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DVD Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley, and the rest. --Tom Keogh
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Shots
Great hockey movie, The Hansons are weird in their own way. The coach is
all fighting.
"Trade me right _____ now!" and hang up.
This is the undisputed king of hockey films, but it's exposure probably suffered from being a hockey film. If this film's dialog had been set to a football theme, every man in America would have a copy under his pillow, but non-hockey guys often won't give it a chance. The overlapping dialog, the many complex characters, the solid soundtrack, the gallows humor and the manipulations all tie together to make this a great film. This film is hilarious, but it has grit that you don't see in most comedies. It's dark in the corners, like an old hockey arena. Almost every outdoor scene is overcast. The towns are dirty, like Northern towns are in the winter. It's a really cool movie.
That said the language is foul. I forgot how foul, after years of seeing it on TV, till I got the DVD and popped it in with my then-wife. It was painful for the first 20 minutes or so...then she left the room.
That said Slap Shot 2 is horrible and every copy needs to be burned ASAP.
The "Cup" Winner
Slapshot is one of the greatest sports movies ever made and certainly the best hockey movie ever made. It isn't just about winning games and goons fighting. It develops the human impact of playing low minor league hockey, how family and relationships are effected, and the life they live. I've seen it 20 times and will watch it 20 more.
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You don't need to know anything about hockey to be moved by this hourlong documentary about one of the greatest upsets in sports history: the United States' defeat of the vaunted Russian Olympic hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The film recounts the David vs. Goliath matchup between the Americans (essentially a group of college kids molded into a team by coach Herb Brooks, also the U.S. hockey coach in the 2002 Olympic games) and the Russians, professionals who had won four straight Olympic golds. The story is retold in interviews with the people who lived it, including Brooks and several of the American players, sportscaster Al Michaels (who uttered the title line as the game ended), and key Russian players. Do You Believe in Miracles? is... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 08 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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