Your Top Three: Kevin Costner Movies

Your Top Three is a series here at Movies.com where we choose a topic and you give us your top three picks. We are currently experiencing a serious Kevin Costner resurgence. Not that he was really gone recently, but his roles are becoming much more notable this year. First we got to see him offer No Way Out-referencing support in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Now this weekend he;s pulling the Liam Neeson trick by starring in the Luc Besson-scripted, paternal-antihero revenge flick 3 Days to Kill. In a little over a month we;ll see him starring again in another sports movie, Draft Day. And this isn;t all for him in 2014, either. In November, he returns with yet another sports movie, McFarland. I;m not a huge Costner fan. My not being a big sports guy, especially a baseball guy, probably makes that the case more than what I think of his acting talent. Until his surprisingly touching bit as Pa Kent in Man of Steel last year, I don;t think I;d seen a full Costner movie since 2000;s Thirteen Days. And before that I probably hadn;t seen one of his movies in a theater since The Bodyguard. He;s done some fine work, though, even when he;s doing one of his notoriously terrible accents. And as you;ll see in my picks for my topthree Costner movies, sometimes when he;s really awful is when he;s the most enjoyable. Here are my top three Kevin Costner movies: 1. JFK One of the more forgivable performances by Costner in bad accent can be found dominating this Oliver Stone movie about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It;s a poignantly perplexing work, appropriately hard to follow because the investigation itself took Jim Garrison down plenty of rabbit holes, and of course no conspiracy theories have ever been proven as fact, so it has to be left totally open to discussion. 2. Field of Dreams Fantastically cheesy, this movie should not be so enjoyable for someone as cynical as myself, but I actually have a soft spot for its magical quest. I don;t care about the baseball aspect, only the journey and the universality of Costner;s character;s passion. Plus it;s the film debut of Gaby Hoffman, who has now grown into a phenomenally great actress. 3. The Postman One of the all-time greatest bad movies ever made, one I;m surprised isn;t more beloved as a campy midnight movie. It;s just totally ridiculous all the way through, but it;s particulalry awesome when Tom Petty shows up as the Mayor of Bridge City, who is also implied to actually be Tom Petty playing himself. Your Picks (the top three being Bull Durham and a tie between The Untouchables and JFK): @thefilmcynic the untouchables, no way out, 3000 miles to Graceland... — Peter James coop (@CoopPete) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic (1) BULL DURHAM, (2) JFK, (3) NO WAY OUT ... Nota Bene: His half of A PERFECT WORLD is great; the Eastwood half ... blech! — Victor Morton (@vjmfilms) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Untouchables — Alex Suskind (@AlexJSuskind) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic JFK, MAN OF STEEL, THE UNTOUCHABLES — Zack Parks (@Zack_Parks) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic OPEN RANGE, THE UNTOUCHABLES, SILVERADO — Bill Ryan (@faceyouhate) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Waterworld, JFK, 3000 Miles To Graceland — Larry Wright (@refocusedmedia) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Tin Cup, Bull Durham and the one with Gene Hackman and Sean Young - No Way Out? — Linda (@brodyrocks) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Field of Dreams, The Bodyguard, JFK. — George Stavrinou (@georgestavrinou) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic The Untouchables, A Perfect World, Open Range — Ricky George (@RickyGeorge8) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic I;ll go with the baseball trifecta of Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and For Love of the Game. — Joey Magidson (@JoeyMagidson) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic BULL DURHAM cuz Susan Sarandon! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME cuz my friend;s in it, DRAFT DAY cuz my hometown;s (hopefully) in it. — Adam Hartzell (@FilmEssaying) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Silverado, Bull Durham, Open Range — justin robinson (@TheJSRobinson) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic A Perfect World, A Perfect World and A Perfect World. — Ieda Marcondes (@iedamarcondes) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic THE UNTOUCHABLES, JFK, SILVERADO — Livia Tamara Widjaja (@liviatamaraliu) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Waterworld, JFK, The Untouchables — Patryk Czekaj (@PatrykCzekaj) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic JFK, THE UNTOUCHABLES, and BULL DURHAM. (Honorary mention to THE BIG CHILL, which he was cut from.) — nixskits (@nixskits2) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Bull Durham, No Way Out. And Bull Durham — Teri (@tmvogel) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic JFK, Bull Durham, Testament. — The Doug (@douglenox) February 17, 2014 @thefilmcynic Dances with Wolves, Waterworld, Tin Cup. Yes Tin Cup. — John Andrews (@Jandies1) February 18, 2014 Join in the next discussion: and