I've heard that when Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo) was doing the press tour for "Tombstone", he was asked what it was like to work with Val Kilmer. "I've never worked with Val Kilmer", Biehn responded; "I've worked with Doc Holliday".
Ironically, based on the information we have of the real Doc from the historical records, he actually was playing a caricature of Doc. Still one of my favorite performances in any film. The performance by Dennis Quaid a year later in Wyatt Earp is considered to be the most accurate portrayal of the actual Doc Holliday. Also one of my favorite performances.
"I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had 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 nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew"
I know people always say this and I agree it was a great performance but to say it's criminal when you see the people nominated that year is just silly! Best Supporting Actor Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive Winner Ralph Fiennes Schindler's List Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio What's Eating Gilbert Grape Nominee Pete Postlethwaite In the Name of the Father Nominee John Malkovich In the Line of Fire Nominee That's a list of brilliant performances, all of them in great movies too!
True, and a bit more. Both men were pistoleers. Both men knew exactly what to look for in their opponent. Both men walked away from that salon confrontation knowing Doc Holiday was better.
There's a scene - the one where Doc says "...one fer each of ya..." - where Val twirls two revolvers in opposite directions. I think he twirls the left one forward and the right one backward. That sure looks pretty close to ambidexterity to me!
Ringo twirling his guns revealed to Doc that he was just a boy in a man's world. In real life, Cowboys used to twirl their guns while on cattle drives across hundreds of miles of land. They simply did it out of boredom. It was literally just like a fidget spinner for a modern teen that needs to keep their mind stimulated. Ringo just had the mentality of teenage bully scaring innocent, peaceful folks with flashy twirls. Doc saw this right away. Doc is a killer with nothing to lose because he already had one foot in the grave. When he drew his guns it wasn't to show off, it was to kill. He was so skilled with his guns that he mocked Ringo's gun twirls by perfectly replicating his moves on first sight with his drinking cup. He was drunk and half dead sick and Ringo realized that regardless of that he came across a real killer.
Yep. And repeated it with a cup. So damn good with guns he could do the same with a cup. Let's see Ringo do that. Ringo can't, cause he ain't no daisy. He ain't no daisy at all.
One of the BEST western movies ever made, and at 69 I can safely say I've seen a few!!! Perfect cast, incredible story, fabulous dialogue, super entertaining!!! The male actors (old and new) drew me to the theater, I stayed for the whole yummy main course AND dessert!!! I went by myself, no guy "dragged" me to see it. 🌟 💕 🤠 🐎 Must see!!
I'm only in my 40s and even I know Tombstone is top tier for westerns. I don't even like westerns, but I can't deny some awards were earned in this one. Especially Val as Doc. Everyone says he deserves it, someone give that man what he earned.
I'd straight up forfeit. I'm not egotistical enough to fuck with Doc. I'm very egotistical, but not enough to mess with Doc Holiday in a shootout. That Huckleberry would put my tail between my legs.
@@comerfordanthonyActually its not. It's im your Huckleberry which was a saying back then that meant im the one for the job/im the one you want. The studio also confirmed the words are Huckleberry despite some people hearing it wrong as huckle bearer
@@Benaiah1K44I’ve always thought two of his best lines are just two words each. The “I wasn’t” from this scene and the “I don’t” after the creek shootout.
There’s a lot of hard ass lines from this movie, but the delivery of Holiday’s “I wasn’t”, just ice in the veins, zero thought, zero remorse, it’s so hard.
Thank you. Everyone makes a bigger deal out of the "Huckleberry" line, but the coldest and most dangerous line was simply, "I wasn't". Two words and you knew Ringo was absolutely fucked. Doc wasn't letting that shit slide. He came for blood. He made it clear only one of them was going to walk away.
Doc Holliday spinning his revolver before holstering it after he shoots Ringo and takes a hit off his cigarette has to be one of the most nuanced gangsta boss moves in cinematic history... hands down.
True. It was a an old saying meaning that the Daisy is actually a rather tough flower. When others wither and die the daisy is usually the last one left standing.
@@jessecortez9449 "your a daisy if you do" was a comon saying back then and it was "your the best if you do" referencing someone or something as a daisy they are the best. According to Google
@jessecortez9449 I referenced back to the old saying, "pushing up dasies," which means your under ground, in a grave. Thus, "you're a daisy if you do." Your ☠️. But that's just my interpretation of the line.🤷♀️
Doc shot Johnny in the left side of his head, which happens to control the right side motor functions. No way Johnny could have brought his pistol up to shoot Doc.
