youngblood ( 1986 film )
peter markle is a film director and writer who directed and co - wrote the 1986 film youngblood. he was also credited as being part of the minneapolis camera crew during the film' s production .
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youngblood is an american feature film directed by peter markle. it was released in 1986 and stars rob lowe, cynthia gibb and patrick swayze .
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maslin, janet (1986 - 01 - 31) .
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youngblood is the second film that reeves starred in as he was still a struggling actor when he was cast in the film .
this perceived weakness is pounced upon by a brutish player, carl racki, who is also trying out for the team and engages him in a fight. - youngblood (1986 film )
heck, it might even be your favorite. whereas the 1977 comedy lampooned hockey’s violence, 1986’s
eric nesterenko as blane youngblood. a 20 year nhl veteran, nesterenko was also the film' s hockey consultant .
youngblood (1986) a hockey film about a player on a canadian minor league hockey team. starring rob lowe (as youngblood), cynthia gibb, patrick swayze and keanu reeves. rob lowe had to be taught how to skate before filming began. filmed partially in mendota, minnesota .
keanu reeves portrays a goalie named heaver in the 1986 film youngblood. he was actually an exceptional hockey player in high school and was voted mvp by his fellow teammates and nicknamed
the wall
for his goal keeping skills .
youngblood premiered in the united states on january 31, 1986 and in other countries throughout the year. it is currently available on dvd but not yet on blu - ray .
with the headline: the screen: rob lowe stars as' youngblood' .
mgm / ua entertainment company (1986) (united states) (theatrical) (as mgm / ua entertainment co. )
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after watching his acting in the film, it is apparent that this is only his second film due to his inexperience showing on camera. is there any evidence that keanu reeves was cast in youngblood just because of his hockey skills ?
youngblood is very much fine. it' s plot connects every dot in order and never challenges the genre that it is in. the titular youngblood has to prove himself patrick swazye. then youngblood has to prove himself to the coach. then youngblood has to prove himself to the girl (and she' s the coach' s daughter. like oh my gosh can you believe it? ? ?) then youngblood has to prove himself to his father and brother. then youngblood has to prove himself to the girl again. and then youngblood has a rival that he has to prove himself to. and then the movie ends .
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by the middle of the film, we are deep into the clidvic formula .
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title youngblood year 1986 formats dvd, cinema distributor (s) warner home video ltd, u. i. p. (uk), mgm home entertainment (europe) ltd classified date (s) 06 / 11 / 2003 main language english bbfc reference azf057650
avc: you re - teamed with patrick swayze from the outsiders for youngblood, but you also worked on that film with someone else we spoke with for this feature: the late ed lauter .
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tengiz abuladze' s allegorical film, made in georgia, is the best known film of the perestroika and glasnost years. with its outspoken and controversial reference to the stalin era and stalin' s place in the soviet psyche ,
repentance
was originally shelved but ultimately released in 1986 to widespread popular and critical acclaim. this
kinofile
investigates the production, context and critical reception of the film, and the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema .
rob lowe, left, and patrick swayze in the hockey cult - favorite youngblood. (courtesy rob mcewen )
the game ends with a dramatic, game - winning goal by youngblood with 3 seconds left. youngblood demands to be left in the game as time expires to confront racki. youngblood emerges victorious, landing several blows to the face and body of his nemesis racki, and is carried off the ice on the shoulders of his teammates .
the game ends with a dramatic, game - winning penalty shot goal by youngblood with 3 seconds left; yet it is far from over as youngblood demands to his coach, murray chadwick (ed lauter) to be left in the game as time expires to confront racki .
let' s go, pretty boy !
says youngblood as he and racki engage in a violent fight to the finish with teammates and crowd including youngblood' s father blane (eric nesterenko) and girlfriend jessie (coach chadwick' s daughter), cheering him on. the fight starts with both youngblood and racki using their sticks as swords until youngblood knocks racki' s stick out of his hands. youngblood and racki then fight bare - handed. youngblood emerges victorious, landing several blows to the face and body of his nemesis racki, and is carried off the ice on the shoulders of his teammates in celebration .
biggs: when they first put youngblood out on vhs, on the back there was a picture of youngblood and sutton laughing. but it was actually me with rob lowe. they had to pull it and change the cover .
youngblood hit theaters in 1986. made on a $ 4. 2 million budget, it grossed $ 15. 4 million in u. s. theaters. the movie became a popular rental on vhs and was aired regularly on cable tv. even in the late 2000s, a pg - rated edit of youngblood was shown in the u. s. during the nhl playoffs when a series ended early .
a soundtrack was released for the film. the track list for the soundtrack is as follows :
irwin: i shot the mighty ducks 2 as well, so we evolved the dollies that we built in 1984 for youngblood .
