Episodes
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Ep. 41 - Jerry Maguire
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
The 41st episode of Scoring At The Movies is a looooong look at a rom-com-football…fantasy? Yes, Jerry Maguire is a fantasy. We explain.
Cameron Crowe’s legendary picture is romantic and funny (big score on the rom-com scale, in fact), but it’s also a bit tragic. After all, Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Rod Tidwell might have a shorter shelf life than the movie wants to admit. Plus, Jerry and Dorothy’s already unbalanced love affair might not have the happy ending you think it does. We explain. But, man, let’s get back into the smiley spirit of the season and rejoice in the lovely time at the movies Gerald Maguire is!
Tom Cruise has pretty much never been better, Gooding deservedly won an Oscar and Renee Zellweger is terrific too, but Regina King & Bonnie Hunt STILL manage to steal the movie. You’ll hear just how much the AFI loves this one. You’ll hear us jam in a lot of Simpsons quotes. And you know what? We'll explain some things. Complete us!
Pedantry Alert: Craig Stadler is NOT the golf coach in an early scene and the talk show host is Roy (not Rod) Firestone. Also, Jerry’s first “hello” greeting at Dorothy’s house happens when he walks in on the Divorced Women’s Group the first time. Also also, Candice Bergen is the host who closes out the “100 Years, 100 Passions” AFI show, not Geena Davis. And finally, Beau Bridges plays Matt Cushman. A Thought While Editing: Does Jerry learn ANYTHING? An injured hockey player should probably be told to stop playing and the player’s kid shames Jerry about it. Then we see throughout the movie that Rod should probably stop playing because of repeated concussions, but Jerry negotiates a big contract ENSURING Rod will play another 3 years…and maybe have serious C.T.E. when he retires.
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Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Ep. 40 - Miracle
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Our 40th episode of the Scoring At The Movies podcast goes back to the 1980 Winter Olympics as we gab about one of the greatest upsets of all-time, in one of the best pure sports films we’ve covered yet: Miracle!
We dug into the world-shaping issues of the late-’70s, problems that went way beyond USA v USSR on a hockey rink. Both of us also watched the actual “miracle” game on YouTube, so we were able to spend plenty of time comparing what’s portrayed to what really happened. The hockey action is vividly done by director Gavin O’Connor and the acting (led by Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks) is as good as it needs to be. After all, most of the players were athletes more than they were actors.
So jump on the bandwagon, but play like a bunch o’ commies (we’ve got a hot take on that!) and hear us tongue-wag about Miracle…again…again…again…
Pedantry Alert: Mario Lambert was Montreal’s coach and Ronald Corey was the team’s president when Patrick Roy said he’d just played his last game for the Canadiens. Also, plenty of other Soviets from this dominant USSR team other than Vladislav Tretiak are in the Hockey Hall Of Fame. Also also, just to be clear, Wayne Gretzky was an executive for Canada’s ’02 Olympic team, not a player. Also also also, Mark Johnson scored 2 goals in the miracle game, not a hat-trick (Buzz Schneider and Mike Eruzione scored the other two).
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