Is Tombstone A Great Movie Or Just A Great Performance?

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When I watch it I don't think of it as a cinematic masterpiece or anything, but it's also one of the few movies where if I saw it on tv I would probably sit and watch all of it.

So, I don't know f that answers the question. So many amazing performances, and not just Kilmer. I am not even the world's buggest Kurt Russel fan but he was great. Paxton was great. fukking Michael Biehn was great. Sam Elliot and Powers Boothe were great.

At the end of the day, great movies are good scenes with good performances that you remember, right? If so, it's a good movie.

I sort of feel like there are "films" (think Godfather, No Country For Old Men, Drive, etc.) and "movies" and Tombstone feels more like a "movie" if that makes any sense.
 
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It's one of my favorite movies. I get what you're saying here but I didn't think Kilmer was the only great performance. I thought pretty much everyone was great. Powers Boothe as Curly bill and Michael Biehn as Ringo were great villains.

But my favorite was fukking Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton. :mjlol:

So many memorable lines and actions. Dude accuses Doc of cheatin in the card game. bartender says nobody cheated u. He smacks the shyt out of him on some "don't take no lip from no bartenders neither :ufdup: " :pachaha:
 

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Tombstone is a great movie, a western classic, and has a great performance from Kilmer.
You want to see how bad the same story could be look at Costner's Wyatt Earp, a real boring failure of a movie.
 
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