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Jack "Cap" Rooney
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
Dennis Quaid in an action or athletic film always seems to work. It may never blow you away, but it just seems natural. Perhaps it is why that we feel he gets overlooked a little too much in “Any Given Sunday”, but maybe that was the point. As “Cap” Rooney, Quaid is struggling to keep his starting Quarterback job, against the younger and flashier, “Steamin” Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx). Rooney is not just fighting for his job, but he his fighting for his will to keep playing a sport that is punishing him physically. Of course, after seeing his barracuda of a wife (Lauren Holly) we may have understood what he was most afraid of!
Still, Quaid showed more depth in this role than he got credit for (and more than he usually does), and we suspect that he may be put on the backburner for our Hall in place of…..”Steamin” Willie Beamen.
Gus Matthews
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
Two major things work against the Benchwarmers. First, is that we are asked to believe that Rob Schneider (AKA: the guy who played Deuce Bigelow and the annoying copy guy on SNL) is a Baseball star. The second thing is that watching grown men, regardless of physically inept they are, defeating a bunch of kids on the baseball diamond is rewarding for the viewer in any capacity.
Frankenstein
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
The “B” Movies enters the ballot on with Roger Corman (who else) and the dystopian American future where cross country road annually occurs whereby points are awarded on the amount of bystanders who are run over….sounds like our kind of movie!
The premise is ridiculous, the cheese factor is through the roof and the acting is terrible, yet we keep cheering for Frankenstein (David Carradine) to keep mowing over people. We can’t be the only ones who like camp like this?
Eddie Harris
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
Clearly channeling Gaylord Perry, Eddie Harris may have been of advanced age, but his “Vaseline Ball” (and occasional use of snot) made him the ace of the Indians staff (remember he was the starting pitcher against the Yankees in that final game) in Major League. Although we did see him pitch, we remember his holy wars with Pedro Cerrano far more. Sadly, his “Fuck You Jobu” line didn’t work out too well did it?