Saturday, August 2, 2014

Tombstone

Tombstone 

1993

This movie is another cinematic portrayal of the "Gunfight at the OK Corral", but its nearly unique in the degree to which it focused on authenticity.  The makers of this movie so closely studied the clothing of the frontier southwest that when the movie came out it was criticized as inaccurate as it was so accurate.  Simply put, the period clothing in the region was very distinct and that was reflected in the film, to the shock of viewers who weren't used to seeing the distinctive look of the region.

The movie is other was a dramatized, but not bad, telling of a familiar tale.  Much more accurate than most of the films in this genera, it's really the material details that make this movie worth seeing. 

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