Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Uriah43 "Ebby Calvin LaLoosh" (Tim Robbins) is a promising young baseball pitcher for the Durham Bulls of the Carolina League who has an awesome fastball but suffers from a severe lack of control. As a result a veteran catcher named "Crash Davis" (Kevin Costner) is sent down to the Carolina League to somehow develop him into a first-class, major league pitcher. Along with that the Bull's biggest fan, "Annie Savoy" (Susan Sarandon) takes Ebbie into her home to teach him about sex, life and baseball--but not necessarily in that order. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a pretty good comedy which benefited from the baseball background to a large extent. I especially liked the performance of Susan Sarandon who was both funny and sexy at the same time. Likewise, both Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins also performed rather well. In short, I thought that this was a pretty good movie and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.

Lars Lendale ***************** SPOILERS !!!!!!!!! *********************Bull Durham is the best baseball movie ever, best sports movie and also an incredibly underrated movie about sexuality and life in general. But it's also, the funniest movie I've ever seen. The shower scene, the fight outside the bar, Nuke rejecting Annie, Crash breaking the mirror, Crashing calling out the umpire, there are so many funny moments that simply have not been matched as of today. If you have never watched this movie, it doesn't matter if you know much about baseball because you quickly get the basics knowledge of the game. I highly advise everyone to watch it, because you don't know what you're missing. So much insight on human behavior, maturity and transition in life.The dialogue, the lines are superb, Crash's speech, Crash' advices, his perspicacity on life and baseball, his reasoning, his theories and discipline, his name-calling make him the best character in sports cinema. His "if you think you're playing well because you're getting laid or you're not getting laid or because you're wearing women's underwear, then you are !" is the truest sentence on Earth. I don't understand how Costner who plays perfectly, every line sounds great, every emotion correctly expressed, didn't win an Academy Award. And it's the proof that with a small budget, a great movie is totally feasible. The montage is very good, camera work excellent and for a picture made in 1988 it still looks good in 2016. It's eternal. To think Stallone gets a nomination for playing a character full of laziness and clichès is embarrassing. There hasn't been any other duo as believable, romantic and sexual than Crash and Annie. After all, look at the erotic scenes, nothing extreme or shocking, but they are very exciting.This movie should go down as one of the greatest movies ever made.

richard-1787 A lot of the reviewers on here really liked this movie. And I certainly grant you: it's a fun movie, and an enjoyable one.But after having watched it again tonight, I was left with the feeling that it really doesn't have much of anything to do with baseball. Tim Robbins' character gets called up to the majors, yes. But we don't see any transformation in his pitching, any explanation or demonstration of how he went from a guy with no control to a guy with enough control to merit a call from the majors.Nor do we get much sense of what it's like to be a minor league player, what it's like to live in that world, etc. (No, most of them don't get to sleep with the Susan Sarrandons of this world.) Her character is presented as quirky, and so funny. But we never really see what she sees in baseball, either.Kostner's character, who has been kicking around in the minors for a decade, never expresses what that's like.We get a lot of funny sexcapes, and that's all well and good.But this movie really hasn't got much to do with baseball.

tieman64 Some kind of classic, "Bull Durham's" an unconventional baseball movie from writer/director Ron Shelton.Unlike most films in the genre, "Bull Durham" lacks a gauzy, sentimental tone, has no time for nostalgia, doesn't overly romanticise the game, is narrated by a woman and focuses on the day-to-day drudgery of life in the minor league circuit. And whilst a disturbingly high number of baseball films indulge in hokey, metaphysical subplots (angels, destiny, vague spiritualism, baseball-as-religion etc), "Bull Durham" parodies such things with conversations about quantum physics, new age religions and its cast of silly, superstitious players.The plot? Susan Sarandon plays Annie Savoy, a teacher and baseball groupie who's stuck in a kind of perpetual adolescence. Trying desperately to prolong the glory days of life on campus, she has a habit of hooking up with young, up-and-coming baseball stars. In this regard she takes Ebby "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) under her wing. Problem is, Nuke is also being groomed by Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), a veteran player who attempts to mould the kid into something special.Costner and Sarandon create a couple of memorable characters. Legs always agape, and with the vampish hunger of a Bette Davis, she's a Southern firecracker who overwhelms men with her sexuality. Opposite her is Costner's Crash. Armed with wit, Cosnter's trademark khaki trousers with pleats, and an endless knowledge of everything from baseball to garter belts, he's a burnt out middle ager who, like Annie, tries to live vicariously through Crash. The film then ends with Crash and Annie, products of a very 1960s credo of eternal youth, turning their backs on the "young man's game". They stop living through surrogates and abandon their hopes of reaching the big leagues.It's an odd way for a sport's film to end. Whilst most in the genre build up to a climactic showdown, "Durhum" sees its heroes fading into anonymity, giving up on eternal youth, appreciating the power of quiet wisdom and sliding into a quiescent, mature relationship. Unsurprisingly, writer/director Ron Shelton played minor league baseball himself during the 1960s.8/10 – Worth two viewings. See "Moneyball".