# Favorite Kevin Costner Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 10, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089 "2024-09-10T22:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/41 "2024-09-12T20:07:10Z")
Not enough love for Fandango. Costner plays a flawed bully (among his circle) who has a nice arc. Also Judd Nelsons best role fwiw. And best use of _Can’t Find My Way Home_ and _Its Too Late_ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/42 "2024-09-12T20:08:43Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > No Way Out was his best performance. Silverado pretty good too. My thoughts exactly. > [@Pavelb1](#): > > Not enough love for Fandango. Oooh! Forgot all about that one. I enjoyed this wistful little film when I happened to catch it on Cinemax – I must have been about sixteen, in the mid-80s. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/43 "2024-09-13T14:27:19Z")
Another fan of _The Big Chill_. But if you restrict it to movies where his scenes weren’t cut then _Bull Durham_. Fun _BD_ fact: At the beginning when the camera pans past Annie’s dresser you can see a baseball card stuck in the frame of the mirror. That’s Brian Snitker’s, current Atlanta manager who was with the real Bulls around that time. Annie had some serious mojo. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/44 "2024-09-13T17:16:42Z")
_Dances With Wolves_ only because I like it and don’t think anyone else would have made the film. He could have been replaced in all the others and they would have been fine. He’s a wooden actor with very little range even in his best roles so at least tapping in to HIS vison of a romanticised American past brings more to the performance. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/45 "2024-09-15T03:31:09Z")
I disagree about his acting, but wanted to add some things about _Dances._ I think its the best one featuring him also when you take everything into account. Fantastic score. Great, interesting characters. Its a long film and I didnt want it to end. I cannot quite say as much about the directors cut. Whenever lists are made of “it was edited just fine the first time”…I include _Dances With Wolves_. It also makes the list when we do “Movies that include little mini-movies” Like _Pearl Harbor_’s Doolittle Raid, I LOVE the intro. I’d watch a Civil War movie made by Costner all day. That charge led by the general after Costner draws the Rebs attention? Goosebumps. Finally, a lot of people who either didnt watch or didnt pay attention call this a “White Savior Movie”…GTFO. They save HIM. Multiple times. Thematically and literally. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/46 "2024-09-15T04:56:44Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I third or fourth the _Perfect World_ nomination. It’s the best film Costner has ever been in (as the lead anyway) and his best performance. Wildly underseen, underrated, overlooked. Terrific movie. Wow, I thought I would be alone in naming _A Perfect World_ but it seems like I have distinguished company! It really is Costner’s finest acting job. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/47 "2024-09-15T05:22:14Z")
It’s surprising that Costner and Eastwood haven’t worked together more. The two of them are on very similar wavelengths. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089/48 "2024-09-15T06:23:18Z")
I found him a little stiff, frankly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-kevin-costner-movie/1007089.md?page=2)