To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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Paul Newman’s personal favorite of his own movies is the one where he gets to say p***y a dozen times and c**k a half dozen more.
Truly, an icon.
“Slap Shot” stars Newman as the player-coach of a failing hockey team in a dying steel town. In an effort to drum up attention, he conjures up a fake trade of his own Charlestown Chiefs to a Florida buyer, and encourages the team to show off in the meantime, and play as dirty as the white ice will allow.
In its own era, “Slap Shot” was derided as being one of the most foul mouthed films ever released. Decades on, it retains some of that shock - mostly, since the filthiest…
happy birthday dad, i miss you. to quote mike loftus, “a woman wrote slap shot and you wouldn’t expect that but that means you should try and watch it jamie.”
Holy hell ... they used to play hockey without helmets????
"I got my eye on the three of you, guys. You pull one thing, you're out of this game! I run a clean game here. I have any trouble here, I'll suspend you! ... I'm listening to the fucking song!"
Well they certainly would not make a vulgar boys club movie like this anymore, but I did have fun with this zany story of a dying hockey team looking to go out on top.
(Quick Hits) ... Spoilers
- If you are easily offended then don't even bother with Slap Shot since they make rude comments about just about everyone you can think of
- Seems odd that they would…
Paul Newman may be the star and the Hanson’s the cult favorite but the MVP is Newman’s coat
Scrappy and unseemly, Slap Shot is so stripped of artifice it almost feels anthropological. It is certainly much too unvarnished to neatly fit into the prototypical formulas of your run-of-the-mill sports film. And this straight-shooting crudeness, so titillatingly ribald, is precisely why it served as perfect podcast fodder for our latest Episode of Cinematic Underdogs.
In the wake of local economic downturn, and under the threat of being sold, the captain / coach of the Charleston Chiefs—Reggie Dunlap, played by a lovably uncouth Paul Newman—decides to create a ruse to rouse his misfit band of endearing goons: informing the team that their enigmatic owner is considering relocating the team in Florida (if, and only if, they can prove their profitability).…
Filthy and crude and often very funny(?). Inexcusable homophobia and sexism galore, as others have mentioned. Killer soundtrack. Paul Newman's character is ever bewildered and exasperated, while Paul Newman himself seems to be having a hell of a good time, which is always fun to see.
Also, Paul Newman's wardrobe is wild in this movie, and it's never addressed - either by anyone in the movie, nor have I ever really heard anyone reference it. The wrinkled leather monochromatic bell bottoms and platforms combo? That deep v-neck jacket with the huge fur collar? Of course your classic 70s turnover collar has ample screen time.
paul newman going down on that bi woman and her asking him if he ever thought about sleeping with a man and then her talking about all the women she’s slept with…CINEMA
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CW: violence, homophobia, nudity reference, ableism
* The casual manner in which homophobia pervades the characters in this film is draining. "That's just how it was then!" That's just how it is now, and again, I don't fucking care, you can still make a film that doesn't endorse homophobia, no matter what it was like then. I've made this argument before, but inevitably, someone who hasn't read anything will come along and complain. So let me reiterate: go away. (It treated ableism similarly.)
* Love the dynamic shots following the skaters from down low, sliding about the ice.
* The film seems to poke fun at the poorly prioritized standards of nudity vs. violence by having the most violent hockey…
So here is a classic joke in Canada "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"
So it's well established that violence has always been a contentious nature to the game and I'm not going to contest that but this movie plays off this contrivance and really in a ridiculous fashion but has something more. Probably my favourite sports movie of all time and really hockey is just here as a device to what most people feel about hockey with a vulgar verbiage comedy only to give a tiny nugget of real affection in relationships lost and found again and change. In fact I think Paul Newman puts on a stellar performance here as an aged Cupid…
"Nice talk."
sometimes it’s hard to watch a paul newman movie because it’s too distracting to have the most beautiful man who ever lived on your screen. i didn’t like how they ally sheedy-ed that guys wife. that being said, “i underlined the fuck scenes for you” is one of the most romantic lines in the world.
