Posted on 01/15/2019 11:44:33 AM PST by nikos1121
Kevin Costner is still making movies, more for a TV audience than the big screen, but just the same, many are very entertaining. If you haven't seen "Draft Day", currently available on Amazon Prime, it's worth watching.
I won't give you much of the story, but let me say, it's a feel good movie, about a Cleveland Browns General Manager, Sonny Weaver (Costner), who just eight hours before the start of the NFL Draft, agrees to deal his Number 7 pick this year, and his 1st round pick for the next two years for the overall number 1 owned by the Seahawks.
The word gets out quickly, and the team owner, his entire staff and Browns fans are ecstatic, because it means they'll land Bo Callahan, the Heisman Trophy Winning quarterback from Wisconsin, and with him it's going to be a winning season.
On the other hand, his newly signed coach, donning a Dallas Cowboy super bowl ring played by Denis Leary, thinks giving up three first round picks three years in a row for a rookie QB is stupid, and the current "hard working" quarterback, throws a hissy fit, (not to mention that Seahawk fans want to Keel Haul their own GM in Puget Sound.)
To add to the interest, Sonny's girlfriend, Ali, played by the gal who does the Capital One commercials is pregnant.
Any football fan who understands anything about draft day, will pick up a lot things in the hours before Sonny's first pick, as being odd and unlikely in the real world of FB. I get that, but that's what's fun about the movie.
For the hungry Cleveland Brown fans, this draft is bigger than winning the Super Bowl, and for Sonny it's a chance to finally have the team he put together.
I give Draft Day a solid 3 out 4 Stars.
Did you see Molly’s Game? He was embarrassingly bad in it.
Most sports movies are like that.
No. I generally avoid him. He can only emote mild consternation and slight confusion. Every once in a while he’ll land in a movie I gotta see, like Draft Day or Open Range (he worked in that one, his character was confused and concerned through the whole movie) but for the most part nope.
Saw it a couple years back - fascinating to watch the way the trade scheme unfolds at the end - sort of like the way the guys take down the Duke brothers in “Trading Places” - good movie.....
yes he was in message in a bottle which had a terrible but predictable ending. reminds me of some pearls of wisdom passed down from my Grandma. Don’t dive in and try and rescue without a flotation device and without knowing how well you’re going to swim.
Swam on the college swim team? Could swim 100 laps a day? Don’t swim for 10 years. dive into the deep end of the pool and you know you’re going to drown if you don’t make it to the side walls in time.
In a panicked state of drowning, whoever you’re trying to rescue is going to grab on and give you the death hug trying to stay afloat with total disregard for you.
I liked him in FIELD OF DREAMS, OPEN RANGE and THE GUARDIAN
I liked Yellowstone. Especially the part where Costner hired ex-cons to work on the ranch, branded them, and if they tried to leave, had them taken out a shot. Good times.
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