots. Keep em coming!!
Thank you!
Every person in here existed. This is mostly a true story.
I'm not sure if anyone else in the comments said it, so if they did my apologies. The reason why Doc looked at his bare feet and said 'This is funny'. It's a reference to him assuming that he'd die with his boots on as he was a gunfighter. Great reaction, and probably my all time favorite movie.
Thank you! Seems like so many people are reacting to this movie over the past week, so I'm happy it's making it's rounds. It's wonderful!
I grew up in Arizona, and I assure you, its a real place and this is a true story, though it did get the Hollywood treatment.
Wyatt Earp had a well known reputation as a badass lawman (though he had a foot on both sides of the law, like most men back then, It wasn't weird). So when he came to Tombstone, people knew who he was and thry were hungry for law and order.
When the Mayor approached him in the Birdcage, he wasn't asking for their seats. He was asming him to be their law man.
Regarding the Cowboys, don't confuse the gang with the profession. Its like, if you and your friends formed a gang and called it The Accountants. Its just a name.
True cowboys, then and now, are some of the hardest working, respectful, honest people you could ever hope to meet.
Hi Jay, My first reaction with you. Just came across you. I liked that you did not talk to much. Some reactors stop the movie and talk for 5 minutes about what they have seen. You did everything just right. I am going to keep you. Another GREAT WESTERN is #TRUE GRIT with JOHN WAYNE. And the remake about 8 years ogo with JEFF BRIDGES AND MATT DANON. IT IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY. BOTH ARE GREAT MOVIES. I will see you later. Bless You.
Thank you. I can't promise I won't talk more in some movies, but I try to balance it. Usually we HAVE to so we cut away from the movie enough that we don't get our videos blocked. I was lucky with this one. 😂
My favorite tombstone in Tombstone said "he was right and we were wrong, but we strung him up and now he's gone"
The cameo of the ranch owner they get shelter from at the end is Charlton Heston I believe.
The man you said you probably didn’t recognize is Charlton Heston. Also one of the Cowboys that joined up with the Earps was Buck Taylor who played Newly on Gunsmoke.
Another Western you would enjoy that not a lot of people have reacted to is the Quick and the Dead. The cast is amazing. Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and young Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. It is directed by Sam Raimi.
YES! I love Raimi! Someone recommended this the other day and I immediately added it to my list. Looking forward to that one.
If I was to suggest one, it would be Young Guns, now that is an underrated Western.
Super underrated flick!!!
I always love when they are on the street at the beginning and the shooting happens everyone flinches except Doc.
My mother lives just over the hill from the movie set where they shot half of the film. We got to see the smoke from the burning building scene, and the fireworks for the funeral scene from her back porch. Pretty cool.
My personal belief, if he sees the light in the tunnel, symbolized in his eyes while the other guy didn’t but he accidentally moved a bit and it showed a light off set/ or he did but not when we could actually speak it. I love Doc. He reminds me of like Captain Jack Sparrow. Funny, serious, one hell of a character
You are my absolute favorite reaction ,I’ve seen this movie again and again, watched reaction videos but your the only one knows the actors❤️
Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves, Outlaw Josey Wales, there's some epic western movies
The cameo you weren't sure about was Charlton Heston. He was the founder of the band called Guns n Moses.
This was my into to westerns as a little kid. It's a great classic for someone new. I also played RDR2 and was really sad as soon as I saw Arthur Morgan showing consumption(tuberculosis) signs. It was like, "Gd not again. Why!?".
30:31 There's a comp vid with a lot of deleted scenes and there's a meeting between McMaster, Ringo, & Ike. They blasted him for not rejoining them and choosing to stay with Wyatt.
Kevin Costner's portrayal of Wyatt Earp is also very good.
Doc's death bed scene - what was funny was Doc never thought he'd die peacefully in a bed with his boots off...
That guy whom you mentioned that might be a cameo, the actor was Charleton Heston in one of his final roles before he'd passed away
What Doc thought was funny.
