Thursday, November 19, 2009

22. Tombstone – CRITICS' RANKING: NOT IN THE TOP 100. I SAY: Let's start out with the negatives - the love story is Dana DeLAME-y. It's so bad that I just used that pun. Also, the bad guy is so thoroughly humiliated by Val Kilmer that he's hard to take seriously. It just always seems clear that these are drunken buffoons. Finally, Jason Priestly? Really? That out of the way, Kurt Russell makes a good cowboy, Sam Elliott was born in the wrong era and should have been in all the great westerns, and Bill Paxton is present. Which leaves us with Kilmer's Doc Holliday, which is what puts this movie on this list. This movie dances circles around Unforgiven's 2+-hours of growling.

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