Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins is one of my favorite actors. I love that he takes cameos in movies like The Pick of Destiny and High Fidelity. Still, he has made some really bad movies as well. Here are my top and bottom three.

Best

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Player
3. Bull Durham

I had to leave off Short Cuts, Mystic River and The Hudsucker Proxy, all movies I also enjoy. Bull Durham was pretty much his breakout role and might be my favorite baseball film. The Player is genius. I still love this Altman comeback picture where he skewers the Hollywood studio system. Still, to put any other movie other then Shawshank as the top is impossible. It is simply a masterpiece and as I have said before, if you don’t have a tear in your eye at the end of that film you are made of stone.

Worst
1. Howard the Duck
2. I.Q.
3. Mission to Mars

All three of these are not only bad but cringingly so. Mission to Mars could have been good. It had a lot of things going for it. Brian De Palma directing a decent cast that included not only Robbins but Don Chedale and Gary Sinise seems like a hit. However, this movie is just a brutal watch. I can’t say I have ever been able to make it through an entire sitting of I.Q. I have seen enough of it to know that the plot is ludicrous and it has Meg Ryan in it. Still, as bad as that is nothing can top Howard the Duck. I have mentioned before about my journey to see that film so I won’t rehash it. That movie was so bad and so over the top you can only wonder just what in God’s name the filmmakers were thinking.