IMDb plot summary: From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure and desperate, heroic action.
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, and David Andrews.
Wyatt Earp came out within a year of the movie Tombstone and is basically the same movie -- a dramatization of Wyatt Earp's life and famous battles, starring Kevin Costner as Earp and a nearly-unrecognizable Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday. I saw Tombstone ages ago but don't remember it being this agonizingly long or Earp being this unlikable. This version of the story may have possibly been trying to create a more fleshed out character of its title cowboy, but what they ended up doing was showing a bloodthirsty, violent, quick-tempered jerk self-righteously killing as he wished and ruining his family's lives without a care for them... and then backing him up the whole way as a legendary man of principles, which is just NOT the picture of him we actually see on screen. It's a strange, muddy character chosen as the center of this movie. On top of that, the cinematography, which inexplicably got an Academy Award nomination, is frequently so dark I had to turn my laptop brightness up all the way just to make out the bare minimum of what was happening on screen. This is just a long, boring watch with a gross hero, and there's not much to recommend it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Wyatt Earp < The Chalk Garden
Wyatt Earp < Bright Young Things
Wyatt Earp > Gomorrah
Wyatt Earp < Hannibal
Wyatt Earp < Footloose (2011)
Wyatt Earp > Don Juan DeMarco
Wyatt Earp < The Roaring Twenties
Wyatt Earp < Passion
Wyatt Earp < Pinocchio
Wyatt Earp > Wilde
Wyatt Earp > Penelope
Wyatt Earp > Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Final spot: #2817 out of 3285, or 14%.
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