I am watching "Tombstone" for what has to be the 200th time...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

..."Have you met Doc Holliday?"

I'm 23 minutes into it.

There are days when no other movie will do. I also find it to be a good Sunday night movie...inspires me to get up and at 'em on Monday morning.

:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. Probably Val Kilmer's greatest role n/t

[bluesbassman]

3. I beg to differ. This was his greatest role...

I mean come on, with lines like this:

Mitch: You know, um, something strange happened to me this morning...
Chris Knight: Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Mitch: No...
Chris Knight: Why am I the only one who has that dream?


Chris Knight: Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?
David Decker: She happens to be my daughter.
Chris Knight: Oh. Then I guess you have.



BTW, he was pretty good in Tombstone too. :)

[Luciferous]

13. That's one of my husband's favorite movies.

:)

[madinmaryland]

2. Right fucking now??

Oh wait, you are not talking about DU and Walt Starr.

:P

[rrneck]

4. You're a daisy if you do. nt

[leeroysphitz]

5. I'm your huckleberry...

[Frank Cannon]

6. The greatest bully smackdown in cinema history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7J6dRkJjOI

"You gonna do something? Or you just gonna stand there and bleed?"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. I was feeling sorry for myself one day...

...and one of my best friends asked if I'd seen Tombstone, and I said hell yes, and he said:

"Remember that scene where Kurt Russell slaps Billy Bob Thornton and said "You gonna do something? Or you just gonna stand there and bleed?" I really like that scene."

Then he just smiled and went quiet and I GOT IT.

I've had the clip bookmarked ever since that day. Whenever I find myself stuck or wallowing in self-pity I watch it, and it gets my ass RIGHT BACK ON TRACK.

:toast:

[pokerfan]

17. my favorite scene

Doc using his cup to mock Johnny Ringo's pistol twirling and completely defusing the situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdfD2byTuY#t=0m40s

[driver8]

8. I watch this movie every time it is on!! So many great lines!

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is awesome.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. Tell 'em I'm coming

and hell's coming with me!
My favorite movie line next to
You can't fight in here, this is the war room

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. And that scene is so BEAUTIFULLY filmed, like the rest of the movie.

That scene...the night, the billowing clouds from the train, the close-up of Russell at the breaking point...GENIUS film making.

The biggest shock about that movie, for me, is that it's the same director (the late George P. Cosmatos) responsible for Stallone's stinker "Cobra."

How does THAT happen?

:toast:

[Frank Cannon]

16. The movie really is much better than people give it credit for.

My understanding is that George Cosmatos was only involved peripherally and that he basically "ghost-directed" it after the original director bailed and Kurt Russell and the screenwriter, Kevin Jarre, took over. This makes sense to me, because although the actors are all terrific, the dialog they're speaking is REALLY GREAT. It's one of those movies that you feel like you have to watch multiple times just to make sure you're not missing any of what people are saying.

I'm glad to see so many other fans of this film on this board.

:toast:

[BlueIris]

10. And I thought I was the only one who liked Tombstone.

Tombstone makes me cry. Seriously.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Russell's two speeches...

...his goodbye to Doc Holliday, and his "I have nothing left to give you, but I will love you for the rest of my life" speech to Josephine Marcus...that's the real power of the movie, the fact that you can have these real, deep relationships in a movie filled with graphic violence and a whole lotta noise.

I used to work for a company in which my department had a "team building event" at the home of one of the employees. They had a "surround-sound home theater"...BEFORE DVDs existed...and we all went there and sat around with snacks and soft drinks and watched Tombstone, LOUD. The gunshots and the clippety-clop of endless horse hooves still loom large in my memory.

[ashling]

11. I'll be your Huckelberry

or was that the other one?
:shrug:

[pokerfan]

18. it's this one

means 'I'm just the man you're looking for.'

[Luciferous]

14. Val Kilmer is so great in that movie. I might have to watch that over the weekend.

[pokerfan]

19. Chopin

Doc is playing the piano...

Billy Clanton: Is that Old Dog Tray? It sounds to me like Old Dog Tray.

Doc: Pardon?

Clanton: You know, Stephen Foster. Oh, Susannah, Camptown Races. Stephen stinking Foster!

Doc: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.

Clanton: A which?

Doc: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.

:rofl:

[S_E_Fudd]

20. Dana Delany ruined that movie for me...

Gawd she was awful!