Cobb

Cobb
by Ron Shelton

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Actor: Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Robert Wuhl, Scott Burkholder, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Ron Shelton
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Cobb

DVD Review: Great service
Summary: 5 Stars

They did a great job the movie came earlier then estimated and exactly the way they said it would be I would buy from them anytime

DVD Review: The best sports movie I've seen
Summary: 5 Stars

Sure you have movies like the Natural and the Field of Dreams, but Cobb is one of those movies you will remember for a lifetime! It doesn't touch your heart like The Sandlot but Cobb is a movie to remember. I urge everyone to watch this movie, even if your not a baseball fan. Just remember one thing: "Ty Cobb is Baseball!"

DVD Review: Dark and unsympathetic biopic of baseball great Ty Cobb
Summary: 3 Stars

Ty Cobb was certainly one of the greatest ballplayers to ever put on cleats, but this film does not him justice. As a historical biopic it falls far short. Cobb comes across without a shred of humanity and is dislikeable from his first appearance. This really isn't a baseball story per se, it's more of a character study with a baseball backdrop. The story starts near the end of Cobb's life as reporter Al Stump is summoned to Cobb's Tahoe hunting lodge to write the life story of the great ball player (all of which is based on a true story and you can find Stump's books on Amazon). The vast majority of the movie is spent on the interplay between Stump and Cobb as Stump (and the audience) discover what kind of man Cobb really is (and it ain't pretty). Throughout the film we get a few vignettes of Cobb's life, his career in baseball, his early upbringing, the accidental (?) slaying of his father by his mother, but we basically learn that Cobb was a drunken, racist pig. Stump is torn as to whether to write the hero-worship story that Cobb wants, or whether to write the true-to-life story that presents Cobb to the public as he really is, warts and all.

There is a lot to like about this film. The performances of both Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl (who is the main character in the tale in spite of the title and billing) are outstanding. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is probably one of Tommy Lee Jones' best performances in his long and varied career. He convincingly makes Cobb dislikable from the get go. Roger Clemens makes a guest appearance as well. In this film, Cobb represents everything that is wrong with professional athletes. The arrogance, the sense of self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement. They are only baseball players, and batting titles in the grand scheme of things aren't that important. Cobb may be rich and famous, but I wouldn't want to have lived his life. If even half this film is true, he must have been a pretty sorry man. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge baseball fan, but some (many) pro athletes lose perspective, and the man presented in Cobb took this to the extreme.

The faults of this film are many, however. The story bounces along as Cobb commits one outrageous, druken, racist act after another, becoming more despicable to the audience. In fact, the story is essentially the same series of scenes repeated throughout the film. Stump/Wuhl is torn about the story he wants to write, Cobb commits another self-indulgent, offfensive act, Stump and Wuhl argue about it, then patch things up and it happens again. The film really drags at times. Additionally, for a film purportedly about one of the early stars of baseball, you'll learn almost nothing about Cobb as a player, and even less about the dead-ball era in baseball more generally. This film is largely a character study, and I would have liked to know more about Cobb's baseball days. Don't be misled thinking that this film is largely about Cobb's playing days, because it isn't. This is a decent film that even a non-baseball fan can enjoy as a rental. No need to add this to your collection though, even a hardcore baseball aficiando isn't likely to be watching this over and over.

DVD Review: Like Being Spiked By A Runner Swiping Third Base
Summary: 5 Stars

Ty Cobb was no angel in the outfield and writer/director Ron Shelton delivers a masterpiece on one of the most respected and reviled professional athletes ever.

Tommy Lee Jones portrays Cobb in this no-holds-barred account of his final years, as cancer was destroying the "Georgia Peach" from the inside and his vile, crazed actions shredded any grudging respect that a controversial, all-time great should receive in the ninth-inning of life.

Cobb biographer Al Stump is played by Robert Wuhl. Stump is as much a confidant as a writer attempting to piece together the real story from fiction, fact and fear fueled by Cobb's unstable rantings - oftentimes induced through a prodigious consumption of alcohol.

At one point, in a rambling diatribe, Jones belts out the line, "Life's too short to be a diplomat." And that was Cobb coming in spikes-high into third base...on the diamond of life.

DVD Review: Amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars

"Cobb" is simply the best baseball biopic ever. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl are excellent as Cobb and his annointed biographer Al Stump. The recreated baseball scenes of the deadball era are right up there with "Eight Men Out" as far as realism goes. Jones is "scary" good in his portrayal of Cobb, arguably the greatest ballplayer ever (I'm pretty convinced he was). This movie is an underappreciated classic of the sports movie genre and a great profile of the genius/madness that was Ty Cobb. The extras are short but interesting. Recommended!!

Description of Cobb

Tyrus Raymond Cobb played baseball like a man charging a machine-gun nest. He gave no quarter, took no prisoners. And when his Hall of Fame career was over, Ty Cobb attacked life the same way. Tommy Lee Jones portrays the legendary - and equally cheered and detested - Georgia Peach in this acclaimed film from writer/director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Dark Blue), also starring Robert Wuhl and Lolita Davidovich. From its recapturing of the outfielder's playing days (Roger Clemens portrays a rival pitcher) to its recreation of a 1961 Hall of Fame banquet, Cobb is a movie grand slam.

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