I love how people say.... " Well, Doc had nothing to worry about because he's dead anyways," That may be so, but if anything, Doc's still very sick and could barely stand, never mind duel against another great gunfighter ! So I'd say Docs at even a bigger disadvantage and knowing you're gonna die doesn't make you faster on the draw. He won because he was (always a few moves ahead and...) one of the best ever with a gun ! That's the fact jack ! Remember that Ringo was no daisy ! (Also the facts)
That's kinda the key element of reaction channels. Some people simply never watched movies cause the only watched tv shows or their families didn't allow certain things cause of their upbringing or maybe their foriegn to America and the movies never really made it to them. I'm sure there are plenty of people that are shocked you may never have watched classic black and white movies, romcoms, foriegn subtitled movies or some long running tv show that's not made for your demographic. Someone would probably say "You've never watched Seven Samurai? Literally all the classic westerns are inspired by it.." We all tend to niche ourselves down and only few of us broaden ourselves past those niches.
Also, there are a LOT of movies that a large group of people would consider MUST watch. I've seen a TON of movies, but when I read one of those "100 movies to watch before you die" articles, there's always like 40-60 movies I hadn't seen yet. It takes way too much free time to be able to keep up with all the movies you can watch.
The deeper meaning to that is that a Daisy is one of the tougher plants to kill off. Whem others wither and die the Daisy is the last one standing. Doc was definitely the Daisy being the last one standing.
I really appreciate these videos, sir. Me and my grandma used to watch this movie when she was alive, so it holds a special place in my heart. Doc Holliday is easily the best character. 🙏
people bring up his roles in Real Genius, Top Gun, Willow, but for my money, Doc is his finest and most enjoyable portrayal. Say what you will about what may be exaggeration or fantasy regarding Doc, but in this Val IS Doc. Just a delightful character and portrayal.
The first person to receive penicillin was dying from an infection acquired when he scratched his hand on a thorn in his rose-garden. The penicillin worked incredibly well, but unfortunately there wasn't enough of it to finish-off the infection. By the time more was made, the infection had rebounded and killed the patient. All from the prick of a thorn. That was about 100 years ago. The scary thing is that we're actively moving back to a pre-antibiotics age where any random compromising of the skin-barrier could be your death. The US uses the vast majority of its antibiotics to offset the unhygienic conditions in factory farms, feeding the compromised animals a constant low dose in order to give the meat monopolies like Tyson a little more money. This is also exactly the strategy you'd use if you were attempting to grow antibiotic-resistant pathogens, which is why said bugs are now exploding across the nation and we're down to our last lines of biomedical defense. In addition, the refusal by the government and Big Pharma to invest in the long-term research needed to create new classes of antibiotic means it's unlikely any new "silver bullets" will be discovered before we've completely compromised the old ones. It's literally insane. It's like watching a species that's absolutely dedicated to its own destruction. We might as well be sexually-attracted to fire.
@@michaelccozens That’s silly. Antibiotics still work perfectly for everyday infections. It is a problem for some superinfections, but those are rare, and certainly aren’t in your everyday cut or puncture wound.
@@roems6396You are completely and tragically uninformed. And worse, smugly correcting someone factually correct. Most of the initial antibiotics are no longer reliably effective. We are now using what used to be high end specialty drugs.
I've been to Johnny Ringo's grave. He was buried right where he was found, and the spot looks very much like the scene in the film. But it wasn't Doc Holiday or Wyatt Earp that got him; they were both well out of the area when Ringo was killed.
@nicksterj I was going by the plaque at his grave. Sources may differ. Or I may have remembered it wrong; it's been a few years. I do remember it reading that he was probably surprised, not in a gunfight, and I'm pretty sure I remember it indicating his pants were down. But since the grave is on private property and maintained by the owners, not any historical society, maybe they had it wrong.
@nicksterj Okay, age must have caught up with me. I may have heard the part about the pants while in Tombstone. The grave is quite a ways from there (by horse). It's closer to Chiricauha Park.
I saw this movie at the cinema when it was released, and what makes this movie so great over 30 years later is that everyone here had the same reaction to "I'm your Huckleberry" now as then. The whole theatre yelled "YES !!!" and were clapping back then - still doing it's magic 30 years later.
It’s kind of a miracle that this movie is so good. It was a really troubled production that went through several directors. See if you can find the theatrical trailer. It’s got quite a few clips from scenes that didn’t make the final cut.
Michael Biehn is downright terrifying when he plays a villain, partially because he plays a villain with the same humanity as any of his hero characters (Kyle Reese is his own personal fave). The real Johnny Ringo, the product of a repressive upbringing, was even more terrifying. One detail they get wrong in this movie was that the real Johnny Ringo was found with a gunshot wound in his right temple, not this left (that's "his" right versus "his" left), and a gaping exit wound on the back of his head. That also means that he was most likely shot head-on rather than at an upward angle.
I'm 40, so I was a kid when this came out on VHS, and my friend group was obsessed with cowboy movies, so we watched this movie at almost every birthday party for about 2 years, and as such I can't wrap my mind around the concept of you kids today having to watch Tombstone "for the first time."
Everyone talks about Kilmer as Doc, and he is bad ass no doubt, but Biehn is underrated. This scene, in particular, he goes from being so confident, to showing surprise and fear, to trying to mask that fear with feign confidence. Truly amazing.
