COSTNER poll

so in his new movie he plays "Ethan Renner", which makes me think someone was stumped for a character name and then saw GHOST PROTOCOL and a light bulb went on over their head.

thinking its gotta be between Open Range or Bull Durham. the highs and lows of his career are unreal, when hes great hes rockin and when hes bad you cant believe your ears + eyes:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tho5ZYLiuoc&t=4m5s

how can this not be JFK

bcz it's a lousy role

Because of that ridiculous fake southern accent, and fuck Oliver Stone. At least with Robin Hood he had the good sense to ditch the accent halfway through the movie.

Field of Dreams FTW

Pretty damn impressive run, tbh.

Bull Durham by a country mile. "Get a hit, Crash." "Shut up!"

Dragonfly - Joe Darrow

I'd forgotten all about this movie until just now. I went with a date to see it, and it was a horrible film, but I got laid later.

in with the first Big Chill zinger

I'm probably the only person in the world who'd rank his baseball movies thusly:

For Love of the Game > Field of Dreams > Bull Durham

I can't justify it either. It's just how I feels.

I'm really curious about this new football movie he's gonna be in

I voted the Untouchables

somehow tempted to vote for "a perfect world"

I'm really curious about this new football movie he's gonna be in

I just watched the trailer. It looks...okay.

Yeah I'm more intrigued how they're going to dramatize a guy falling from #3 to #10 on the DRAFT BOARD or w/e rather than Costner's performance in it

Though Cost seemed a very good fit for the role

The whole "I'm going to fire you/You can fire me, but watch me do something crazy first" dynamic seems like Costner's honeyhole for acting.

Bull Durham, followed by Tin Cup.

His Boston accent in Thirteen Days is worse than "So am I, goddammit!" in JFK.

The real answer is Bull Durham or Tin Cup, or JFK for sheer ridiculousness. But my strong temptation is to go for Mr. Brooks here.

I thought it was agreed his triumph was A Perfect World

Wyatt Earp needs to be rewatched maybe

I'm really curious about this new football movie he's gonna be in

― 龜, Friday, February 21, 2014 2:37 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i'll go see any sports movie no matter how schlocky and that one looks too shitty even for me

I'm already confusing it in my mind with the movie where they go to India to find teenage pitchers

revenge is p good iirc

I thought it was agreed his triumph was A Perfect World

Wyatt Earp needs to be rewatched maybe

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 21, 2014 9:01 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

i forgot about APW, it actually is pretty great and so is the cost-dog in it

Haven't seen it since it was released, but remember No Way Out being a perfectly acceptable thriller w/ a slightly dopey twist at the end

Was going to say, No Way Out was a lot of fun in its day.

gay psycho villain aside

No memory of that, just back-of-limo frolicking and D.C. shots where they'd be on one street, turn a corner, and be somewhere else across town.

his comeback was going well until that new McG movie, which really seems to misunderstand Costner's appeal - nobody wants to see him being 'cool' and wearing shades while firing akimbo pistols

amber heard looks seriously miscast and ridiculous in that

The new football movie was clearly greenlit the day Moneyball passed $60 million in domestic grosses.

oh wow, just watched the trailer for 3 Days To Kill

Yeah, 3 Days to Kill looks like the most horrible Spike TV adaptation of the recent slew of Liam Neeson action movies.

It looks like Amber Heard was cast because they couldn't get Scarlett Johansson to do a blonde Black Widow.

A Perfect World

i love Bull Durham and can't think of anyone else in the role but he's not that great

"fuck this fucking gaaaame" yeah ok man

Voted Silverado.

I don't know how many of you are old enough to know his breakthrough was in Silverado, which was impressive since the character was almost silent.

xp

that movie was weirdly really popular in my grade school

so i guess yeah i'm barely old enough

I'm guessing it was the first western they'd ever seen?

that seems impossible? young guns was 88 so maybe

My exposure to westerns came early in life because my grandfather wouldn't let me change the channel.

well God bless him

Silverado was widely trumpeted by PR/press as "resurrecting" the western in between Clint Eastwood eras.

i wouldn't know this without checking, but eastwood put out pale rider that same year

I saw Pale Rider after it came out on VHS, but all I really remember is having a crush on Sydney Penny.

it may've been, but Silverado was definitely sold in the manner Morbs says. also Pale Rider being a gutless rehash of High Plains Drifter didn't help

every Eastwood film of the eighties was garbage except for bits of Tightrope, and he didn't even direct it.

I mean, look at these titles... aside from the teenybopper one goole cited, the biggest successes were Pale Rider, Silverado, both '85, and then Lonesome Dove on TV in '89. Otherwise, just an occasional low-budget beauty (The Grey Fox, Barbarosa) or genre makeover like Outland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_films_of_the_1980s

but that's the virtue!

and Diego Luna struggling through his mustache and accent

i've always had a soft spot for his relatively wooden soft spoken and passive non-acting.

otm. but this makes it very difficult to pick a best role, bcz there is little to differentiate one role from another, apart from the script, which Costner can't claim any credit for. I enjoyed Tin Cup and Bull Durham, but I can't say kevin's acting was the reason for my enjoyment.

more of a glimpse of a thought rather than a fleshed out story.

