Is "Bull Durham" Gen X's "Butch Cassidy"?

[Taverner]

That is, the movie that appeals to both the male and female genders of our species?

For the boomers, they always had Butch Cassidy. It has action for the guys, love story for the girls, and an ending that you never forget.

Bull Durham loses it in the ending, unfortunately, but it has the rest.

Whaddya think?

[xchrom]

1. i really liked that movie.

and that it was about baseball -- i think might have something in of itself related to your topic.

[Beaverhausen]

2. One of my favorite movies of all time

"oh my"

But I'm a boomer.

[itsmesgd]

3. Heat perhaps?

It didnt focus too much on Deniro's love interest, but it was his main motivation for leaving the world of crime. He was also willing to put it all on the line for the chance to get out one last time. Plus, it had a kick ass gun fight.

[PVnRT]

8. That movie is painful to watch

Sooooooooooo boring. Soooooooooo long. I cared not one whit about any of the characters, and would have been happy seeing them all die violently in a knife fight, which might have actually brought some excitement to that movie.

[driver8]

25. My friend said after we saw "Heat" -- "They should give you a t-shirt

on the way out of the theatre that says, "I survived 'Heat'".

[gmoney]

4. "They're kids... scare 'em a little."

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers.

[CottonBear]

11. LOL! I love that scene and the one when he throws the bats into the shower.

Ouch! That had to hurt some toes! ;)

[taterguy]

5. Risky Business is closer to Gen X

Gen X lives by its key line: Sometime you just gotta say, 'What the fuck.' Yes, Tom Cruise turned out nutty but every guy I know wanted to be him in 1983 or so. The main characters in Bull Durham are boomers which disqualifies it from being a true Gen X flick.

[Taverner]

14. This is true, but Butch Cassidy wasn't exactly a boomer IRL

Although their story paralells the boomer's

[sasquatch]

17. "So which one of you is the captain of the U-Boat"

[taterguy]

18. makes me laugh every time I hear it

[idgiehkt]

6. that movie

grinds my gears. It was filmed in my hometown so I'm supposed to like it but every character in it seems like a stereotype to me. Of course that is true with every Kevin Costner movie I've ever seen.

[Taverner]

16. Relax - it was the 80's

Every movie back then (and I do mean every movie) was a stereotype.

[idgiehkt]

20. you'd have to be from Asheville to understand the hype

My dislike of it probably has more to do with that than anything else.

[Taverner]

29. Ahhh gotchya

It came out when I was in college and was just "the perfect date movie" - one which was hard to equal in coming movie seasons...

[TommyO]

7. I love both movies

at 42, what does that make me?

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Gen X?

I'm a smack-in-the-middle Boomer, and I freakin' adore "Bull Durham" — because it's authentic. I've been around a lot of minor league ball, and that's exACTly how those guys act.

Except they say "fuck" a whole lot more.

[Radical Activist]

10. I never thought of it as a Gen X movie.

The people who I know that love it are mostly boomers.

[Taverner]

13. Well yeah, it just came out during our administration

;)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

12. One of my good friends played in the minors (briefly)

And he said the exact same thing.

[terrya]

15. Isn't there a scene in "Bull Durham"....

when Tim Robbins' character is tied up in a bed, wearing nothing but his underwear?

I liked that scene.

[skygazer]

19. Hmmmm..... well, first of all.....

I'm a woman who hates the fact that every decent movie out there seems to feel they have to throw in some sort of lame and sappy love story to hook the "girls." I don't care for fluffy chick flicks, I truly enjoy a good war movie or male bonding movie and I like action and depth. I don't believe that every fucking story in the world has to have some sort of love/relationship angle. Plenty of things happen that are vitally interesting and have nothing to do with romance. (worst instance in that case was "Titanic" which took a story that was just teeming with human interest and managed to make it both boring an ridiculous by tacking on a meaningless and unbelievable love story)

I like Butch Cassidy not because of the (lame and horribly inaccurate) love story but because of the humor primarily and the pathos - the whole end-of-an-era thing.

As for Bull Durham, I saw it when it came out and I honestly don't really remember it. :shrug:

[Missy Vixen]

21. I'm a boomer and I love "Bull Durham"

I loved the movie so much that I'm looking at a framed movie poster on our office wall, and we probably watch it a couple of times a year to this day.

My favorite scene is probably the "cliches" scene.

Julie

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I hate that one

Because it's true. :grr:

[driver8]

24. "Girls they do get wooly...'cause of all the stress, yeah..."

That's the scene that kills me. That, and the scene on the pitcher's mound when they are trying to decide what to buy for a wedding present.

"...I'm the one with the Porsche and the quadrophonic Blaupunkt."

"You don't need a quadrophonic Blaupunkt. What you need is a curveball!"

Damn, that movie is funny.

[riverdale]

23. Does not appeal to both genders

Sorry, but Bull Durham is a chick flick.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Uh...

Okaaaayyy... :shrug:

[Taverner]

30. WHAAA?

Every guy I know who ever played ball in school can relate to that flick...

"Don't think - it can only hurt the team"

[Yukari Yakumo]

26. Easy answer, no.

It's too old for the Gen X crowd. Plus it's baseball. Maybe it were football it might have a chance.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Yeah, following the lead

of all the great football movies that have been made over the years.

:rofl: