The most overrated movie EVER!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 2003)

When is Hollywood going to realize that the average age of lower level minor league baseball players is about 20 or 21. Tim Robbins was pushing 30 at the time Bull Durham was made. He is supposed to be a big shot rookie just starting out in pro ball. In the real world, unless a player goes to college (which Nuke LaLoosh obviously didn't), they begin their pro baseball career at age 18 or 19!!!!. If Bull Durham had any base in reality, that is how old Nuke LaLoosh would be. Are we supposed to believe that Annie Savoy goes after a different teenager every summer. If she does, we have a word in our culture for people like that which I won't use here. I don't have a problem with Costner's character, because he is supposed to be older. The rest of the Bulls don't really have too many lines, but they are all in their mid 30's, and some of them have receding hairlines. It's a real shame that "Summer Catch" had to be the movie that actually cast appropriately aged actors in a minor league baseball movie. It's also a real shame that Bull Durham is regarded as the best baseball movie ever made. That is such an insult to "The Natural". I wish that people felt about that movie the way they seem to about Bull Durham. What kind of name is Ebby Calvin Nuke LaLoosh? It's just stupid. Sarandon's character has no basis in reality. I've already said what I need to about the baseball players themselves. The only thing that saves this movie is that Costner is perfect on the field as Crash Davis. All the off the field scenes are worthless. However, the baseball scenes with Costner, Trey Wilson (lollygaggers!), and Robert Wuhl, are worth watching.