@@johngoldsworthy7135 Doc is also fully aware he is dying, so getting shot and killed doesn't even phase him. He's going out one way or another, whether it's now with a bullet or painfully choking on his deteriorating lungs in several months time, and with that realization the bullet almost sounds better anyway. He has nothing to lose, and that is what gives him the far more dangerous edge.
They knew if anyone could take Ringo it was Doc. Doc just didn't give a rat's ass, and Ringo was too confident, and probably psychopathic, to think anyone was as good as he was.
"I'm your huckleberry... that's just my game" this movie was awesome and val kilmer was amazing I still can't believe he didn't win a oscar for this role
He didn't say huckleberry, he said hucklebearer. A huckle was an exterior part of the casket that helped carry it. Essentially he was saying I'll carry you to your grave
This is one of those roles absolutely nobody will ever be able to top. Like Ian McKellan as Gandalf or Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man. You can re cast, sure, but you’ll never exceed.
@@joshuasmyth155 He did say huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed it himself. People speculated that he said hucklebearer instead of huckleberry, because they didn't know it was part of what used to be a known phrase, then it got spread as fact through the internet.
@@tokukeitaro Bro so I just rewatched Batman Forever and I thought he did a phenomenal job as Bruce Wayne and Batman. The voice was perfect and the whole presentation as a rich man and a caped crusader.
@@Thaaden Never believe internet memes. You got fooled. "Huckle bearer" is made up nonsense. It never existed, and ONLY exists on the internet. Kilmer didn't say it funny at all...he said Huckleberry. He has confirmed this. He actually refutes this "huckle bearer" nonsense in his book, which is interestingly titled "I'm Your Huckleberry". The script says Huckleberry, by the way. Look it up. While you're at it, look up "huckle" and you'll find it never meant "casket handle", or anything resembling a handle of any sort. This "huckle bearer" nonsense was made up on the internet, and has no basis in fact at all.
@@ThaadenYes, I'm well versed in the "huckle bearer" myth. Three main troubles with the theory: 1. "I'm your Huckleberry" is a direct Doc Holiday quote from an old story. 2. The script says "I'm your huckleberry." 3. Val Kilmer literally named his autobiography "I'm your Huckleberry.” The real issue is people not understanding a southern drawl, Doc Holiday was from Georgia. He wouldn't pronounce it "bear-ee" he'd pronounced it "berreh," which people are mistaking for "bearer."
So calmly going from sitting on the porch of the barbershop, to walking up to him ready to fight and die if necessary with a pistol ready for his friends who will undoubtedly join in when he wins, truly shows the kind of person that ppl back then said Doc Holliday really was. How he and Wyatt became such close friends is just one of those twists of fate that happens in life sometimes and that makes life so great.
My favorite movie of all time. I've seen it 4 times and it never fails to entertain me!! Steve Biehn is from the town I live in. Met him at the gym and told him how much I respected him!
Honestly this is one the best films ever made.. It gets a bad rap because its a western but the acting, the writing, the directing, the cinematography, the music are all incredible! Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer should, at the very least, received Oscar nominations for this film
There is a major flaw that is never mentioned that Hollywood specifically did. They made up the reason for the major gunfight - "They have guns in the city and its against the law." That was straight out of Hollywood Anti-gun propaganda. Ignoring that, its a masterpiece movie. One of the Earp brothers tells them- "We don't want to take you guns, you just can't have them in the city." Anti-2A groups have been spouting nearly that line identical word for word for 20 plus years except now they don't even hide that now they want to take ALL guns.
@@spartanx169x Not sure if hollywood was as anti-gun 30 years ago. A lot of movies in the 80's and 90's were guns, sci fi guns, rambo, terminator etc. Today yeah but 30 years ago wasn't as politically pushed.
Ringo: “Fight’s not with you Holliday.” Doc: “I beg to differ sir, we started a game we never got to finish “play for blood” remember?” Ringo: “ I was just foolin’ about.” Doc: “ I wasn’t.” Ringo: 💀
@@stacymanley161 Ringo was found dead in a grove of trees with an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound to the head after days of drinking and opioid use. But it’s still an *awesome* scene!
That's actually not true. Even when they actually dueled in the end scene Doc thought he was going to lose but he still wanted to play it out. I believe it was Wyatt Earp himself that said afterwards (in real life) that Doc thought Ringo was faster than him but he wasn't sure.
@@zi326 I don't think Doc believed he would lose. Since Doc saw many similarities between himself and Ringo he thought they would draw equally and kill each other. Doc was surprised he out drew Ringo and actually wanted a tie (so he would die in a gunfight, not slowly from Tuberculosis). That's why Doc gestured and said "Come on!" to Ringo after he shot him. He wanted Ringo to finish him off like it was supposed to happen but Ringo could only shoot into the ground before he dropped, dead.
