Maurice "Rocket" Richard movie (or another thread that will only interest Canadians)

[De Lorimier]

Damn forum crash!!

I went to the movies last night to see Maurice Richard. It covers the life of the Rocket from his teenage years in the 30's through the forties and ends with the riots of 1955.

It's awesome.

Numerous real-life hockey players have small parts in the movie. Vinny Lecavalier plays Jean Béliveau, Stéphane Quintal plays Boom Boom Geoffrion,
Mike Ricci (a face for the big screen if there ever was one) plays Richard's linemate Elmer Lach. Mathieu Dandeneault played the infamous Hal Laycoe.

Sean Avery plays a NYR goon called up to destroy the Rocket and ends up getting knocked out three times in a row! Really good stuff considering Avery's recent comments.

The movie will be released early next year in english Canada, go see it if you like hockey and if you care for history. It's really, really good.




That being said, one of the joy of watching movies in theaters is the previews.

One of them was about movie coming out in the summer of '06 and is called Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Montreal: With Bon Cop/Bad Cop, Montreal producer Kevin Tierney (Varian's War) is hoping to unite Canada's two linguistic solitudes at the box office. Touted as the first time a Canadian film will be "completely bilingual," the murder-mystery and cop-buddy flick will attempt to ride the current wave of success in Quebec's film industry across language lines.

A Park Ex Pictures/Sortie 22 Production to be released next summer by Alliance Atlantis, Bon Cop/Bad Cop is the brainchild of popular Quebec actor/comedian Patrick Huard. The story starts when a corpse is discovered lying halfway between the Ontario-Quebec border. A sophisticated Ontario cop (Colm Feore) teams up with a hardened Montreal lawman (Huard) to solve the crime. This, says Tierney, will allow for both the action and the comedy that the cop-buddy genre film demands.

Tierney doesn't deny he has high hopes for the $8.1-million production, slated to complete its 33-day shoot in Montreal on Nov. 1.

"Quebec has been doing very well lately, in terms of attracting large audiences to the cinemas," he notes. "We want to get English Canadians in to see this movie as well."

Upping the Canadiana quotient, the officers eventually learn that the crime is hockey-related.

"If there are two things French Canadians have an opinion on, it's hockey and English Canadians," says Tierney. "If there are two things English Canadians have opinions on, it's hockey and French Canadians."

Sounds like a very good synopsis for a movie. Who knows? Maybe Canadians will actually go see a canadian movie for once?

 

[sysyphus]

Yeah, that does sound pretty good DeLorm, I'll definitely go see it, though I'll probably have to drag my wife kicking and screaming.

I hate your dirty filthy rotten team, but The Rocket deserves the respect of hockey fans of all stripes, even Leaf fans can love him.

 

[De Lorimier]

That respect will only grow after watching this film.

Tell your wife it's also a love story.

The Rocket even cries!

 

[Goonie]

I saw the previews, and was hoping I could find a theater here in Kingston that would play the french version so that I wouldn't have to wait.

 

[pboily]

This movie certainly explains why hockey is so rooted in our cultural identity, why we bleed hockey (even though some of us have evolved past rooting for the Habs).

 

[Xshayathiya]

any movie where sean avery gets knocked out is good in my book. (but then again, thats all LA games as well )


PS Go Nucks Go