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avc: there’s a claim on imdb that you and adam scott first worked together in a film called winding roads .
josephine woll is professor of german and russian at howard university, washington d. c. denise youngblood is professor at the university of vermont .
youngblood
stars rob lowe in the title role. (this violates the
youngblood hawke
rule, which states: any character named young blood should be renamed .) he' s a farm kid who dreams of playing professional hockey. his dad (played by the hockey great eric nesterenko) discourages him, but his brother offers to do his chores, and so youngblood tries out for a minor league canadian team .
the good son (1993) with macaulay culkin and elijah wood. film locations included the north shore of lake superior .
while not creative, the film is watchable and has a few moments worth watching. rob lowe, who is an actor…
nesterenko: i didn’t realize, but when you’re together for two or three months, a real camaraderie really builds up among the film crew, the actors and all the people who are brought together to make the film. i really enjoyed that .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
if you could somehow mate the lovely welder from
flashdance
with the indefatigable young mr. balboa from
rocky ,
the result would be dean youngblood, the handsome hockey prodigy of
youngblood
( citywide), a movie that could be just as accurately titled
flashdance on ice .
thirty years later, youngblood stands tall as one of hockey’s cult classics. adding to its realism were the people involved in the film. writer and director peter markle was a former minor - pro and international player for the u. s. . cinematographer mark irwin donned skates and a helmet and devised a special rig to shoot the movie on ice. eric nesterenko, who played 20 seasons in the nhl, was the film’s hockey consultant and also played dean youngblood’s dad, blane. george finn, who portrayed nemesis carl racki, was a former ohl enforcer .
in september 1986 “coda: poets & writers newsletter” published an article by writer david long titled “notes from a contest judge”. the excerpt below included the first articulation located by qi of the eccentric claim that collapsed all plots to two archetypes: 2
trauma (1993) directed by dario argento, a award winning italian film director, producer and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror film genre. “trauma” is his first feature length american production. filmed entirely in minneapolis, hopkins and st. paul .
i' m not that huge of a hockey fan, but this film is one of my deepest, darkest, guilty pleasures .
in the fight scene, at end of movie between racki and youngblood. youngblood pulls racki' s jersey over his head onto his arms, then punches racki to the ice. when racki is on the ice he isn' t wearing his jersey anymore, then when he gets back up, racki takes his jersey completely off .
in the fight scene, at end of movie between racki and youngblood. youngblood pulls racki' s jersey over his head onto his arms, then punches racki to the ice. when racki is on the ice he isn' t wearing his jersey anymore, then when he gets back up, racki takes his jersey completely off. see more »
blending hollywood pretty boys with hard - nosed hockey players proved to be a winning formula for ‘youngblood. ’ thirty years later, this cult classic still stands the test of time .
after two successful films, markle decided he wanted to make a hockey movie. mgm green - lit youngblood. first, though, markle had to assemble a cast and crew .
patrick goldstein (1994 - 08 - 26) .
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angus (1995) the majority of angus was filmed at the owatonna high school in in owatonna, minnesota. the film stars charlie talbert and james van der beek in their first film roles, as well as chris owen, ariana richards, george c. scott, kathy bates and rita moreno .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
in 1925 sydney, caddie leaves her adulterous and brutish husband and takes her two children, ann and terry, with her. - caddie (film )
thin ice (originally titled “the convincer”) (2011) starring greg kinnear, alan arkin, and minnesota native – lea thompson. story takes place in wisconsin and chicago, but the scenes were all shot in the twin cities with the violin shop scenes were filmed at dahl violin shop in minneapolis. the original titled film “the convincer” was screened at the sundance film festival, but then rights to the film were sold and it was re - edited and retitled “thin ice” .
at the end of the film, swanson, now in love with sheen, steals a helicopter, and the two abscond to mexico and live happily ever after .
markle: i sent the masks used in youngblood, the pucks with the mustangs’ logo, the script and a bunch of photos to the hockey hall of fame. they were really excited to get it all .
avc: were you surprised at the success of the film? because coppola was certainly a name, but at the time, no one in the cast really was yet .
so gay that it' s almost possible to see the film as a comment that the real audience for movies like this are pre - sexual little boys and homosexual big boys .
