Kevin Costner's last 10 films/ grosses

[J.R.]

Do you remember the SNL sketch where Sylvester Stallone tries to help a car accident victim, but the guy just tells him how bad most of his films are? "Over The Top? Did you actually go around telling people that was a good script?". I'd like to see that happen to Costner and several other people.

[yaddo42]

The thought of Costner being on SNL and mocking his recent film career actually sounds promising. He has a good comedic prescence, look at: BULL DURHAM, SILVERADO, TIN CUP and FANDANGO.

Of the films on the list above that I've seen, TIN CUP  and A PERFECT WORLD are good films, and his performances were good as well. Haven't seen 3000 MILES or 13 DAYS, but I've seen all or part (before I gave upon) of the rest. They all stunk for various reasons, usually Costner was one, but he wasn't the only problem. He needs to give up directing, DANCES WITH WOLVES  was beginners luck apparently.

He just doesn't project enough prescence as a leading man for bigger pictures, and is too limited as an actor for smaller or "independent" films.

[AndyC]

I liked 3000 miles and 13 Days, but Costner had nothing to do with it in either case.

I can't believe anyone let him do that horrible, fake-sounding accent in 13 Days. How much time did he spend perfecting that? Ten minutes?

[Fearless Freep]

This kinda raises a question.  It's quite common to have an American actor speaking english with a accent.

Has anyone ever seen a forgein movie in a foreign language with an actor trying to do an American accent?  What does an "American accent" sound like in japanese, or spanish, or italian?

[Susan]

Costner is a cardboard actor, I mean he's the guy who's the SAME guy in every film. I think the only movies I probably ever liked by him were "A Perfect World" and..i hate to admit it but..."American Flyers". If nobody remembers that movie than i'm too old, i went to the theater to see it. ;-) It was probably one of the only 2 80's movies dealing with bicycle races.

[AndyC]

Actually, Costner was doing an American accent, or one of them. It was just the worst New England accent I've ever heard.

I've heard some British actors Playing Americans. Cary Elwes in Twister, Michael Caine in the Cider House Rules, to name a couple. Carry On Cowboy had British actors playing old west characters.

In most cases, at least those I've seen, the "American" accent is usually from the south or from New York or Chicago. The easy ones.

[lester1/2jr]

My first Costner experience was "Robin Hood: prince of thieves"  I usually rent movies, but i randomly went and saw this one.  I remember trying to fight the suspension of disbelief thing with his accent.  He's kind of an insane little bastard now that I think of it.  I mean "for the love of the game" is a deeply satanic movie on some level.  I've never seen it, but I could easily see it being used to brainwash people or something.  Wasn't Bull Durham the one where he wears women's underwear under his uniform?  See that's an intersting tension, to have this normal type guy doing that.  it's like a parody of "for the love of the game".   I think someone could make a really good indy type movie about him. He's like the "safe" guy.  But he's so safe that no one can relate to him and he's completely boring!!!

[Fearless Freep]

> Wasn't Bull Durham the one where he wears women's underwear under his uniform?

That was a different character, the pitcher

Kevin Costner loves baseball, and supposedly plays pretty decently.  Since he can't really be a pro player, he makes as many movies as he can about baseball ("Field Of Dreams", "Bull Durham", "For Love Of The Game")

My favorite Costner character is still the lanky goofy guy from "Silverado"

[Susan]

The list i have shows Costner's #1 grossing movie as "dances with Wolves", and "The bodyguard" comes in second. From the looks of the list that's when he hit his peak for big grossing films. He shoulda quit while he was ahead.

[yaddo42]

Didn't Sam Raimi direct FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME? Costner can even drag down a film by one of the masters. That's one that I only saw parts of, it felt like one of those sappy Hallmark TV movies with a big budget. Utter dreck.

[GypsyTRobot]

Aren't you talking domestic grosses?  Waterworld has pulled in a lot of money in the international market.  See http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/3.htm which claims that Waterworld is the  141th top grossing movie in the world, having pulled in over $250 million which covers the cost of making it, and then some.  

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves which must have cost less to make, is at spot 47 with $390.5 million.  Titanic is the all-time winner having made $1,835.4 million (that's almost 2 billion, yo.)  At least Lord of the Rings is at #5 with 860.2 million.

[lester1/2jr]

I forgot Costner was in The Bodyguard.  All I can think of is that horrible f**king song

[J.R.]

Actually I've seen many movies with British actors trying American accents. Take a look at Black Hawk Down. I love that movie, but why are so many of the soldiers British/Scottish? Ewan McGregor and Legolas from LOTR do decent jobs, but then Spud from Trainspotting shows up. I found it funny that he was the one who went deaf, which would explain why you can't understand more than two words of every sentence he says. He did the exact same thing in Pearl Harbor, playing a guy with his mouth wired shut. Is this a new war movie trend?