Truth be told. Everything he says I'm your huckleberry. Somebody dies. It's like his own personal finishing move. Just the words alone can finish you. Lmao
Doc wasn't saying "I'm here huckleberry.", he was saying "I'm your hucklebearer.", which is misconstrued because of his southern accent. A hucklebearer was someone who carried your coffin to the grave, which was a reference to Doc killing Ringo. Very few people pick up on that.
That's because it's not true. It's an internet fabrication. Huckle bearer isn't even a real term. Never existed, despite the meme you read about it. The script says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed that's what he said. He even heard this "bearer" nonsense and wrote that he did NOT say "bearer". He wrote that in his book, titled "I'm Your Huckleberry"
Bat Masterson knew Doc personally. He said that " Doc had an uncontrollable temper when drinking. And when drunk was an exceedingly dangerous man." I believe it.
To everyone that’s going to eventually say “It’s actually huckle bearer, not huckleberry” and can’t be bothered to read the various comments saying otherwise. You’re wrong, he actually says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed it multiple times, he even named his memoir “I’m your Huckleberry”. Yes both terms are correct for the period, but please bother reading the comments before you try sounding smart.
And if you want to know where the script writer got that from, look no farther: "I'm your huckleberry Ringo" replied the cheerful doctor "That's just my game". Taken directly from the 1929 book "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest by Walter Noble Burns.
thus the nature of conspiracies and urban legend... people hear stuff and just accept it as fact and dont look it up..and when they look it up.. they look it up on whacko sites
@@PopePlatinumBeats Yep, and if you google "huckle bearer" the google AI at the top of the page just regurgitates the incorrect info from various discussions on the internet, which are all wrong. But folks generally just stop there and think it's true.
There's a novel about Holliday by Mary Doria Russell called "Doc." It's one of the greatest Western novels I've read. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in this era.
My favorite past time is watching foreign people/black people react to westerns because they’re “southern American white people movies” and slowly finding out they’re as good of movies as you can find! Doc is a legend!!
The small cinematic flavor I enjoy: Ringo wanted him to show off and spin a six-gun so bad earlier in the saloon, Doc finally did it after smoking him in the noggin. One of two times I can think of him twirling a gun in the film.
I think (in this movie) Doc wasn't must aware of the fact that he was dying...it was also a matter of protecting his friend. Later in the movie someone asks him why he did that, and he says "Wyatt Earp is a friend of mine." The other guy responds, "Hell, I got a lot of friends". Doc tells him "I don't." And right there is the gist of the friendship between Wyatt and Doc.
Interesting note, the term 'shooting from the hip', the faster gunslingers would shoot as soon as the gun clears the holster to get the shot off as fast as possible. So this scene is accurate in that sense.
The crazy part..alot of RINGO's back story they shot was edited out.. it explained why he so evil and cold more... but the cut footage was lost so they could never make a directors cut of a DVD deletes scene section
"You're no daisy at all" is a cold blooded thing to say as a man is stumbling to his death by your hipfire shot while smoking. My favorite scene in all of cinema, embellished and unrealistic as it is.
Doc had been pretty sure he could beat Ringo from the moment he drew on him at their first meeting, and when he saw the fear in his eyes after showing up in the grove he knew it for sure.
I love seeing this younger generation watch this brilliant film and learn to appreciate Val Kilmer especially, but also the talents of Kurt Russell and Michael Biehn. This is one of the films on my short list of Perfect Movies.
Seems like I'm the only one that sees it this way, but l always took it as Doc was faking being so sick to trick Wyatt because he knew he wouldn't let him go in his sted. He asked him about the badge because he knew wyatt would give it to him and he could use it. That's why he says, " I wasn't quite as sick as I made out." I could be misreading the scene, but that is what i always took from it.
12:46 “C’mon, c’mon, straight, straight, between the eyes, between the eyes, between the eyes… … BANG! … “Not between the eyes, that’s fine though…” 😂😂😂
2:06 Ladies, there wasn't anyone who wasn't "afraid" of Doc Holliday... The man was the fastest draw in the west. A damn good dentist, too from what I hear. :D
Think about how crazy life is sometimes. Ringo, one of the fastest and deadliest guns of his time, is on top of the world and feared by anyone who comes across him. As fate would have it, he crosses paths with one of the only men in the country that could have beaten him, and he gets outdueled and shot in the head during a draw. Crazy to think that the Earps decision to move to Tombstone would result in the destruction of the Cowboys. Its an amazing story
These reactors saying about Doc, "He doesn't care. He's dying anyway" completely missed the point. It wasn't just his own life at stake. Wyatt's life hung in the balance.
The word he was actually suppose to say was huckle bearer. A huckle is the handles on a casket. So.what he is saying I will carry you to your grave but with his accent it sounded like huckleberry which still works because it is a very red berry sounding like he is saying I will cover you in red (blood)
I see you found the debunked meme. Sorry, it's all false. Script says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed he said huckleberry, and that he did NOT say "bearer". Casket handle was never called a huckle. Huckle means "Hip, haunch" in any dictionary you want to look it up in, old or new. Try an 1800's dictionary. 1900's. 1700's. Doesn't matter, it never meant anything close to casket handle, or even just "handle". And huckle bearer never existed, it was made up on the internet. There isn't a single piece of literature or anything else that has that term in it, from before this movie was filmed in 1993.
