Even rather mystified by all the wows and adulation

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2010)

I had expectations after reading comment after comment about enjoyment of this film and about its "historicity". However, I was appalled at it from the very beginning. I tried to stick it out but finally had to bow out after I somehow managed to get to 103 minutes. Looks like less than one percent gave it the minimum rating of one star, so I suppose that then gives me something to think about regarding human differences. Maybe if I had read where even just one person wrote something about a Hollywood treatment with its typical dramatization, costuming, and storyline, I might have passed on it. I recognize that many people like extreme melodrama, fancy gun twirling, very over-done shoot'em up and down gunfights, guns that don't run out of bullets, and much larger than life good-guy heroes and their extreme opposite, and the romance that gets tossed in, but I do not. And for something historical I prefer something somehow somewhat believable. And maybe even something somewhat original but that is certainly not the case with Tombstone. I recognize that most people enjoy films like this one, and I write these comments for the benefit of those who know what I mean by a terrible Hollywoodization and perhaps spare them a possibly excruciating experience.