Name That Movie!

[Crackpot]

[Lord Jim]

The only hockey movie I've ever seen was Miracle, (about the US Olympic hockey team's victory over the Soviet team in 1980) so I definitely haven't seen this one...

I suspect that if nobody gets it after that long quote, nobody else here will get it either ...


(At least not without give-away clues....)

[Lord Jim]

CP, I'm not seeing your image...

After copying it into my browser, I believe I've found it with a shorter url:

[BoSoxGal]

The only hockey movie I've ever seen was Miracle, (about the US Olympic hockey team's victory over the Soviet team in 1980) so I definitely haven't seen this one...

I suspect that if nobody gets it after that long quote, nobody else here will get it either ...


(At least not without give-away clues....)

Whaaaaaaat?!

You need to see Slap Shot!

Film critic Gene Siskel noted that his greatest regret as a critic was giving a mediocre review to this movie when it was first released. After viewing it several more times, he grew to like it more and later listed it as one of the greatest American comedy movies of all time. The Wall Street Journal's Joy Gould Boyum seemed at once entertained and repulsed by a movie so "foul-mouthed and unabashedly vulgar" on one hand and so "vigorous and funny" on the other.[3] Michael Ontkean's strip tease displeased Time magazine's critic, Richard Schickel, who regretted that, "in the dénouement [Ontkean] is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response."[3] Despite the mixed reviews, the film won the Hochi Film Award for "Best International Film". Paul Newman himself stated on many occasions that of all the films he'd been in, Slap Shot was by far the most fun and his personal favorite.

Critical reevaluation of the film continues to be positive. In 1998, Maxim magazine named Slap Shot the "Best Guy Movie of All Time" above such acknowledged classics as The Godfather, Raging Bull,[11] and Newman's own Cool Hand Luke (which received a backhanded tribute when Newman's character, while the Hansons were being bailed out of jail, stated to the booking officer that "most folk heroes started out as criminals"). Entertainment Weekly ranked the film #31 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films".[12]

In the 2007 50th Anniversary Issue, GQ named Slap Shot one of the "30 films that changed Men's Lives."[13] In the November 2007 issue of GQ, Author Dan Jenkins proclaimed Slap Shot "the best sports film of the past 50 years".[14]

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a "Fresh" rating of 85% based on 26 reviews, with the critical consensus stating "Raunchy, violent, and very funny, Slap Shot is ultimately set apart by a wonderful comic performance by Paul Newman."

[Crackpot]

Speaking of which my second image clue:



Hopefully this one will work

[RayThom]

At this point I'm thinking the answer is going to be somewhat anticlimactic.

I could be wrong, however.

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Joe Guy]

[Big RR]

I believe that's a loon, correct JG?

It doesn't help me with the title, but perhaps someone else?

I have no idea of the other image.

[Crackpot]

It rhymes with the title

[MajGenl.Meade]

Google "Bluebottle and Eccles", Big RR

[Econoline]

It rhymes with the title

Oh, of course...now it's obvious!

[Crackpot]

One more quote and then I'll go for another movie.

Rod McCaudry: [after a horrendous rendition of the national anthem] Well that was borderline treasonous, and a disgrace to our nation and its proud and storied history. My father didn't kick the Nazis'... and the puck drops!

[Big RR]

Meade--Thanks, not a title I recognize, though.

[Econoline]

Well, if it's not Dune it must be Moon.

[Crackpot]

No Ray

[RayThom]

No Ray

Wa...what???

[Econoline]

I'm not Ray. But it's fun playing his game, for a little while.

Let's see...

Aoon, Boon, Coon, Dune, Eune, Foon, Hoon Iune, June, Koon, Loon, Moon, Noon, Oon, Poon, Quoon, Rune, Soon, Tune, Une, Voon, Woon, Xun, Yoon, Zoon...

What have I forgotten?

[Econoline]

Oh yeah.

I've never seen it, but I've heard of it:

(Goon)

[Crackpot]

That's it. Well worth the watch especially if you're the slightest bit a hockey fan. It gives some insight to the role that this almost extinct position played in the sport.