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Summary: It's Kevin Costner, It's baseball, resistence is futile.
Review: Face it, Kevin Costner fits the role of a baseball player perfectly. In For Love of the Game, it is no exception. So the love story is not the most moving story ever, but seriously, it is still a great story with enough originality to keep you interested. And the baseball part is just incredible. Ever watch a game on TV and wonder what the pitchers are thinking about when the camera shows a close-up to the pitcher's face? This is the movie for you. The baseball scenes alone in this movie make it worthwhile for a baseball fan to watch. If you are not particularly interested in baseball, this might not be the movie you want to see the most. The DVD is excellent. Other than the usual behind-the-scene stuff, it includes an old black and white Babe Ruth short movie which is definitely interesting to watch.
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Summary: A Perfect Game is a bore to watch...
Review: I used to feel there were two types of Kevin Costner movies: First, the wonderful, fun baseball films (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams) and there is also the film that brings out a self-indulgent performance (The Postman, Robin Hood). With FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, Costner combines the two getting a self-indulgent baseball flick. The director (Sam Raimi) does some interesting stuff but, it cannot save the film as the screenplay is riddled with cliches' and an interest-less romance. Kelly Preston fills a role more apt to Meg Ryan and Kevin does some great athletic performing but is given nothing else to sink his teeth into. The DVD looks nice and the sound is great. It includes some irrelevant deleted scenes and a brief making-of documentary. "If you build it, they will come" does not apply here...
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Summary: Thanks, Kevin, And Not for the Water
Review: After sitting down and watching this movie again, I just needed some outlet to spill out my frustration at all the Costner bashing, especially from the fans of Sam Raimi. I just can't take it anymore! The snobbishness is overwhelming. As any baseball fan knows, the "perfect game" has got to be one of the most exciting feats in sports. And I think this film captures it perfectly. If I found Costner's acting in other films not as good as I would lilke, there is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with his performance here.... The eighth and ninth innings were made very dramatic and I felt like I was right there, watching an actual game! The romance was weaker than the baseball, but it did not detract from a very fun and moving experience. And Vin Scully's "The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel!" -- comeon, baseball fans, admit it -- that was pretty cool!...
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Summary: Better than Waterworld !
Review: Outstanding! Costner shoulda definitely got an Oscar. I guess Hollywood still can't forgive him fer Waterworld. And to all you Costner bashers out there : ¨Clear the mechanism¨.
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Summary: AMERICAN CRAP
Review: Obviously made to redeem KEVIN COSTNER's career at the box office after a few failures,FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME is not half as good as was his previous baseball movies:BULL DURNHAM AND FIELD OF DREAMS.If you want to watch a good movie about baseball, you should view PRIDE OF THE YANKEES OR EIGHT MEN OUT.I hate the way the narrative switch here;this does not convince me at all.Everything turns around BILLY CHAPPEL's perfect game and his relation with a girl he met while playing on the road.There is something phoney about this film that turned me off.The fact that this was not a true baseball story did not help.I have a message for movie producers.How about a film on MARK FRIEDRICH who used to play for the TIGERS.This guy for those who remember,used to talk to his ball.
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Summary: Okay, but I wouldn't watch it a second time
Review: Kevin Costner pulls a poor performance it this feel good baseball story. The stroyline was filmsy, and hardly entertaining. The only thing that saved it was Sam Raimi's awesome directing.
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Summary: Kevin Costner plays a 40 year old pitcher
Review: Kevin Costner again stars in another baseball movie. This time he is a 40 year old pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. As the movie opens, he has dinner in his hotel room and a drink at a minibar. The next morning he awakes with 3 bad news. (A) The team owner (Brian Cox) has sold the Tigers, (B) He might get traded, (C) His on and off girl firend he leaving him and taking a job in London, Because she tells him "you don't need me, you'r perfect with the ball and the diamond. Not the thing you want to hear when you are facing retirement. Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) has to decide to hang it up after 19 years or have a 20th season? His girlfriend is Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston). She is his on and off girlfriend. Then it flashes 5 years before a game in New York, when Billy and Jane first met. At first she doesn't know who he is until a tow-truck driver says, "Hey your Billy Chapel." Anybody Kevin Costner's age might be retired from baseball. Kevin Costner had two or more baseball films before this, and when of them was called "Field of Dreams". Soon he has to look for his grandfriend's daughter named Heather (Jena Malone). Which after first she says freedoom. The movie was directed by Sam Raimi. If you love baseball, then this is the one for you.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Much maligned, mostly by my friends, but still a great movie. More about redemption than baseball.
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Summary: Good, not great. This is not "Field of Dreams"
Review: Over the past weekend, my wife and I actually got the opportunity to rent a couple of movies, sit down, and watch them! (In a large family, such is usually NOT the case!) Three stars for "For the Love of the Game". We loved the baseball (indeed, I suspect that Kevin Costner does as well) and felt that the way flashback were handled from within the context of the game itself was quite effective. However, we were both disappointed at the development of the relationship. My wife was completely underwhelmed by Kelly Preston's acting ability (or lack thereof), and I felt that Jane, the character she portrayed was poorly developed -- and frankly, the bits that WERE developed, I didn't like. I found myself with no sympathy for her whatsoever. Other pluses to the movie would include the authentic-sounding announcing by Vin Scully, and the remarkable visual and sound editing when Costner is on the mound. As a lover of baseball, I enjoyed the movie -- but as far as baseball movies go, it ain't great.
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Summary: For rabid baseball movie fans and Costner lovers only
Review: I liked this movie, but I won't watch it again...at least not for a while. Kevin Costner did fool me into believing that he could be a major league pitcher (albeit for the Tigers) but then again he's had plenty of practice playing ball players. Of his "baseball" movies this one is certainly the weakest. I wish I had spent the money on Field of Dreams or Bull Durham, but oh well. As far as Costner movies in general go, I'm not a big fan and this one didn't do a whole lot to improve my opinion of him. For Love of the Game falls closer to the Waterworld/Postman end of the Costner movie spectrum then it does to the Dances with Wolves side. But if you generally like him then I'm pretty sure that you will enjoy this movie. I'm not going to call it a "Hit" like some others, because it is not a hit on DVD and it was certainly not a hit at the box office. Jerry Springer-esque parting thought: If you really really really need a baseball movie fix then buy this, otherwise just watch 2 hours of ESPN Classic.
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