Just saw it. Why all the hate?

Awesome film. This is a true biopic. Tombstone is a readers digest, soap opera version of Wyatt Earp.

'94 was a pretty good year for films, and it's easy to pick on a big-screen failure like this one, especially one starring Kevin Costner that most people found to be slow and pretentious. I actually appreciate it a lot more over time.

Yea same for me not sure why all the hate.. Its not a perfect movie but it was still pretty good with a story that keeps your interest.. I definitely agree Tombstone had a better more exciting whats gonna happen next feel, but this movie was good on its own right.. The one thing I loved that this movie had over Tombstone was that it was a 3hr 10min movie,, I love long long movies.. I wish Tombstone had another hr of story or back story,, it would of just made it that much better.. But all in all they were both good western movies,, its just Tombstone had better acting & was just better written overall..

Wyatt Earp is an incredibly well made film in many respects. Well written, well acted, great music, great sets, costumes, etc.

It's just incredibly poorly paced and there's nothing memorable about the bad guys.

People go to the movies to be entertained. Tombstone's more entertaining. It hits harder and gets to the point. Wyatt Earp's scenes drag on forever. A great example is the train scene (eventual killing of Stilwell). The action gets to the point in Tombstone. In Wyatt Earp, you've got the bad guys walking along the train. Then the good guys are walking along the train. Then the bad guys are going around the caboose. Then the good guys are walking around the caboose. Etc., etc., etc. You don't need all that in a movie that's already got so much in it.

Costner's version is epic. Tombstone is shorter faster and more Hollywood.
If you have the time this version is well worth it.
Tombstone is a great Saturday morning film when you are resting after mowing the lawn. Wyatt Earp is when you have a whole afternoon.

This movie is awful. If The Price Is Right wasn't worse, I'd be watching that. I like all the iterations of the O-K Corral business and love a good Western. I usually like Costner, and Kasdan has made a lot of good films, but this one is missing badly. I''m not even sure what to pin it on, but I will say a lot of the dialog is so stilted and so poorly delivered, it's painful. And every scene seems too overtly "stagey." Regardless of whether the actors are rolling in the dirt or wearing their Sunday best, it's too overt. I have no feeling for these characters, and it all looks like too much effort has been put into every scene and camera angle. I'll stick with it, but it's painful.Not to mention the soundtrack ! A soundtrack goes a long way i influencing how we receive a film, and here again it all seems like too much. And I want to like this movie. It was fun to see Tea Leoni, Karen Grassle and Betty Buckley, however brief. And I apologize to everyone who likes WE. I don't go out of my way to be negative about stuff I simplay don't care for, but when I saw this was going to be on, I was pretty happy about it. I mean, we're going up against My Darling Clementine with Hank Fonda and Walter Brennan and all the subsequent incarnations and similar efforts.