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
My thoughts exactly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s surprising that Costner and Eastwood haven’t worked together more. The two of them are on very similar wavelengths.
I found him a little stiff, frankly.