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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.