I see all these reviews and I keep falling on "Bull Durham". Like this movie was supposed to join the level of Bull Durham. Listen, it's not going to happen. It would be like finding a better baseball player than Babe Ruth...you can't. Finding a better basketball player than Michael Jordan...you can't. The poetry, the philosophy, the wisdom, the level of insight, the humor, the romance, the climax, the ability to stretch a movie without a story and still captivate the viewer, Bull Durham's a masterpiece and it will never be topped again. Starting with the beginning, the references to baseball, you feel the thrills of the sport and then the number of great lines "I'm the player to be named later" and so and so on, this is a movie full of great lines. Unfortunately for Tin Cup, the script is too poor. Not enough good content and it doesn't really impress us. It was more about promoting a sport through the US Open and star golfers than promoting it through the script and the passion and knowledge of the characters' themselves.
Golf anyways, is boring to watch and I doubt you can relate as much easily to golf than to baseball. But still, with a good cast. this should be a better movie. The whole Tin Cup nickname makes no sense to me, more an attempt to find a Crash Davis 2.0. or Nuke Lalloosh nickname. I didn't get it, doesn't work for me. The movie has a few funny passages but nothing immortal, nothing we haven't already seen. Just not what I expect from Ron Shelton.
The two characters Roy and Molly spend hours flirting with each other, it's a little lame. It's a lot flirting to set up a predictable ending without any sexyness in the end. And at some point, Roy's stubborn antics are just kind of boring, we lose interest in the movie near the end. The whole "I'm going for the win" was funny once but systematically ? Ugh. There's just nothing you're crazy about in this movie, neither the dialogues, the passion, the sport of the romance. Just two characters that end up hitting on each other.
Last but not least, if the main character is from Texas, just get an ACTUAL actor from Texas, stop trying to pretend a fake southern accent this stuff just doesn't cut it. My gosh they need to stop making fun of other people's accents -- Kevin Costner doesn't have a southern accent and he didn't needed one. You can go to Texas university and not be from Texas it's okay but my gosh stop faking these southern accents when you can't ! Really annoying.
Golf anyways, is boring to watch and I doubt you can relate as much easily to golf than to baseball. But still, with a good cast. this should be a better movie. The whole Tin Cup nickname makes no sense to me, more an attempt to find a Crash Davis 2.0. or Nuke Lalloosh nickname. I didn't get it, doesn't work for me. The movie has a few funny passages but nothing immortal, nothing we haven't already seen. Just not what I expect from Ron Shelton.
The two characters Roy and Molly spend hours flirting with each other, it's a little lame. It's a lot flirting to set up a predictable ending without any sexyness in the end. And at some point, Roy's stubborn antics are just kind of boring, we lose interest in the movie near the end. The whole "I'm going for the win" was funny once but systematically ? Ugh. There's just nothing you're crazy about in this movie, neither the dialogues, the passion, the sport of the romance. Just two characters that end up hitting on each other.
Last but not least, if the main character is from Texas, just get an ACTUAL actor from Texas, stop trying to pretend a fake southern accent this stuff just doesn't cut it. My gosh they need to stop making fun of other people's accents -- Kevin Costner doesn't have a southern accent and he didn't needed one. You can go to Texas university and not be from Texas it's okay but my gosh stop faking these southern accents when you can't ! Really annoying.