I'm surprised none of the viewers realized that Doc was wanting Ringo to end him so he could die with his boots on even though Doc had won the duel. That's why Doc was so pissed that Ringo wasn't a daisy after all.
Whoever was responsible for casting this movie chose the perfect actor for Doc Holliday, the fact that Val Kilmer didn't get an Academy Award, not even a nomination for his role, is criminal.
I've heard that when Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo) was doing the press tour for "Tombstone", he was asked what it was like to work with Val Kilmer. "I've never worked with Val Kilmer", Biehn responded; "I've worked with Doc Holliday".
WTF
Michael Biehn's acting in tombstone was outstanding as well, especially in this scene. 🏆🏆
Ironically, based on the information we have of the real Doc from the historical records, he actually was playing a caricature of Doc. Still one of my favorite performances in any film.
The performance by Dennis Quaid a year later in Wyatt Earp is considered to be the most accurate portrayal of the actual Doc Holliday. Also one of my favorite performances.
It's not huckleberry... It's huckle bearer. Look up that meaning. Mind blown.
@@caraangerer2350 Val Kilmer himself says in his biography in this scene he said huckleberry.
"I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had 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 nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew"
Shame they had a falling out before Doc died.
Thank you!
@@jjww30 it probably would have been better for their relationship if Doc didn’t talk shit about Josephine.
@@jjww30Wyatt was one of the pall-bearers at Doc's funeral. They still loved each other.
@@TheChampFighter except Wyatt was in San Diego in 1887 and not Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Michael and Val decided to choreograph this scene themselves. Val Kilmer not getting an Oscar for this role is criminal.
I know people always say this and I agree it was a great performance but to say it's criminal when you see the people nominated that year is just silly!
Best Supporting Actor
Tommy Lee Jones
The Fugitive
Winner
Ralph Fiennes
Schindler's List
Nominee
Leonardo DiCaprio
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Nominee
Pete Postlethwaite
In the Name of the Father
Nominee
John Malkovich
In the Line of Fire
Nominee
That's a list of brilliant performances, all of them in great movies too!
Johnny Ringo: I was just foolin about.
Doc Holliday: I wasn't.
Oh snap! 😲
"I wasn't."
*It was at this moment, that he knew he had fucked up*
That hits like a broadside from Bismarck. You are stuffed.
How...HOW did the Academy not even nominate Val Kilmer for an Oscar for this?
Kilmer wasn’t even nominated for best supporting actor. Tommy Lee Jones won it for The Fugitive. With all do respect…what?
@@EthanKandler-ti8px
To be fair Jones was great in the Fugitive, and that movie rocketed him into superstardom.
It's practically a crime against humanity.
@@roems6396 no he wasn't & the fugitive sucked.
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Dumb opinion.
When Ringo was doing all his fancy twirling in the salon .... Doc clocked Ringo's moves!
True, and a bit more. Both men were pistoleers. Both men knew exactly what to look for in their opponent. Both men walked away from that salon confrontation knowing Doc Holiday was better.
There's a scene - the one where Doc says "...one fer each of ya..." - where Val twirls two revolvers in opposite directions. I think he twirls the left one forward and the right one backward. That sure looks pretty close to ambidexterity to me!
Ringo twirling his guns revealed to Doc that he was just a boy in a man's world.
In real life, Cowboys used to twirl their guns while on cattle drives across hundreds of miles of land. They simply did it out of boredom. It was literally just like a fidget spinner for a modern teen that needs to keep their mind stimulated. Ringo just had the mentality of teenage bully scaring innocent, peaceful folks with flashy twirls.
Doc saw this right away. Doc is a killer with nothing to lose because he already had one foot in the grave. When he drew his guns it wasn't to show off, it was to kill. He was so skilled with his guns that he mocked Ringo's gun twirls by perfectly replicating his moves on first sight with his drinking cup. He was drunk and half dead sick and Ringo realized that regardless of that he came across a real killer.
And Doc showed Ringo exactly nothing - like poker. Ringo showed Doc all his cards.
Yep. And repeated it with a cup. So damn good with guns he could do the same with a cup. Let's see Ringo do that. Ringo can't, cause he ain't no daisy. He ain't no daisy at all.
One of the BEST western movies ever made, and at 69 I can safely say I've seen a few!!! Perfect cast, incredible story, fabulous dialogue, super entertaining!!! The male actors (old and new) drew me to the theater, I stayed for the whole yummy main course AND dessert!!! I went by myself, no guy "dragged" me to see it. 🌟 💕 🤠 🐎 Must see!!
I'm only in my 40s and even I know Tombstone is top tier for westerns. I don't even like westerns, but I can't deny some awards were earned in this one. Especially Val as Doc. Everyone says he deserves it, someone give that man what he earned.
