i just want to say that i will be the first person to step up and defend kevin costner . with movie like the untouchable and dance with wolf and and field of dream and this guy have prove himself several time over . just because someone in hollywood have the gut to do movie that he want to do and regardless of their potential at the box office and we shouldn not slanderize this guy every chance we get . people say costner have take a big turn for the worse lately and but i like waterworld and most recently and thirteen day . i would also like to say that i dont see any of you people who criticize this guy so much makin movie . with that say i would also like to say that i love tombstone and and buy it right after i saw it the first time . with two movie come out about the same true story back to back and and with the first release ( tombstone ) be such a big success and comparison be inevitable . but these movie aren not really base on the exact same event . tombstone be about and just that and tombstone and what the earps do there and immediatly after . wyatt earp isn not about the earps and it about wyatt earp and hence the tittle . aside from that and the movie be totaly different . first of all tombstone and good a it be and be almost a work of fiction . i love kurt russel and val kilmer a the movie center piece and wyatt earp and doc holliday respectively . the fact be however and russel play a very emotionally open person . costner play him a a quiet and almost cold person . now and alot of people who have make comment about this movie have criticize costner for that . ( big surprise . ) but and you can not blame costner for this because wyatt earp be not a fictional character and he be a flesh and blood human like you and and most importantly and costner play earp much more realisticly . then there be the much debate arguement over who play a good doc holliday and val kilmer in tombstone and or dennis quaid in wyatt earp . well and here the thing and if you mean who play doc closer to reality . then the undisputed winner be quaid . but if you mean who be more enjoyable and well that a matter of opinion . but before i move on i get a bone to pick with somebody who say tombstone be much good because russel play the kind of earp that we imagine . look lady and you can have whatever ridiculous idea about the way past event take place all you want . but do not ever bring me into your childish little dream world by generalize your opinion by say what we imagine . when it come to this i do not imagine anything and i actually get the fact . now i do not want to sound like a know it all and because i hate those people and but and a i say in my summary and if your go to comment on this movie and research the topic and or at least now the fact . then this same man or woman who tell me what i imagine poeple a go on to say she imagines doc holliday a a sly and witty sort of character the way kilmer play him well that be fabulous and but the fact be that doc and who be a witty person be witty in the way dennis quaid portray him . for example in a conflict a drunk ike clanton tell holliday that holliday day be comin . doc responds by say and my mama always say never put off til tomorrow the people you can kill today . then also in the list of comment for this movie be some total moron who say quaid be at his bad on this movie . anybody care what that guy think . i do not think so . in close wyatt earp be a realistic and enjoyable account of the life of one of the most compelling character of the old west . positive .