Welcome to yet another zany podcast episode dedicated solely to shooting-the-sh!t about a classic hockey movie! This time we discuss the 1986 film "Youngblood" with Justin Peterson of The Average Joe's Movie Club Cast.
This is largely forgotten 80s film is truly a product of its time: drenched in sweat, synth-music, and montage sequences. It is basically "Dirty Dancing" and "Flashdance" on ice. Homoerotic, melodramatic, and starring a trio of beloved Hollywood hunks—Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, and Keanu Reeves—this has all the makings, even 35 years after it premiered, to be a sleeper hit and a sudden cultural phenomenon.
Its heyday will come, we are sure of it! No, it's not a masterpiece. But it's pretty damn entertaining, and hilariously horny too. And thats why its renaissance in the cinematic zeitgeist is due to arrive. When? Who knows! Maybe this episode get the puck flowing...
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