Miracle (Widescreen Version)

Review
It is a fun and entertaing movie . And its message to never give up is inspiring.

very good
very good

Every Young American Should View This Movie!
Every American student should have to watch this movie….middle school-age U.S. history class would be appropriate. It shows the true American spirit in so many ways, something we should all strive for: setting aside our differences, opening up your sights to the bigger goal, coming together as ONE to meet a challenge, and of course, hard work and perseverance can pay off. But mostly, it teaches us all that the little guy surely CAN compete against the well-established behemoth challenge. It requires guts and the strength to go the extra mile to do it.I was fortunate enough to see this USA hockey team in reality back in 1980 and to feel what every American was feeling at the time of the USA vs. Soviet Union hockey game. I am from Minnesota, and a University of Minnesota Gopher fan. Many young men on this team came from the Gopher team and Herb Brooks was an awesome coach. So I had an additional interest in this team. I swear, the energy of every American was with the USA hockey team when they went up against the Soviet team after the devastating loss a few weeks earlier. We all realized it would be a miracle if the USA team could even keep the score close! But as USA had been moving up in the medal rounds…..we all felt like it might be possible. I recently watched the original game to compare to this movie. The last 10 minutes of that game were excruciating to watch…..I think all of America was praying for Jim Craig to keep Soviet pucks from entering his net! 10 minutes is a long time in hockey to hold a lead. As exciting as it was, the camerawork was quite boring back in those days. I am impressed with how this movie was made…..it was made for those who did not witness the original game, as well as for those of us who did. It was made to make everyone who is watching this movie FEEL what we all felt that day…..hope, intense anxiety, extreme excitement, and the purest joy when the USA team won that game. One reviewer said it was a good thing we know how that game ended or he would have had a heart attack! Well….yes….we almost all had heart attacks that day when they won that game! We thought our hearts would beat right out of our chests that day. I will never forget it. And I cry like I did in 1980, every time I watch this movie. Kudos to the actors, especially Kurt Russell (his best movie), the real-life hockey players who were hired to act in this movie, the cameramen, and the director for making this game as exciting to watch as the original.

Still waiting for a Miracle…
The Cold War, a 40-year pi$$ing contest between the world’s capitalist and socialist superpowers came to an end in 1991 with more of a peep than a bang. And be thankful for that. We flushed money down the toilet building up a nuclear arms race to epic fail proportions. And then came the gas shortages, unemployment, the South American Contra affair, hostages in Iran, Soviets in Afghanistan, and everybody still reeling from Watergate and Vietnam, the world was just having a bad hair day (but compared to the last 3 years I’d say it was a walk in the park).Then the Olympics rode into a little upstate New York town called Lake Placid, and something earth shattering happened. No, it wasn’t Armageddon. It was a hockey game. And the good guys won! USA! USA! USA! And the NHL is barely a blip on the American pro sports radar compared to the NFL, NBA, MLB- hell even the PGA gets better airtime! But that’s not the point, 20 collegiate nobodies managed to convince an entire country that we can do anything… provided that we had a coach to play mind games and beat our a$$es into the ground 95% of the time.Herb Brooks was a unique individual. This grandfatherly man who knew the Latin scientific names of shrubbery was a terror on the college hockey circuit. He was also its best coach. Reading like a Greek tragedy, this Minnesotan tempest in a whirlpool bath was the last man cut from the gold medal winning 1960 Olympic hockey team. In short Herbie had a sick bone to pick with USA Hockey. Meanwhile behind the Iron Curtain, the USSR having picked itself up from the ruins of WW II, the mighty Red Sports Machine produced hockey teams that would sweep every Olympic gold medal and nearly every world title from 1964 on. Herb Brooks got his most ardent wish and got a shift for USA Hockey profiling all the “right” players over the “good” ones to challenge the Soviets.Now I was a bit leery when I saw the Disney logo plastered all over the trailer. The last thing we needed was some Mickey-Mouse-tooth-rotting-happy-go-lucky-afterschool-special-behind-the-scenes-REHASH of 1980 USA hockey. I also wasn’t confident of Kurt Russell’s (he’s from Massachusetts- OH THE IRONY!) ability to portray Brooks, especially since he died after the completion of principal photography. Then I saw two interesting things: 1) PG-13 rating- OOH! Adult Disney! 2) A TRUCKLOAD of hotties! Disney got the 16-25 female range in their crease (because if you saw the original team pic, the real guys weren’t so… photogenic). But it was kismet for angry pucknuts since the NHL 2004-’05 lockout left a bad taste in their mouths, so they got themselves a gold medal cookie to nibble on for Miracle’s 2/6/04 premier. And it was a success.I can’t give this flick 5 stars because I felt (along with other angry fangirls- NOT PUCKBUNNIES!) that Miracle contained false advertising. All those wonderful scenes with the team you see in the trailer and extras were left to rot on the cutting room floor. I know the story is ESSENTIALLY about Herb Brooks, but it took 20 special guys to make this miracle happen. With the exception of Eddie Cahill (who is a dead-ringer for a twenty-something Jimmy Craig who was a good looking man… from the right angles) all those guys were hockey players (and Billy Schneider IS Buzzy’s son). So Disney if you’re going to double dip with this Blu-Ray crapola, you’d better get together with Gavin O’Connor for surgery and splice those scenes back in! I’d like to know a little more about Rizzo, Mac, Jimmy, O.C., Bah, Buzzy, Silky, Rammer, Jannie, Coxie, and Magic, because their stories are worth the $22 you want to steal from me. Besides, the fanfics are lacking.

Si toi aussi tu Adore les histoire vrai et le hockey alors ce film est fait pour toiVraiment bien rien à dire

there aren’t i lot of movies that can bring a tear to my eyes but this one certainly did. Kurt Russell was at his acting best ihighly recommend this film