Everybody's gangsta until Doc walks up to them and said, "I'm your huckleberry."
It's probably one of the best lines in this entire film
I'd straight up forfeit. I'm not egotistical enough to fuck with Doc. I'm very egotistical, but not enough to mess with Doc Holiday in a shootout. That Huckleberry would put my tail between my legs.
Actually it's huckle bearer. Refering to the"handles" on a casket and pallbearers
@@comerfordanthonyActually its not. It's im your Huckleberry which was a saying back then that meant im the one for the job/im the one you want. The studio also confirmed the words are Huckleberry despite some people hearing it wrong as huckle bearer
@_Sarby1 actually listen closely and he does say huckle
For those unaware, “Lunger,” is a pejorative for someone dying of tuberculosis.
Just like Micah in RDR2 when he says Black Lung to Arthur.
"you look like someone just walked over your grave". That's the best line of the movie.
It's definitely up there, but the way Doc coldly says "I wasn't" is still one of the hardest hitting lines ive ever seen in a movie.
I'll see your "You look like someone just walked over your grave", and raise you a "I wasn't". lol.
"And I'm going to put you back in it..."
That line delivery. 👌
@@Benaiah1K44I’ve always thought two of his best lines are just two words each. The “I wasn’t” from this scene and the “I don’t” after the creek shootout.
There’s a lot of hard ass lines from this movie, but the delivery of Holiday’s “I wasn’t”, just ice in the veins, zero thought, zero remorse, it’s so hard.
Thank you. Everyone makes a bigger deal out of the "Huckleberry" line, but the coldest and most dangerous line was simply, "I wasn't". Two words and you knew Ringo was absolutely fucked. Doc wasn't letting that shit slide. He came for blood. He made it clear only one of them was going to walk away.
Yes sir!! "I wasn't" is and always will be the most stone cold "your dead" that has ever been on film. Doc must have been terrifying.
Doc Holliday spinning his revolver before holstering it after he shoots Ringo and takes a hit off his cigarette has to be one of the most nuanced gangsta boss moves in cinematic history... hands down.
My thoughts exactly. Literally the most gangsta shit humanly possible.
Similar to how Shane holstered his pistol after the shootout at the Grafton bar.
Kilmers performance is top 10 acting of all time. Pure brilliance
Yes, Kilmer was the best performance in a stand out ensemble, and he WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED for a major acting award. Makes you wonder.
"Fast is fine, but accurate is final" - Wyatt Earp
I love watching people's faces when Doc walks out of the shadows ❤
The maddest thing about that scene is how doc let's johnny draw first as if to say "damn you slow"
And the precision of his shot to the left hemisphere of his brain causing paralysis to his right side. Doc was next level man 0:41
Yo watch this is slow mo. It's still fast!! Sheeeeeesh
Val Kilmer should of gotten an academy award for his portrail of Doc Holiday!!!
He should've got every award under the sun for this
In the scene at the battle at the OK Corral when Doc says “Your a Daisy if you do” are the ACTUAL words that the Real Doc said at the Corral
True. It was a an old saying meaning that the Daisy is actually a rather tough flower. When others wither and die the daisy is usually the last one left standing.
@@jessecortez9449 "your a daisy if you do" was a comon saying back then and it was "your the best if you do" referencing someone or something as a daisy they are the best. According to Google
@jessecortez9449 I referenced back to the old saying, "pushing up dasies," which means your under ground, in a grave. Thus, "you're a daisy if you do." Your ☠️. But that's just my interpretation of the line.🤷♀️
Doc shot Johnny in the left side of his head, which happens to control the right side motor functions.
No way Johnny could have brought his pistol up to shoot Doc.
Doc was a Harvard educated dentist. To those that don't know, this is a true story
Parts are true. This was not how Ringo died though. He was found shot, and no one knew who did it or whether it was self inflicted.
@@ryanzengerle3700And still don't know to this day.
I choose to believe Doc did it then slinked back into the shadows.
"Poor soul...you were just too high-strung..."
"I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear"
Val stole the show!
I love how people say.... " Well, Doc had nothing to worry about because he's dead anyways,"
That may be so, but if anything, Doc's still very sick and could barely stand, never mind duel against another great gunfighter ! So I'd say Docs at even a bigger disadvantage and knowing you're gonna die doesn't make you faster on the draw.
He won because he was (always a few moves ahead and...) one of the best ever with a gun !
That's the fact jack !
Remember that Ringo was no daisy !
(Also the facts)
Agree 100% Ringo even tried to get him sidelong!
Doc- "Wyatt earp is my friend"
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson- "Hell i got lots of friends"
Doc-"i don't"
He was protecting his friend from death
I love how all these people are adults and never seen this, I was about 12/13 when it came out and saw it 3 times.
That's kinda the key element of reaction channels. Some people simply never watched movies cause the only watched tv shows or their families didn't allow certain things cause of their upbringing or maybe their foriegn to America and the movies never really made it to them.
