Wyatt Earp

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The Kasdan/Costner retelling of the rich Wyatt Earp saga takes 190 minutes, covers the entire life of Wyatt Earp from adolescence to old age, and when it's over you feel you hardly understand any of the characters. And worse yet, don't care to. Outside of Quaid's Doc Holliday, the motivations and driving impulses of the Earps are unstated or contradictory. In trying to tell the entire story of Wyatt Earp, Kasdan in a sense tells us nothing. Rent Tombstone instead.

The movie was good enough on most of its parts. First of all, the acting was very good and the script was very good. The only problem I had with this movie is that it was a little bit boring. Most of the movie and dialogue was top of the notch excellent but it got a tad bit boring. Overall this movie was very cool and I thought that it depicted Wyatt Earp's life well and Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid are awesome. Rating 9 out of 10.

I enjoyed both Wyatt Earp and Tombstone I enjoyed Wyatt Earp bettter because it is more historically accurate and character and personality of Wyatt Earp is better defined Doc Holiday portrayal is more accurate Tombstone is entertaining but the characters are fictionalized more and Val Kilmer in Tombstone is not real portrayal and Doc Holiday as a great gunfighter is baloney and he was not well liked and died alone.

This show came out just after Tombstone. Yes tombstone was very good. Tombstone had a great cast but it just came off as being to sexy. Didn't tell enough of wyatts story. Wyatt Earp movie was long but it mad you feel that you have a better understanding of the man. I first saw Wyatt Earp the movie and felt it was to long. Then I read the book. I watched the movie again And it follows the book perfectly. Basically you can say Tombstone was about one event in 1881. Wyatt Earp was about His life (good or bad). You can try to compare the movies base on fun, cast or length. Wyatt Earp the movie was well done.

I grow so angry when I hear people claim that this film was inferior to the rather stupid "Tombstone." Costner actually takes the time and effort to make this film realistic and historic in nature. He surrounds himself with great talent and just makes a wonderful film. Being a historian, I was thrilled to see how much of recorded history was in this film. This film is, dare I say, educational. Which is why I guess it has taken a back seat to the Hollywood Kurt Russell film, which is Rambo goes to Arizona. Of course, people will say "Wyatt Earp bombed, it must be bad." Well, that is not true. Kevin Costner has made an entertaining and intelligent movie that seeks to tell people the real story about what happened in Tombstone.

A very good movie, the biggest letdown is the length! Good lord, I'm reading people saying there needed to be more detail, blah blah--you'd need to make a series on TV! It's already, what, three hours long? Some of the acting seemed a little stiff, what is it with Kostner that he always comes off like he's got his lines memorized, and he's trying to remember them? As for passing judgement on historical accuracy--folks, it's a movie, OK? Not a history course. Omission is not historical inaccuracy, it's expediency, as long as the continuity of the story is intact. I liked Tombstone too. Both entertaining movies, neither is Gone With the Wind. Isn't entertainment and performance what it's all about?

I think the only thing that would have made this movie better is if was longer and a bit slower. It was such a fast paced movie I just couldn't keep up. It needed another few hours just to make it absolutely perfect... ug

Wyatt Earp, has to truly be one of the finest portrayal of a great western hero. I live in the Southwest and here you are closer to the things that took place not that long ago. Wyatt Earp brings to the screen, an insight to each of us just a small understanding of what took place not all that long ago. The west was the last frontier of man, a place where man lived and died by the gun, where law was ruled by the Colt 45. The Gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the last great events that took place in the Old West. The movie brings not only the story of the life and times of Wyatt Earp, but also in showing you the events that led up to the beginning of the end of the Wild West. Any Wild West history buff will enjoy watching and understanding how the puzzle of the Old West fits into becoming a building block of our great nation. This movie will remain as one of my best loved movies.