What's the best hockey movie ever?

[CBC News]

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What do you think is the best hockey movie ever?


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[Kreskin]

There isn't one. Hockey movies suck.

 

[karrie]

It made me think of how much I liked 'men with brooms' though. Canadian ice sport movie... close enough right?

 

[DurkaDurka]

I hate Canadians almost as much as I hate Germans, close tie if anyone is keeping score.

 

[lone wolf]

What was that one with the three bespectacled thugs?

Woof!

 

[karrie]

I hate Canadians almost as much as I hate Germans, close tie if anyone is keeping score.

Durka, you doing okay? You don't seem to have rainbows and sunshine glowing out of your butt like normal. Something wrong?

 

[DurkaDurka]

he shoots he scores

 

[Outta here]

What was that one with the three bespectacled thugs?

Woof!

Slap Shot

 

[lone wolf]

Slap Shot

Right on! I was thinking Face off ... but Google didn't agree.... Thanks!

Woof!

 

[gerryh]

What really made the movie was Paul Newman.

 

[Outta here]

I remember laughing my ass off at that movie... I wonder if it's really as funny as I thought it was at the time.

 

[lone wolf]

What really made the movie was Paul Newman.

For me it was the timing that really made it so memorable.... Those three and Philly's Plager brothers....

 

[talloola]

There isn't one. Hockey movies suck.

I totally agree, they make the sport look loonie, and the acting and
story usually stinks.

 

[gopher]

"Slap Shot" was said to have been inspired by the crazy life of Jack Carlson who was known as quite a fighter in his playing days. He has abandoned his crazy ways and works today in Minneapolis as, of all things, a preacher!

 

[gopher]

the crazy world of Jack Carlson:

 

[L Gilbert]

heheheh I think someone should make a good movie about foolball in the same sort of style as "Slapshot". Could pad the players up so they look like the Michelin Tire Man ( a relative of the Staypuffed Marshmallow Man). Have the players playing craps in the huddles or something. (We all know they need the break after the exhausting 10 or 15 seconds of play they just did).
Anyway, I liked "Slapshot". Laughed a lot through it.

 

[Nuggler]

:lol: Slapshot for sure!!

Great plot...........just FANTASTIC acting.........very deep......love interest was overwhelming........sex was good........very deep.

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