after his mentor and friend on the team, derek sutton, is brutally injured by racki (now with the rival thunder bay bombers), youngblood returns home to the farm out of fear, sadness, and disgust. after a pep - talk by his older brother kelly (jim youngs) about the nature of never quitting and always standing up for yourself, youngblood is inspired to learn how to fight and survive on the ice and adopt the killer instinct that has been stopping him from being successful. youngblood returns to the team a new man, ready to confront racki in the final game of the memorial cup playoffs between his team and the thunder bay bombers .
irwin: we shot the hockey action in slow motion, at 32 frames per second, because 24 frames per second looked over - cranked, like an old silent buster keaton film .
thomas: if someone were to do that in a game, back in the era when i played, that guy wouldn’t be alive. if that happened in a real game, there’d be problems. in the final game between the mustangs and the bombers, youngblood scores a hat trick, including the winning goal on a penalty shot. but his work isn’t done. for this hero’s journey to be complete, youngblood needs to stand up to racki .
racki has almost killed one of youngblood' s teammates. youngblood returns to the farm, where his father (working in the great tradition of burgess meredith in the
rocky
movies and pat morita in
the karate kid
) puts him into training and teaches him age - old wisdom. then, of course, it' s time for the big game, in which the kid will make his comeback and the evil racki will eat ice .
portrayed it as a necessary part of the game, while also highlighting hockey’s grace and skill. the film stars rob lowe as dean youngblood, who leaves his family farm in upstate new york to play junior hockey for the hamilton mustangs. although he can skate and score, he can’t fight. he tries to fit in with his teammates, woos his coach’s daughter and in the end has to stand up to the league’s biggest bully .
after his mentor and friend on the team, derek sutton, is brutally injured by racki (now with a rival team), youngblood returns home to the farm. after a pep - talk by kelly about the nature of never quitting, youngblood is inspired to learn how to survive on the ice. dean' s father blane, who initially disapproved of his son playing, especially after kelly had been injured ending a promising career, also teaches his son some fighting tricks, stating
its ok to hit a bag in the barn, but you' ve got to learn to survive on the ice
. youngblood returns to the team, ready to confront racki in the final game of the memorial cup playoffs .
the filming of youngblood took place in the east end of toronto. ted reeve arena was used as the setting for the interior of the hamilton mustangs home rink while scarborough gardens arena was used for the setting of the arena' s exterior .
the new land (“nybyggarna” in swedish) (1972) foreign film; the life of an immigrant family from sweden who came to minnesota in the mid 19th century. based on the last two books of vilhelm moberg’s epic the emigrants suite. the movie starred max von sydow, liv ullmann. nominated for the best foreign language film academy award (oscar) in 1973. filmed in sweden and wisconsin .
many of the other team members in the film were actual junior or ncaa hockey players, including steve thomas, peter zezel (both of whom had lengthy nhl careers), don biggs, and james richmond .
markle: a really good friend of mine skied all the time in vail, colo. he became pretty close to eric nesterenko, who taught ski lessons. i was working on the project, looking for someone to play youngblood’s dad, and my friend suggested nesterenko as the dad and as my hockey consultant. youngblood featured a lot of up - and - coming actors. lowe was cast in the lead role, while patrick swayze played derek sutton, the mustangs’ captain and star center. even keanu reeves appears in the movie (his second film role), as heaver, one of the mustangs’ goalies. while reeves actually played hockey growing up, swayze and lowe needed doubles to do a lot of their on - ice work .
avc: tommy boy is such a quotable film, too. i literally just found myself breaking out the “walkie talkie” line a couple of days ago. and, yes, i know i just said “literally. ”
, at the time of filming, were professional nhl players. in the film, they played for the hamilton mustangs, and in real - life, they played for the philadelphia flyers and the toronto maple leafs .
year: 1986 september / october, periodical: coda: poets & writers newsletter, volume 14, number 1, article: notes from a contest judge, article author: david long, article subsection number: 7, start page 20, quote page 21, publisher: poets & writers, inc, new york. (verified with scans thanks to charles doyle and the university of georgia library system) ↩
youngblood
is not a bad movie, and indeed has moments of real conviction. but it is doomed by its plot, which is yet another example of what i like to call the climb from despair to victory (clidvic, rhymes with kid pic) .
aurora borealis (2006) film was partially shot in minneapolis and included footage of the hennepin avenue bridge, mall of america, walker sculpture garden. starring joshua jackson, donald sutherland, juliette lewis, and louise fletcher .
peter markle, writer & director: i wrote youngblood, and my agent gave it to producer peter guber at mgm, who played club hockey. he liked the script, and we had a lot of actors interested in it. we had it cast up pretty quickly .
the hockey scenes for youngblood were shot at three toronto rinks over the summer of 1984. filming hockey is difficult. you need to co - ordinate players, navigate expensive cameras around the ice and have enough people in the stands to make it look like a real game .
