Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ball-player ever,' in his words.
Homerun, Кобб, 메이저 리그의 전설: 타이 콥, Öreg harcos, Cobb, A Lenda
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Ty Cobb was the kind of piece of shit racist that would pro'ly watch 'Roots' backwards — and would call it a happy ending. Thankfully, this film doesn't try to wash over that aspect and presents the despicable human being he was.
Although, it does concentrate a lil' too much on his erectile dysfunction fer my liking.
Before his career came to a screeching halt over the bad buddy cop comedy Hollywood Homicide, Ron Shelton wrote and directed a number of sports films. Generally, these were comedies and romances and commercially successful. The one outlier was 1994's Cobb, an historical and dramatic portrait of an aging former sportsman, baseball legend Ty Cobb.
The problem with that is that Cobb adapts the Al Stump ghost-written autobiography of the slugger that has since been questioned as at least highly sensationalized and quite possibly fictionalized. Using that account, which Cobb took action against in his dying days only for it to be published posthumously, Tommy Lee Jones plays the title role like a dry run for "Two-Face", the Batman Forever…
I'd always assumed that given the talent behind this film and the subject matter it had to be better than its reputation. And yet...
- the great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
tommy lee jones la rompe toda en esta película, tiene escenas realmente entretenidas, contando una historia muy cruda llena de drama, acción y humor, buen biopic muy recomendable.
7.5/10
this is much closer to the tone of batman forever than I ever expected. the score is ridiculous.
he keeps shooting his pistol at Arli$$ this is insane.
fucking bonkers biopic about a ballplayer.
I guess it's like scent of a woman but Arli$$. I hate it.
the old baseball scenes are p well done tho.
Ron Shelton’s fact-based drama in which a journalist selected to pen the ‘official’ biography of Ty Cobb finds out just how grim the baseball legend’s actual story is.
Adapted from a book by Al Stump, which was published in this year, the movie concerns Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), a sportswriter, who is selected as a ghost-writer to pen an official autobiography of the really well-known baseball player Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones). However, it isn’t long before he discovers horrifying certainties about Cobb.
Tommy Lee Jones gives a good performance in his role as the baseball player who is known as ‘the meanest player’ in the sport and it’s easy to understand why. Jones suits his role well and certainly…
Ty Cobb, who’s known as one of the best baseball hitters of all time, was also known as one of the biggest assholes. And the movie doesn’t shine the best light on its protagonist because of that. In fact they make him as almost a villainous type. There’s several scenes where he goes on an uncontrollable angry tyraid and/or shoots a gun in the vercinity of the writer Al Stump. In a way this feels like the opposite version of 2018’s “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”. In that, it follows the very friendly and full of life Fred Rogers who helps a disgruntled writer find meaning and happiness in his mundane life while doing a spotlight piece on Mr.…
I rather like Ron Shelton's solid, workmanlike films - Bull Durham, Blaze, White Men Can't Jump, Cobb, Tin Cup and Dark Blue are all rather good, or at least very well done genre films. Shelton has an easy to like style, with a fondness for raucous male leads. Hollywood Homicide killing his career really was a bit of shame.
Cobb was made right in the middle of the good part of his career and it is ostensibly, on the surface, another sports film. Shelton is a sports film master, arguably the best director of the genre. However, interestingly, watching Cobb for the first time tonight, I soon found that it isn't really a baseball film, there isn't even really that…
"With all the great players playing ball right now, how well do you think you would do against today's pitchers?"
"Well, I figure against today's pitchers I'd only probably hit about .290"
".290? Well that's amazing, because you batted over .400 a... a whole bunch of times. Now tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?"
"Cause, I'm 72 fucking years old you ignorant son of a bitch."
Tommy Lee Jones delivers one of his best performances as the controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb, a true menace on and off the field.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The fact that Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time yet was a deeply flawed human being makes him a compelling subject for a screen biography, and Ron Shelton's Cobb is a powerful meditation upon the nature of heroism. Some have been surprised that the film has so few baseball scenes, but Shelton is much more interested in the essence of the man than in his athletic accomplishments, presenting his protagonist as an enigma. Clearly influenced by Citizen Kane, the film opens with newsreel footage of Cobb's baseball accomplishments to establish the official, public, superficial view of the man upon which Shelton will elaborate, filling in the blanks left by the newsreel.
Seriously ill in…
Cobb is an asshole. They make that VERY clear from the get go. They make him out a racist, misogynistic, and a cheat. He’s seriously the worst person ever. He does a lot of horrible stuff in this movie, and Tommy Lee Jones is the perfect casting choice, paired brilliantly with Robert Wuhl. They have some great moments together, Al Stump most of the time trying to keep Cobb from from ransacking every motel and club on the way to the baseball hall of fame. It’s less about baseball and more about Stump and Cobbs trip, and it’s a lot of fun. However, it suffers from pacing issues and tone shifts that are pretty jarring. It’s subject material is decently…
Defiantly drags a tad, but overall is an interesting story. All I knew was that Cobb was a damn good player with some anger. This story truly outlines just how miserable he was. Great performance by Jones, who was able to portray the anger seething off of Cobb throughout his life. More of a biopic than a traditional baseball film.
