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Frankenstein
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
The “B” Movies enters the ballot on with Roger Corman (who else) and the dystopian American future where cross country road annually occurs whereby points are awarded on the amount of bystanders who are run over….sounds like our kind of movie!
The premise is ridiculous, the cheese factor is through the roof and the acting is terrible, yet we keep cheering for Frankenstein (David Carradine) to keep mowing over people. We can’t be the only ones who like camp like this?
Eddie Harris
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
Clearly channeling Gaylord Perry, Eddie Harris may have been of advanced age, but his “Vaseline Ball” (and occasional use of snot) made him the ace of the Indians staff (remember he was the starting pitcher against the Yankees in that final game) in Major League. Although we did see him pitch, we remember his holy wars with Pedro Cerrano far more. Sadly, his “Fuck You Jobu” line didn’t work out too well did it?
Doug "The Thug" Glatt
Sep 04, 2013
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The Athletes
The 2011 hockey film, Goon, may never be thought historically as the 1977 sports classic, Slap Shot, but with a name like “Goon”, nobody could say that the movie did not deliver on its promise.
Sean William Scott (AKA: Steve Stiffler from the American Pie Movies) played Doug Glatt, a monosyllabic bar bouncer with fists of steel and brains of mush. Through a series of events, his pugilistic skills brought him to minor hockey in Canada, where like any hockey player he can fight, became popular with the fans. As a pure hockey film, it wasn’t the best representation of the sport, but it was entertaining, which is all you ask for in a film like this; that and Stiffler beating up a bunch of Canadian hockey players.
Derek Vinyard
Sep 05, 2013
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The Athletes
A controversial candidate for many obvious reasons, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) was the main protagonist in American History X, a film about a neo-Nazi who repented while in prison. One of the more pivotal scenes was when Vinyard led his team white supremacists to victory over a group of African Americans on a playground basketball court. It was a scene we loved and detested at the same time, but it was one of the better cinematic triumphs of the sport seen on the silver screen. Too bad that triumph was a little too much “Triumph of the Will”