Favorite Kevin Costner Baseball Movie

[JLEW1818]

Favorite Kevin Costner Baseball Movie

[King Crimson]

Costner is awesome. that was a strange epoch in US history when was the alpha-sensitive male, all number 1 dude. i blame him for Rick Reilly.

Kev was in Boulder campaigning for the environment last fall, about 25 people showed up. i was hoping to get a pic taken with him to give my mom and sis for Xmas gifts...but, they shut down the autograph session because no one was there.

[JLEW1818]

"**** this ****ing game"


"I quit"


" Okay who we play tomorrow, and what times batting practice"

[JLEW1818]

Costner is awesome. that was a strange epoch in US history when was the alpha-sensitive male, all number 1 dude. i blame him for Rick Reilly.

Kev was in Boulder campaigning for the environment last fall, about 25 people showed up. i was hoping to get a pic taken with him to give my mom and sis for Xmas gifts...but, they shut down the autograph session because no one was there.

so which movie the best?

[Scott D]

I'm partial to anything that attempts to vindicate the 1919 White Sox. ;)

[sooneron]

Field of Dreams - good, but a little sappy
Love Of The Game ? - absolute suckage

Bull Durham all the way.period.

[olevetonahill]

i voted FoDs
cause its the only one ive seen ( or heard of :O )

[AggieTool]

Waterworld!

[JLEW1818]

u aint seen Bull Durham??? ha..... that would be one of your new fav movies

[King Crimson]

so which movie the best?

i'd say Bull D. but, i saw it on TV about a year ago and it hasn't aged all that well. the cuts and music are a little clumsy/80's glossy.

i tried to like For Love of the Game but it wasn't very good, really. Kevin Costner as Kevin Costner, yet again.

[JLEW1818]

you can prlly find it for like 4 or 5 bucks some where... you gotta have the cussing in it!!

[olevetonahill]

u aint seen Bull Durham??? ha..... that would be one of your new fav movies

Hell Id never heard of it :D
Can ya tell I dont watch much TeeVee ?:pop:

[JLEW1818]

well say hello to you Christmas present... i will buy it for you.... you do have a DVD player right?:D :D :D :D :D

[SoonerStormchaser]

Hate "Bull Durham"...cause Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are in it. Like "Field of Dreams." However, my vote is for "For Love of The Game," cause I see it as his most emotional role of the three...and I liked the book.

"Dances With Wolves" is still my favorite movie.

[olevetonahill]

well say hello to you Christmas present... i will buy it for you.... you do have a DVD player right?:D :D :D :D :D

Yea but it aint hooked up
I can play it on my Puter right ?

[JLEW1818]

yup

it really is a classic

[Crucifax Autumn]

Yea but it aint hooked up
I can play it on my Puter right ?

Well, you prolly can't but if ya get yer son to start it for ya...maybe! :P

[olevetonahill]

Well, you prolly can't but if ya get yer son to start it for ya...maybe! :P

:eek: :confused: :P

[JLEW1818]

u lil ****s

[picasso]

does tossing the bottle of Dom qualify Fandango as a baseball movie?

If so, Fandango hands down.

[King Crimson]

Fandango is an awwright flick.

[Crucifax Autumn]

And there I thought it was a ZZ Top Album!

[Crucifax Autumn]

Other than some of the craft of movie-making in Dances With Wolves, I haven't seen a gripping movie from Costner since No Way Out with its fun plot twist, though it too, was a showcase in horrible acting, even by the guys like Hackman who can on occasion actually act.

[StoopTroup]

I thought this was going to be another RIP Thread.

[King Crimson]

Other than some of the craft of movie-making in Dances With Wolves, I haven't seen a gripping movie from Costner since No Way Out with its fun plot twist, though it too, was a showcase in horrible acting, even by the guys like Hackman who can on occasion actually act.

No Way Out is a based on the film noir classic The Big Clock.

[Boomer Mooner]

"Long Gone" with William Peterson > Bull Durham in my opinion.

[sooneron]

and No Way Out hasn't aged well, at all! Talk about dated.

Fandango probably is the best of his films, sadly enough.
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and disliking a film because of two of the actor's political agenda whereas there agendas have no bearing on the performance is about as petty as you can get. On this board it doesn't surprise me.

[Sooner04]

Hate "Bull Durham"...cause Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are in it.
You probably hated "The Graduate" because it told the story of your life without paying you royalties.

Seriously, that's the dumbest explanation for hating a movie I've ever heard. "Shawshank" is one of my all-timers and it stars.............TIM ROBBINS! OH THE HUMANITY!

[soonerinabilene]

the conference on the mound in bull durham is classic. talking about weddong gifts and curses put on a glove... classic.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

bull durham fo sho....

[Sooner04]

This speech right here (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechfieldofdreams.html) is what puts Field of Dreams at #1 for me.

But I'm truly a die-hard baseball fan, so that makes me a little different.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

You know, I am too...and the baseball historian side of me wants to pick that movie....but Bull Durham just moved at a better pace for me

[Sooner04]

I think BD is probably better for the masses, but FoD just sits right with me. I love BD. The scene where LaLoosh butchers the lyrics to "Try a Little Tenderness" is one of my all-time favorites.

But the speech by Terrence Mann in FoD puts it over the top. When I got the DVD I bet I watched that scene 20 times. I LOVE IT!

[My Opinion Matters]

The people will come, Ray.

That gets my vote.

[picasso]

This speech right here (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechfieldofdreams.html) is what puts Field of Dreams at #1 for me.

But I'm truly a die-hard baseball fan, so that makes me a little different.

This movie is special simply because Burt Lancaster stars in it.

[soonermix]

c'mon people... the rose goes in the front

[picasso]

but they do get wooly.

[sooneron]

Candlesticks...

[JLEW1818]

Classic Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfdl6hNZ9k

[Williesan]

"A hundred bucks says I can get us a rainout." :D

Williesan

[JLEW1818]

"A hundred bucks says I can get us a rainout." :D

Williesan

"That's my new catcher"

hahaha, right after Crash punches him hahaha!!! Meat tries to play if off... thats my new catcher....

[Williesan]

Bull Durham is one of my all time favorites period.

The line by Max Patkin at the honky-tonk after the game was another great one:

"That's Crash Davis - he's played in more parks than I have!"

BTW - Max, the "Crown Prince of Baseball" at the time (he played himself in the movie too) was "The Famous Chicken" long before Ted Giannoulas and KGB Radio in San Diego ever thought of the idea. After Max died in 1999, nobody held the "Crown Prince of Baseball" until Mike Veeck bestowed the title on the "Sports Nerd" Myron Noodleman (who's from Tulsa, BTW)

Williesan

[JLEW1818]

I held it like an egg.......

yah and he scrambled it

[Jacie]

"She's got him breathin through the wrong eyelid."

[Scott D]

"Long Gone" with William Peterson > Bull Durham in my opinion.

Spot on.