YMMV / Wyatt Earp

• Awesome Music: James Newton Howard's score is just as great in its gentler moments like "The Wedding" as its thunderous moments like "It All Ends Now".
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Dennis Quaid, as The Dreaded Southern Gentleman Doc Holliday. His version of Holliday might not be as big of a pop culture icon as the version of the character played by Val Kilmer is in Tombstone, but some fans and professional critics think he captures the character just as well, if not better. This is despite how Doc doesn't appear until over an hour into the movie, while Kilmer's Doc is around from the beginning.
  • Snarky, Happily Married James Earp is one of Wyatt's better-liked brothers, despite being the only Non-Action Guy among them.
  • Ed Masterson, a Nice Guy played by Bill Pullman, is one of the more memorable and popular supporting characters, even though he dies about halfway through the film.
  • Frank and Tom McLaury might be the best-liked of the villainous cowboys due to being competent gunfighters, their distinctive appearance, their actors (Adam Baldwin and Rex Linn), and how they have some subtle Even Evil Has Standards and Even Evil Has Loved Ones moments.
• Just Here for Godzilla: There are many things about the movie that attract one group of fans or another, but one notable draw of it for history aficionados is that it is the first (and so far only) movie about the Earps and Doc Holliday to include Wyatt's younger brother Warren (while having him played by a young Jim Caviezel no less) and his role in the Earp vendetta ride.
• The Woobie: The Earp wives get plenty of chances to be exasperated and pitiful, and their actresses do a good job with how much they have to put up with because of Wyatt's whims and occasional Jerkass moments. And that's without mentioning Lou's grief when Morgan is wounded at the O.K. Corral and murdered after his recovery or Mattie's Descent into Addiction once Wyatt starts cheating on her.