Canucks & Beyond
Next entry: Welcome Back, Michel
Previous entry: Goodbye, Michel
Canucks: The Movie
by Alanah McGinley on 11/04/08 at 11:13 AM ET
Comments (7)
Iain MacIntyre at the Vancouver Sun:
They’ve made you laugh and made you cry, given you hope and left you despondent, enraged and uplifted you. You love them. You hate them, but never for long. You could probably live without them but can’t imagine the deprivation.
The Vancouver Canucks are the longest-running melodrama in our city, as indispensible as they are exasperating. Next Monday, after 38 years, the Canucks take their story - your story - to the big screen at theatres around B.C.
The National Hockey League team is releasing a feature-length documentary entitled Forever Faithful - The Canucks Movie.
Movie trailer and more below:
The documented life of Canucks fans and their relationship with their team… and it’s not a horror movie. 
The film will be shown in theatres for just one day from the looks of it, then I think we can guess it’ll be on DVD just in time to slip under the Christmas tree.
And will Canucks fans buy it? Good god, will we ever…
The film was commissioned by the Vancouver Canucks and was apparently another brainchild of the team’s scary-smart president, Chris Zimmerman. Seriously, this guy is so good at sports branding and making money, I’m stunned every day that he wasn’t scooped up by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Anyway, truth be told this kind of sports documentary is exactly the kind of thing I really enjoy. The fact that it was filmed during a season that came to such a bad ending—missing the playoffs—is unfortunate for the team’s marketers but I think that’s what makes it perfect.
After all, if you’re going to make a doc about the culture of Vancouver hockey fans, a season that ends in disappointment and trauma is probably the perfect dénouement.
Filed in: vancouver canucks | Canucks and Beyond | Permalink
Tags: canucks+movie, chris+zimmerman, forever+faithful, hockey+fans, media, vancouver+canucks,
Comments
Perfect choice of song, must watch insanity. I like the mother listening to a game on the radio while at her child’s baseball game.
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 11/04/08 at 12:48 PM ET
At the 1:00 mark, I thought that guy was about to toss his kid in celebration of the goal.
Pretty smart move like you said, Alanah.
Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 11/04/08 at 12:53 PM ET
I enjoy the Naslund “struggling with my identity” clip. Rock solid dude.
Personally I enjoy being retired two weeks ago and now having a movie to “us”. Any more of this and I may get some sort of ego complex. Or, more simply, a complex.
Posted by Yankee Canuck on 11/04/08 at 01:15 PM ET
I would love to be able to see this in the movie theatre - no fair
the DVD will definitely be my christmas present to me though
Posted by Sarah from England on 11/04/08 at 04:40 PM ET
I just found the rating on this thing: G.
* Two scenes depicting sports injuries.
Forever Faithful The Canucks Movie does not contain violence, coarse language, nudity or sexually suggestive scenes.
Dammit. I guess that’s the price you pay when Mark Messier isn’t featured…
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 11/04/08 at 04:45 PM ET
Apparently I was in the movie (Michael Meyer of Bombo Sports & Entertainmen ‘phoned me a few months ago and sent me a Model Release form).
I was at a PPV game showing in the theatre when some guy with a video camera asked to interview me. That’s not the sort of thing I’m comfortable with- I get the deer-in-the-headlightsitis when a camera is pointed at me. I hope that I didn’t make a complete fool of myself.
Posted by Steve from Nanaimo BC on 11/11/08 at 04:38 PM ET
Add a Comment
Please limit embedded image or media size to 575 pixels wide.
Add your own avatar by joining Kukla's Korner, or logging in and uploading one in your member control panel.
Captchas bug you? Join KK or log in and you won't have to bother.
Most Recent Blog Posts
In Defense of Dany Heatley (sort of)
Sedin’s Agent Not Optimistic About a Vancouver Deal, but is Anyone?
Mike Keenan Joins the Canucks?
GM Place Keeps its Name; Disaster Averted
What’s Trevor Linden Been Up To?
Sundin Positioning Himself For a Job
About Canucks & Beyond
Alanah McGinley has been blogging hockey since 2003, sharing opinions, rants and not-so-deep thoughts with anyone who will listen. In addition to writing Canucks & Beyond and helping manage Kukla’s Korner, Alanah is one of the founders and co-hosts of The Crazy Canucks Podcast, as featured at Canucks.com.
She has contributed pieces to FoxSports.com and the New York Times Slapshot blog, as well as other stray destinations in cyberspace.
Email:
Alanah’s Twitter: Not really hockey-ish. [LINK]
Other Canucks Blogs
This just rocketed to the top of my Christmas list.
Posted by Greg from Atlanta on 11/04/08 at 12:25 PM ET