Baseball Films Even A Sports Detractor Liked
Submitted by Julia on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:11
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- FIELD OF DREAMS starring Keven Costner (1989)
- BULL DURHAM starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins (1988)
- THE NATURAL starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glen Close (1984)
- FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston (1999)
Author Comments:
These movies are listed in order of preference.
I'd have to agree with all of those titles. I find real-life baseball boring, but I'm a sucker for sentimental sports movies.
Ditto. That is, I, too, find real-life baseball boring, and I, too, am a sucker for sentimental movies. Alas, my sentimental predisposition is not restricted just to sports movies.
Maybe it's not about baseball? Maybe it's about Kevin Costner? :-)
In my opinion, Kevin Costner is type cast well only in baseball movies with the notable exception of DANCES WITH WOLVES. DANCES WITH WOLVES was top-notch acting by both the male and female leads and the movie in total is one of my favorites. This baseball movie list is not about Kevin Costner per se. I dislike Kevin Costner--the real-life person--and am always conflicted about even seeing any movie he is in. If it were not for the fact that my husband is a baseball aficionado and we generally accompany each other to movies, I probably would never see another Kevin Costner film. That having been said, the ones I have seen that appear on this list I have enjoyed despite not enjoying the sport of baseball and despite my aversion to Kevin Costner as a person. In the spirit in which I think you may have intended your comment, I do find him appealing in the looks department. Ahhhhhh, would that his ethics were as pleasing as his looks--my conflicted feelings about seeing his movies would melt away.