“Bull Durham” doesn’t deserve its place in the pantheon of great sports movies – or so I thought for the longest time despite the conventional wisdom.
Then I reviewed the 20th anniversary release of the baseball romance and changed my mind. Totally.
Check out Donne Tempo for the breakdown of the new disk release. The extras, for a change, are worth your while. Creator Ron Shelton hasn’t made a decent flick in a long time – witness the debacle that was “Hollywood Homicide.” But the stars all aligned when he got behind the camera for “Bull Durham.”
(Photo: Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner mix it up on the mound during “Bull Durham.”)
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You’re damn skippy it deserves its place. It’s obviously more a romantic comedy than a sports flick, but you have to appreciate baseball to appreciate a lot of the jokes and nuances of the film, and so it kind of straddles the genre. Plus, Sports Illustrated readers put it in the Final Four of all-time great baseball flicks in a 2001 online tournament. And if there’s anything Sports Illustrated fans know– it’s pop sports. Glad you came around.
Consider me a changed man … and that ending, whoa. Talk about from left field in all the right ways. Took a measured approach to pull it off as well as it did.