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Re: [DL] Tombstone vs. Wyatt Earp
> I didn't mean it to be personal either. I'm pretty
> notorious for adoring Val Kilmer's portrayal of my
> favorite western figure, so I couldn't resist the
> chance to poke fun at myself.
Oh, I didn't take it personally, I just like to let the people who are
wrong have their opinion too. ;-P Teasing! I'm teasing! Put down the
baseball bat!
All things considered, I did enjoy both movies, I just felt that Wyatt
Earp did a better job of portraying the characters as the biographies do,
whereas Tombstone had a more Hollywood 'polish' to it. Costner's Earp had
more of a nasty edge to him than I got from Russell's interpretation. I
like Val Kilmer (nobody can beat that huckleberry line), but Dennis Quaid
did a fine job and was positively skeletal in Wyatt Earp, which I thought
was a better representation of someone with TB.