@@zi326 You posted in a few comments about this . Any references can read that Earp stated this or is it just based on loose tales and opinions? This movie along is baked in facts with a tad of embellishment to sell a movie anyway.
You dam right, Val Kilmer should have won a Oscar for his role in tombstone, he was the best in playing doc Holliday then I ever seen, great job 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 😉
That's not what he says. He says "I'm your huckle bearer." The handles on a casket were called huckles. A person that helped carry a casket was called a huckle bearer. He's telling him he is going to kill him.
@@TonyGrace there’s always one of you that’s gotta throw this BS in every time. Val’s book is titled “I’m your Huckleberry”. Do you think he would have named it that if that’s not what he said? Quit spreading that false BS.
Val Kilmer's book titled "I'm your HUCKLEBERRY " kind of permanently settles the internet casket handle myth The man that said the line says " HUCKLEBERRY " so that's that
If anyone should get a lifetime achievement Oscar, Val Kilmer should. From Real Genius and Top Gun, to Tombstone he always delivered quality. Heck I even like Batman Forever, it was a solid performance.
@3Rayfire He was great in Heat and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang as well, Willow too! Come to think of it, while Tombstone is famously known for the shootout at the OK Coral, Heat had one of the best shootout scenes in a movie ever thanks in part to Val Kilmer.
Kevin Costner was asked to be in movie or do walk on..he went off and made his own movie...that sucked...but to try and tank this one, he had his people buy up allllllll the period costumes available...so we also owe kudos to the crew in back diligently making the greatest costumes....all of em were "dripped" out and dapper...love everything about this movie...have watched 100x...for the record,.old lefty KC is still stirring up crap here in 2024 thinking he was the best ever...obviously he wasn't, isn't and never was...had beef w Kurt and Clint...😂😂😂
Stacked year for Supporting Actor. Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List, Pete Postlethwaite - In The Name of The Father, and the winner was Tommy Lee Jones - Fugitive.
@meonkrishnanan5920 Exactly... I think it was more unfortunate timing. Unforgiven being the prior if I'm not mistaken. The Academy didn't want back-to-back Westerns getting awards.
The fact he has the pistol behind his back, he knew the rest of the Cowboys would come out and he was ready to take them all on. Probably would win too.
@@jamesdheel1568 Hm, that's kind of shown in the film though, their duel at end is at point blank range where any lack of accuracy Doc has is nullified and it's all about his superior speed.
I cannot believe I slept on this movie for decades. Saw it last night after watching Wyatt Earp, both are good, but Tombstone kicked butt most. I need to buy the blu ray soon.
If you've not seen it yet also watch Unforgiven, by Clint Eastwood. All 3 of the films you and I mentioned here all were released within a short time period. A glorious time for westerns in the early/mid 90s.
A lot of talented actors and actresses deserved awards that didn't get them. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen should be awarded lifetime achievement awards for their work in sci-fi films. Val Kilmer should have won an award for this scene alone. This isn't an oil painting artist where you only get recognized after your death. Better to show your respect while they are still alive.
Tombstone wouldn't be the cultural phenomenon it is with anyone other than Kurt Russell & Val Kilmer in those roles. They made that movie & it never gets old.
I just Loved and Enjoyed Val Kilgore as Doc Holiday. Wow! He NAILED IT. Very Entertaining Movie even today. I wish the ending when they were chasing those men with their red sashes, was more detailed. 3 hour movie would’ve suited me just fine. What a cast!
Doc Holliday clearly had a death wish and would take as many bad men with him as he could. I had a new respect for Val Kilmer after he made Doc Holliday so believable!💯
Not so much a death WISH per se, he already had the TB and knew it. More like a prisoner on death row, he had literally nothing to lose, but everyone else did
The subtlety of him hiding his empty holster with his arm so that Ringo wouldn’t know he was holding the gun behind his back is incredible. It also makes him look like he’s prepared to draw.
The Epitome of Cool under fire . The Stories I read as a child of "Doc" Holiday brought to life on the big screen by "Val" Kilmer . "Let's do it " Semper Fi !
Great movie, and this scene was based on an actual even that took place in January 1882. But it wasn't broken up by Curly Bill, but rather by Chief of Police Flynn. And I believe it took place on the much wider Allen Street. But still a great scene from an awesome film!
Well even incredibly drunk he’d displayed impressive mental acuity as well as mastery of his motor functions. When he first meets ringo he copies ringos motions exactly with his cup, and in the standoff after curly bill killed whatshisface and the music lover said he was probably seeing double and he pulled out two guns one for each of him, he spun each in a different direction. I would leave that man alone.
"I'm your huckleberry." Huckleberries only grow wild and can't be farmed. You gotta go and find them where they grow wild. "Im your huckleberry," means, "You found just the guy you're looking for." It's also a taunt: calling someone "huckleberry" is a term of endearment. Basically, Doc is saying, "Let's go, sweetheart," and trying to provoke Ringo towards him and away from Wyatt.
