Sunday, March 6, 2016

18.) Eddie the Eagle [3/2/2016]

I don't care if the movie took giant liberties with the source material, this was a fun movie about a fun person who participated in a fun sport.  What's not to like about a middle-class guy breaking all the rules and willing himself to Olympic glory?  I also developed a lot of respect for Taron Egerton, who could have turned down the role of Eddie Edwards as it was not the sexiest of roles (and nothing like The Kingsmen, which is where I discovered him).  Eddie the Eagle was this generation's Cool Runnings, complete with tutting, all-white European rivals; down-on-his luck coach, and a moral victory in the place of any actual victory.

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