Friday night I watched Mr. Brooks, the newest Kevin Costner film. Long story short, he’s a local award-winning businessman who talks to himself (embodied by William Hurt) and enjoys killing people. The film is pretty yada-yada, doesn’t do a particularly good job of setting up any suspense, and pretty much the only thing it has going for it are some unimaginative shoot-out sequences between Demi Moore and a thug who is so bitter about going to jail he wants to put a bullet in her brain. Also, casting peeps: Dane Cook. Really?

Not one of Costner’s best (then again, he’s got so few…)

And then I started thinking. If I were going to make a list of my favorite Kevin Costner films, what would they be? Here’s a shocker: only one on my list was made in the last fifteen years. And, in no particular order:

Silverado
Field of Dreams
The Untouchables
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Thirteen Days

While I tossed about Dances With Wolves, the fact is, I’m just not a huge fan of that movie (and I haven’t seen Bull Durham, so nyah.) I could go through the next seventy years of my life never seeing DwW again, and I’d be totally cool with that.