list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Tin Cup on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Tin_Cup/93725/default.aspx Title: Tin Cup
Year: 1996
Director: Ron Shelton
Plot: Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a talented golf pro, who owns his own driving range. That sounds impressive, but the reality is quite different. While it's true that Roy is indeed a talented golfer and does own a driving range, it is in a tiny, unheard of Texas backwater. With almost no customers, he is likely to go broke. His golfing talents remain untapped and his life is rapidly going nowhere. To pass the time, he drinks a lot of beer with his buddies, or swings at a bucket of balls. Sometimes, he even plays real golf, and his friend and assistant Romeo (Cheech Marin) caddies for him. That's all there is for Roy, until he is wakened from his deathlike reverie by a visit from a newcomer in town, psychologist Molly Griswold (Renee Russo). Teaching her how to swing a club reminds him of feelings he had nearly forgotten. Discovering that she is the girlfriend of his old golfing rival, David Simms (Don Johnson), goads him yet further, and he returns to the PGA golf tour to compete in the U.S. Open. Maybe he'll get Molly for himself, maybe not, but in the meantime he has some things to prove to himself. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:02:33 GMTTin Cup1996Ron SheltonRoy McAvoy (<a href="/players/P____15189/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kevin Costner</a>) is a talented golf pro, who owns his own driving range. That sounds impressive, but the reality is quite different. While it's true that Roy is indeed a talented golfer and does own a driving range, it is in a tiny, unheard of Texas backwater. With almost no customers, he is likely to go broke. His golfing talents remain untapped and his life is rapidly going nowhere. To pass the time, he drinks a lot of beer with his buddies, or swings at a bucket of balls. Sometimes, he even plays real golf, and his friend and assistant Romeo (<a href="/players/P___101237/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Cheech Marin</a>) caddies for him. That's all there is for Roy, until he is wakened from his deathlike reverie by a visit from a newcomer in town, psychologist Molly Griswold (Renee Russo). Teaching her how to swing a club reminds him of feelings he had nearly forgotten. Discovering that she is the girlfriend of his old golfing rival, David Simms (<a href="/players/P____35814/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Don Johnson</a>), goads him yet further, and he returns to the PGA golf tour to compete in the U.S. Open. Maybe he'll get Molly for himself, maybe not, but in the meantime he has some things to prove to himself. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)933http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t00158srdai.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Tin_Cup/93725/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/zularian/archive/2008/7/29/33213.aspx Post By: Zularian
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Body: Today I would like to say a few words about a movie that is very dear to me, Tin Cup. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this movie let me try and give you a sense of it. Tin Cup is a sports movie (golf) starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo. The movie is about a man who is a very talented golf player who likes to take big risks and has consequently never had much of a career. All of this changes when he meets a woman he wants to impress (who is dating his former college gold partner who is now a professional golfer). He decides the best way to impress her is to get into the US Open and win it and therefore prove his worth. I don't usually like to outline stories because I feel like even the greatest stories ever told can be reduced to utter silliness. That being said I think it is important to have a sense of what you are getting into with this movie before you begin watching. Why is this? For one because it is Kevin Costner. It seems he bothers many people. I think he bothers people when he plays roles where he is supposed to be heroic, or noble, or exceptional in some way. For the most part he is none of those things in this movie. True, he is a very good golfer. He is not the greatest golfer who ever lived. This movie isn't really about golf though, in the way that nearly every movie about golf is not about golf. So the game of golf serves as a metaphor for life. Fine. What makes this such a wonderful movie is that it is about a man who is flawed in a very realistic, normal way. What he struggles to overcome is his own nonsense, all the while lacking self-awareness and introspection. What makes this movie very, very enjoyable for me is that it is a movie that is about feeling and emotion and not thought. The cerebral character (played by Rene Russo) is really no more clever or together than the more instinctual character played by Kevin Costner. At it's heart I think this is just a movie about people and how they get through life. I enjoy it because it has wonderful friendships, and wonderful fights. There are great successes and failures and that in the end there is something of a message. This isn't a deep movie and it certainly is not a serious one. All the same it is most certainly about something. I recommend it if you are looking for something warm and fun to watch.
