As Happy Gilmore 2 debuts on Netflix, big story in The Athletic (paywall) now about the inspiration for Happy Gilmore, Sandler's NH childhood friend Kyle McDonough who starred at Vermont '85-89, anyone have memories of him playing us back then?
Besides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?
I had the misfortune of watching Happy Gilmour 2 the other evening. Easily among the worst 10 movies I've ever seen.
it was far from the worst movie I have seen. There were plenty of funny moments. It was however very disjointed and over the top in what should have been some key moments in a well structured movie. It was more just slap stick and expecting more than that from the material is on the viewer.
Quote from: 617BigRedBesides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?
2004 movie, Miracle
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2004 movie, Miracle
Mystery, Alaska
Cutting Edge
To be avoided at all costs: Puck Hogs
The Love Guru w Mike Myers. Truly horrendous stuff
at one time I had a list of college hockey references in movies. Not sure where it is now -- but it included things like Fargo, where the father is watching a college hockey game. And the movie A Simple Plan, where an old college hockey game is playing in the bar on TV. There were a bunch of these, where it was just background noise. I theorized it was because it was easier to get the rights than an NHL game.
Quote from: BeeeejQuote from: George64Quote from: 617BigRedBesides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?
2004 movie, Miracle
Mystery, Alaska
Cutting Edge
To be avoided at all costs: Puck Hogs
Goon
haven't seen Goon 2 yet though
Manhattan Melodrama, 1934:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmzMTCmTto&ab_channel=nepanikyi[/video]
Idol of the Crowds, 1937:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-UULDhKM4&t=48s&ab_channel=JJ%28Governor%29Carrier[/video]
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Yes, that is starring John Wayne
King of Hockey, 1936:
[video]https://youtu.be/6gd_UqfLhqw?t=3162[/video]
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Three of the great lines in cinema.
"Yes. Doug can read."
"You get used to it after awhile."
"Toe pick."
Don't forget "Youngblood."
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Don't forget "Youngblood."
I had to scroll this far for Youngbood!?
Sudden Death in 1995. Van Damme vs terrorists during a Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup game.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Don't forget "Youngblood."
No, really, forget "Youngblood"
Strange Brew
that John wayne movie is the one nobody seems to be able to actual find to watch. Been looking for years for a copy of it.
Quote from: upprdeckthat John wayne movie is the one nobody seems to be able to actual find to watch. Been looking for years for a copy of it.
From Russia, with love:
https://m.ok.ru/video/865353271810
Sweet
not a site I would have gone looking.
I hear the friends of Eddie Coyle is good, but small hockey references
Quote from: upprdeckSweet
not a site I would have gone looking.
I hear the friends of Eddie Coyle is good, but small hockey references
It's a great movie. Extremely unpleasant.
Quote from: BeeeejQuote from: George64Quote from: 617BigRedBesides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?
2004 movie, Miracle
Mystery, Alaska
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Mystery Alaska has a direct connection to Cornell Hockey via the newspaper scene. David E Kelley was captain of the Princeton hockey team in the late 1970s and likely learned it form the Lynah Faithful during that time or soon after (Unless Jeff explains that it came from Scranton).
Mystery Alaska Newspaper Scene (https://makeagif.com/gif/mystery-alaska-newspaper-U0ZEpU)
Quote from: Roy 82Quote from: BeeeejQuote from: George64Quote from: 617BigRedBesides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?
2004 movie, Miracle
Mystery, Alaska
.....
Mystery Alaska has a direct connection to Cornell Hockey via the newspaper scene. David E Kelley was captain of the Princeton hockey team in the late 1970s and likely learned it form the Lynah Faithful during that time or soon after (Unless Jeff explains that it came from Scranton).
Mystery Alaska Newspaper Scene (https://makeagif.com/gif/mystery-alaska-newspaper-U0ZEpU)
Well, I'll certainly tell you that I stole the idea from the University of Scranton, but I didn't start it at Lynah until spring semester of 1981.
As to where Kelley got it, if he got it from us, he would not have seen it when he was a player. He graduated from Princeton in '79. He may have seen us do it at BU when he was in law school there.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Well, I'll certainly tell you that I stole the idea from the University of Scranton, but I didn't start it at Lynah until spring semester of 1981.
I had no idea I was present from almost its birth (Fall 81). I assumed we had been doing it for decades before!
FWIW, I love the way they do it in the movie, and wish we did it the same. The very simple, quiet folding of the paper with no notice of the opposition is the message (yes I know there is no way for a crowd to have that presence of mind).
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Well, I'll certainly tell you that I stole the idea from the University of Scranton, but I didn't start it at Lynah until spring semester of 1981.
I had no idea I was present from almost its birth (Fall 81). I assumed we had been doing it for decades before!
FWIW, I love the way they do it in the movie, and wish we did it the same. The very simple, quiet folding of the paper with no notice of the opposition is the message (yes I know there is no way for a crowd to have that presence of mind).
you are prioritizing the purity of the message - as if the message were "real" - over the raucous joy of the crowd unifying in noise
Quote from: ugarteQuote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Well, I'll certainly tell you that I stole the idea from the University of Scranton, but I didn't start it at Lynah until spring semester of 1981.
I had no idea I was present from almost its birth (Fall 81). I assumed we had been doing it for decades before!
FWIW, I love the way they do it in the movie, and wish we did it the same. The very simple, quiet folding of the paper with no notice of the opposition is the message (yes I know there is no way for a crowd to have that presence of mind).
you are prioritizing the purity of the message - as if the message were "real" - over the raucous joy of the crowd unifying in noise
Yes. I am.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Well, I'll certainly tell you that I stole the idea from the University of Scranton, but I didn't start it at Lynah until spring semester of 1981.
I had no idea I was present from almost its birth (Fall 81). I assumed we had been doing it for decades before!
FWIW, I love the way they do it in the movie, and wish we did it the same. The very simple, quiet folding of the paper with no notice of the opposition is the message (yes I know there is no way for a crowd to have that presence of mind).
We do it differently than the U of S did, too. They used the newspapers at the basketball games. When an opposing player was shooting free throws, they simply sat behind the basket and jiggled the papers. There wasn't an obvious time during a hockey game to use it, so I decided to do it during intros. The "Boring" was added at Cornell by someone else several years after I graduated.
Despite them being one of the best teams in DIII at the time, I didn't go the U of S basketball games, even though the court was only a block from my parents house. I learned about what they were doing from an article in the Scranton Times when I was home briefly between semesters. Specifically the article was an appeal from the B-Ball team coach. He told the fans to stop doing it because it was unsportsmanlike.
Now that I finished Shoresy I think we need to recruit Sudbury more.
Quote from: upprdeckNow that I finished Shoresy I think we need to recruit Sudbury more.
Won't help. Admission requirements suck.
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I don't think anyone has reported this, but here's an uplifting new hockey movie: Shattered Ice (https://www.moviemaker.com/shattered-ice/).