@cliffordlouden he says it twice, and I can hear both versions both times. At the end when he kills Ringo, I think it sounds more like berry and in this scene more like bearer, but it is very hard to distinguish. I think he ad libbed the line and made it his own.
@@ZDubz007 Huckle never ever meant any type of handle, nor any part of a casket. This is all made up internet nonsense. He said "I'm your huckleberry" in response to Ringo's "play for blood" challenge because it is a WELL-documented phrase that means "I'm game/I'm your man/I'm the one you're looking for/etc" It's the PERFECT and period-correct response to such a question. It's in the script. Scriptwriter took it right out of a 1920's book about Tombstone in which Doc says that exact thing to Ringo in this situation. And unlike "huckle bearer", "I'm your huckleberry" actually existed and appears in many books. You cannot find "bearer" in a single piece of any kind of literature. It only exists on the internet.
"I'm your Huckleberry" and "Say when" are two absolutely legendary lines but a lot of people overlook how badass Ringo's lines are. "I want your blood and I want your souls and I want 'em both right now... " 🫠💀 Chills
With lesser actors, this could've been a failed attempt to revive a diminished film genre. With this cast, and with Kilmer as the standout among standouts, there were some unforgettable and inspiring scenes that make this a classic.
As much as I like this movie, Shane has the best gunfight between Shane and Jack Wilson. That entire movie has so little violence but is building up to that showdown.
My granddaughter is a great artist. At one time before she got married she had an online poster business. She designed posters and sold them online. She charged 25 dollars a poster however one weekend she had a sale and on Monday morning before the post office opened,she called them and warned them that she had 247 posters to mail to different addresses so they might need extra time to get them all stamped before they opened. Anyway, one of the posters was a poster of a handsome man with a mustache labeled I’m your Huckleberry. I didn’t understand what she meant so she told me about the film. After that she went out of the poster business and went to work for a taxidermy business. She had never done any thing like that before but she was a quick study, so much so that her boss bought hunting rifles for her and another girl and brought them a trip to go on safari to Africa. I have a picture of her and the Jim buck deer that she shot. A year or two she and one of her girlfriends went on a two week trip to another country but after a week into the cruise she came back home because she had met the boy she eventually married. Now they have a 1 year old little boy and this afternoon their little 2 year old daughter is going to be 3 and she’s having a birthday party this afternoon. 👧🎂🎊🎉🎁🪅💝
Anyone commenting on the "huckleberry" vs "hucklebearer" debate needs to head on over to "the wild west extravaganza" and listen to Josh put this debate to rest. He documents his sources very well.
They can't stand to admit that they read an internet meme, believed it, and now find out they've been fooled. So they double down on the nonsense of "huckle bearer". There never, ever was any such term.
That's not what he says. He says "I'm your huckle bearer." The handles on a casket were called huckles. A person that helped carry a casket was called a huckle bearer. He's telling him he is going to kill him.
@@TonyGrace let's read what Val Kilmer, the man who played Doc Holliday, wrote about this. He heard about this huckle Bearer nonsense and talked about it in his book. By the way his book is titled "I'm Your Huckleberry": "By the way, despite some fans’ contention that in the 1800s the handles of caskets were called huckles and thus the word huckle bearer was a term for pall bearer, I do not say “I’m your huckle bearer.” I say, “I’m your huckleberry,” connotating “I’m your man. You’ve met your match."
@@TonyGrace and fyi, the handles of a casket were never at any point in history called huckles. That's not what the word means. Look it up in any dictionary, past or present. And the term huckle Bearer never even existed until it was made up on the internet in the late 1990s. Nobody ever said it back in the day because it didn't even exist. And as described, it doesn't even make sense.
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“Say when” is still the coldest line ever
It's also historically accurate; several witnesses confirm Holliday REALLY said that
@@shawnwilkening which is odd because you shouldn't give away advantage but Doc was just that good.
It's so metal.
There are so many great lines in this film. Definitely my favorite movie of all time
Ringo you look like you just stepped over your grave
Kilmer deserved the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Tombstone. He shone in the role. Unforgettable.
@@cheryllaguardia931 I agree; but TOMBSTONE was not that well received, as critics we're angling for the release of WYATT EARP.
"Whyyyyy Johnny Ringo...looks like somebody just...walked right over your grave" Val delivered some serious lines in this one!
You ain't no daisy..You ain't no daisy at all.
Aaahhhmmm your huckleberry…cracks me up every time
Val Kilmer should've won an Oscar for his performance in "Tombstone," my fav western. 👏 👏 👏
Thank the Oscars for giving Best Supporting to Jack Palance for City Slickers.
The best Western ever and I hate Western films but this I can watch back to back
@@casonthompson6305 Unforgiven is really good too, not much of a western fan myself outside Tombstone and Unforgiven
Never heard of it I'll check it out after the gym thank you
@@casonthompson6305 ole boy was right tho, Unforgiven is really good too even if you're like us and don't care for westerns.