[ the backstory: in her random roles interview, virginia madsen summed up her experience on the 1983 film class as follows: “ew. i don’t want to talk about that. those guys were assholes. they were really shitty to me. it was bad. bad memories. ” unsurprisingly, some instigator rushed to twitter and sent out the link, tagging as many of the guys who appeared in the film as 140 characters would allow … including @ roblowe. —ed. ]
avc: were you any more familiar with francis ford coppola when you got the film? because when we talked to c. thomas howell, he was, like, “well, i’d seen the black stallion, but that’s about it. ”
dean youngblood, a teenage farmboy and amateur hockey player, is recruited by the hamilton mustangs in a canadian junior hockey league. at first, the team treats him poorly because he' s small and lacks toughness. but they have a change of heart once they see him play and score goals .
every good movie needs a great villain, and finn fit the bill. like racki, finn was an enforcer who could also score. he played in the ohl against thomas, biggs and many of the other players cast in youngblood, but he almost didn’t become one of hockey’s most popular bad guys .
richmond: i played in denmark for a few seasons. my teammates there loved youngblood and used to watch it all the time. they thought it was the best thing in the world that i was in it. so the next year, when i came back, i gave one of my teammates my stordahl jersey .
there' s an unnecessary scene where youngblood is seduced by his hot - blooded landlady, and another one where he' s trapped in a public corridor of the stadium wearing nothing but his jockstrap. these scenes are so obviously set up as cheap shots that they undermine the integrity of the scenes that are intended seriously .
the filming of youngblood took place in the east end of toronto in the summer of 1984. ted reeve arena was used as the setting for the interior of the hamilton mustangs home rink while scarborough gardens arena was used for the setting of the arena' s exterior; a third city arena was also used for filming .
in the opening chapters, tony shaw and denise j. youngblood provide a general overview of cold war films between 1945 and 1990. they dismiss the notion that hollywood produced “entertainment” whereas soviet studios produced “propaganda. ” instead, they contend that all films reflect the cultural assumptions, institutional dictates, and audience expectations of the period .
'' youngblood'' seems chiefly designed as a vehicle for mr. lowe, and mr. lowe seems well able to handle more demanding material. but once the film descends into the usual platitudes about doing one' s best and making the grade, it begins to seem aimless. when it even sends mr. lowe back to the farm he supposedly came from, so as to create a dewy montage of him handling the barnyard chores, it seems to have gone entirely off the deep end. whatever it is that rob lowe ought to be doing on the screen, pitching hay is not the answer .
imprint: i. b. tauris publisher: i. b. tauris & co. ltd. series: kinofiles film companion paperback isbn: 9781860643958 publication date: 23 aug 2001 number of pages: 96 height: 216 width: 138 illustrations: 20 b & w; illustrations
gbs: 66. 6 rt: 38% gruttadaro: youngblood is what would happen if you threw dirty dancing, st. elmo’s fire, and a hockey puck into a cauldron. it’s deliciously ’80s, with an absurd amount of slow - motion hockey scenes, a fantastic training montage, an extremely cheesy but fun
hotshot athlete hooks up with the coach’s daughter
plotline, and a murderer’s row of icons from the decade: rob lowe, patrick swayze, and a brand - new keanu reeves. out of every entry in swayze’s ’80s oeuvre, youngblood probably gets the least reverence, but it’s absolutely deserving of a cult movement. i mean, c’mon, just look at this :
it started in - house, with staff members of the ringer nominating candidates. after weeding out the nominees that did not adhere to rule no. 3 above — any film with over a 60 percent rating on rotten tomatoes was deemed ineligible — the remaining movies were put through this formula :
ice castles (1978) the original ice castles film, partially filmed in minnesota at mariucci arena – university of minnesota, and the now demolished met center in bloomington, mn. starring: robby benson and lynn - holly johnson. nominated for one academy awards (oscar) – original song .
dean youngblood' s teammates on the hamilton mustangs hockey team think he' s too pretty, and who can blame them - as played by rob lowe, he is. so the other players haze dean unmercifully, clobbering him on the ice and subjecting him to all manner of unpleasantness in the locker room. after awhile, though, they begin to soften; they come to realize that dean is a good egg after all. and the audience does, too.'' youngblood,'' which opens today at loews astor plaza and other theaters, is at its shrewdest in introducing mr. lowe in this roundabout way, since he becomes much more sympathetic as an underdog than he might be as a complacent - looking winner .