I'm sure there are plenty of people that are shocked you may never have watched classic black and white movies, romcoms, foriegn subtitled movies or some long running tv show that's not made for your demographic. Someone would probably say "You've never watched Seven Samurai? Literally all the classic westerns are inspired by it.."
We all tend to niche ourselves down and only few of us broaden ourselves past those niches.
Also, there are a LOT of movies that a large group of people would consider MUST watch. I've seen a TON of movies, but when I read one of those "100 movies to watch before you die" articles, there's always like 40-60 movies I hadn't seen yet. It takes way too much free time to be able to keep up with all the movies you can watch.
@@jessecortez9449 i am trying to get my girl to do a reaction channel ..she has literally seen nothing
I used to watch this shit all the time as a child like 5 - 6 years old. This one of my favorite movies ever.
"You're no 🌼 daisy." Val Kilmer is definitely a Daisy.
The deeper meaning to that is that a Daisy is one of the tougher plants to kill off. Whem others wither and die the Daisy is the last one standing.
Doc was definitely the Daisy being the last one standing.
Daisy used to mean the best, yes he was definitely the Daisy
It makes my heart so happy to see the younger generation doing reaction videos to movies I watched in my 20s :D
Val Kilmer got robbed for not getting an Oscar for this performance.
I was just fooling about. I wasn't! Now that's a cold cold line!
"Say when."
" I WASNT" was the biggest I AM THE ALPHA MALE moment ever... Ringo had to fight him... was no other choice when he said that
I would love to see a mashup reaction to Wyatt saying goodbye to Doc as he dies in bed.
@@josepha4944 great scene I’d love to see the scene where Earp gives holiday the badge
I really appreciate these videos, sir. Me and my grandma used to watch this movie when she was alive, so it holds a special place in my heart. Doc Holliday is easily the best character. 🙏
Val Kilmer's finest performance...
Holding a cigarette the whole time, Doc is the boss
Just remember, next time you're " just playing about" around someone, they may not be playing. 😅
people bring up his roles in Real Genius, Top Gun, Willow, but for my money, Doc is his finest and most enjoyable portrayal. Say what you will about what may be exaggeration or fantasy regarding Doc, but in this Val IS Doc. Just a delightful character and portrayal.
The more I look back at history the more I think: If only those people had antibiotics…
The first person to receive penicillin was dying from an infection acquired when he scratched his hand on a thorn in his rose-garden. The penicillin worked incredibly well, but unfortunately there wasn't enough of it to finish-off the infection. By the time more was made, the infection had rebounded and killed the patient. All from the prick of a thorn. That was about 100 years ago.
The scary thing is that we're actively moving back to a pre-antibiotics age where any random compromising of the skin-barrier could be your death. The US uses the vast majority of its antibiotics to offset the unhygienic conditions in factory farms, feeding the compromised animals a constant low dose in order to give the meat monopolies like Tyson a little more money. This is also exactly the strategy you'd use if you were attempting to grow antibiotic-resistant pathogens, which is why said bugs are now exploding across the nation and we're down to our last lines of biomedical defense. In addition, the refusal by the government and Big Pharma to invest in the long-term research needed to create new classes of antibiotic means it's unlikely any new "silver bullets" will be discovered before we've completely compromised the old ones.
It's literally insane. It's like watching a species that's absolutely dedicated to its own destruction. We might as well be sexually-attracted to fire.
@@michaelccozens
That’s silly. Antibiotics still work perfectly for everyday infections. It is a problem for some superinfections, but those are rare, and certainly aren’t in your everyday cut or puncture wound.
@@roems6396You are completely and tragically uninformed. And worse, smugly correcting someone factually correct. Most of the initial antibiotics are no longer reliably effective. We are now using what used to be high end specialty drugs.
@@michaelccozens "We might as well be sexually-attracted to fire." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Penicillin could not cure tuberculosis.
TOMBSTONE is in my top 5 movies of all time.. i have seen in 400 times and the famous lines from this movie i say all the time
I've been to Johnny Ringo's grave. He was buried right where he was found, and the spot looks very much like the scene in the film.
But it wasn't Doc Holiday or Wyatt Earp that got him; they were both well out of the area when Ringo was killed.
Doc's line in the movie "I'm afraid the strain was just too much for him to bear" was a clever little nod that the real Ringo likely killed himself.
@eggsaladman9
Given that he was shot from behind, and that he was found with his pants down (who knows what reason), that is highly unlikely.
@nicksterj
I was going by the plaque at his grave. Sources may differ. Or I may have remembered it wrong; it's been a few years. I do remember it reading that he was probably surprised, not in a gunfight, and I'm pretty sure I remember it indicating his pants were down. But since the grave is on private property and maintained by the owners, not any historical society, maybe they had it wrong.
@nicksterj
Okay, age must have caught up with me. I may have heard the part about the pants while in Tombstone. The grave is quite a ways from there (by horse). It's closer to Chiricauha Park.
