George Roy Hill Dead at 81 :(
 

Damn

The director of the greatest hockey movie of all time "Slap Shot" died from Parkinson's

He also directed "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" and "The Sting".


Total bummer

i heard that. sad. he also directed "the world according to garp". sigh

Slapshot the movie has mythical status in Canada and cult status in the USA. It is a great movie. The three guys who played the Hanson Brother still 25 years later make a living being the Hanson Brothers.

Always hoped they'd do a sequel. They did but it was a straight to video piece of shit with Gary Busey. At one time John Candy had the rights for the sequel.

Butch Cassidy also good.

RIP George Roy Hill.

man people are dropping like flies and as the Baby Boom continues to age it's going to be like one long funeral march of rock stars, actors, athletes............

Slap Shot is amongst my all time favorite movies. I remember it being one of th first movies I watched when we got this new fangled thing on cable called "HBO" I was just a kid and the language shocked me, but even as a kid, I laughed my ass off at this movie. Other than the fashions, this movie hasn't aged much at all in the 25+years it was made.

Yeah, Slap Shot 2 sucked balls in a very very very very bad way.


I also liked "World According To Garp" I saw it as a young teen and didn't "get it" but watched it years later and it seemed to make it better since I "got" a lot more of the humor and human touches.

I wasn't overlyimpressed with "Slaughterhouse Five" but that's a motherfucker of a book as it is, but I'd love to have seen Kubrick give it a try...the only current director I think could do that book justice would be Terry Gilliam.

yeah. vonnegut is hard to put into film. gilliam might do a good job with his stuff. i would love to see him do something with cat's cradle.

I was checking the GRH thread over at www.aintitcool.com and had forgotten that he also directed "A Little Romance". That movie caused me to have a major crush on Diane Lane as a youth...and a great, understated performance by Lawrence Olivier...