the emigrants (“utvandrarna” in swedish) (1971) film based on the first two books of the emigrants suite, written by swedish author vilhelm moberg. tells the story of a swedish group who emigrate from småland, sweden to minnesota in the 19th century. the emigrants starred max von sydow and liv ullmann .
the best scenes in
youngblood
are these early ones, as the hero meets the hard - as - nails coach (ed lauter) and gets his first look at the evil, sadistic racki (george finn), a bearded ice demon who delights in playing dirty and trying to kill his opponents. even here, however, the movie has serious lapses in tone .
allerdings unterhält „bodycheck“ einerseits mit seiner gelungen mischung aus sport - und college - film, bei der sich sport, action, drama, humor und die liebe schön die waage halten. andererseits begeistern die sympathischen, charismatischen schauspieler und die charmante 80er atmosphäre, die durch den saftig rockenden soundtrack für herrliches retro - feeling sorgt .
gbs: 640. 8 rt: 39% luckerson: i’m not sure there’s ever been a good film that had a title ending with
the movie ,
but this one embraces its craven capitalist mission so fully — to make the most badass, butt - rock - fueled episode of power rangers ever — that there is absolutely no reason to hate or even dislike it. what exactly could you be looking for in a film called mighty morphin power rangers: the movie besides cringey one - liners (
have a nice trip, see you next fall
remains a go - to insult of mine during street fights), a legitimately sinister villain in ivan ooze, plentiful bulk and skull high jinks, sky - surfing soundtracked by the red hot chilli peppers, and honest - to - goodness ninjas? the only person with any right to disparage this movie is the black ranger, who got saddled with a frog when they upgraded zords near the film’s climax .
the wrestler (1974) not to be confused with the 2008 film of the same name (with mickey rourke). the 1974 version starred edward asner and many local professional wrestling legends like verne gagne, the crusher, the bruiser and more. vince mcmahon and ric flair also make an appearance. filmed mostly in minneapolis .
gbs: 403. 7 rt: 6% gruttadaro: troll 2 is maybe the movie that best exemplifies this genre’s ability to conjure cult followings. troll 2 is quite possibly the worst movie ever made — it sounds like a sequel to a 1986 movie called troll, and yet it is not connected to that film in any way; it’s not a sequel at all — but a fervent movement arose in appreciation of troll 2 ’s badness. long after the movie should have drifted into obscurity, screenings were being held in cities like los angeles and new york, and fans of the campy fantasy movie packed in to revel in the schlock. in 2009, michael stephenson, child star of troll 2, went on to make a documentary about the movie’s second life as a cult classic called best worst movie, which got pretty solid reviews. that right there is a story with a happy ending, which also proves how much value a good bad movie can have .
this book is a refreshing revisit to the post‐world war ii political and propaganda film contexts for both the united states and the soviet union. the authors fuse an understanding of history with an interest in how films communicate. their study shows familiarity with studio archives, files of propaganda agencies in the united states and the ussr, and other original sources .
the hat was once the head of the nemean lion, which hercules slayed as one of his famous 12 labors. naturally, ratner’s film yada - yadas those endeavors to make a movie about herc training an army of farmers. but that’s part of the film’s appeal. hercules assumes that no one would ever see a hercules movie that’s … you know, about the legend of hercules. (
his father was zeus — the zeus, king of the gods ,
the narrator intones. got it — that zeus .) in its place, we get a sturdy swords - and - sandals epic, a very confused dwayne johnson performance, and — yes — the lion hat. long may it roar .
gbs: 143. 1 rt: 36% giorgis: twenty years later, does anyone remember the actual plot of spice world? for the unfamiliar, the film followed the spice girls as they drove around london in their tour bus. rather than track average encounters with fans, spice world took the girls on strange, unexpected adventures including encounters with aliens and a night in a haunted castle. none of the girls can really act (sorry, boos), but the movie is more about their outrageous antics than any sort of plausibility. mel b, mel c, emma, and geri all spiced up our lives back in 1997; if you wanna be my lover now, you still gotta get with this film .
there' s nothing wrong with hollywood' s obsession with making' 80s updates of the horatio alger story. but
youngblood
doesn' t come close to capturing the spunk or spirit of youthful dreams. it' s just another empty - headed clunker from the guber - peters assembly line (who helped make
vision quest
as well as
flashdance
), where imitation seems to have replaced inspiration as a starting point for cinema .