I think the best line in the movie is .I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY. I just love it.
Doc was as slick as owls grease .A true Southern Gentleman. What a man .
I love that line of yours . Just out of curiosity is there such a thing as Owls grease ? lol
Doc trick Wyatt to save Wyatt life. He even made it legal. Nice one.
I saw this movie at the cinema when it was released, and what makes this movie so great over 30 years later is that everyone here had the same reaction to "I'm your Huckleberry" now as then. The whole theatre yelled "YES !!!" and were clapping back then - still doing it's magic 30 years later.
Gentlemen I THANK you for this compilation of the best part of the film.
It’s kind of a miracle that this movie is so good. It was a really troubled production that went through several directors. See if you can find the theatrical trailer. It’s got quite a few clips from scenes that didn’t make the final cut.
I love that the actors did their own gunwork
Michael Biehn is downright terrifying when he plays a villain, partially because he plays a villain with the same humanity as any of his hero characters (Kyle Reese is his own personal fave). The real Johnny Ringo, the product of a repressive upbringing, was even more terrifying. One detail they get wrong in this movie was that the real Johnny Ringo was found with a gunshot wound in his right temple, not this left (that's "his" right versus "his" left), and a gaping exit wound on the back of his head. That also means that he was most likely shot head-on rather than at an upward angle.
@nicksterj That means the information I read was wrong. And I corroborated multiple sources, even!
Either could be correct, bullets do funny things once they enter the human skull.
As they face off, Doc is tapping his finger on the grip. This gives him the advantage because he knows exactly where his gun is located.
It's insane how much they made Kilmer look so sickly in this movie. Also, great acting on his part too. :)
I'm 40, so I was a kid when this came out on VHS, and my friend group was obsessed with cowboy movies, so we watched this movie at almost every birthday party for about 2 years, and as such I can't wrap my mind around the concept of you kids today having to watch Tombstone "for the first time."
Everyone talks about Kilmer as Doc, and he is bad ass no doubt, but Biehn is underrated. This scene, in particular, he goes from being so confident, to showing surprise and fear, to trying to mask that fear with feign confidence. Truly amazing.
Still gives me goosebumps everytime. These 2 were amazing in this movie. Really everyone was
So Doc actually created the first Zombie (Ringo) 😂
Truth be told. Everything he says I'm your huckleberry. Somebody dies. It's like his own personal finishing move. Just the words alone can finish you. Lmao
One of the greatest lines in movie history, "im afraid the strain was more than he could bear.."
Doc wasn't saying "I'm here huckleberry.", he was saying "I'm your hucklebearer.", which is misconstrued because of his southern accent. A hucklebearer was someone who carried your coffin to the grave, which was a reference to Doc killing Ringo. Very few people pick up on that.
That's because it's not true. It's an internet fabrication. Huckle bearer isn't even a real term. Never existed, despite the meme you read about it.
The script says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed that's what he said. He even heard this "bearer" nonsense and wrote that he did NOT say "bearer". He wrote that in his book, titled "I'm Your Huckleberry"
Bat Masterson knew Doc personally.
He said that " Doc had an uncontrollable temper when drinking. And when drunk was an exceedingly dangerous man."
I believe it.
Doc didn't shoot Johnny Ringo. When Ringo was shot, Doc wasn't anywhere near where the shooting took place. BTW, Johnny is buried when he was found.
To everyone that’s going to eventually say “It’s actually huckle bearer, not huckleberry” and can’t be bothered to read the various comments saying otherwise. You’re wrong, he actually says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed it multiple times, he even named his memoir “I’m your Huckleberry”. Yes both terms are correct for the period, but please bother reading the comments before you try sounding smart.
It says in the official script, "huckleberry", accurate or not.
@@joebombero1 that’s what I was saying.
And if you want to know where the script writer got that from, look no farther:
"I'm your huckleberry Ringo" replied the cheerful doctor "That's just my game". Taken directly from the 1929 book "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest by Walter Noble Burns.
thus the nature of conspiracies and urban legend... people hear stuff and just accept it as fact and dont look it up..and when they look it up.. they look it up on whacko sites
@@PopePlatinumBeats Yep, and if you google "huckle bearer" the google AI at the top of the page just regurgitates the incorrect info from various discussions on the internet, which are all wrong. But folks generally just stop there and think it's true.
There's a novel about Holliday by Mary Doria Russell called "Doc." It's one of the greatest Western novels I've read. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in this era.
This is my favorite moment in cinematic history.
My favorite past time is watching foreign people/black people react to westerns because they’re “southern American white people movies” and slowly finding out they’re as good of movies as you can find! Doc is a legend!!
By smoking the cigarette, Doc blocked the full view of his gun hand from Ringo...
11:40 I love how hyped dude gets.
The small cinematic flavor I enjoy:
Ringo wanted him to show off and spin a six-gun so bad earlier in the saloon, Doc finally did it after smoking him in the noggin. One of two times I can think of him twirling a gun in the film.
