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  1. 9 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Mainly 1) casting and 2) story.  Tombstone focuses only on the Tombstone/OK corral element of Earp's life and starting in medias res with him already a legend is a much better narrative device for a two hour movie than a sweeping Costnerey biopic.  

    Funny thing is even if Kasdan had cut Earp down to 2 hours it still would not have been as good a movie because of what your said, casting and story.

  2. So I watched both Tombstone and Wyatt Earp last night and ask myself after why is Tombstone that much better a movie? Wyatt Earp was directed, produced, and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan who is fantastic while Tombstone had director problems. Tombstone was a tight 139 minutes and sailed by while Earp dragged like most Costner movies of that time for over 3 hours. Whoever picked the cast for Earp should have been flogged, they miscast almost everyone in the movie except for Michael Madsen as Virgil and Tom Sizemore as Bat, on the other hand almost everyone in Tombstone was perfectly cast with of course Val Kilmer being the best. The only thing better about Wyatt was the music by James Newton Howard, his music was grand and bold. There were a few scenes in Earp I love, Wyatt and Josie were sleeping in bed, there is a slow move by her to him leading to sex, it is a great thoughtful scene. The other I like is Wyatt goes into the dark saloon, gets coffee and a cigar and sits down, a very quiet scene where you can see he is worried, the smoke of the cigar and the steam of the coffee make the scene.

    So my question to you is, why in your opinion is Tombstone a better movie and how did Costner and crew fuck theirs up.

       
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  3. 1 minute ago, Drew said:

    Wow.

    The 2 pt play was the right call because they knew they had to do that.

    The offense is the winner here. After a HORRIBLE first quarter and zero points they scored 40. Dak is that MAN.

    Coaching still scares me to death. Russel Wilson will eat this defense alive.

    Watch Dallas beat Seattle.

  4. 2 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Broken Blossoms (1919)

    D.W. Griffith flick.  Had some cool names for bands (The Jackies/Yellow Man) and the lead villain was the great Donald Crisp, the world's best Dad (National Velvet/How Green Was My Valley).  Guy had a very long and interesting life.  

    But no. Film school stuff..

    Tiago's brain dump: Broken Blossoms (1919)

    His last movie was Spencer's Mountain in the early 60's.

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