Tin Cup (1996)

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Blistering performances.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I see all these reviews and I keep falling on "Bull Durham". Like this movie was supposed to join the level of Bull Durham. Listen, it's not going to happen. It would be like finding a better baseball player than Babe Ruth...you can't. Finding a better basketball player than Michael Jordan...you can't. The poetry, the philosophy, the wisdom, the level of insight, the humor, the romance, the climax, the ability to stretch a movie without a story and still captivate the viewer, Bull Durham's a masterpiece and it will never be topped again. Starting with the beginning, the references to baseball, you feel the thrills of the sport and then the number of great lines "I'm the player to be named later" and so and so on, this is a movie full of great lines. Unfortunately for Tin Cup, the script is too poor. Not enough good content and it doesn't really impress us. It was more about promoting a sport through the US Open and star golfers than promoting it through the script and the passion and knowledge of the characters' themselves.Golf anyways, is boring to watch and I doubt you can relate as much easily to golf than to baseball. But still, with a good cast. this should be a better movie. The whole Tin Cup nickname makes no sense to me, more an attempt to find a Crash Davis 2.0. or Nuke Lalloosh nickname. I didn't get it, doesn't work for me. The movie has a few funny passages but nothing immortal, nothing we haven't already seen. Just not what I expect from Ron Shelton.The two characters Roy and Molly spend hours flirting with each other, it's a little lame. It's a lot flirting to set up a predictable ending without any sexyness in the end. And at some point, Roy's stubborn antics are just kind of boring, we lose interest in the movie near the end. The whole "I'm going for the win" was funny once but systematically ? Ugh. There's just nothing you're crazy about in this movie, neither the dialogues, the passion, the sport of the romance. Just two characters that end up hitting on each other.Last but not least, if the main character is from Texas, just get an ACTUAL actor from Texas, stop trying to pretend a fake southern accent this stuff just doesn't cut it. My gosh they need to stop making fun of other people's accents -- Kevin Costner doesn't have a southern accent and he didn't needed one. You can go to Texas university and not be from Texas it's okay but my gosh stop faking these southern accents when you can't ! Really annoying.

Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to 1996's Tin Cup.Most A list actors would do anything to maintain their A list, star status, and if it starts slipping, the do anything to regain it, most run back to there most popular roles in a sequel, where there is an established fan base. KC certainly had movies in his filmography (Prince Of Thieves or Bodyguard) that people (especially the money men) would want to see sequels too (especially back then) but playing it safe has never been KC's way, so he signed up to star in a movie about golf. Plot In A Paragraph: Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy is a washed up golf pro, working at a driving range who decides to try and qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his psychiatrist Molly (Rene Russo) who also happens to be his successful rival's girlfriend. Written and directed by Ron Shelton, Tin Cup was a return to form for this Zoner, the movie and KC received good reviews, whilst the man himself got a golden globe nomination. I think it's one of his best movies. I actually know someone who says it's his best movie/performance, as the movie lives and dies with his character, if you don't like him, you won't root for him, and as an effect you probably won't like the movie. Whilst I won't go that far, I do really enjoy it.Tin Cup is not a formula sports movie. We can guess where the movie is headed, anticipate the broad outlines of the plot (Tin Cup will qualify for the U.S. Open, which of course ends in a showdown between himself and his big rival, whilst getting the girl). But the U.S. Open doesn't end quite the way we thought (I can still feel the crushing silence in the cinema) and the movie itself isn't even about who wins the Open.Tin Cup has a great supporting cast. Rene Russo who had done well in some big movies, shows a deft touch for comedy whilst Don Johnson is smarmy as hell, strutting his way through the movie as David Simms. However it's Cheech Martin who steals this movie for me. He was brilliant. Tin Cup has a nice soundtrack filled with some catchy songs. Tin Cup grossed $55 million at the domestic Box Office, to end the year the 28th highest grossing movie of 1996.Just remember, a little bit is better than nada....

I was deeply impressed. It's the best golf film yet, but there is more to it than just golf. It's definitely not the thing to see if you're in the mood for something fun and uplifting, or something with tons of thrills and action. The metaphors in this movie are abundant. Are there annoying things in this movie? Yes, like the overdone dialog. But the movie has enough to keep you entertained. From an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn't think were totally needed. This is the kind of film that tries to prove that a small story can be much more meaningful than a larger one. Overall rating: 7/10.

Underdog sports movies walk a fine line with clichés; romantic comedies walk a fine line with clichés. "Tin Cup" is both these things and walks the finest of the fine lines, and though it leans toward the cliché, it never completely loses its balance. Its likable swagger behind star Kevin Costner -- a similar swagger to that of "Bull Durham," also directed by Ron Shelton -- is what makes it one of the more memorable fault-filled sports movies.Like the previous (and slightly better) Costner-Shelton collaboration of "Durham," this film is a romantic sports comedy about a trashy/washed-up athlete who wastes a lot of talent and somehow manages to attract sexual attention.Costner stars as West Texan Roy McAvoy, referred to sometimes as 'Tin Cup,' a talented college golfer who somehow ended up a golf pro at a downtrodden driving range with his amigo Romeo (Cheech Marin) while his college teammate David Simms (Don Johnson) went on to be a star. Roy is a betting man who goes with his gut, ignores reason and uses golf metaphors to make sense of life. When an anal retentive psychiatrist named Molly (Rene Russo) shows up at his range for lessons, Roy is smitten, only to find she's with Simms. Of course the only way to win her over is to try and make the U.S. Open, right?Costner and Russo have forced character chemistry. There's no reason for either of them to be interested in each other, save that Roy wants a challenge compared to the white trash women he's interested in. There's certainly no reason for Molly to leave her tournament- winning boyfriend for a sleazeball. And you know it's true when the dialogue directly addresses why they fell for the other like it's justification or something.The machismo fueling Roy and his buddies in the movie, constantly betting each other and insulting the other when he lays up and plays it safe is childish, but it brings the film its humor and keeps it from being a straight through underdog movie. Its more interested in its characters than building up plot suspense, which is a good thing, if only the characters behaved in realistic ways."Tin Cup" is a giant golf metaphor for life, about how taking risks -- no matter how many times you fail -- is always worth it. Shelton's film is gutsy in the same way, finding different ways of telling a sports story that will make it feel different. It goes about it in an amateur way, but it's the bravado that it will be remembered for. Shelton's films have this miraculous tendency to only let their best parts stick with you. They're the kinds of movies that make for great channel-surfing finds on TV. That's really what "Tin Cup" is.~Steven CVisit my site at http://moviemusereviews.blogspot.com