Its probably the greatest scene in any movie ever . . . .but, its not how johnny ringo actually died
I think (in this movie) Doc wasn't must aware of the fact that he was dying...it was also a matter of protecting his friend. Later in the movie someone asks him why he did that, and he says "Wyatt Earp is a friend of mine." The other guy responds, "Hell, I got a lot of friends". Doc tells him "I don't." And right there is the gist of the friendship between Wyatt and Doc.
Doc says, " I'm your HUCKLE BEARER. look it up it will make this scene that much more great
Long live Michael Biehn ❤
Great video compilation of reactions and great scene from DOC.
One of the best performances ever!
One of the best scenes of my childhood. Cool to see a new appreciation.
What was funny was Ringo actually had the jump on him and Doc Not drawing fully saved time and got the Kill.
Interesting note, the term 'shooting from the hip', the faster gunslingers would shoot as soon as the gun clears the holster to get the shot off as fast as possible. So this scene is accurate in that sense.
"I wasn't"............gotta be one of the coldest line deliveris in movie history!!!!!!
The crazy part..alot of RINGO's back story they shot was edited out.. it explained why he so evil and cold more... but the cut footage was lost so they could never make a directors cut of a DVD deletes scene section
Val Kilmer was the best part of a great movie. I’ll never understand how he didn’t get an Oscar nomination.
One of the best Western movies of all time
"You're no daisy at all" is a cold blooded thing to say as a man is stumbling to his death by your hipfire shot while smoking. My favorite scene in all of cinema, embellished and unrealistic as it is.
Hell I've got lots of friends.
I don't.
Doc is a real friend.
Doc had been pretty sure he could beat Ringo from the moment he drew on him at their first meeting, and when he saw the fear in his eyes after showing up in the grove he knew it for sure.
When you hear I'm your huckleberry. Shit is fixing to hit the fan .
I love seeing this younger generation watch this brilliant film and learn to appreciate Val Kilmer especially, but also the talents of Kurt Russell and Michael Biehn.
This is one of the films on my short list of Perfect Movies.
I mean, if you want to teach a class about subverting expectations well, this is all you need
Doesn't even put his smoke aside.
"Down goes Ringo, Down goes Ringo !!"
Seems like I'm the only one that sees it this way, but l always took it as Doc was faking being so sick to trick Wyatt because he knew he wouldn't let him go in his sted. He asked him about the badge because he knew wyatt would give it to him and he could use it. That's why he says, " I wasn't quite as sick as I made out." I could be misreading the scene, but that is what i always took from it.
I’ve stood where he stood in many places where you still can find in Arizona.
2:00
“He’s got nothing to lose.”
Nothing except Wyatt
Holy shit. The parmesan comment was the very best!!!
12:46
“C’mon, c’mon, straight, straight, between the eyes, between the eyes, between the eyes…
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BANG!
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“Not between the eyes, that’s fine though…”
😂😂😂
Love your channel, brother. I’m happy to be a subscriber.
The Reel Reject falling asleep still makes me laugh
One of the best movies ever made!
2:06 Ladies, there wasn't anyone who wasn't "afraid" of Doc Holliday... The man was the fastest draw in the west. A damn good dentist, too from what I hear. :D
Think about how crazy life is sometimes. Ringo, one of the fastest and deadliest guns of his time, is on top of the world and feared by anyone who comes across him. As fate would have it, he crosses paths with one of the only men in the country that could have beaten him, and he gets outdueled and shot in the head during a draw. Crazy to think that the Earps decision to move to Tombstone would result in the destruction of the Cowboys. Its an amazing story
I have quoted this movie since I saw it in theaters when it was released!
These reactors saying about Doc, "He doesn't care. He's dying anyway" completely missed the point. It wasn't just his own life at stake. Wyatt's life hung in the balance.
Exactly. He did this to save his friend.
The word he was actually suppose to say was huckle bearer. A huckle is the handles on a casket. So.what he is saying I will carry you to your grave but with his accent it sounded like huckleberry which still works because it is a very red berry sounding like he is saying I will cover you in red (blood)
I see you found the debunked meme. Sorry, it's all false. Script says huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed he said huckleberry, and that he did NOT say "bearer".
Casket handle was never called a huckle. Huckle means "Hip, haunch" in any dictionary you want to look it up in, old or new. Try an 1800's dictionary. 1900's. 1700's. Doesn't matter, it never meant anything close to casket handle, or even just "handle".
And huckle bearer never existed, it was made up on the internet. There isn't a single piece of literature or anything else that has that term in it, from before this movie was filmed in 1993.
I'm surprised none of the viewers realized that Doc was wanting Ringo to end him so he could die with his boots on even though Doc had won the duel. That's why Doc was so pissed that Ringo wasn't a daisy after all.
Whoever was responsible for casting this movie chose the perfect actor for Doc Holliday, the fact that Val Kilmer didn't get an Academy Award, not even a nomination for his role, is criminal.