Meh. It’s more fun to trash a movie than to praise one, I guess. So this guy didn’t like Bull Durham. Fine.
But he’s also arrogant enough to proclaim that everyone who did like it, all the people who voted it No. 1 in the poll, are wrong (Sorry: “erroneous.” Big word). Get over yourself, Bob.
Dose anyone remember the Michael Cain flim Victory? I guess the entire concept of the story is implausible.
I can’t argue the rules, but I think the risk taking is very consistent with Costner’s character being a phenom who now lives in a trailer in West Texas giving golf lessons to yokels and one hot therapist.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Tin Cup is underrated. Also it was filmed in my old neighborhood.
One flub that very few people would pick up on in the film though involves CBS’s Jim Nantz’s cameo as himself. In his coverage of the Open, he has no idea who Costner’s character was. However, Costner’s character and Johnson’s attended the University of Houston and played on the golf team. Johnson’s character was a spot on take of Fred Couples, who played at Houston. Nantz, who also played golf himself at UH, was Couples’ roommate. He would have known Costner’s character personally!
Obviously, I went to the University of Houston, and only someone who did would notice…or care!
With expansion, there are now enough minor-league pitchers in the majors that minor-league hitters have a chance, too. Crash Davis had at least one cup of coffee in The Show, too, if you’ll recall his soliloquy on the team bus.
True. Oddly, Drumline is a sports movie.
You mean you didn’t buy the POW’s being hustled off the field and into hiding by the Resistance while an entire stadium full of German troops just sat and watched?
Those magic sword epics all blend together for me somehow. Ah, yes, for the days when such a wound meant you were magical, not that you needed to be tested for diabetes …
Very true, appart from the overall storyline with Stallone of all people as a soccer player (well keeper), the actual soccer part was pretty good. They used a lot of actual pros like Pele, Moore and others.
edit: I can’t believe I just refered to the sport as soccer…twice:smack:
Nice whoosh.
The thing about the Tin Cup shot and physics … here’s my thinking: if you hit a three wood to a green and came up short of the hole, you’d most probably accomplish it bumping and running. That is to say, a lot of the distance you get out of a fairway wood is after the ball has hit the ground. That hole looks like it’s maybe a dozen yards or so from the lip of the green that meets the water. It would pretty impossible to hit a fairway wood 200 yards on the fly AND have that ball land softly and just sit there to roll down the slope.
But Russell would have been easily as good, if not better, at least from a technical aspect of swinging a bat.
Kurt Russell’s minor-league career from 1971-1973:
Year: 1971
Team: Bend Rainbows
League: Northwest
Stats: Batted .285 with 1 HR, 14 RBI and 30 runs scored in 179 at-bats.
Year: 1972
Team: Walla Walla Islanders
League: Northwest
Stats: Batted .325 with 14 RBI and 12 runs scored in 77 at-bats.
Year: 1973
Team: El Paso Sun Kings
League: Texas
Stats: Batted .563 with one HR, four RBI and four runs scored in 16 at-bats.
Year: 1973
Team: Portland Mavericks
League: Northwest
Stats: Batted .229 with nine RBI and 16 runs scored in 83 at-bats.
Let’s not forget that if you knew San Francisco back in the day, and probably still that the chase scene hopscotches all over the city teleporting the cars more than five miles at times. That and there is no traffic, which I suppose happens to almost all chase scenes.
… and the 8 hubcaps that fly off the car.
What does make Crash Davis a bit unlikely though is he is a catcher. A good defensive catcher who can hit for power with any ability will get called up, at least as a back up. Other minor league home run champs were mostly DHs, 1st Basemen or outfielders, and most likely their utter inability to field a position, or hit for average at a higher level keeps them in the minors.
There are, and have been tons of major league back up catchers who are brought up just for their defense even if they barely hit .220. It isn’t even rare to have a back up catcher who has decent home run totals, because while they might not hit for average well enough to be a starter, they are very strong and when they do hit one, it can go a long way.
The Rocky movies as a whole have been mentioned, but I think Rocky IV deserves special recognition.
Early on in the fight, he gets nailed by well over sixty straight unanswered punches – from the steroid-enhanced champ who hits for well over two thousand psi. Yeah, I know: “rope-a-dope”. That involved leaning on the ropes while blocking punches and hitting back; Rocky of course leans on no ropes while blocking zero punches, since he’s busy landing zero punches. Rocky eventually lands one punch, which prompts Drago to land another twenty straight unanswered punches. And the last time we saw Drago land twenty straight unanswered punches – well, no, we didn’t get to see that, because Apollo Creed got beaten to death by Punch #19.
Here, though, Rocky makes it all the way to the final round, which kicks off exactly as you’d expect: Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, Drago punches him in the face, and et cetera; Rocky of course still leans on zero ropes and blocks zero punches, since he’s still busy hitting back zero times. After all, how else is he going to win the fight and give the speech that ended the Cold War?
I think you only got a pass on that because you then immediately added that your favorite was The Untouchables – which IMHO wouldn’t have been quite as good with Mel Gibson or Kurt Russell.
“He’s in the car.”
You would think so, but a “clerical error” concerning the number of games caught by Carlton Fisk resulted in an error on his Hall of Fame plaque and in several well regarded record books. He was mistakenly credited with three extra games.
In Fisk’s case, the error cropped up after he had finished playing. During his career, he knew exactly how many games he had caught. Which was a good thing, because he ended up breaking the career record by exactly one game. He was completely broken down by the time he set the record, and the White Sox released him immediately afterward.
It isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine such a goof cropping up during a player’s career, especially in pre-Internet days before everybody was checking everything all the time.
Ahem. :dubious:
Didn’t Ron Shelton write the role of Crash Davis with Kurt Russell in mind? After all, they’d worked together on “The Best of Times,” and had been teammates in the minor leagues.
If Kurt Russell HAD been cast as Crash Davis, he’d have been playing himself!
I should have said 7. 7 is good comedy; 6 or 8 not so much.
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Eh. I just couldn’t remember.
Didn’t Costner go through spring training with the Padres or Dodgers after Bull Durham (kind of like a fantasy camp)? Not a comparison. Funny that Russell was a child star, a minor leaguer, and then an adult star of pretty respectable success. Not to mention getting to plow Goldie Hawn in her prime.
Heh. Keeping me honest! He was pretty good in that one too. Obviously, Robin Hood was the basis of my argument. I actually liked that movie quite a bit despite the lack of English accent. However, I watched it recently, and it has NOT held up well.
How funny! I had never heard that.
Well yes, but ya see it all makes sense when you remember that Rocky “ate thunder and crapped lightning”. Plus he, umm, ran through the snow a bunch pulling logs and plows and such to prepare for getting punched in the face. So, there ya go. 
ministryman said:
I didn’t see the original (I was alive, but not paying attention), but just watched the recap from this year’s olympics.
The US Hockey team was not a bunch of losers. They were college players rather than the professional players that the other countries were using, but they weren’t horrible players. Arguably they were some of the best conditioned players in the Olympics that year. Their coach was a conditioning nut.
Gangster Octopus said:
That program said the US hockey team toured Europe prior to the Olympics to gain experience together. Also, the team that the Soviets beat 10 days prior was not the US hockey team, it was a professional team from New York City.
Cite? Every account I find says that the American Olympic hockey team lost to the Russians 10-3 as part of a slate of exhibition games in Madison Square Garden.