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Old 12-17-2015, 06:46 AM   #1824
Mike F
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lol wow they didn't even try to make that accurate.

The location looks nothing like COP or Calgary. They're using new skis with the new Rossignol logo and the real Eddie Eagle says that only "10-15%" of the story is accurate. So he was British and went to the Olympics?
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Definitely not COP.

The trailer makes Calgary look like it's in the mountains, not near it. There is a mountain behind the olympic ski jump.

It's like they were too lazy to even google a picture of how the ski jumps looked like!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Calgary circa 1988, as envisioned by Matthew Vaughn:
Of all the things I'd care about when judging a sports movie, whether the depicted venue looks like the actual venue might be at the dead bottom of the list.

The Eddie the Eagle story doesn't exactly hinge on the scenery behind the ski jump when filmed from the bottom looking up.
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