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Wyatt Earp: Two-Disc Special Edition

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I had seen this movie on VHS, when it first came out, which is why i chose to purchase it from Amazon.
If you are thinking that the movie will be an equivalent to Costners' Waterworld, just set in in the olde west, you may be a bit dissapointed. The 'action' in this movie moves at a slower, yet more intense pace.
Costner himself, is aided greatly with the ensemble of supporting cast in this movie. The supporting cast are people you recognize, but who's names dont immediately come to mind, but all of whom aregreat character actors. The surprise in this movie is the character of Doc Holiday...who is played in nothing short of brilliant fashion by Dennis Quaid.
It is the storyline, history and raw ruggedness of the picture, that makes you appreciate what people had to deal with on a daily basis, back then. It is the sort of movie that you will want to re-watch from time to time, just to be transplanted back in the olde west for over 3 hours.
I am sure you will enjoy this one

If the film Tombstone was a cheeseburger and fries, then Wyatt Earp is a nice thick ribeye. After an inexplicably long wait however, Wyatt Earp arrives on DVD in only a decent package at best. The picture's new digital transfer and the remastered 5.1 soundtrack are terrific. Two nice documentaries (albeit brief) are added as well as the trailer and the extra scenes from the expanded edition.

What are disappointments are the fact that the extra scenes were not incorporated in the film here (only accessable as an extra feature), no commentary from ANYONE, no animated menus, no biogrophies or filmogrophies. You can't really call this a special edition, especially after you compare this with Tombstone's double disc pack.

The cast (especially Dennis Quaid) is what makes this film great. Costner, who traditionally doesn't hold up strong playing legends certainly made one tough gunslinger and a VERY believable Wyatt Earp. With that moustache, hat, and cold stare, he sure was intimidating! While Tomstone's cast looked like actors playing cowboys, Wyatt Earp aims for realism and hits its mark dead on.

If you're a fan of this film, then this DVD is definitely worth getting. However, if you only collect DVDs with a lot of extra glitz, this will be a bit of a letdown.

Why wasn't the expanded VHS edition released on DVD??? Why were the excellent added scenes on that earlier version, which only made this great film all the more greater, put as "lifted scenes" here? Was this simply done to add more stuff to the special features menu? I don't know for sure if this was director Lawrence Kasdan's idea or not, but I got news for him and the folks at Warner Bros. who released this disappointing cut of the film: there ain't no better special feature than an improved version of a movie. If you don't believe me just ask all the sci-fi/fantasy fans who made the extended versions of THE LORD OF THE RINGS series top sellers. Oh well. Had this been the long version of WYATT EARP my rating would easily have been five stars. Peace, bro.

...after reading from other reviewers that this is not the full-length version as presented in the "Director's Cut" VHS-release, that those extra scenes are instead presented as extras on the second disc, I have to give this a pass and wait even longer to own one of my favourite westerns of all time on DVD; fortunately I still have my VHS Director's cut and a machine to play it on. :P

I have watched the director's cut so many times over the years that now when I watch the Theatrical release, it just seems incomplete and hacked. I keep waiting for certain beloved scenes to come up, but just don't, such as the scene with young Wyatt talking to his mother on the caravan as the family travels out to California.

If anyone from WB Home Video ever reads these reviews, please take these comments, and the comments of those similar to mine, to heart and release Kasdan's FULL-LENGTH Director's Cut on DVD!

There's a lot to like in Lawrence Kasdan's deconstruction of desperate western heroes in the epic WYATT EARP Two-Disc Special Edition (Warner).

This admirable, sometimes pretentious attempt to capture the complex, multi-faceted character of lawman and criminal Wyatt Earp (an uneven Kevin Costner) from Wichita to Dodge to the showdown at Tombstone's O.K. Corral does not always work but it sure looks great. Dennis Quaid is memorable as Earp's lethal pal Doc Holliday.

This is the 190 minute version. The twenty two additional minutes that are in the extended VHS version are presented separately here as "lifted scenes."

This 2-disc Special Edition DVD has some of the best features that I have ever seen on a DVD. This is most fitting given the fact that this is one of the very best Westerns that I have ever seen. The performances are excellent as are the direction and script. Best of all, unlike most movies about western legends like Wyatt Earp, this movie was made with a strict reliance on historical fact as it really is and not some tall tale. This is important because the likes of Wyatt Earp did all they can to create a mythology about how brave and noble they were to cover up for the fact that the real life Earp and friends were not all that much different from the bad guys that they fought against.

No doubt this movie is a western classic. I saw it years ago and loved it. I don't have anything negative to say about the movie itself. I almost picked up this 2 disc set until I learned it's a cut down or edited version. Why is the complete 212 min version only available on VHS ? That's just stupid. This is a great movie worthy of a director's cut edition maybe 3 disc set? I'd spend the extra cash on a deeper edition, until then I'll save my money. Please, please release the FULL version on DVD!

I was actually planning to but Wyatt Earp on DVD, but as I already have the Director's Cut on VHS video, I'll wait until the release of it on DVD. I believed this would be the "definitive" video release of Wyatt Earp. I'm quite disappointed!! I would rather have had the complete film on DVD than all of the extras!! Five-stars for the film, one-star for the short-sightedness of this DVD's content!! This is just as puzzling as why the restored version of John Wayne's The Alamo is not on DVD yet, either.

Horrible western. To give perspective-my all-time favourite western is Once Upon A Time In The West. Am a John Wayne fan. Same with Clint. Thought Costners Dances With Wolves was excellent-same with his Open Range and of course Silverado. But this is a waste of time. Watch Tombstone (awesome) instead.

Kevin Costner doesn't get credit for being as good of an actor as he really is. It's nice to be able to see Warner Bros. release a film in the Western genre that, for once, doesn't have anything to do with Clint Eastwood. Val Kilmer's portrayal of the same character in "Tombstone" wasn't nearly as good as the one in this edition. I don't own the Digital Video Disc yet, so I'm not sure if I read something correctly which said that the actual three-hour feature is split onto two discs. I really hope it isn't.

If you enjoy this biography of Earp, it won't seem like three hours. I have ADD and I can still sit through it. This movie and Nixon are the only three hour movies that I can sit through.