Eddie the Eagle Movie w/ Hugh Jackman

[V]

Oh man, I might have to watch Cool Runnings now.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Don't forget about T-shirts. I remember the weather was so warm we wore t-shirts to the ski-jumping.

Yelling "Tastes Great... Less Filling..." back and forth with 60,000 others was fun too.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by polak

Not a single #### was given.

Not to ruffle any feathers, but I think the liberties they've taken are fine. For the climax of a movie I don't feel there's anything wrong with making the setting look a little more awe-inspiring. Calgary is a great city, but unless you're looking west I'm not sure I'd call it pretty. Perhaps they filmed the entire movie in Europe and the budget wasn't there to transport filming to another continent?

[Flames89]

I didn't realize Eddie the Eagle is played by Taaron Egerton of Kingsmen fame

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by Russic

Not to ruffle any feathers, but I think the liberties they've taken are fine. For the climax of a movie I don't feel there's anything wrong with making the setting look a little more awe-inspiring. Calgary is a great city, but unless you're looking west I'm not sure I'd call it pretty. Perhaps they filmed the entire movie in Europe and the budget wasn't there to transport filming to another continent?

Ski Jumping is a religion in Europe and they have some pretty epic, awe inspiring jumps in some locales.

I have no problem either.

Me:Hey! There's a movie about Eddie the Eagle!
Co-worker:Who?
Me: Eddie the Eagle. The ski jumper from Britain.
Co-worker:<blank look>
Me:From the Olympics?
Co-worker:<blank look continues>
Me:You were born and raised in Calgary... remember? The '88 Olympics?
Co-worker: I wasn't even born yet.

[Fuzz]

lol. Instant "I feel old" comment.

[getbak]

Less than 2 months until the 28th Anniversary of the Olympics. So, realistically, anyone under ~35 is unlikely to have any real memories of the Games.

The march of time sucks.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by getbak

Less than 2 months until the 28th Anniversary of the Olympics. So, realistically, anyone under ~35 is unlikely to have any real memories of the Games.

The march of time sucks.

Can confirm. The only actual Olympics memory I have is a fleeting glimpse of myself in the mirror wearing a red/white Petro Canada jacket (for kids) holding of those candles with the red plastic cups shaped like the Olympic Torch/Calgary Tower before a parade downtown? Might have been inside the Suncor building.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Can confirm. The only actual Olympics memory I have is a fleeting glimpse of myself in the mirror wearing a red/white Petro Canada jacket (for kids) holding of those candles with the red plastic cups shaped like the Olympic Torch/Calgary Tower before a parade downtown? Might have been inside the Suncor building.

My mom was one of the volunteers, I think she still has the jacket as well as one of those candles with the red Olympic cup thing on it.

[Fuzz]

I'm 36 and remember holding the torch in Canmore, as well as being in the opening ceremonies at the Nordic Centre. My mom was a volunteer with the British team(she's British) and after the games was invited back to Britain to spend some time with them, she even go a picture of her with Thatcher in the background as some event.

I also remember that they got 3 tickets to the closing ceremonies, but took my brother because he is a year older, so I got to sit at my aunt's place and watch it on TV. Still bitter about that one...But we did go watch ski jumping and some ski events at Nakiska, which i remember as well.

[Ashartus]

At one point, my dad (who is from New Zealand) got a call asking if he wanted to try out for luge; apparently they didn't have a lot of winter sports athletes and were looking for New Zealand citizens living in Calgary to participate in some of the events. He was too old but we did get to go watch the tryouts. I'm almost amazed there weren't more Eddie the Eagle/Jamaican bobsled type stories if there was much of that stuff going on.

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by getbak

Less than 2 months until the 28th Anniversary of the Olympics. So, realistically, anyone under ~35 is unlikely to have any real memories of the Games.

The march of time sucks.

Yeah, I'm 30, and only vaguely remember attending some ceremony (medal ceremony?) at Olympic Plaza, and holding one of those red cup candle things.
My dad was a volunteer though, and still has the jacket/toque/gloves.

I don't remember seeing Eddy the Eagle compete, but I grew up at COP in the winters, so they always had looping tape from the Olympics on the TVs in the lodge.

[polak]

My parents only knowledge of Calgary was from the Olympics when they and their friends blindly decided to move here. I wasn't born yet.

[craigwd]

Saw this the other day.

Decent flick, nothing really exceptional about it but it's a nice feel good story. Story is pretty formulaic and it's almost a copy of Cool Runnings. If you go in without expectations you'll be entertained.

As for the actual details, about 98% of it is bunk.
Really the only accurate details are that there was a ski jumper from Britain named Michael Edwards and that he had American coaches. They even skewed how the actual competitions work but whatever.

But there are some good scenes with Matti Nykanen and some real footage of the opening and closing ceremonies which was nice to see. They even included Frank King's speech at the closing ceremony.

[Harju]

I noticed at the end of the trailer Eddie was jumping with the tips of the skis spread. It seems to me at the time of the 88 Olympics the style was to keep the skis parallel underneath the body.