With the wife out of town and galavanting about Pennsylvania, I have time to catch up on watching some of my favorite movies (between episodes of Buffy, of course). Tombstone is one of my favorite movies. Certainly, my favorite western. Starring Kurt Russell and Sam Elliott's moustache. Val Kilmer steals the show as Doc Holliday, though.
Just watched the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Always nice to see the too-tanned Thomas Haden Church get whacked. The only problem I have with the scene, the whole movie actually, is that Holliday's shotguns and six-shooters were subject to the Rambo effect.
Early on in the gunfight, Holliday is carrying a double-barreled shotgun. A street howitzer, as Wyatt Earp calls it. Doc fires one barrel into the air to make a horse jump in order to get a clear shot at the Cowboy hiding behind it which he takes with the second barrel, blowing a hole in the guy's side. The scene cuts and the next thing you see is Holliday taking a third shot with the shotgun tearing into another Cowboy's leg.
Meanwhile, Ike Clanton has taken a gun from Sheriff Behan in the Inn behind the Earps' line and starts blazing away out the window. Doc then draws his twin pistols and returns fire. Over the course of 3 more cuts scenes back and forth, Holliday fires at least 10 shots from each of is revolvers. And the timing of the scenes really didn't allow for any reloading if that's how one tries to explain it.
Oh, well. Between Doc's memorable lines (some of the best non-Princess Bride lines ever) and the absolute carnage wreaked by Wyatt, it's up in Top Ten range for me.
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