'Why We Fight'
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My Theory Of Kevin Costner is that he's good if he's making a sports movie. He's charming as hell in Tin Cup (which also has Cheech and Rene Russo), and I love him in Bull Durham and American Flyer
I have to toss Field of Dreams and For Love of the Game as counter arguments.
Yeah, but Field of Dreams wasn't really a sports movie.
perhaps not, but it is about the love of a sport. sports are inextricably linked to the movie. sports are played. I think it is a sports movie.
kind of like how "shawshank redemption" is a prison movie. It ain't Attica, but it's a prison movie.
Saw Public Enemies last night. Depp was great, the movie sure LOOKED good, and the Dillinger story is amazing, but it just didn't amount to much more than a light entertainment with lots of shooting. I still enjoyed it, though, because of the aforementioned Mr. Depp.
That's what one of the reviews I saw said, that it's just the story of Dillinger without the extra depth or commentary you'd be expecting.
perhaps not, but it is about the love of a sport. sports are inextricably linked to the movie. sports are played. I think it is a sports movie.
True. But while it's a catalyst, I don't necessarily see it as the central theme. And while it would make it a different story to a certain degree, I think you could take baseball and replace it with something else and have the same core story.
And while it would make it a different story to a certain degree, I think you could take baseball and replace it with something else and have the same core story.
I agree. The movie uses baseball to tell the story, but it's not really *about* baseball.
I can't believe I forgot that one, too. Cranky!James Earl Jones is on of my favorite things about it.
I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
True, but as I was thinking about it, it occurred to me that one of the other central nostalgic themes is that of the road trip. It could have just as easily revolved around a vintage car and Route 66 and the idealized family vacation.
Which... might make for a neat story. Hmm...
Huh. Rupert Grint is recovering from swine flu.
I wish Aimee were in San Francisco so I could GEEK OUT about seeing the next HP movie with her.
You know what was fun? The winter Tom Scola came to visit SF, and I had the day off and I said, "What do you want to do Thursday?" and he said, "Well...Return of the King is opening..." and I said "Let's go to the first show!"
And we did. And it was awesome.