]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:02:33 GMTZularianZularian Blog7/29/2008 10:02:33 AMToday I would like to say a few words about a movie that is very dear to me, Tin Cup. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this movie let me try and give you a sense of it. Tin Cup is a sports movie (golf) starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo. The movie is about a man who is a very talented golf player who likes to take big risks and has consequently never had much of a career. All of this changes when he meets a woman he wants to impress (who is dating his former college gold partner who is now a professional golfer). He decides the best way to impress her is to get into the US Open and win it and therefore prove his worth. I don't usually like to outline stories because I feel like even the greatest stories ever told can be reduced to utter silliness. That being said I think it is important to have a sense of what you are getting into with this movie before you begin watching. Why is this? For one because it is Kevin Costner. It seems he bothers many people. I think he bothers people when he plays roles where he is supposed to be heroic, or noble, or exceptional in some way. For the most part he is none of those things in this movie. True, he is a very good golfer. He is not the greatest golfer who ever lived. This movie isn't really about golf though, in the way that nearly every movie about golf is not about golf. So the game of golf serves as a metaphor for life. Fine. What makes this such a wonderful movie is that it is about a man who is flawed in a very realistic, normal way. What he struggles to overcome is his own nonsense, all the while lacking self-awareness and introspection. What makes this movie very, very enjoyable for me is that it is a movie that is about feeling and emotion and not thought. The cerebral character (played by Rene Russo) is really no more clever or together than the more instinctual character played by Kevin Costner. At it's heart I think this is just a movie about people and how they get through life. I enjoy it because it has wonderful friendships, and wonderful fights. There are great successes and failures and that in the end there is something of a message. This isn't a deep movie and it certainly is not a serious one. All the same it is most certainly about something. I recommend it if you are looking for something warm and fun to watch. http://www.spout.com/blogs/shaunhuston/archive/2008/6/19/31401.aspx Post By: ShaunHuston
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Body: The sports Top 10 is a difficult list to assess. How many truly good sports movies are there, and I ask this as a sports fan? Raging Bull (1980) is arguably the greatest film of the 1980s, and Rocky (1976) was a little labor of love, far from the semi-joke blockbuster that it is often remembered as in light of its sequels. They likely deserve their places at the top of the list, especially Raging Bull. As to the rest of the films, I have a lot of affection for Breaking Away (1979) and really, it's a lovely little film that I'd put higher on the list. I also like Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988), but they both have obvious flaws (as Anne-Marie noted, the basketball film falls short in its depiction of the on-the-court action; the final is especially poorly paced and shot and edited in an oblique way. I've always thought that Bull Durham's final act stretched on a little too long, needlessly deferring Annie and Crash's final settling in together). For the remainder, well, I don't have much good or much bad to say about any of them; I can see why each ended up on the list, with the possible exception of Jerry Maguire (1996), which seems a stretch as a sports film even by the AFI's definition (“a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition” - I don't see how either of the leads meet this standard). However, I would struggle to find a replacement. Tin Cup (1996)? Cross-apply Field of Dreams (1989) from the fantasy list? How about Downhill Racer (1969) or Slap Shot (1977)? (And I'll just admit right now that I have nothing to say about football films as I don't care or know much about the game). I dunno. I think that this genre is doubly cursed for being both a genre and about sports, two aspects of American life that are seen as culturally “lesser” in many circles. So, as a result, you get films that are either goofy comedies or fairly predictable dramas. The best films on the AFI Top 10 do better than that, but only Raging Bull, I think, can be considered great cinema. Link to introduction. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs
]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:01:19 GMTShaunHustonShaunHuston filmblog6/19/2008 1:01:19 AMThe sports Top 10 is a difficult list to assess. How many truly good sports movies are there, and I ask this as a sports fan? Raging Bull (1980) is arguably the greatest film of the 1980s, and Rocky (1976) was a little labor of love, far from the semi-joke blockbuster that it is often remembered as in light of its sequels. They likely deserve their places at the top of the list, especially Raging Bull. As to the rest of the films, I have a lot of affection for Breaking Away (1979) and really, it's a lovely little film that I'd put higher on the list. I also like Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988), but they both have obvious flaws (as Anne-Marie noted, the basketball film falls short in its depiction of the on-the-court action; the final is especially poorly paced and shot and edited in an oblique way. I've always thought that Bull Durham's final act stretched on a little too long, needlessly deferring Annie and Crash's final settling in together). For the remainder, well, I don't have much good or much bad to say about any of them; I can see why each ended up on the list, with the possible exception of Jerry Maguire (1996), which seems a stretch as a sports film even by the AFI's definition (“a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition” - I don't see how either of the leads meet this standard). However, I would struggle to find a replacement. Tin Cup (1996)? Cross-apply Field of Dreams (1989) from the fantasy list? How about Downhill Racer (1969) or Slap Shot (1977)? (And I'll just admit right now that I have nothing to say about football films as I don't care or know much about the game). I dunno. I think that this genre is doubly cursed for being both a genre and about sports, two aspects of American life that are seen as culturally “lesser” in many circles. So, as a result, you get films that are either goofy comedies or fairly predictable dramas. The best films on the AFI Top 10 do better than that, but only Raging Bull, I think, can be considered great cinema. Link to introduction. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs http://www.spout.com/blogs/eagle795/archive/2007/8/24/18726.aspx Post By: eagle795
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Post Date: 8/24/2007 10:19:05 PM
Body: Kevin Costner in a sports film…what a shock. But he just does it so darn well!! Cheech (without Chong) manages to get through the film without firing up a bong, which is something. The scene where Roy throws away his chance to win the U.S. Open is classic.
]]>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:19:05 GMTeagle795eagle795 Blog8/24/2007 10:19:05 PMKevin Costner in a sports film&hellip;what a shock. But he just does it so darn well!! Cheech (without Chong) manages to get through the film without firing up a bong, which is something. The scene where Roy throws away his chance to win the U.S. Open is classic. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/cute/MemberTagFilms.aspxcute
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