See, here is where he went wrong. Two of Kevin's (we're on a first name basis) most popular movies that came out within a few years of each other were Field of Dreams and Dances With Wolves. Both were really great movies. Field of Dreams, of course, being a feel good sports movie, and Dances With Wolves being a long epic type film. Dances With Wolves went on to win critical acclaim and pretty much ruled the Oscars, as I recall. It seems that Kevin clung to the glory of Dances With Wolves and tried to recreate it again and again. The problem being, it's easy to make a sappy sports movie and it's hard to capture all the elements to make people willing to sit in a movie theater for over three hours without being bored out of their minds.

I suppose Kevin is getting too old to make many more feel good sports movies. Even I found it a little hard to believe that someone Kevin's age could play a pitcher in the major leagues when For Love of the Game opened in 1999. But the answer certainly isn't in trying to force more four hour westerns down our throats.

It's not working, Kevin! I want to like you as an actor, so give me what I want!

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On a completely unrelated note, I stole this from HeidiAnn, and I thought it was cool. I've visited 47% of the states! Although I did include states I've only driven through, which I'm not sure counts.

create your own visited states map