re: Why does Kevin Costner get so much shite from people?

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The Postman and Waterworld ... like Costner let his ego get a bit out of control in making those films.

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I think that's definitely true. Costner was the biggest star in Hollywood, and he made those two over inflated, self indulgent movies that both tanked horribly, and his status never recovered...even though he's done other good shite since then. He's supposed to be a huge dickhead, or at least was back then. I think he got too big, and people just wanted to tear him down.

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But I do agree with your basic premise that Costner gets too much flak, he's been in more good flicks than bad ones and plays his standard role well.

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I definitely agree with that.

ETA: I give him credit for at least daring greatly when he bombed.

3,000 Miles to Graceland.

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I thought it was pretty good. Not the best thing ever, but definitely not the piece of shite most people claim it is

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I agree. I enjoyed Postman. Hell, I enjoyed Waterworld. You can't take those movies too serious. Enjoy them for what they were.

I think he does suck actor wise, but I've enjoyed all of if not most of his films. shite I wanted to be robin hood when I was a kid.

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A Perfect World?

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Probably his second best performance behind Bull Durham.

"American Flyers" with a hot young Rae Dawn Chong and James Evans wearing really tight Bike coaching shorts.

I like waterworld, and 3000 miles to graceland

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For Love of the Game

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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Mr Brooks, however....

I dont know how good of an actor he is, but he has chosen his roles, with some exceptions, fairly well. I think he pissed some of the Jews who run Hollywood off some time ago and he's been fairly well blackballed for a while. But the Untouchables, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and Dances with Wolves are enough to make a career out of and he's done even more than that, so... I'd say he's pretty damn good. And yeah, catches too much flak. It became a pop culture thing to talk about how bad of an actor he is. Which didn't help

From my perspective...

Costner flamed pretty big from the start and was lucky enough to be in some amazing movies that could use his everyman persona.

He stole the show in Silverado, which had people searching out Fandango. Then he hit an amazing streak with Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham, and Field of Dreams. Then he topped that run off with Dances With Wolves. That's an amazing stretch of hits.

After that run, he made a lot of bad role choices.

And don't dismiss the fact that Madonna labeled him as being uncool in her "Truth or Dare" documentary. I don't think that it's a total coincidence that his popularity took a steep, downward turn after that appearance.