Line #18 YMMV/Tombstone


1	* AntiClimaxBoss: Curly Bill. The film keeps building up to their confrontation at Iron Springs, and it looks like it'll be a prolonged fight, right until Wyatt walks up to him and shoots him at point blank range, fully protected by his [[TruthInTelevision historical]] immunity to bullets the entire time.
2	* AwardSnub: Creator/ValKilmer wasn't even nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his role as Doc Holiday.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Bruce Broughton's score for this is a completely different beast to ''Film/{{Silverado}}'' but just as fine in its own way. And how many Westerns can you name [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdo1fF9dJvU that end with a waltz?]] Music/BearMcCreary's thoughts on this: ''They don’t make 'em like this anymore, folks. This score is so good it hurts.''
4	* CompleteMonster: [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Johnny Ringo]], worst of the Cowboys, is a man so empty that nothing can fill his soul no matter how much he kills or steals. First helping Curly Bill Brocius lead a slaughter of a wedding party that sees the bride dragged off to be raped, Ringo callously guns down a priest, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards shocks even his fellow Cowboys]]. Later helping to lead other Cowboy raids, Ringo tortures and murders a Cowboy defector just as a message to Wyatt Earp as he plans to duel and kill him.
5	* CultClassic: The film was not a major hit at the box office, but is considered nowadays to be a fairly classic western, particularly of the 1990s.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Doc, to a degree that can't really be overstated. He may be a major supporting character, but to hear most fans talk about it you'd swear almost everything with the Earps was just {{Filler}}.
7	* FountainOfMemes: Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday. Pretty much everything out of the man’s mouth has become a meme. Funnily enough, the real Doc also loved him some memes. His most famous taglines ”I’m your huckleberry” and ”You’re a daisy” are contemporary pop culture references Doc was famous for trotting out whenever he thought he could get away with it.
8	* HarsherInHindsight:
9	** Either this or HilariousInHindsight, but try to watch the film after playing ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' to the end, as the film foreshadows [[spoiler:the similar fate of 36-year-old Arthur Morgan due to tuberculosis]].
10	** It can be pretty uncomfortable seeing Val Kilmer, who would later develop throat cancer, playing someone with terminal tuberculosis.
11	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Yes, even in a cast which includes [[AllStarCast the likes of]] Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/PowersBoothe, and many others, Creator/ValKilmer gives a performance which outshines them all, and not by a little bit either.
12	** And props to actors Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton, best known and loved for their work in the SciFiGhetto (especially when the film was released), holding their own in this ludicrously-talented cast.
13	* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/BillPaxton and Creator/PowersBoothe playing enemies on opposite sides of the law is pretty amusing to fans of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', where they both played members of the HYDRA organization. Similarly, Creator/KurtRussell plays a good guy here and Michael Rooker plays a bad guy (at least at first). Come [[spoiler: ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Creator/MichaelRooker still pulls a HeelFaceTurn, but Russell plays the ''BigBad.'']]
14	** Also, Creator/ValKilmer being opposed to the former two becomes funny since he played [[Film/BatmanForever Batman]].
15	* MagnificentBastard: [[LovableRogue Doc Holliday]] is an infinitely charismatic gunfighter who maintains a laid-back yet deadly disposition [[HandicappedBadass despite his lethal affliction of tuberculosis]]. A master card player who always wins with luck and swindling alike, Doc rips off poker houses he plays at through guile and gunpoint alike. Through [[WoundedGazelleGambit playing up his illness]] and often presenting himself as defenseless, Doc lures many an enemy into their doom by tricking them into underestimating him, killing even the dangerous Johnny Ringo while taunting the murderous criminal all the way. Truly loyal to the Earp brothers and assisting them in all their ventures to protect Tombstone, Doc uses the final moments of his life to impart advice and encouragement to his close friend Wyatt, Doc [[FaceDeathWithDignity accepting with wry amusement]] that his death by tuberculosis is far from the blaze of glory he had once hoped to go out in.
16	* MemeticMutation:
17	** "Well... bye." has since become a response to {{Rage Quit}}ters and/or {{Sore Loser}}s.
18	** "I'm your huckleberry."
19	* MoralEventHorizon:
20	** Arguably, Ringo shooting the unarmed priest.
21	** Shooting at the wives of the Earps was this for several members of the Cowboys, who promptly leave in disgust.
22	* {{Narm}}:
23	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yfr_Zj1iU4 NO!]]" for some.
24	** The scenes with Wyatt and Josephine, especially since there's quite the overbearing love overture that plays in just about all of their scenes. The movie basically forgets about its own RatedMForManly badassery and [[MoodWhiplash briefly turns into a chick flick]] whenever they're on screen together.
25	* NarmCharm: Or this for others.
26	* NightmareFuel:
27	** Johnny Ringo getting shot was pretty scary seeing that he was still standing and struggling to walk for about 10 seconds despite it being a head shot.
28	** Sherman [=McMaster's=] ultimate, gruesome fate, and ''[[FacialHorror face.]]''
29	** Morgan getting shot and his death scene, especially with them beforehand [[spoiler: trying in vain to dig the bullet out of him]], which doubles as {{Squick}}.
30	* RetroactiveRecognition:
31	** A young Creator/ThomasHadenChurch plays Ike Clanton's brother, Billy.
32	** Creator/BillyBobThornton appears in a brief scene as the drunken trouble-maker Johnny Tyler at the bar.
33	* TearJerker: Doc's deathbed scene, which some fans will describe as a "manly" emotional equivalent of the ending of ''Film/Titanic1997''.
34	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Mattie. We know that she's hopelessly addicted to laudanum and that Wyatt has definitely fallen out of love with her, but the matter of which problem came first is never really explored. The story more or less treats her like a mere obstacle to Wyatt's relationship with [[OneTrueLove Josie]], and sort of glosses over her obvious struggles with dependence and heartache over his infidelity to her.

Context YMMV / Tombstone