Bull Durham | Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon

Bull Durham | Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon | One of my favorites

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Bull Durham

	Bull Durham Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon MGM (Video & DVD), 2002 average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Baseball Classic...

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this movie the first time. Almost 20 years later it is definitely a classic baseball story.

One of my favorites

I don't expect anything more of a movie than to enjoy it and be entertained. I don't seek to psychoanalyze or offer up in-depth critique, it's only a movie. I either enjoy it or I don't. I love this movie, it's hysterically funny and sizzling hot.

Good Baseball Atmosphere And Wonderful Comedy

BULL DURHAM is an excellent movie about minor league baseball in North carolina. It has enough authentic atmosphere to appeal to any baseball fan - particularly anyone who has ever followed a minor league team. The acting is first-rate and the script is loaded with humor. Kevein Costner,Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are superb and director Ron Shelton deserves high praise for producing an admirable film similar to his later WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP.

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Worship at the Church of Baseball

From the vintage images during the opening credits, I found myself feeling nostalgic, which is odd because I'm a relatively new baseball fan and I had no idea who most of these important players in baseball history were. (Admittedly, I was given a brief education beforehand by a fan of the movie who recommended I watch it.)

Why the nostalgia?

Perhaps because of the Americana that baseball represents.

The movie had a distinctive 80's feel, in terms of plot, character, and direction. They just don't make movies like they did in the 80's. I think it's something to do with that old Cold War feeling of good versus evil and belief in America and Americans. It translated effortlessly in film and maybe that's why most of my favorite movies of all time were made in that era. Sure, they're formulaic, but I like the formula. The characters were better, the conflict was better, and yes, the baseball was better.

Maybe the nostalgia I feel is because of the romance: there's a love triangle, and more importantly, there's the romance of the baseball diamond.

Kevin Costner as Crash Davis is the everyman character, the player with the brains but not the talent. He's so believable and confident that I find it easier to forgive him for some of his wooden performances I've seen since.

Tim Robbins played the over-the-top Nuke LaLoosh and he was so accurately naive and smarmy in his role that sometimes I felt embarrassed for him. And I've never noticed how tall he was until he stood next to Costner, dwarfing him.

Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy) is smoldering and smart. I often wonder why we think she is sexy and it's easy to see from this film that it's her attitude more than her unusual looks. And it was more acceptable to go around without a bra back then, too.

Her house with the wrap-around porch and the swing and the clawfoot tub and femininity everywhere made me want to move back east, into a small town in the south and buy a grand old fixer-upper under a mossy live oak. Summer nights would be spent at the ballfield, watching the local Triple A team play. Ain't that America?

I can't believe it took me almost twenty years to watch this film. I'm glad I waited. I wouldn't have appreciated it any sooner.

Crash Davis said, "Play the game with fear and arrogance."

Oh, and if you're lucky, you'll find the person you were meant to be with sitting on your porch swing when you come home after a game's been rained out.

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Alright, alright.

Alright. Alright. I liked the movie. It had a good story, it was funny. But I do take offense at the idea that a baseball player can have a good season because he slept with someone. That's superstition. There are two ways to have a good season--skill and practice. A little prayer now and then may help too, but mostly its skill and practice. That's how it is with everything in life. If you wanna be good, it takes skill and practice. That's especially true in baseball.
Now, maybe sleeping with Susan Sarandon could give a man more confidence in his skill and make him want to practice more, but he still owes his success to skill and practice.
Do you get what I'm saying?
If you wanna be good at baseball, sharpen your SKILL with PRACTICE.
Got it?
Okay.

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