[ note: this interview was conducted over a four - year period. it began when lowe was in the process of promoting his role in the 2013 natgeo film killing kennedy, continued when he was doing press for fox’s the grinder in 2015, and was completed by phone in conjunction with the season finale of his latest series, the cbs medical drama code black. ]
finn: actually, i was supposed to be called brophy in the film, after (former minor pro d - man and nhl coach) john brophy, but john didn’t want to release his name. so peter markle named me after (stuntman) branko racki. i said, “you’re the director, so you can call me whatever you want to call me. ”
rio (2011) a 3d animated feature film about a rare blue macaw named “blu” who lives in a book shop in moose lake, minnesota. blu is stolen on a visit back to his original homeland, rio. he wants to get back to minnesota, but he needs to learn how to fly first, something he never had to do as a domesticated pet .
rl: it’s a very interesting cast. it’s always a good day when i get to work with jim belushi, who i adore. he and i have a great thing going, and a really weird, offbeat story. it’s the type of movie that i don’t even know if it would be made today. just a very odd film. but a very fun movie .
drop dead gorgeous (1999) a mockumentary about a vicious competition between two contestants in a rural minnesota beauty pageant. filmed in a variety of locations around the twin cities. starred denise richards, kirsten dunst, ellen barkin, allison janney, kirstie alley, brittany murphy, sam mcmurray, william sasso. this was also the film debut of amy adams. director: michael patrick jann .
fargo (1996) filmed in minneapolis and brainerd, mn. directed by minnesota natives, joel and ethan coen. a film not widely embraced by minnesotans who felt that the minnesotans in the movie were portrayed as being slow or dumb. nominated for seven academy awards (oscar) and won two (actress in a leading role – frances mcdormand, and writing – joel and ethan coen) .
nesterenko: the action scenes on the ice had to be choreographed. it really helps to have somebody who understands what the plays should look like. real plays. markle was pretty busy running the whole film, so he wanted somebody to organize the play on the ice. it was fun being the smart guy on the set, as far as hockey’s concerned, and it was a good experience .
iron will (1994) a disney movie based loosely on a true story. a college age gets involved in a dogsled race to try to win money for college, and take care of his family. much of the film was shot in northern minnesota on the north shore and iron range. starred: mackenzie astin, kevin spacey, and david ogden stiers. (submitted by mike _ _ _ )
this is the plot of the
rocky
movies and also of countless teenage wrestling, bicycle - racing and karate movies .
youngblood
takes it north of the border into the world of small - time canadian professional hockey. at first, it' s interesting just to look at the locations - the seedy ice rinks and shabby rooming houses. but eventually the dead weight of the clidvic formula begins to weigh heavily on our minds, and we realize we are sentenced to yet another slog through the same old plot .
catch me if you can (1989) not the better known 2002 film by the same name. this one was filmed entirely in st. cloud and included scenes at cathedral and apollo high schools. it was directorial debut of stephen sommers who would later direct blockbuster films like the mummy, the mummy return, van helsing and g. i. joe: the rise of cobra. sommers grew up in st. cloud, mn .
gbs: 183. 2 rt: 57% gruttadaro: john woo is a good bad genius, and his mission: impossible ii may be the movie that’s most saturated with his brand of slo - mo, hyperstylized action. before a climactic scene in which tom cruise’s ethan hunt emerges to take down a henchman, a flock of doves inexplicably flutter across the screen. motorcycle stunts alone seem to make up about 65 percent of the film :
director peter markle clearly knows his way around the rink - - he' s a former hockey player himself and has a nice feel for the raunchy initiation rites of adolescent sports. but the film' s occasional glimpses of boyhood camaraderie are buried in an avalanche of thudding synthesizer - rock and coming - of - age cliches that have a lot more in common with box - office stratagems than the thrills - - and spills - - of athletic endeavor .
