The Discerning Texan

I finally got around to renting "Miracle"  last night.  My God, what an magnificent and inspiring film...  For the unwashed, "Miracle" is about the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team, a team of college players that over a six-month period was molded by fire into a team that defeated the best hockey team the world had ever seen, the Soviets.  That "fire" was personified in the coach of the US team, Herb Brooks (played wonderfully by Kurt Russell), and the story is as miraculous today as it was then.  I never thought I would be doing a movie review for my blog, much less doing a review of a DVD movie--but if this film doesn't give you chills, go vote for John Kerry: you aren't Bush material.  And, because this week we are going to be seeing enough faux patriotism from Boston to make any American sick to his/her stomach, I thought it apropos to highlight something that really does engender a feeling of what the American dream really is all about.  Miracles do happen.  You will find yourself thinking that this film must be using every Hollywood gimmick in the book (and also will find yourself not even caring...), but as you dig a little deeper into the history of what really did occur, you will find that almost every event seen in the film actually happened.  Finally, don't miss the rolling credits at the end to the tune of Aerosmith's "Dream On": as the credits roll, underneath the name of each for US Hockey player, you see what they have accomplished since 1980.  Really misty-eyed fist-pumping stuff here.  This is a must-see film. Check it out.  Grab some kleenex, some popcorn, and get ready to feel really good..