ie, the essence of COSTNER imo

per Tin Cup discussion, I miss the days of Rene Russo being in twelve movies per year.

best western of the '80s was 'extreme prejudice'

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, February 21, 2014 12:40 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

just looked at the imdb page and holy shit how have i not seen this

Can't talk 80s westerns without

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/TimeRiderPoster.jpg/375px-TimeRiderPoster.jpg

holy shit H4A it's incredible, top-notch nolte, plus ironside, clancy brown, forsythe, boothe at their peaks.

the wild bunch with cartels and bank robberies

not that the wild bunch didnt basically have a bank robbery at the beginning

Extreme Prejudice is right up there with Walter Hill's best, which takes some doing

i haven't seen it, or Southern Comfort either

Southern Comfort almost as gonzo as Deliverance and better acted.

extreme prejudice is pretty great. voted fandango over truth or dare.

that amazing stories he was in was pretty good also iirc

revenge is trash but it's interesting coming in the midst of that run where costner became some kind of gregory peck proxy. what i've heard of mr. brooks seems potentially entertaining.

that amazing stories he was in was pretty good also iirc

Yes, this! If I could vote for it, I would.

it's up there!

spielberg directed it, haven't seen it in nearly thirty years but remember it being one of the stronger ones - http://vimeo.com/56670088

i roll with images off, kudos on the pic selection al

I reviewed that Baffleck vehicle Company Men, and KC blew away everyone except Chris Cooper.

Haven't seen the Amazing Story since '85 but cmon, surely his performance isn't what made it.

Extreme Prejudice is a fantastic movie. I voted for Open Range here, but only because I had forgotten about Tin Cup, which is a pretty decent "Oh, this movie's on?" settle-into-the-couch-on-a-Saturday-afternoon movie.

The Untouchables - Eliot Ness
No Way Out - Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
Bull Durham - Crash Davis
Field of Dreams - Ray Kinsella
Revenge - Michael 'Jay' Cochran

the best run of the big 80s stars? i think.. maybe.

I just saw Three Days to Kill, lol. Not good.

i remember really liking APW but i haven't seen it in prob 20 years

also liked Fandango i think?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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JFK FFS

Runner-up, tho is

Madonna: Truth or Dare - Himself

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Miss this poll, but I thought he was really good in the Hatfields and the McCoys.

lol vindicated

the camp crowd, vanquished

The camp crowd didn't show up for a Costner poll? I'm shocked.

true, all reading that Showgirls "book" atm

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/yellowstone-conservative-prestige-television.html

Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone” is a prime example. While liberal audiences mostly ignore it, this soapy conservative prestige television juggernaut is gobbling up audience share....

Kevin Costner plays John Dutton III, the Dutton family patriarch and one of the nation’s largest private landowners. He tries to make his three sons and daughter into a political dynasty. There are numerous threats to this grand plan.

Haven't watched much of Yellowstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYsReoZMj1k

Costner is terrible at delivering interesting or nuanced line readings. His success rests entirely on his presence fitting the character and an uncomplicated script that clicks with the audience. He delivers more or less the same presence whether he's in a stinker or a hit.

I might watch that on Max or Amazon Prime. Would I go to a theater — twice! — to see it? Fuck no.

His success rests entirely on his presence fitting the character and an uncomplicated script that clicks with the audience.

i.e. like most good stars?

I agree. That applies to most movie stars. As I have said before, you can be a star and be a good actor, too, but they're two entirely different qualities. You can have very modest acting skills and still be a big movie star, or be a fabulously talented actor, work all the time, and never be a star. At least Costner brings more to the table than, say, Ashton Kutcher, who was for a short time, a bankable movie star.

OK, I've just found out that this is a four-part series of movies and I am no longer interested. Even two felt like too much, but since they were coming pretty close together (June and August) it was at least tolerable. But four? And they're probably gonna be two and a half, three hours each? Sorry, Kev, I'm busy that month.

Trailer looks kind of horrible, more for the direction than what little we get of Costner. What appears to be a raid looks like incredibly shitty, like what happens if they decided to remake The Searchers with the same people who vomited up the big budget action movies on the '80s.

Anyway, I'm glad Bull Durham and A Perfect World won the top two slots in this poll - not only are they great performances but they pretty much encompass everything great about him as a film star. (The movies themselves may be the best he's ever done too.)

I've never seen A Perfect World and my memories of Bull Durham don't inspire me to take another look at it. The movies of his I'd willingly return to are (more or less in order) Open Range, Waterworld, The Untouchables, and Tin Cup.

You can have very modest acting skills and still be a big movie star, or be a fabulously talented actor, work all the time, and never be a star.

If, as an example, Audrey Hepburn is the former and Joan Allen is the latter, I'm a movie star person. If it's Charles Bronson vs. John Cazale, I'm a student of acting. Ideally, of course, both--Jane Fonda, Gene Hackman.

Costner is usually kind of bland for me, sometimes conspiculously so (JFK), but I liked him a lot in Bull Durham when I finally rewatched that a few months ago.

lol no one voted for Rumor Has It

i'll tell you something else - recently a friend challenged me with the posit that Kevy is more attractive than Richard Gere and i was SHOOK. on what planet??

Hilarious that his role in The Big Chill got four votes.

Other than that, I generally agree with the results.

Kevin Costner had hot mom-energy for a while