I've never seen a movie where an actor stole the show like Val Kilmer did with this. Amazing performance.
1989 Batman Jack Nicholson
Kirk Lazarus playing a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another would have something to say about that.
@@NotyoMainbruhh Excellent point. No arguments here.
The difference between confidence and arrogance is personified in this scene
Doc just knows he can kill Ringo, but also he wants to kill him. Zero hesitation in his walk and delivery. Badass scene
Idk...I thought Ringo was supposed to be a top shelf badass, he was just drunk and really upset at the time.
@@johngoldsworthy7135 Doc is also fully aware he is dying, so getting shot and killed doesn't even phase him. He's going out one way or another, whether it's now with a bullet or painfully choking on his deteriorating lungs in several months time, and with that realization the bullet almost sounds better anyway. He has nothing to lose, and that is what gives him the far more dangerous edge.
@@thehumandirigible4882 when it comes to fighting and war. Those who have nothing to lose are the most dangerous
They knew if anyone could take Ringo it was Doc.
Doc just didn't give a rat's ass, and Ringo was too confident, and probably psychopathic, to think anyone was as good as he was.
"I'm your huckleberry... that's just my game" this movie was awesome and val kilmer was amazing I still can't believe he didn't win a oscar for this role
Robbed.
@@gutstompenrocker Forget winning, he wasn't even nominated. Absolutely unbelievable, total fail by the Academy.
He didn't say huckleberry, he said hucklebearer. A huckle was an exterior part of the casket that helped carry it. Essentially he was saying I'll carry you to your grave
This is one of those roles absolutely nobody will ever be able to top. Like Ian McKellan as Gandalf or Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man. You can re cast, sure, but you’ll never exceed.
@@joshuasmyth155 He did say huckleberry. Val Kilmer has confirmed it himself. People speculated that he said hucklebearer instead of huckleberry, because they didn't know it was part of what used to be a known phrase, then it got spread as fact through the internet.
“Barber, proceed sir”😂😂😂 that’s my favorite part of this scene
bahbuh*
So many good parts I can't pick 1, or 2 or 3 😂
Doc was just tryna get sharp, but got interrupted when his home boys were being messed with hahah.
@ very rude of them, very rude to back out afterwards, doc really wanted to play for blood 🩸
@@drgonzo305 he had nothing to lose. He was ready. Then a shave!
Kilmer really never got the credit he deserved. He wasn’t an actor, he was a proper thespian.
Imagine if he had had a decent batman script and director. Dude would have stood higher than Keaton in the bat actor rankings
Yes he is a thespian
Is.
@@tokukeitaro Bro so I just rewatched Batman Forever and I thought he did a phenomenal job as Bruce Wayne and Batman. The voice was perfect and the whole presentation as a rich man and a caped crusader.
@@huckleberry-23 ayup.
If he had Nolan as a director or Reeves, people would be calling him the definitive Batman.
"I'm your huckleberry." Val Kilmer is the man! I never tire of this movie.
huckle.......bearer. hucklebearer
@@ToddiousMaximousSo you think Kilmer got the name of his autobiography wrong?
@@Thaaden Never believe internet memes. You got fooled. "Huckle bearer" is made up nonsense. It never existed, and ONLY exists on the internet.
Kilmer didn't say it funny at all...he said Huckleberry. He has confirmed this. He actually refutes this "huckle bearer" nonsense in his book, which is interestingly titled "I'm Your Huckleberry".
The script says Huckleberry, by the way. Look it up.
While you're at it, look up "huckle" and you'll find it never meant "casket handle", or anything resembling a handle of any sort.
This "huckle bearer" nonsense was made up on the internet, and has no basis in fact at all.
@@ThaadenYes, I'm well versed in the "huckle bearer" myth. Three main troubles with the theory:
1. "I'm your Huckleberry" is a direct Doc Holiday quote from an old story.
2. The script says "I'm your huckleberry."
3. Val Kilmer literally named his autobiography "I'm your Huckleberry.”
The real issue is people not understanding a southern drawl, Doc Holiday was from Georgia. He wouldn't pronounce it "bear-ee" he'd pronounced it "berreh," which people are mistaking for "bearer."
@@Thaaden you were SO sure that you were right about this.
So calmly going from sitting on the porch of the barbershop, to walking up to him ready to fight and die if necessary with a pistol ready for his friends who will undoubtedly join in when he wins, truly shows the kind of person that ppl back then said Doc Holliday really was. How he and Wyatt became such close friends is just one of those twists of fate that happens in life sometimes and that makes life so great.
Entirely one of the best westerns ever made.....
My favorite movie of all time. I've seen it 4 times and it never fails to entertain me!!
Steve Biehn is from the town I live in. Met him at the gym and told him how much I respected him!
Best Western ever. Val should have gotten an Oscar for his role as Doc
My all-time favorite. But, the word is "hucklebearer". The handles on a casket used to be called huckles and that was the term given to a pallbearer.
