Dave Hanson runs the hockey program at the RMU Neville Island sports center in Pittsburgh. Great dude and he still embraces the role that made him famous.
YES! Good, old-fashioned blood sport. When life was better, calmer, and happier than today. Of course, we DID live under a constant fear of "World War 3" but, remembering it as a kid, I'd rather take those times over this one.
@@mikefarley5358 Wasn't just mine. They're pretty much all in on it. Not shirking national shame, just saying, there's plenty of Shit Sandwich for everyone.
@@calanon534 And all because of Russia fighting in some backwater shithole.... I wish the world would just forget this shit is even happening and just go on.... We didn't bat an eye for any of those middle eastern countries wars, why is it different now? Oh right because the attacker is no longer the USA
I've seen the new digitally enhanced version and I think the quality is better then when the original came out. And yes, "Dave's a Mess" gets me very time, no matter how many times I watch this classic!
I love them sitting on the bench in the locker room as Paul is looking at them considering. They look like pet dogs staring intently at their owner waiting for the "Want to go for a walk?" line before freaking out.
I did that after watching this movie as a kid. lol I only caught three guys. And got a light penalty from it. The other team did not seem to mind for whatever reasons.
Let's see here... 1) good clean hit 2) good clean hit 3) no slash, was going for the puck 4) goalie dove 5) played the man 6) perfect hipcheck 7) skated into the net, momentum carried his stick into opposing player 8) fanned on the pass, accidently hit other player 9) ref was in the way 10) played the man and recovered the puck 11) players shouldn't have been leaning over like that 12) clearly a dive 13) simply cleared the puck 14) bullshit calls by the ref
I'm french-canadian and this movie was so darn popular with my hockey-obsessed people, bacause it was one of the earliest english-speaking movie that was actually translated BY and FOR French-canadians, accent and all. Everything else was translated into "whole wide worldly french" way back then.
I met the Henson's in the 80s at a charity hockey match.....they had the whole getup on and spent a ton of time with us youngsters.....love old time hockey!
Then later on the organist is practicing with a helmet on when Paul Newman rips up his sheet music. Also that organist plays for the Seattle Kraken now...
I had a chance to see the "Hanson Brothers." They came to the hockey team in my city. My team isn't NHL, but I didn't want to go alone. If there's a next time, I'm there
I remember Newman talking about his many years of making movies, but this one made the biggest smile. I think, this one movie was so outrageously fun to make that even a super star actor like Paul Newman had to laugh his arse off about hockey. These nuts did live like this on the ice. Who needed to act, it was real.
+Chip Chipperson I agree, love the movie, but when the organ player takes a shot to the dome its classic. think of the casting for the movie, his only part in the movie is taking a head shot,hey kid we will give you 50 bucks to get blasted.
I remember watching this as a kid with my Dad. We must have watched it 100 times together. Reading the comments is like him whispering in my ear. God it makes me laugh! Good times....Great memories!
I think Reg Dunlop is one of my favorite and most underrated Paul Newman characters of all time. He inhabits the character’s life in the same manner as Hud and Cool Hand Luke but also displays his comedic chops, which I wish he’d done more in his career.
Possibly in the hundreds here. I have it on DVD. Still almost piss my pants watchin this. One of the best scenes in the movie. Also, " I'm listening to the fuckin song"!!!!!!!! Gets me every time.
I'm 53 years old. Been a lot of places, met a lot of people. My college room-mate at SUNY Brockport in the late 1980s was a hockey player in high school, and played rec at Brockport. He was about 2 years younger than me. One day I mentioned 'Slap Shot', and he told me that he had never seen it. Even if he was not a hockey player, knowing his personality and sense of humor, I was absolutely shocked. We rented the movie. Watching this exact scene with Doug is the hardest I have ever heard a human laugh in my entire life. I didn't think he would make it.
One of the greatest movies ever made. The Maxine Nightingale song "Right Back Where We Started From" plays about 5 times, loved it. The Hansons, Paul Newman, Ogie Ogilthorpe all great!
Notice they are great skaters. This is part of what makes the scene great - they are legit players. Fun Fact: Steve Carlson (#17 of Hansons) was Wayne Gretzky's roommate for one year when they played for the WHA Edmonton Oilers.
Great Movie. The Director, George Roy Hill was at his prime. He also directed 'The Sting', and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Slaughterhouse 5,' in the same decade. This is a superb movie from an elite director at the height of his prowess.
I think that montage is supposed to be multiple shifts, as the brawl is actually the fourth stoppage in play shown. Not likely a shift would be that long.
1.32 " KILL EM, KILL THE BASTERDS" hahahahahahahahahahahaha, the quietest guy in his office until he pops down to the local rink to watch his fav team.... hard core hockey supporter!
"Oh, I'm telling you, Broome County is just visibly upset by this display. Come on down, we've got places for the home games. Bring the kids! We've got entertainment for the whole family."
For all the brilliance of this scene and the hits, the moment when the Puck rattles the head of the organ player cracks me up. I don't know why it's so funny, it just is. "Dave's a mess" and "how much do you expect a man to take? What are you running, a god damn dance floor" are superb lines around the chaos.
I often watch high school sports in South St Paul, MN where hockey is king. A few years ago I was watching a girls soccer game where it started to get a bit physical. The referee started blowing his whistle a bit too much for me and the fans. Some folks may not be aware but girls scholastic soccer is actually more aggressive and more physical than is hockey. Because of that I screamed out "Sir, this is football, not a dance floor!" Folks at the game knew what I was referring to and it got quite a few laughs. In the end, our team won by a large margin and we all went home as happy as could be. ⚽️
That's why they were my favorite team. In the early 80s when I played as a teenager, I got into a lot of trouble for playing the body all the time. Oh well, I had great teachers.
