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Post by greatstreetwarrior on Mar 11, 2017 13:45:45 GMT
Explain this. He seemed down and out after his heydays and suddenly he is doing some gr8 work. What has changed?
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 11, 2017 13:55:38 GMT
Who is "Kevin Costner"?  |
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Post by greatstreetwarrior on Mar 11, 2017 13:56:17 GMT
Who is "Kevin Costner"? ? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 14:03:05 GMT
He made some poor role choices, but he's been in a few of my absolutely favorite films, such as Dances With Wolves and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 11, 2017 14:09:33 GMT
He made some poor role choices, but he's been in a few of my absolutely favorite films, such as Dances With Wolves and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 18:29:45 GMT
"Open Range"
that at was his comeback role. He is really good at directing and acting in westerns. After that, he began to get work again.
because of "Waterworld" and "The Postman" people started moving on to other stars in the late 1990s...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 18:34:31 GMT
"Open Range" that at was his comeback role. He is really good at directing and acting in westerns. After that, he began to get work again. because of "Waterworld" and "The Postman" people started moving on to other stars in the late 1990s... I don't get the hate for Waterworld. It's not a great film, but it's entertaining. I think maybe it was just so over-hyped at the time that it was set up for failure. The Postman was such a disappointment. |
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Post by moviemouth on Mar 11, 2017 20:07:31 GMT
"Open Range" that at was his comeback role. He is really good at directing and acting in westerns. After that, he began to get work again. because of "Waterworld" and "The Postman" people started moving on to other stars in the late 1990s... I don't get the hate for Waterworld. It's not a great film, but it's entertaining. I think maybe it was just so over-hyped at the time that it was set up for failure. The Postman was such a disappointment. Didn't Waterworld bomb at the BO? I don't think it had as much to do with the quality of the movie as much as it had to do with nobody going to see it. When that happens it suggests that people have lost interest in a star.
I actually don't think The Postman is THAT bad either but Waterworld is quite a bit better.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 20:09:53 GMT
Explain this. He seemed down and out after his heydays and suddenly he is doing some gr8 work. What has changed? Welcome! Keep posting! |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 12, 2017 6:02:40 GMT
I don't get the hate for Waterworld. It's not a great film, but it's entertaining. I think maybe it was just so over-hyped at the time that it was set up for failure. The Postman was such a disappointment. Didn't Waterworld bomb at the BO? I don't think it had as much to do with the quality of the movie as much as it had to do with nobody going to see it. When that happens it suggests that people have lost interest in a star.
I actually don't think The Postman is THAT bad either but Waterworld is quite a bit better.
WATERWORLD grossed $264 million worldwide during its theatrical release, but only did about $88 million of that in America, and with a production cost of nearly $200 million (which came about because of a disastrous shoot at sea and an expensive set sinking into the ocean) making its money back in the short term was always going to be hard. I imagine that when you factor in its video, dvd and Blu ray releases and TV and cable TV screenings over the years it has now made a fairly healthy profit. Time heals all wounds. |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 12, 2017 6:21:02 GMT
Explain this. He seemed down and out after his heydays and suddenly he is doing some gr8 work. What has changed? Kevin Costner's Golden Globe winning performance as "Devil" Anse Hatfield in the terrific 2012 History Channel series HATFIELD & MCCOYS lead to his recent career surge. He has also chosen his roles well, taking solid parts in quality pictures like BLACK OR WHITE, McFARLAND USA and the recent smash hit HIDDEN FIGURES (for which he was unlucky not to receive an Oscar nod in the category of Best Supporting Actor). He will next be seen opposite Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, MOLLY's GAME. The charismatic Costner is a class act, and the talent pool in Hollywood is hardly infinite, so a screen legend like him is always going to find work. I think he's incredibly cool and never miss a movie with him in it. I BELIEVE www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKO8pmzU1Lk |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 12:47:09 GMT
I miss his roles like in Fandango
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Post by politicidal on Mar 12, 2017 17:27:58 GMT
He's become more of a charactor actor than a leading man. It helps he's done more supporting roles like in Man of Steel, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, and Hidden Figures.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 14, 2017 5:00:27 GMT
Did anyone see Criminal from last year? I thought that Costner delivered one of the best performances of the year, but of course his performance received virtually no acclaim because it took place in a springtime action movie.
But he was fearless in that film—shades of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in that sense—and in later years, he seems unburdened by the "throwback" American mythos that he seemed to carry in the 1990s. He is not looking to appeal to anyone any longer; he just plays the character and plays him as tough as he needs to play him. Either way, he may have always been underrated, as in such 1990s films as A Perfect World (especially) and Wyatt Earp.
More recently, Costner was especially effective in McFarland, USA, which I thought was a very good film from 2015, one of the year's best. In that movie and in the popular yet lesser Hidden Figures, he plays the "Middle American" almost expertly—the weary, quotidian pragmatist who is hardly a do-gooder or civil rights crusader yet instinctively believes in basic fairness and justice and responds when confronted with a challenge or the sheer inefficiency of injustice. Now over sixty, Costner is perhaps developing Spencer Tracy-type gravitas.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 14, 2017 5:09:54 GMT
Kevin Costner's Golden Globe winning performance as "Devil" Anse Hatfield in the terrific 2012 History Channel series HATFIELD & MCCOYS lead to his recent career surge. He has also chosen his roles well, taking solid parts in quality pictures like BLACK OR WHITE, McFARLAND USA and the recent smash hit HIDDEN FIGURES (for which he was unlucky not to receive an Oscar nod in the category of Best Supporting Actor). He will next be seen opposite Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, MOLLY's GAME. The charismatic Costner is a class act, and the talent pool in Hollywood is hardly infinite, so a screen legend like him is always going to find work. I think he's incredibly cool and never miss a movie with him in it. I BELIEVE www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKO8pmzU1Lk ... good calls here. I viewed all of those projects, some multiple times, and Costner has indeed been selecting his material well. Over the last three years, I have seen five of his films in the theater, some more than once, and he has been consistently good and sometimes outstanding—in movies that have ranged from decent to very good. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 15:24:09 GMT
Explain this. He seemed down and out after his heydays and suddenly he is doing some gr8 work. What has changed? Kevin Costner's Golden Globe winning performance as "Devil" Anse Hatfield in the terrific 2012 History Channel series HATFIELD & MCCOYS lead to his recent career surge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKO8pmzU1LkThat was by far his best acting role since "Open Range" or "Dances with Wolves" |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 14, 2017 18:41:56 GMT
I thought he was perfectly cast as Pa Kent in Man Of Steel.
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Post by runie on Mar 15, 2017 0:44:23 GMT
i think costner wanted to create his own films - but found it really hard to get the budgets after waterworld/ postman / dances with wolves (as it was films like that again)
I suppose he is now just accepting acting work because he can not finance his own stuff,
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 17, 2017 5:43:30 GMT
i think costner wanted to create his own films - but found it really hard to get the budgets after waterworld/ postman / dances with wolves (as it was films like that again) I suppose he is now just accepting acting work because he can not finance his own stuff, Your theory makes some sense, but Costner enjoyed modest success with his self-directed Open Range (2003). The film was not a hit, ranking fifty-first among domestic releases in 2003, but nor was it a flop, and based on its budget, it certainly proved profitable. 2003 box office grosses"Open Range" economic dataI have long wondered why Costner has not directed since then. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 17, 2017 6:08:39 GMT
Costner was great in The Upside of Anger and he was great in Criminal and Open Range
And Waterworld was a pretty good movie. The Postman sucked. His Wyatt Earp was pretty good, but not as good as Kurt Russell's.
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