@ paulie _ d well, sometimes a new actor is cast specifically because of some other special talent that they possess rather than just acting. this was only his 2nd film role and he really was not great at acting at this point in his career. so, the question is did he get this role specifically for his acting abilities or was the fact that he was a star hockey player in high school play any part in him getting the role .
memorial day (2011) filmed entirely in minnesota. takes us on a journey into a father’s complicated wartime past, but also his son’s wartime future where they share parallel experiences in combat, they come to realize how a magical day on the porch shaped both of their lives. this film features minnesota’s own red bull brigade (national guard). starring james cromwell, jonathan bennett, and john cromwell and directed by st. paul, mn resident sam fischer .
a prairie home companion (2006) a look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of america’s most celebrated radio show. shot mostly on - site at the fitzgerald theater in st. paul, minnesota. cast includes marylouise burke, woody harrelson, tommy lee jones, garrison keillor, kevin kline, lindsay lohan, virginia madsen, john c. reilly, maya rudolph, meryl streep, lily tomlin. director: robert altman (his last film) .
foolin’ around (1980) about a working - class boy who falls for a girl from a wealthy family. with gary busey, annette o’toole, chloris leachman and tony randall. filmed at the university of minnesota msp campus, and the pillsbury mansion on lake minnetonka. other scenes were filmed at the st. paul cathedral, the northwestern national life building (now the reliastar building in msp) and central lutheran church in minneapolis, minnesota. (source: carole ostlund, an extra in the film )
thriller writer john gardner (or was it tolstoy? or hemingway? or deepak chopra? i can’t remember) once said there are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey and a stranger comes to town. there is, in fact, a third kind of story, which is when a man goes on a journey, takes along his best mate, two really hot motorcycles and a film crew, and makes an amazing seven - part series that sells to television stations all around the world .
but the film' s biggest problem lies with its star. lowe is a perfectly competent actor, but he' s woefully miscast as a gritty, aspiring hockey star - - the only team one could possibly imagine him skating with would be an vanity fair summer - league squad. (the fact that his teammates, even fellow - actor swayze, look authentically rough' n' tumble only makes him look more out of place - - couldn' t someone have at least blackened out a couple of his teeth? )
gbs: 698. 2 rt: 57% luckerson: this film can be distilled into a two - minute scene that has become one of the most iconic movie deaths of all time. samuel l. jackson, in a stirring portrayal of samuel l. jackson, is giving a motivational speech to the few comrades who have survived at an aquatic research facility overrun with three genetically modified super - intelligent sharks. as his resonant words reach their crescendo, a poorly rendered cg shark leaps out of a nearby pool and devours him .
the good bad movie genre is not easy to define. the line between so - bad - it’s - good and so - bad - i - left - the - theater is quite thin; taste is subjective, and what one person finds to be amusingly bad others may consider plain bad. the emergence of parody movies, meanwhile, raises questions about how integral artistic intent is in giving a film the good bad label. therefore, following these three rules is a solid, efficient way to determine whether a movie is good bad :
there must be a pervading sense that those who made the film thought what they were doing was great, or at least good. good bad movies have minimal self - awareness. here are two examples that may help explain this sentiment: (1) macgruber is not a good bad movie, it’s a tribute to good bad movies, and (2) fast five is not a good bad movie, it is a movie that intentionally wades into ridiculousness (and then manufactures a reaction similar to the one a good bad movie elicits naturally) .
george finn, “carl racki”: my agent told me that they were looking for a villain for a hockey film. i said no at first. but then i thought about it and ended up auditioning. once i got there, i felt really good about it. i read some lines, and peter markle and (producer) pat wells actually liked me. markle: george was a decent player in junior. casting brought him in. i loved his look, and he handled the part well. he never acted before in his life, and i thought he did a really great job .
gbs: 462. 2 rt: 39% dobbins: say the words
roller coaster scene
to any woman in her 30s and you will understand the role this film played in a generation’s sexual awakening. it is a truly preposterous two minutes: the awkward, lifetime - y glances between mark wahlberg and reese witherspoon, the sundays’
wild horses
soundtrack, reese’s li’l ’90s kilt, and also the part where the roller coaster’s down - swoop is used as a clumsy visual metaphor for an orgasm. i’m so embarrassed, but also it’s important — that’s what this list is about, right ?
however, long before dean has his bloody showdown with this darth vader of the rink, we' ve lost any real rooting interest in the outcome. it' s no wonder the national hockey league has refused to have anything to do with the movie. the film not only depicts more sustained violence than the worst nhl slugfest, but proudly displays dean preparing for his big grudge match by pummeling a punching bag and a getting a few brawling tips from his father. it also has - - perhaps to make lowe' s skating look more realistic - - more slow - motion sequences than any movie since
the wild bunch .
eric nesterenko, hockey co - ordinator & “blane youngblood”: swayze wasn’t a bad skater, but lowe couldn’t skate, so we set him up with a figure skater. she got him to stand on his skates and go from point a to point b without looking too bad. they basically shot him from the waist up. markle: we had a couple doubles for rob: scott macpherson and randy walker. scott was a fantastic player, totally ambidextrous. randy didn’t shoot the same way as rob, but he was a perfect - looking double. scotty could shoot both ways, and that helped. don biggs, patrick swayze’s hockey double: patrick and i had to tape our skates, shin pads and stick blades the same so that they didn’t miss a beat when they flipped from me to him .
