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Derek Sutton
Aug 11, 2013
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The Athletes
In watching “Youngblood”, we still are not sure if Patrick Swayze was a real good actor, or just someone who did not stink while surrounded by idiotic lines and weak acting. Maybe, it is a bit of both. As Derek Sutton, Swayze was the star Centre for the Hamilton Mustangs (despite Swayze being 34 years old at the time, fourteen years older than the oldest player in Junior Hockey) and was thankful to be in a sport for “middle sized white guys”. He was the leader of the team, which is until the Hollywood injury to the opponent’s goon took him out. Of course he was avenged by Rob Lowe…..wait, the guy from Road House was avenged by the Oxford Blues guy? That can’t be right.
Cole Trickle
Aug 11, 2013
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The Athletes
For a ten year period after Top Gun, Tom Cruise could appear in anything and it would have been a megahit. It didn’t matter, whether it was good or not, in these pre Scientology couch jumping days he could gave shot a film where he just made pancakes and it would have went number one on its opening weekend. Needless to say, he made a lot of crap that had a big audience; whether it made sense or not. This is the case with his role as Cole Trickle, NASCAR driver.
Without going into detail on the plot, Trickle was a wizard on the oval, though he couldn’t explain why. Basically, we were treated to a scene where Trickle explained that he knew how to drive; without really understanding the components of a car. This has to be the first NASCAR driver in history who did not understand what a spark plug was.
Carter Rutherford
Aug 11, 2013
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The Athletes
We aren’t going to speak about the role in great detail (or really any detail at all), but just an observation. If you are John Krasinski and you are at the height of your run in “The Office” and an offer to star in a film with George Clooney and Renee Zellweger you had to figure that your movie career was made. It didn’t happen, as “Leatherheads” was seen by only a few people and what looked like a certain film never got launched. In hindsight, it may have been the best return prank Dwight Schrute ever pulled.
Calvin Cambridge
Aug 11, 2013
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The Athletes
The movie was standard Disney fare (even though it wasn’t Disney, but was actually produced with NBA Entertainment, which explains the amount of NBA stars in the film) and was predictable at every corner. If you haven’t seen it, basically an orphan finds a pair of shoes that once were worn my Michael Jordan, so naturally by wearing them he can play “Like Mike”. Frankly, we are imaging scenes in which Bow Wow (who played the orphan) berates Kwame Brown or becomes one of the worst executives in the NBA, but that may be part of a still yet to be green lit sequel. At the end of the day, this is a standard movie that you don’t remember one way or the other. Now if only Bow Wow can find a microphone that Tupac once owned…..