Curly Bill knew Doc was NOT playing.
Bill saw that he was already drawn. That was the difference.
@@sidneyrodrigues728...and a tad drunk.
@@sidneyrodrigues728 He didn't even need to be either as seen by their eventual gunfight.
I agree curly Bill knew Ringo wasn’t really a match for Doc drunk or not 😂
Curly bill had heard he was “real fast “
Michael Biehn is the most underrated moviestar of our time. I mean.. terminator, aliens,tombstone, the rock.. what do you have to do more?
He totally nailed this role
AGREED SO LITERALLY ARGUABLY SHOCKINGLY OVERRATED
The Lords of Discipline
AGREED SO INARGUABLY LITERALLY SHOCKINGLY OVERRATED
The Abyss was an incredible movie.
Honestly this is one the best films ever made.. It gets a bad rap because its a western but the acting, the writing, the directing, the cinematography, the music are all incredible! Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer should, at the very least, received Oscar nominations for this film
There is a major flaw that is never mentioned that Hollywood specifically did. They made up the reason for the major gunfight - "They have guns in the city and its against the law." That was straight out of Hollywood Anti-gun propaganda. Ignoring that, its a masterpiece movie. One of the Earp brothers tells them- "We don't want to take you guns, you just can't have them in the city." Anti-2A groups have been spouting nearly that line identical word for word for 20 plus years except now they don't even hide that now they want to take ALL guns.
Lots of cow towns prohibited guns in the city, e.g Abilene Texas when Wild Bill Hickock was there
@@spartanx169x Not sure if hollywood was as anti-gun 30 years ago. A lot of movies in the 80's and 90's were guns, sci fi guns, rambo, terminator etc. Today yeah but 30 years ago wasn't as politically pushed.
@FrankbullittSFPD It's entertainment value. That's hollywood for everything.
there are so many good performances in this movie and VK is so good he just blows them all away
This movie needs to be added to the Library of Congress's national film archive. Every actor deserves an Oscar nomination.
I've always said the VK should have won for best supporting actor in this role, one of my favorite roles of all time.
Ringo: “Fight’s not with you Holliday.”
Doc: “I beg to differ sir, we started a game we never got to finish “play for blood” remember?”
Ringo: “ I was just foolin’ about.”
Doc: “ I wasn’t.”
Ringo: 💀
Literally 💀
Doc didn’t kill ringo in real life
@@stacymanley161 he did in the movie and that’s good enough for me.
@@stacymanley161 Ringo was found dead in a grove of trees with an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound to the head after days of drinking and opioid use. But it’s still an *awesome* scene!
Yea, he messed with the wrong porcupine there😂
Ringo never saw Doc’s draw. He didn’t know how fast he was. But Doc saw Ringo draw in the cup twirling scene so he knew he was faster than Ringo.
Plus he already had a gun in his hand.
That's actually not true. Even when they actually dueled in the end scene Doc thought he was going to lose but he still wanted to play it out. I believe it was Wyatt Earp himself that said afterwards (in real life) that Doc thought Ringo was faster than him but he wasn't sure.
He was a little too high strung! Doc learned that he could hit Ringo from the hip!
@@zi326 I don't think Doc believed he would lose. Since Doc saw many similarities between himself and Ringo he thought they would draw equally and kill each other. Doc was surprised he out drew Ringo and actually wanted a tie (so he would die in a gunfight, not slowly from Tuberculosis). That's why Doc gestured and said "Come on!" to Ringo after he shot him. He wanted Ringo to finish him off like it was supposed to happen but Ringo could only shoot into the ground before he dropped, dead.
@@zi326 You posted in a few comments about this . Any references can read that Earp stated this or is it just based on loose tales and opinions? This movie along is baked in facts with a tad of embellishment to sell a movie anyway.
Every scene in this movie is iconic
You dam right, Val Kilmer should have won a Oscar for his role in tombstone, he was the best in playing doc Holliday then I ever seen, great job 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 😉
I love Ringo & Doc, & how they are both alike & different at the same time. These actors were great in their roles.
Two sides of the same coin
He reminds me of..........me.
Ive watched this movie so many times and it doesn't get old. I guess it helps that I live about 20 min from tombstone.
Tombstone, the town too tough to die.
I visited Tombstone about two years ago. It was definitely worth the trip.
I can watch Val Kilmer in Tombstone all day. Great actor.
Great movie!!
Hands down the best Doc Holiday ever.
That's one of my favorite scenes. I have a sign of Val Kilmer and that famous saying "I'm your Huckleberry, Say When"
That's not what he says. He says "I'm your huckle bearer." The handles on a casket were called huckles. A person that helped carry a casket was called a huckle bearer. He's telling him he is going to kill him.
@@TonyGrace there’s always one of you that’s gotta throw this BS in every time. Val’s book is titled “I’m your Huckleberry”. Do you think he would have named it that if that’s not what he said? Quit spreading that false BS.