About the most famous legend is " a cowboy always dies with his boots on. "
Meaning they were killed in a gun fight, stampede, on the trail, etc.. in other words, in "action" of some sort, and usually fairly young, never of old age or natural causes.
And Doc saw himself dying there, in bed, with no boots on. That's why the camera angle was so prominently what it was. i
That's great!
Real events. The shootout and Ok Corral in Tombstone AZ was real. The shootout in the creek vs Curly Bill was real too. Doc Holliday had tuberculosis. He looked at his bare feet and thought it was funny he died without his boots on. He thought he’d die in a gunfight. So many good lines, so many good actors. Curly Bill was Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo. Sam Elliott, Kurt Russel, Bill Paxton, Val Kilmer. Jason Priestly played Billy. Charlton Heston played the owner of the ranch where Doc stayed. Charlton played Moses in the Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, lots of famous movies. Great western.
Unforgiven and Open Range are both great westerns. It's not a genre I'm particularly drawn to but I loved both of these movies.
I just snagged this and Unforgiven on 4k. Great movies!
The amount of reaction videos to this movie is quite pleasing to me. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and seeing it get the recognition it deserves makes me so happy. I’ve been to the real tombstone and it is such a cool place. Wyatt’s home, the birdcage theatre and some other places featured in the movie are still standing. It’s worth the trip to go and visit!
I really want to go! It sounds like so much fun. When I found out it was real, I immediately had to look it up and see that it's a tourist spot. So cool!
@@JayBondReacts we also may have watched the movie Tombstone all the way to Tombstone… so a drive from California to Arizona haha! Worth it!!
Doc's last words in this movie are a direct quote. He always thought he would die in a gunfight, so it was funny to him that he didn't die with his boots on.
Tuberculosis didn't have a cure back then, so Doc was essentially a dead man walking. He had time to come to terms with the fact that he was currently suffering a long death and decided: fuck it.
To me, Kate's enabling felt more like her way to make his last days on earth enjoyable. She was also acting as someone who could make sure Doc got at least enough help to learn how long he had left to live.
I do have some Western recommendations.
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Hidalgo (2004)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Silverado (1985)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Young Guns (1988)
Nice, thank you! I've got at least 5 of those Westerns on my list, so that's reassuring. Appreciate the recommendations and the comments. It's so weird when I watch these reactions back while making the edit. There are some things I say that I'm like "why didn't I see Kate helping him live out the rest of his life" etc. but I guess it comes with the territory of reactions. Haha
Charlton Heston, the OG in the cameo, is also knows as Moses for his lead in the 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments" but he also killed his part in 1959 for "Ben-Hur". The chariot race in Ben-Hur is a magnificent showing of the big movie days with massive sets. The actual death of Johnny Ringo was nothing like in this movie; I've visited his grave next to a creek in Arizona. It's private property but the landowner allows visitors and even has a fence-crossing there to reach the grave. Evidence says both Wyatt and Doc had already left the state but it's still up for argument. The cowboys were rustlers moving cattle and horses back and forth with Mexico but never wore red sashes; why be obvious about it. But overall, it's a good movie and glad you reacted to it.
Interesting. Thanks! Yeah I figured the red sashes may be for viewers to recognize them easier but then again gang members now have different colored bandanas to recognize eachother which thinking about it seems foolish. It's wild to me that these things happened even if not completely accurate, I just had no idea they were real people until I started reading these comments.
@@JayBondReacts Years ago I lived in El Paso and went to several meetings with Leon Metz, a local historian. He pointed out several places downtown where gunfights happened, and we went to the grave of John Wesley Hardin. Leon’s gone now but he led me to Bob Boze Bell and some of his books. Bob now has UA-cam videos about various western occurrences including Tombstone, Doc, and the Earps. One video of his is “Did Doc Holliday Kill Johnny Ringo….Or Not?”. If you’re still interested that’s a good one to see. Video too about the OK Corral 140th anniversary, etc. Also he has talks on Billy the Kid and his death by Pat Garrett. I’ve been to the spot Garrett was himself murdered outside Las Cruces, NM. I just found it all so interesting while living there, and later visiting the areas. It’s history and that keeps my interest.