gbs: 1, 151. 6 rt: 11% gruttadaro: this one’s tough, because it’s pretty hard to laugh at anything hulk hogan–related anymore. but it’s a great example of both cheesy ’80s action and a recurring miscalculation in the movie industry that maximum fame in one field will translate to the big screen seamlessly. (it happened with the rock too .) despite his starpower in professional wrestling, hulk hogan turned out to not be a fantastic film actor, though it is fun to watch him jump through the roof of a limousine, or feign shock (or is it anger? or maybe amusement? how does one propose i read this scene ?) over making one henchman poop his pants .
rl: well, first of all, it doesn’t look like any other cbs show… and i don’t mean that as any sort of judgment. it’s just unbelievably unique, it’s gorgeous, and it looks like a film. you know, i went from doing something that was very original, sort of subversive, and specific in its voice— the grinder —and loved every minute of it, but having done that, i was anxious to do something that had more broad appeal and to embrace the good things about that. because there’s good things about both. and to your point, medical - genre shows have been around forever, they will be around forever, and i think this is a great iteration of the next generation .
mark irwin, cinematographer: when producers would come to toronto, in those days, you actually had to apply to work on a film. the night before my interview, there was this giant blizzard. on thursday morning, there was four feet of snow, and the whole city was shut down. no one called me to cancel the meeting. i couldn’t drive there, because they hadn’t plowed the streets. so i walked in the snowdrifts, which were up to my waist. i got to the meeting and nobody was in the whole building except for peter, (associate producer) mark allan and myself. i got the gig because of that meeting but also because peter was impressed that i braved the snow .
gbs: 3, 425. 6 rt: 17% gruttadaro: in 1999, will smith was the biggest movie star in hollywood. by then, kevin kline and kenneth branagh were already oscar winners. salma hayek was salma hayek. what could possibly screw up a movie featuring those heavy hitters? turns out, a gigantic mechanical tarantula. wild wild west is an epic misfire with overly bombastic special effects and next to no coherence. watching it now, it may be the film that is most capable of eliciting the question ,
what were these people thinking ?
but all of that chaos — bearing witness to such an utter failure in filmmaking — makes for quite a fun viewing experience. plus, the will smith–sisqo collab that accompanied the movie ,
wild wild west ,
is an iconic banger .
i somehow did miss out on this one in my youth and has managed to stay clear of it since. a weirdly fascinating film in spite of all its flaws. one of its bigger weaknesses is the way the actual hockey games are shot - almost all in slow motion - which therefore doesn' t just emphasize on certain aspects or sequences in the game, but makes it look like they' re playing really slow. in addition to that i think we find every cliché there is to be found in such a story, friendship between rivals, proving one' s worth to the hard - as - nails coach (and father) (and brother) (and the coach' s daughter). and to top it all off, really fine dialogue like this: «you can learn to punch in the barn, but you gotta learn to survive on the ice. » like i said, weirdly fascinating .
gbs: 116. 5 rt: 37% victor luckerson: a great bad movie is full of semifamous actors / celebrities — often referred to as
that guy
— who immediately seem worse off for having appeared in the film. tokyo drift is full of such revelations. main character lucas black is that guy from friday night lights and the wonderful world of disney movie flash. the dude he races at the start of the movie is that kid from home improvement (not jonathan taylor thomas, who is too ’90s - iconic to be
that guy
). black’s high school buddy is that guy from mediocre early - 2000s rap, also known as bow wow. and the movie ends with the ultimate cameo — vin diesel, that guy from the original the fast and the furious! before it could become a blockbuster action franchise, f & f had to devolve into b - movie schlock. watching fame - adjacent actors muddle through the franchise’s critical and commercial nadir is one of life’s great joys.
youngblood is a 1986 american drama sports film directed , co-produced , and co-written by peter markle , and starring rob lowe , patrick swayze , cynthia gibb and is also keanu reeves ' second film appearance . 
youngblood is a 1986 american drama sports film directed, co-produced, and co-written by peter markle, and starring rob lowe, patrick swayze, cynthia gibb and is also keanu reeves' second film appearance.
youngblood is a 1986 american drama sports film directed, co-produced, and co-written by peter markle, and starring rob lowe, patrick swayze, cynthia gibb and is also keanu reeves' second film appearance.