Top 100 Movies: No. 71 - Bull Durham (1988)
Posted on December 10, 2007
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I’ll tell you what I believe in: funny sports movies, opening presents Christmas morning not Christmas Eve, and Tim Robbins playing a major league pitching prospect who should make it to the show if his eyelids don’t get jammed. That’s what I believe in.
Bull Durham is a classic baseball movie with a love story to boot (if you’re into that sort of thing). Kevin Costner gives yet another solid mid-to-late 80’s performance along with Susan Sarandon, who plays a “lover” of baseball.
If you haven’t seen this flick before and decide to check it out, be on the lookout for a good supporting performance by Robert Wuhl - you know, the reporter from Batman? I love his character - the fast talking, wedding gift dilemma solving assistant coach.
Great stuff. Great movie.
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Top 100 Movies: No. 80 - The Untouchables (1987)
Posted on November 9, 2007
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We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone, and Robert De Niro as infamous crime boss and tax evader Al Capone.
Not to take anything away from Sean Connery (like I could anyway), but Robert De Niro is fantastic in this film. I forget that it is De Niro playing Capone when I watch this flick. Granted, he put on a lot of weight for the role, but it still takes a great actor to so totally consume and live as a character, especially in a biographical film, to make you forget who they are. Hey, Jack Nicholson was great as The Joker in Batman, a role for which he wore a lot of makeup and changed his appearance, but I never forget that it is Jack playing the ghoulish clown sociopath.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Kevin Costner, who gives a solid performance as Eliot Ness. For all the crap Costner gets now, he sure was in some great flicks in the mid-to-late 80’s and early 90’s.
Tags: al capone, batman, chicago, eliot ness, gangster, jack nicholson, kevin costner, list, prohibition, robert de niro, sean connery, the joker, the untouchables, top 100, top 100 movies
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Top 100 Movies: No. 82 - Field of Dreams (1989)
Posted on November 5, 2007
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There is something about baseball that moves us. Perhaps it’s baseball’s timelessness and history, which converge to make it a sentimental game. Field of Dreams captures that sentimentality without entering the realm of the cheesy or melodramatic.
But Field of Dreams isn’t just a baseball movie. At its core, it’s a film about redemption and forgiveness that uses a great game to tell its story.
My favorite scene? When Ray (Kevin Costner), his voice cracking, asks his dad if he wants to “have a catch.” I don’t want to reveal more than that for those of you who haven’t seen it. If you haven’t seen it, please do so. You won’t be sorry.
Tags: baseball, burt lancaster, field of dreams, james earl jones, kevin costner, list, ray liotta, top 100 movies
