Episodes
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Ep. 37 - Lionheart
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
How disappointing. It’s Halloween today and this movie was supposed to be frightening(ly bad), but it’s actually…almost bloody good fun. That doesn’t mean Lionheart, or is it “Lyon’eart”?, isn’t without a great many flaws. We touched on plenty of those with vim and also vigour.
Jean-Claude Van Damme does okay work in the leading role and the AWOL’er is suitably handsome & chiseled. JCVD is also the blonde-babe-avoider, the prude who would rather kick people and stalk his family than relax and make out with JR’s secretary. We have a theory as to how he could resist this sexy and oh so willing woman.
So hit that button to hear episode #37 of Scoring at the Movies justify how this is an MMA movie (stop arguing, it kinda is)! But don’t forget that at the 43-minute mark, as we segue into our favourite horror flicks and our most horrifying scary-movie moments.
Pedantry Alert: We said that JCVD is “playing a French guy”, but of course everyone—including us SATM’ers—knows he’s from Belgium (as in, “The Muscles From A Certain City In Belgium”), not France.
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Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Ep. 36 - Eight Men Out
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Place your bets on the 36th edition of Scoring At The Movies. Or maybe just listen to it and don’t bet at all because gambling is what got these guys in trouble in the first place.
Eight Men Out is the authentic but somehow also fake-sounding dramatization of the fixed World Series from 100 years ago. Sometimes it feels just right and sometimes it feels like they want to jam all that old-timey straight down your piehole, whether you bushers want it jammed down there or not.
Chris sets the record straight about some of the facts of this era (especially about the Black Sox trial), while Ryan brings up an old pet peeve: the steroids v. gambling comparison. So get in your third-sacker stance (ugh) and hear our straight dope about John Sayles’ morose baseball picture.
Pedantry Alert: Bull Durham came out in mid-June 1988, so it was not REALLY released “in the spring”. Also, the 1920 White Sox roster was indeed mostly the same, but 1919 was the last season of Chick Gandil’s nine-year career. Also also, it’s more accurate to say that Babe Ruth hit more home runs by himself than most teams did in 1920 when he hit 54, not in 1919 when he hit 29.
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Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Ep. 35 - Slap Shot
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
The 35th drop in the Scoring At The Movies bucket slugs its way into a hockey comedy that stars Paul Newman: Slap Shot!
Curiously, one of the greatest of movie stars is overshadowed by 3 of his fight-lovin’ co-stars. And maybe that’s fair. They’re dumb, but he’s playing their coach and he's barely smarter than they are. Everybody seems to love the Hanson Brothers and their antics probably WERE funny back in the ’70s. However, their behaviour and many of the insults shouted by a lot of the guys haven’t aged all that well. So what we’ve got is another sporadically funny cult-favourite from the ’70s in The Longest Yard mode. Rats, was hoping for better.
Anyway, drop the gloves (because there are more fisticuffs in this than in a boxing movie) and find out what we thought about this opus about the Charlestown Chiefs.
Pedantry Alert: Michael Ontkean was not the sheriff in Blue Velvet, of course, but in the TV show Twin Peaks. Also, there IS a Peterboro in New York and a Peterborough in New Hampshire, but the distance from Pennsylvania is about the same as it is from the city in Ontario, so that just strengthens our point that you don’t need to drive anywhere near 15 hours for road games in the Federal League.
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