anyone else hate this film with a passion?

"anyone else hate this film with a passion?"

11 days later and no replies. No dude, it's just you.

Great film, in any genre.

Hey rjacks-off...get a life loser...if you don't like the flick, why are you posting here?....moron

I agree with OP, this movie is so cliched and boring.

If you want a similar movie that is actually funny Major League is much better.

"If you want a similar movie that is actually funny Major League is much better."

Whoa, really? I literally have seen every single baseball movie since 1970. Every baseball movie. Not some, every single one. Bull Durham is the best movie about baseball. It captures every little nuance from the standpoint of the fans, the players and so called management.

Comparing this movie to Raging Bull is a disservice to DeNiro and Scorsese. They are completely different animals. Raging Bull was a study in similar contrasts. What made Jake La Motta great was what destroyed him. What made Crash Davis great did not destroy him or his relationships.

I really don't know what the OP intended by even creating this topic. There are an a$$ load of movies I hate with a passion and would never deign to watch. I don't waste my time creating posts about them..in fact I don't even go to boards of movies I hate with a passion.

Huge baseball fan, don't like Bull Durham. It's ridiculously overrated.

Agree with the people who said Major League is better. Major League has much better characters, more charismatic actors, and displays more knowledge about the game. And it's consistently funny throughout without being ridiculous.

Bull Durham is a big ball of cliches done in a corny, overdone style. Plus there are just some stupid scenes in Bull Durham that come off really bad. The 8 minute love scene is truly terrible. The scene toward the end with Sarandon and Costner in the kitchen eating cereal is embarrassingly bad--shoulda been cut.

Costner should play poker--he wears the same expression the entire movie. You can see how uncomfortable he gets when he knows he's supposed to be funny and carry the scene--like when the whole team is meeting at the mound and he recaps what they've talked about to the manager. It should be funny but Costner bumbles it.

Look I know it tries to capture the world of minor league baseball in an affectionate way, but that affection congeals as soon as it hits the screen.

For a much better example of Ron Shelton's work, rent White Men Can't Jump or The Best of Times.


OP is on the money on this one.

I just finished my first (and certainly last) viewing.

I didn't hate it, but it is INSANELY overrated. One of the best sports movies ever?? Please. It's not even the best baseball movie ever. It was pretty boring, to tell you the truth.

And Susan Sarandon's character is a total distraction. I HATE it when a movie has a character that's supposed to be some sexpot type of woman, and then they go and cast someone who flat out simply is not attractive.

There's a word for women like that. That word is "skank."

Susan Sarandon is a skank. Was a skank then, and is an old skank now.

This movie has not aged well at all. I've found that to be the case with a huge number of movies made in the 80s, especially movies that were also set in the 80s, like this one.

It doesn't suck, but it is the single most overrated sports film in history. It's not even close to being the best baseball movie ever made, let alone one of the best sports movies ever made. Major League is much funnier and much more likeable and The Natural and Field of Dreams capture the mythical nature of baseball. I'm always amazed that this film rates so highly on certain lists. As a diehard baseball fan, I know no one personally that thinks Durham is the best baseball movie ever made.

Saw it once, and dubbed it "Dull Boreham" afterwards... That about sums it up for me... ;-)