Tuesday, March 3, 2009

'Bull Durham'

This is a funny movie up until the point it turned into a softcore porn. Seriously. Tone it down. I realize it's the 1980s, but how hokey do you have to be to get chicks to watch a baseball movie.

And I was kinda torn by the characters of Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner.

Tim Robbins was really funny and, frankly, you knew what you were getting out of his character from the first minute to the final minute.

Sarandon basically played a baseball-loving whore, who was also an English teacher (I guess) and read Walt Whitman to a tied up Robbins who had little interest in poetry and more interest in screwing.

Although Sarandon only screwed one of the Durham Bulls a year, she was rebuffed by Costner's Crash Davis and retreated into the bosom of Robbins.

All the while, Davis pined heavily for Sarandon's character. We're led to believe that Costner is semi-sensitive not wanting to just bang and go and he has a sentimental love for baseball, while Sarandon's character loves poetry, literature and goofball philosophies about relationships.
So, basically, these two underachieving whores only wanted to bump uglies on their terms. How noble.

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