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Cheap Seats' Holiday Gift Ideas: Slapping the Silver Screen
When you think of hockey movies, what are the first ones that come to mind? Slap Shot, Youngblood, Mystery Alaska, Mighty Ducks, the Canadian-made biopic The Rocket, or maybe even Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death. There's a few out there. But you don't want to give that movie-loving sports fan on your gift list something as obvious as any of these do you?
No, as Robert Frost once advised, you want to take the road not taken, and by the looks of any movie bargain bin, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice certainly fits the bill of "not taken." (heyooh!) Now you may be asking yourself, "Cheap Seats, what -- aside from starring a toothy Stephen Baldwin and the always lovely Gary Busey -- does this movie have to offer?" To which we would reply, "Oh, plenty! Sort of!"
Of course, we've never ACTUALLY seen this film. But! We have watched the trailer a number of times and lightly perused the imdb page enough to find a few more reasons to give it a chance and MAYBE spend the 99 cents it would probably cost out of that over-flowing DVD bucket at the Dollar Store. One thing this film has going for it is casting -- I know, I know, we've already talked about Stephen Baldwin of Bio-Dome fame and the ALWAYS LOVELY Gary Busey -- but surprisingly this sub-par Baldwin brother and batsh*t Buddy Holly aren't what impresses most. There are two other notable names that really stand out here, the first being Callum Keith Rennie, who for any fans of Bruce McDonald OR Battlestar Gallactica OR Californication, is always entertaining to watch and one Canada's best, if below-the-radar, acting exports. The second, is NHL vet Dave Babych. Yes, THAT Dave Babych. Jets. Whalers. Mustache. Legend.
Now, as far as we've been able to tell, the film's plot involves some sort of Harlem Globetrotter-esque hockey team that buys the Chiefs to be their Washington Generals, and there's a figure skating angle that seems to loosely criticizes the historical homophobia of sports, and then there's probably a misunderstanding after which hilarity ensues, and a guy most likely falls for a girl but isn't sure how to tell her until a pivotal moment in the plot... and then the killer must be found before the ship sinks and the aliens land but after the big fight, the car chase and the moral lesson. Oh and the Hanson Brothers make an appearance. (That last part we know for sure.)
On second thought, if you do put this in someone's stocking, at least have the decency to give them one of these to go with it.
Cheap Seats' Holiday Gift Ideas: Slapping the Silver Screen
When you think of hockey movies, what are the first ones that come to mind? Slap Shot, Youngblood, Mystery Alaska, Mighty Ducks, the Canadian-made biopic The Rocket, or maybe even Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death. There's a few out there. But you don't want to give that movie-loving sports fan on your gift list something as obvious as any of these do you?
No, as Robert Frost once advised, you want to take the road not taken, and by the looks of any movie bargain bin, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice certainly fits the bill of "not taken." (heyooh!) Now you may be asking yourself, "Cheap Seats, what -- aside from starring a toothy Stephen Baldwin and the always lovely Gary Busey -- does this movie have to offer?" To which we would reply, "Oh, plenty! Sort of!"
Of course, we've never ACTUALLY seen this film. But! We have watched the trailer a number of times and lightly perused the imdb page enough to find a few more reasons to give it a chance and MAYBE spend the 99 cents it would probably cost out of that over-flowing DVD bucket at the Dollar Store. One thing this film has going for it is casting -- I know, I know, we've already talked about Stephen Baldwin of Bio-Dome fame and the ALWAYS LOVELY Gary Busey -- but surprisingly this sub-par Baldwin brother and batsh*t Buddy Holly aren't what impresses most. There are two other notable names that really stand out here, the first being Callum Keith Rennie, who for any fans of Bruce McDonald OR Battlestar Gallactica OR Californication, is always entertaining to watch and one Canada's best, if below-the-radar, acting exports. The second, is NHL vet Dave Babych. Yes, THAT Dave Babych. Jets. Whalers. Mustache. Legend.
Now, as far as we've been able to tell, the film's plot involves some sort of Harlem Globetrotter-esque hockey team that buys the Chiefs to be their Washington Generals, and there's a figure skating angle that seems to loosely criticizes the historical homophobia of sports, and then there's probably a misunderstanding after which hilarity ensues, and a guy most likely falls for a girl but isn't sure how to tell her until a pivotal moment in the plot... and then the killer must be found before the ship sinks and the aliens land but after the big fight, the car chase and the moral lesson. Oh and the Hanson Brothers make an appearance. (That last part we know for sure.)
On second thought, if you do put this in someone's stocking, at least have the decency to give them one of these to go with it.