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Mar. 24th, 2007 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerHere's the thing that blows my mind.
How can a movie have one of the greatest casts I've ever seen-- Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Charlton Heston, Thomas Hayden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy Bob Thornton, Dana Delaney, Terry O'Quinn, John Corbett, Jason Priestley, Robert Mitchum-- and yet the only thing anyone remembers or cares about TOMBSTONE is how fucking excellent Val Kilmer is as Doc Holliday.
Yeah, y'know how everyone hailed Johnny Depp's performance as Captain Jack Sparrow as something new and amazing and stellar? Uh, I hadn't realized it until about an hour ago, but, uh, I think Val did it first. Seriously, I... I think he did!
Now I want a Doc Holliday/Cap'n Jack cross-country road trip. Seriously. Now. Do it. Do it now.
The movie itself was great fun. Not brilliant, and now I really want to know how much of it was true, what wasn't, and what people just don't know either way. It was classic Hollywood western, and fun for that.
Now I'm anxious to check out WYATT EARP, which I understand is more flawed, but perhaps the better movie.
... based on TOMBSTONE alone, though, I'm going to have to consider the Dent/Gordon to Holliday/Earp theory as "what could have been" for now. "What might have been." Had they had a few more years together.
How can a movie have one of the greatest casts I've ever seen-- Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Charlton Heston, Thomas Hayden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy Bob Thornton, Dana Delaney, Terry O'Quinn, John Corbett, Jason Priestley, Robert Mitchum-- and yet the only thing anyone remembers or cares about TOMBSTONE is how fucking excellent Val Kilmer is as Doc Holliday.
Yeah, y'know how everyone hailed Johnny Depp's performance as Captain Jack Sparrow as something new and amazing and stellar? Uh, I hadn't realized it until about an hour ago, but, uh, I think Val did it first. Seriously, I... I think he did!
Now I want a Doc Holliday/Cap'n Jack cross-country road trip. Seriously. Now. Do it. Do it now.
The movie itself was great fun. Not brilliant, and now I really want to know how much of it was true, what wasn't, and what people just don't know either way. It was classic Hollywood western, and fun for that.
Now I'm anxious to check out WYATT EARP, which I understand is more flawed, but perhaps the better movie.
... based on TOMBSTONE alone, though, I'm going to have to consider the Dent/Gordon to Holliday/Earp theory as "what could have been" for now. "What might have been." Had they had a few more years together.