Erik Valdur Went to a NJ Devils game in the '80s & thought it was violent. Oh no the guy I went with said, you have to see a Ranger game. Come to find out my dad who was an Ironworker lent a bullhorn to a co worker going to a game. Surprise guess who was arrested. Oh the good ole days.😊
@@samanthab1923 that's great. I grew up in Joisey but always liked Philly. Went to many a devil game. I liked Philly before NJ even had a team. Yeah, Philly was probably the worst ,or best depending on how ya look at it. NJ and NY ( Rangers at least) were right up there too. Basically back then east coast hockey was playing the body, ugly but very effective. West coast hockey was fancy skating, finesse stick handling etc...
Saw this with 7 friends when it first premiered in 1977 and in a hockey town of my beloved Broad Street Bullies, the Philadelphia Flyers, who had won two straight Stanley Cups in 1973-1974 and again in 1974-1975. Being a kid at the time, playing hockey and learning to play defenseman made 'Slap Shot' a really fun and wild film to watch with my friends. Everyone was cracking up all the time. During the entire film, the movie crowd was falling out bursting with loud laughter - especially when the Hanson Brothers showed how 'Iron League' hockey is played. Still my Number #1 sports film of all time and there's been some great sports films over the decades, so that's saying something.
“Slap Shot” always reminds me of games when the Baltimore Skipjacks traveled to Hershey to play the Bears………one attended a fight and hoped a hockey game would break out.
This was like getting the band back together-movie from "Cool Hand Luke"...Paul Newman and Strother Martin together again since 1967! My favorite from the Hansons was them beating the crap out of the Coke machine, "...machine took my fuckin' quarter, coach!" Hilarious!!!
I want to see the scene when they are listening to the National Anthem and the referee goes to one of the brothers in the middle of the song and warns them about their behavior. Then one of the Hansen brothers yells, "I'm listening to the 'effen' song."
Wow man you actually heard that we all heard that I can't believe you get 212 thumbs ups for just repeating a line that was just said I mean wow people are so fucking dumb these days is that meteor ever going to hit the Orson start the extinction of mankind you know I just want one week to run unlock and Rob pharmacies and you know just go out into the woods and get completely wasted on pills and die on my own terms with my cats cuz we're all going to die anyway eventually wants that thing hits and it's what we deserve as a species so
They were just waiting patiently with enthusiasm towards the whole team, just to hear coach give them the go ahead. Legends were unleashed and the ice turned blood red that night. HANSOOOOOOOOONS !
I'm biggest hockey fan since I play hockey when I'm 10 thur my high school year and this movie is the best funny picture ever seen before thank Paul Newman you did for the fan
What a great clip! Don’t forget the Hansons playing with electric race cars on the road and hotel. Coke machine took my quarter! Best ever hockey movie!
My best friend who passed from covid complications in December absolutely loved this movie. He met the Hanson brothers several times over the years when our hometown Griffons would have them make an appearance. Don even wore those obscene black rimmed glasses when he played sports 🤣 Hanson's forever!!
I was 15 and in a league when this movie came out. Two days after some idiot tried the stick across the bench move. Backup goalie saw it,coming grabbed the stick as he went by and the team dragged him over the boards.
If somebody actually tried that then yeah I don't care if they got crippled how stupid can someone be that is so oh my God that that was even to dump her movie what is this supposed to be
@@ChrisJones-pi5mh he was trying to say it was a piss poor movie about hockey that gave ideas to others to try in a real game, which likely ended up in the player being pulled over the boards and beaten senseless for trying it.
"These guys are a fucking disgrace!" Exactly. Boy do I love them! The best scene here is when all three of them give the business to #12, all at the same time. Lord that makes me laugh every single time when he keels over, lifeless. I played as a youngster, and the hitting was so violent because you're flying on those skates, and if you didn't see it coming to protect yourself, it was lights out. Playing ice hockey was like Christmas:. Twas better to give than to receive ;) The Hansons should've played 60 minutes a game! 1:48
I was born in 1996 and I grew up ive lived in Minnesota all my life so I've grown up with and all around hockey. My dad and my uncles talk about the Minnesota NorthStars and how hockey could get very violent. I have two books on the NorthStars and I also met Lou Nanne, and Neal Broten. And Slapshot is a classic for sure it came out 19 years before I was born and its still hilarious. I have the second and third slapshot but I never seen them lol. Good old hockey
The best part of this? After it was all over, after hooking the goalie, dumping the ref, and concussing the organist, was Dunlop getting in the ref's face and screaming bloody murder about self defense! "Don't you expect a man to take anything? What are you running here, a goddamn dance floor?" They say every joke has to have a punchline, and Newman capped off all that hilarity with the best punchline ever!
The organist getting a concussion=causing blow *was* self-defense! You had to hook the goalie! He was going to cause some **** to go down! Give it to these boys...they were being defensive. :)
There are great moments in films that everyone always mentions - "You're gonna need a bigger boat", "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn", "These are not the droids your looking for", but one "quote" that everyone knows but can't repeat is the ice hockey stick slapping every opponent in the face as he skates along the ice in front of the booth. Whoever thought that up deserves a platinum comedy award as I snort-laugh every time I see it, and I've seen it a LOT of times. Amazing film never given the respect it so richly deserves.
