goon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456635

goon is a movie about one thing: relationships.  and winning.  and sticking up for your team.  and how youth and strength can beat out old age and treachery. and how it is ok to be a creepy stalker if the stalkee turns out to be into it.  there was some hockey in there too, but this is not a movie about hockey. I do not think anybody makes movies about hockey because it is a lot cheaper and easier to just film some people playing hockey and call it a game.

there is one scene in this film that somewhat haunts me. it is the one where the old dog and the new dog meet in a diner in the middle of the night and talk about what they do for their teams. "if my team needs me to bleed, I bleed." that scene. it bothers me a lot that the old dog starts with the attitude that his team only values him for his ability to bleed and then switches to blind subservience to the good of the team by the next scene. serving the team is important, no doubt about it, but failing to understand that the team is not itself a thinking thing which gives a rat's ass about you is just naive. it takes very special, very specific training and focus before you can start thinking about your team that way without being completely wrong.

so anyway. between that and the creepy stalker thing, goon earned itself one Angus-the-creepy-stalker doll.