Val Kilmer's book titled
"I'm your HUCKLEBERRY "
kind of permanently settles
the internet casket handle
myth
The man that said the line
says " HUCKLEBERRY " so
that's that
Kilmer is owed an oscar for his performance as doc holiday
I when I met him(he couldn't talk :( ) like many others, told him that.
If anyone should get a lifetime achievement Oscar, Val Kilmer should. From Real Genius and Top Gun, to Tombstone he always delivered quality. Heck I even like Batman Forever, it was a solid performance.
@@3Rayfire He did a pretty good job in The Doors too.
@3Rayfire He was great in Heat and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang as well, Willow too! Come to think of it, while Tombstone is famously known for the shootout at the OK Coral, Heat had one of the best shootout scenes in a movie ever thanks in part to Val Kilmer.
Val kilmer is a great actor one of my favorite scenes of all the movies made
Val Kilmer Best Role.
i never thought it was that great. pretty half-assed accent, he did sweat well though.
@@rickdeckard1075Your literally the only one who thinks that. Lol
@@RkoStunna that doesnt bother me in the slightest. strange that it matters to you. if everyone jumped off a cliff would you follow them?
@@RkoStunna you’re actually entirely wrong, it’s completely subjective and many people agree.
He was way better as jim Morrison
Thanks. Now I have to go watch this entire movie again..
"Why Johnny Ringo, you looked as if somebody just 'walked over your grave!"
What does that mean? Johnny Ringo is still alive, so he is unburied, and he has no grave?
@@satchelsatchelit’s an old saying for when you feel a creeping dread, as if you can feel it when someone walks over where you _will_ be buried.
‘I’m afraid the strain was more than he could bear’ has got to be one of the greatest one liners in movie history too.
He said Johnny "looked" like someone just walked over his grave. i.e., he had the look of fear in his eyes.
@@Androsynth75 This movie has a bunch. I personally loved "down by the river, walking on water".
I keep finding & watching clips from Tombstone.
I’m happy to do it too.
man and Doc was always dripped out, beautiful vest
Kevin Costner was asked to be in movie or do walk on..he went off and made his own movie...that sucked...but to try and tank this one, he had his people buy up allllllll the period costumes available...so we also owe kudos to the crew in back diligently making the greatest costumes....all of em were "dripped" out and dapper...love everything about this movie...have watched 100x...for the record,.old lefty KC is still stirring up crap here in 2024 thinking he was the best ever...obviously he wasn't, isn't and never was...had beef w Kurt and Clint...😂😂😂
I will never understand why Val Kilmer didn’t win an Oscar for this role.
Stacked year for Supporting Actor. Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List, Pete Postlethwaite - In The Name of The Father, and the winner was Tommy Lee Jones - Fugitive.
@@tnexus13 Indeed but still this performance was far better than Tommy Lee Jones in Fugitive.
Lee gave a generic Lee performance in The Fugitive
Kilmer's acting here was akin to a whirlwind
@meonkrishnanan5920 Exactly... I think it was more unfortunate timing. Unforgiven being the prior if I'm not mistaken. The Academy didn't want back-to-back Westerns getting awards.
Man the cowboys knew Doc was not to be f*cked with! 😂
Absolutely... Ringo stood absolutely no chance here whatsoever and his friends knew it.
The fact he has the pistol behind his back, he knew the rest of the Cowboys would come out and he was ready to take them all on. Probably would win too.
I gotcha back😅
Depends what was in the script, no ?
In reality Doc Holiday was a bad shot. Yes he was fast, but not much of a shooter past 10ft
@@jamesdheel1568 He was good enough
@@jamesdheel1568 Hm, that's kind of shown in the film though, their duel at end is at point blank range where any lack of accuracy Doc has is nullified and it's all about his superior speed.
Ringo was too high strung, and the stress was more than he could bear. Us a southern drawl when you say it.
No disrespect to the South. I'm from the south. So was Doc Holiday
Me too, but that's the way Val Kilmer said it. I perceived no disrespect. I know Holiday was from the south he was from Georgia, same as me.
Say When. Best character of all time.
Johny ringo:i was just foolin' about
Doc:i wasn't
"And now it's legal"
Powers Boothe....what an actor !!
Agreed 👍
One the greatest lines in one the greatest movies of all time.
I love this scene with Val and Michael Bien.
You’re no daisy Johnny. You’re no daisy at all.
Kilmer needs to be awarded a "Special Oscar" for his performance as Doc Holiday! ❤❤❤
Easily one of my favorite western films due to Val Kilmers performance 🔥 he was also my favorite Batman growing up before I watched Keaton.
I cannot believe I slept on this movie for decades. Saw it last night after watching Wyatt Earp, both are good, but Tombstone kicked butt most. I need to buy the blu ray
soon.