That's very cool. I'd definitely be interested in check out some of those videos. I probably don't want to get too into other western lore of stories I haven't seen so that I can be mostly surprised by I'll check out some more Wyatt Earp stuff for now. Thank you. Love that you got to experience that. Being able to go to the actual locations after hearing about it all is so cool!
Maddie and Wyatt weren't really married, more of a common law marriage. But she was a drug addict.
Doc told Wyatt he would die with his boots on so the irony is he's dying with them off.
Ah that makes sense! Thanks.
What was funny is Doc saw the tunnel light as he passed.
In the south where doc was from, a huckleberry was slang for someone's pall bearer.
One of my favorite actors plays Curley Bill, Powers Boothe.
For a very interesting western check out "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" It has comedy, drama, action and is a great Coen Brothers movie. A cast of great actors including Liam Neeson, James Franco, and Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs.
Awesome, thanks. I do plan on watching some more Coen Brothers so I'll keep that in mind. Appreciate it!
Few actors can do that chuckling, good-humored menace like Powers Boothe could.
@@desperateambrose5373 absolutely
The guy who played as Johnny Ringo, also was in Terminator as Kyle Reece. Enjoy very much!
Some of the most epic mustaches in cinema. A fantastic, action pack western with so many famous faces it’s impossible to count them all, but among them, you’ve got Michael Biehn, Michael Rooker, Sly’s brother Frank getting stabbed by Doc Holiday, Billy Zane, Pedro Armendariz Jr as the priest at the beginning, he and his father were pretty big in Mexican cinema and tv back in the day, screen legend Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker, so many and of course Kurt Russell. The music, also amazing, the use of natural light, like those sunsets, beautiful. Kurt really gave a great performance as Wyatt Earp, one hell of a talented actor. I wonder if you’ve seen him in another pretty cool movie he did, Escape from New York. If you haven’t I strongly recommend you watch it, it’s a classic.
Honestly so good. I'm glad this was recommended a bunch it immediately makes me more open to westerns in general. I haven't seen Kurt Russell much, honestly. I haven't seen Escape from New York but it's on the list. I mostly remember him from Captain Ron I think? 🤔😂
@@JayBondReacts I gotchu with the Kurt Russell recommendations.
The Thing (1982)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Tango and Cash (1989)
Stargate (1994)
Poseidon (2006)
Miracle (2004)
And if you **really** want to go into his back catalogue, there's the first movie I ever saw him in as a kid on the Disney Channel: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
His son, Wyatt Russell, is in Overlord (2018) and I **highly** recommend watching it. He looks and sounds **just** like his dad.
EDIT: I worked at Suncoast as a teenager and because I remember a shitload of movie trivia, I got to sort and shelve the boxes of random DVDs we got in shipping and walk the store floor to help people who were having trouble finding something. I'd always recommend other movies that have the same actor in them. I love being able to do that for people who do reaction videos.
@@quicksilvermad That's a great list, thanks. I already planned to check out a few of those already too! Bone Tomahawk is one that I watched when it came out, but need to rewatch cause I think it was overhyped for me. The "wishbone" kill is wild though. Overlord was great! I don't think I made the connection that his son was in it. 😂
@@JayBondReacts Bone Tomahawk has some really good sound design. The scene with the throat bone was waaaay too realistic. And the wishbone kill is the first thing I've seen in a horror movie where I had to put my hand up in front of the screen to block it because it looked too real.
EDIT: Scratch that. I had to shield my eyes during Martyrs. That movie made me cry for like an hour after I saw it.
@@JayBondReacts I mentioned it in a comment already, but here's a bunch of westerns to check out:
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Hidalgo (2004)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Silverado (1985)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Young Guns (1988)
“I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler, and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six gun I ever knew.”
-Wyatt Earp speaking of Doc Holiday
Hey Jay, this movie is literally the story of the showdown between Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Henry "Doc" Holiday at the O.K. Coral
i laughed my ass off when you said wyatt was out frolicking.... great choice of words