[wallcrawlr]

Looking forward to this movie...

[Support Free Republic]

Got a minute?

I'd really like you to scratch my ears,
or help out FR.

[KantianBurke]

Good fella. :< RIP

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Looking forward to this movie...

Me too

[VOA]

• Danny Brooks, recalling a line not in the movie "Miracle" that his father
told his 1980 Olympic hockey players when they trailed Finland 2-1 entering the
final period of their gold-medal game:
"If you don't win this game, you'll take it to your bleeping graves."-

May G-d in Heaven forgive me...
I PRAY the DVD of "Miracle" will have the line...uncensored.

I'm not a big hockey fan, but IIRC, Brooks was reported to simply have
said the line twice, then left the locker-room.

As they say in Texas, "if it ain't true, it oughta' be".

[VOA]

"The movie is awesome. People were cheering in the theater..."

I got to give Disney/Buena Vista credit.

Although I'm not a psychologist (although I could play one on TV)...
Disney found a way to make a good film about the USA winning big against
an "Evil Empire".

I suspect that, even subconsciously, a lot of us in the audience will see this
film not only as a wonderful recollection of how a good team of US amateurs
managed to upset some professionals...
AND, we'll also see it as a message about the USA standing tough (and tall)
against another Evil Empire after 9-11.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

There was a made for TV movie a year or so after the event ... it was ok, but hopefully this one does more justice to the team.

[yooper]

"If I would have played the second and third periods of that game," Tretiak said the other day, "maybe the USA wouldn't have had that miracle."

If if's and but's were wishes and nuts we'd all have a merry friggin' Christmas.

The greatest sporting win in the history of the US was all it was. It was the opening salvo in Reagan's triumph over the Soviet Union, the first victory of the Reagan era cold war. It was the catalyst that freed us from the malaise of the Carter years, and I'm convinced that without it the rest of the fall of the Soviet empire would not have happened. It showed the world that the Soviet Red Army team was not infallible, nor was communism.

We all owe Herb Brooks and his boys an immense debt of gratitude.......

[isom35]

...snake...call me snake...

[L.N. Smithee]

I haven't seen a movie in the theater since the disappointing Attack of the Clones, and I can't wait to see Miracle even though I know how it ends. I tear up just watching the ads.

[discostu]

ESPN Classic is having a Miracle On Ice marathon on the 5th which includes showing the game (love Disney or hate them you have to respect their ability to cross market), got a brand spanking new tape reserved for it.

[Rebelbase]

I watched that game in the lobby of my dorm with about 50 other guys. We tore the place apart and tied one on at the end of the game. Parties erupted all over the campus.