Re: Miracle: Soon to be Panned and Scanned for Your TV

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In Reply to: Miracle: Soon to be Panned and Scanned for Your TV posted by albee33 on February 9, 2004 at 17:28:59:

I haven't seen it yet but all of the "professional" reviews I've read or heard give it top marks. Actual hockey players were chosen to play the parts of the players(instead of actors) because they wanted people who could SKATE. People are saying Kurt Russell is brilliant in it and that the script is pretty true to the actual story, very little embellishment.
Did you ever see the actual 1980's TV movie "Miracle on Ice" with Carl Malden playing the coach and "actors" playing the players. Talk about a B-movie, the players couldn't even skate! they looked like idiots on ice.
Reviewers & average viewers are putting MIRACLE up there with other great sports movies like Rudy, Hoosiers, and Rocky. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I still remember watching the actual game as a 13 year old. it was awesome. My sister and her husband went to see it this past weekend and said people in the theater were actually cheering and screaming when the US team scored, like it was an actual game. They said the way the Hockey action shots were filmed it was alot like being at an actual game sitting down really low, like right behind the glass- really captured the speed of the game.
It's probably good that this movie came out now- we could all use a reminder of how lucky we really are to be living here, even with all the current problems and such.

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Topic - Miracle: Soon to be Panned and Scanned for Your TV - albee33 17:28:59 02/09/04 (3)

Re: Miracle: Soon to be Panned and Scanned for Your TV - draggcj 18:52:38 02/09/04 (2)

I never said the movie lacked merit . . . - albee33 19:00:56 02/09/04 (1)

Re: I never said the movie lacked merit . . . - draggcj 19:21:09 02/09/04 (0)

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Re: Miracle: Soon to be Panned and Scanned for Your TV - draggcj 18:52:38 02/09/04 (2)

I never said the movie lacked merit . . . - albee33 19:00:56 02/09/04 (1)

Re: I never said the movie lacked merit . . . - draggcj 19:21:09 02/09/04 (0)

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