If you've not seen it yet also watch Unforgiven, by Clint Eastwood. All 3 of the films you and I mentioned here all were released within a short time period. A glorious time for westerns in the early/mid 90s.
@@JK-ot1xn yep I've seen Unforgiven for sure. A great film.
Absolutely love this movie!! My favorite movie ever!!
That is one of my favorite quotes ever!! The one later too.. when Doc says "hes just high strung" lol, love it!!
Which he signed to me on a beautiful Doc Holiday Print. :)
A lot of talented actors and actresses deserved awards that didn't get them. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen should be awarded lifetime achievement awards for their work in sci-fi films. Val Kilmer should have won an award for this scene alone. This isn't an oil painting artist where you only get recognized after your death. Better to show your respect while they are still alive.
this movie had an unreasonably good cast.
Doc Holliday was ice cold.🥶
Played by Ice Man!
Tombstone wouldn't be the cultural phenomenon it is with anyone other than Kurt Russell & Val Kilmer in those roles. They made that movie & it never gets old.
One of my favourite actors in one of my favourite movies.
Just watched this movie again last night for about the 12th time. My wife doesn't like watching it with me as I can quote almost every line.
Val. best doc holiday. ever.
I just Loved and Enjoyed Val Kilgore as Doc Holiday. Wow! He NAILED IT.
Very Entertaining Movie even today.
I wish the ending when they were chasing those men with their red sashes, was more detailed. 3 hour movie would’ve suited me just fine.
What a cast!
Fear any man that has already made peace with his own death.
the say when with no hesitation has got to make you think twice about takin that next step
Doc Holliday clearly had a death wish and would take as many bad men with him as he could. I had a new respect for Val Kilmer after he made Doc Holliday so believable!💯
Not so much a death WISH per se, he already had the TB and knew it. More like a prisoner on death row, he had literally nothing to lose, but everyone else did
@@sagesarrazine6270 as the kids say nowadays, Doc stood on business.
@@shawn3363 Truth lmao. And with God no less
Val Kilmer was so comfortable in character, he absolutely nailed this role, sublime!!!
If you ever challenge someone to a fight and they go, "Say when..." Say no! 🤣🤣🤣
They saved Ringo's ass. If he tried to draw there you could probably roll the credits of the movie about 10 minutes after this
I’ve always thought he was legit gonna draw against ringo but the pistol behind the back was for the rest of them lmao 😂
The Best Doc Holliday Ever performance. God Bless Him❤
Doc, why you doing this? You should be in bed.
“Wyatt Earp is my friend.”
Hell, I got lots of friends.
“I don’t.”
The subtlety of him hiding his empty holster with his arm so that Ringo wouldn’t know he was holding the gun behind his back is incredible. It also makes him look like he’s prepared to draw.
Val Kilmer is an "Actor's Actor" and should have won an Oscar for His betrayal of Doc Holliday. Although the cast was great, He carried this film.
The Epitome of Cool under fire . The Stories I read as a child of "Doc" Holiday brought to life on the big screen by "Val" Kilmer . "Let's do it "
Semper Fi !
Great movie, Phenomenal cast! Instant classic! 😎👌🏻
Great movie!!!! Great acting !! Val was amazing in this movie !!!
That man was robbed of a Oscar
Just years ago this became my all time favorite movie line. I had to rewind this scene multiple times on Amazon Prime
Sums up the entire conflict. A group of dirtbags used to bullying ran into some men who handed stood up to them gave it to them every time
Great movie, and this scene was based on an actual even that took place in January 1882. But it wasn't broken up by Curly Bill, but rather by Chief of Police Flynn. And I believe it took place on the much wider Allen Street.
But still a great scene from an awesome film!
My absolute favorite scene in a movie.
Val deserved an Oscar for this
Yay for having met Val and Michael Biehn.
Everyone in this film was terrified of Doc Holliday, even when he’s drunk.
Ringo wasn't as we saw in the bar. Sober was certainly another matter after this scene.
Well even incredibly drunk he’d displayed impressive mental acuity as well as mastery of his motor functions. When he first meets ringo he copies ringos motions exactly with his cup, and in the standoff after curly bill killed whatshisface and the music lover said he was probably seeing double and he pulled out two guns one for each of him, he spun each in a different direction. I would leave that man alone.
"I know. Let's have a spellin' contest." Love that line!
"I'm your huckleberry." Huckleberries only grow wild and can't be farmed. You gotta go and find them where they grow wild.
"Im your huckleberry," means, "You found just the guy you're looking for." It's also a taunt: calling someone "huckleberry" is a term of endearment.
Basically, Doc is saying, "Let's go, sweetheart," and trying to provoke Ringo towards him and away from Wyatt.
A "huckleberry" was one of six men who carry your casket to your gravesite.
