Greatest hockey movie ever. Where are the Slap Shot fans?

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T21:32:29.279576+00:00

If I was worried about the downvotes, I wouldn't have commented. Suspension of disbelief is fine but when you want to characterize a movie as the best or even good, should it not accurately portray what is being chronicled? Ben Kingsley in Ghandi, Denzel Washington in Malcolm X, Jamie Fox in Ray are all examples of what is possible. Jamie Fox played the music in Ray and was fabulous. I should expect less from a movie that should be considered the best of a (sub)genre?

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T21:26:49.894677+00:00

The context of when it originally was shown is lost 35 years later. Is Star Wars the same experience for someone who saw it in '77 that it is now? The hockey part of this Hockey Movie is absurd and for me, Paul Newman on skates adequately shows that. For instance, I'm a programmer and watching Hackers or CSI or whatever, while possibly, enjoyable, are ridiculous commentaries on coding.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T20:58:52.571297+00:00

You're casting the role of Valeri Kharlamov and you select someone who played one year at Fitchburg State College. They got away with Jim Craig because of the mask but only barely. Compare it to the actual footage and you be the judge.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T20:17:50.863572+00:00

You can make a decent athlete/actor look like a football player or baseball or often, even basketball but the skills required to look like a credible hockey player require a decade to acquire. It just never looks remotely realistic.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T20:11:41.563126+00:00

This occurred 33 years ago at a time when you only left the ice if they carried you off, unconscious. And even then, only long enough to close the wound. We are meant to believe that an Olympic Athlete (hockey player) had to be coerced to continue because of a bruise? I have seen the documentary and if you'll remember the Russians were played by actual players. Kurt Russel told a story about how they would play pick-up between takes and the ACTORS never lost to junior, college and ex-pros. Watch it again and take a look at the face of Mike Eruzione when he tells this anecdote.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T19:44:42.235450+00:00

I'll admit watching a 60 yo Eric Nesterenko slap the shit out of Rob Low was enjoyable.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T19:31:00.079278+00:00

It's a 3 day weekend in July with Monday off. Half the team is out of town at the cottage/beach etc in some cases hundreds of kilometres away. Wives, fiancees, SO's have been planning it for months. Pull into the parking lot for practice Sunday night and not a single car is missing. They all drive 3,4 or 5 hours for an hour and a half of ice, a couple beers and one more shift.

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T19:03:42.418914+00:00

It was a good story but it most assuredly was not an awesome hockey movie.

"Put your gear on!"

"I want you to be a hockey player!"

"I am a hockey player!"

...

Please

With_Panache · 2012-02-04T18:27:52.020234+00:00

Slap Shot was hilarious and I will regret this but it has to be said. There has never been a hockey movie that comes remotely close to good.

EDIT: Suicide by ageism. Did anyone else see it when it was originally in theatres?

Rowsdower_Rowsdower · 2012-02-04T17:11:44.588543+00:00

"But a rabbit, now that's fucked up!"

PIngp0NGMW · 1 day

Thanks

PIngp0NGMW · 1 day

The inevitability of it seems obvious but the manner in which they (CAT) attempt to appear as if it isn't is disingenuous at best and sociopathic at worst.

PIngp0NGMW · 1 day

Who are the london morons?

prideofshape · 1 day

"Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers."

Miserlou57 · 2 days

No, and I'll take your word for it. Knuth.

Miserlou57 · 2 days

If it was doing Maths I would pick Erdos but I don't think I could keep up with the amphetamine addiction.

pavs · 2 days

With all due respect, he's asking for us to embrace knowledge and foster it's growth where and when we can.

Miserlou57 · 2 days

Computer Science - Richard Buckland, Richard Stallman, Alan Turing.

Miserlou57 · 2 days

Physics - Feynman

Math - Feynman

Chemistry - Feynman

...

Miserlou57 · 2 days

Bernie Taupin

My old mans drunker than a barrel full of monkeys

and my old lady, she don't care

My sister looks cute in her braces and boots

a handful of greaze in her hair.

...

I'm the juvenile product of the working class

whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

Gord Downie

If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me,

they bury me someplace I don't want to be,

you'll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously,

away from the swollen city-breeze, garbage-bag trees,

whispers of disease amd the acts of enormity

and lower me slowly, sadly and properly

Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy,

At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin.

1aeiouyy · 5 days

Air Marshall Cornelius von Schmidt

leavenworth · 5 days

That series is incredible and the interaction between Sherlock and Mycroft is hilarious.

hoikarnage · 6 days

When my uncle got remarried he told his kids (14,12,9) that if there was a dispute between them and step-mom, he would side with her irrespective of circumstance.

Fruit_Snack · 9 days

That struck me as well. I'm thinking more Goodyear than Hindenburg.

MykoDaShmo · 14 days

What if we already knew all this but still continued to allow our government to rape the earth for our benefit.

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