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Shirleon and Melvin travel back a whopping thirty years to summarize The Mighty Ducks, the early 90’s hockey trilogy-starter! What a throwback! From simple-yet-compelling characters to an outright scumbag of a villain, The Mighty Ducks sure offered a lot to discuss! Tune in now! Quack Quack!
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 31-minutes discussing the dynamics of nostalgia. We discuss its dictionary definition, how content like Urban Exploration is cultivated around nostalgia, and how nostalgia isn’t always a yearning for things in our own childhood. We also discuss some Bible verses that speak into the dangers of over-indulging nostalgia rather than mere acceptance of its experience. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- Shirleon reveals a groundbreaking insight into the hit 1992 hockey movie The Mighty Ducks… does Gordon Bombay have a house?
- The start of the movie has a weird, sped-up, slapstick heavy sequence that seems out of place. Shirleon proposes a clever re-write.
- Melvin wonders if most sports movie villains were based around infamous high-school basketball coach Bobby Knight.
- There’s a subtle thread throughout the film that Gordon, after the loss of his father, is still struggling to grow without a father figure, and for the film’s sake is in between two options: Coach Reilly or Hans.
- Talking about how 90s and early 2000s fashion is so in right now.
- That odd moment where Charlie asks Gordon to pursue his mother.
- The entirety of the third act, most notably the film’s climax, is a great, simple, and accessible depiction of recovering from past trauma. It’s clever!
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The Mighty Ducks is Rated PG for mild language. It features Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer, Joshua Jackson, Elden Henson, Shaun Weiss, M.C. Gainey, Matt Doherty, Brandon Quintin Adams, J.D Daniels, Aaron Schwartz, Garette Ratliff Henson, Marguerite Moreau, Jane Plank, and Jussie Smollett. Directed by Stephen Herek. The Mighty Ducks is available here.
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