@@rev.jimjones9100 a Huckle bearer*. The "huckle" is the handle of the casket. pall bearer huckle bearer huckleberry
@@ZDubz007 right, if you listen closely you can hear "bearer" not "berry". I do anyway
@cliffordlouden he says it twice, and I can hear both versions both times. At the end when he kills Ringo, I think it sounds more like berry and in this scene more like bearer, but it is very hard to distinguish. I think he ad libbed the line and made it his own.
@@ZDubz007 Huckle never ever meant any type of handle, nor any part of a casket. This is all made up internet nonsense. He said "I'm your huckleberry" in response to Ringo's "play for blood" challenge because it is a WELL-documented phrase that means "I'm game/I'm your man/I'm the one you're looking for/etc" It's the PERFECT and period-correct response to such a question.
It's in the script. Scriptwriter took it right out of a 1920's book about Tombstone in which Doc says that exact thing to Ringo in this situation.
And unlike "huckle bearer", "I'm your huckleberry" actually existed and appears in many books. You cannot find "bearer" in a single piece of any kind of literature. It only exists on the internet.
The make up guy should have gotten an Oscar as well as Val.
His appearance was Oscar worthy alone
"I'm your Huckleberry" and "Say when" are two absolutely legendary lines but a lot of people overlook how badass Ringo's lines are. "I want your blood and I want your souls and I want 'em both right now... " 🫠💀 Chills
The best Western ever.I agree Val Kilmer should have won an Oscar.
Ringo getting slammed into the “pine box” coffins was some good foreshadowing.
Say when. I love Val Kilmer!
Doc almost just ended the Ringo problem for them.
' say when!!" Love it!!!
With lesser actors, this could've been a failed attempt to revive a diminished film genre. With this cast, and with Kilmer as the standout among standouts, there were some unforgettable and inspiring scenes that make this a classic.
When he moves into ready position - I love that so much
That's one of my all time favorite movies 😊
VAL shut the door on anyone ever trying to play “ DOC HOLIDAY” again.
If you take all of Clint Eastwood Westin's movies out of the equation; this was the BEST Westin movie ever made!
No. Not even close.
You're high
@@jameslivingston7159 Agreed, anybody thinking this is a top 10 western needs to lay off the meth
As much as I like this movie, Shane has the best gunfight between Shane and Jack Wilson. That entire movie has so little violence but is building up to that showdown.
I'll take Once Upon a Time in the West over Tombstone any day. Henry Fonda as a villain was incredible.
Best scene of the movie!
My granddaughter is a great artist. At one time before she got married she had an online poster business. She designed posters and sold them online. She charged 25 dollars a poster however one weekend she had a sale and on Monday morning before the post office opened,she called them and warned them that she had 247 posters to mail to different addresses so they might need extra time to get them all stamped before they opened. Anyway, one of the posters was a poster of a handsome man with a mustache labeled I’m your Huckleberry. I didn’t understand what she meant so she told me about the film. After that she went out of the poster business and went to work for a taxidermy business. She had never done any thing like that before but she was a quick study, so much so that her boss bought hunting rifles for her and another girl and brought them a trip to go on safari to Africa. I have a picture of her and the Jim buck deer that she shot. A year or two she and one of her girlfriends went on a two week trip to another country but after a week into the cruise she came back home because she had met the boy she eventually married. Now they have a 1 year old little boy and this afternoon their little 2 year old daughter is going to be 3 and she’s having a birthday party this afternoon. 👧🎂🎊🎉🎁🪅💝
She sounds like a wonderful person, I’m sure you’re very proud of her. Thanks for sharing!
it always cracks me up in these old timey movies when someone obviously clean shaved goes in for a shave
I still get chills
If Holiday was just half as convincing as Kilmer was in this scene, he would have been the baddest man in the West.
Anyone commenting on the "huckleberry" vs "hucklebearer" debate needs to head on over to "the wild west extravaganza" and listen to Josh put this debate to rest. He documents his sources very well.
Or, Val Kilmer himself.
They can't stand to admit that they read an internet meme, believed it, and now find out they've been fooled. So they double down on the nonsense of "huckle bearer". There never, ever was any such term.
That's not what he says. He says "I'm your huckle bearer." The handles on a casket were called huckles. A person that helped carry a casket was called a huckle bearer. He's telling him he is going to kill him.
@@TonyGrace let's read what Val Kilmer, the man who played Doc Holliday, wrote about this. He heard about this huckle Bearer nonsense and talked about it in his book. By the way his book is titled "I'm Your Huckleberry":
"By the way, despite some fans’ contention that in the 1800s the handles of caskets were called huckles and thus the word huckle bearer was a term for pall bearer, I do not say “I’m your huckle bearer.” I say, “I’m your huckleberry,” connotating “I’m your man. You’ve met your match."
@@TonyGrace and fyi, the handles of a casket were never at any point in history called huckles. That's not what the word means. Look it up in any dictionary, past or present. And the term huckle Bearer never even existed until it was made up on the internet in the late 1990s. Nobody ever said it back in the day because it didn't even exist. And as described, it doesn't even make sense.