Goon
2011 filmWikipedia
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Search complete. 33 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Goon".
Oct 15, 2026
Steve StebbingHOST
And I like Michael Dowse, like I always have, like Michael Dowse as a filmmaker.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Oh, yeah, I l- I really like Goon.
Steve StebbingHOST
Yeah.
Steve StebbingHOST
So, uh, that...
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
it loses steam it starts hot loses steam like it kind of goes idle because you know i don't know how much people know about the the stunt but it it just never really went off with the driver and so it like let me pop all the names here and like who all the characters are but yeah so Jay Baruchel's in it.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
It's directed by Michael Dowse, who also did Goon.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
Goon's one of my favorite movies.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
I think it's incredible.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
And Baruchel's playing, what, Ken, the mad Canadian carter, a legendary cross-eyed Canadian stuntman.
Courtney SmallGUEST
Yeah, it's one that I know a lot of people wanted to see, but then I didn't hear, like, after the screenings, like, the kind of buzz I was expecting to hear from it.
Courtney SmallGUEST
So that makes sense.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
Because Goon rules.
speaker_0HOST
I mean, well, if Travis is here, he would have definitely screamed Mighty Ducks.
speaker_0HOST
Goon? You ever watch the movie
Sean JordanGUEST
Goon? I have not.
Sean JordanGUEST
Sean William Scott.
Sean JordanGUEST
Before the word got, like, what's the word? Not...
Sean JordanGUEST
Appropriated.
Sean JordanGUEST
Yeah, I think that's right.
Sean JordanGUEST
Goon, Sean William Scott.
Tom PowerHOST
Anyway, the film was written and produced and directed by the Canadian director Michael Dowse, one of our finest filmmakers.
Tom PowerHOST
He's made movies like Goon, It's All Gone, Pete Tong, The F Word, and Fubar, a big Canadian cult movie.
Tom PowerHOST
So The Stunt Driver made its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Tom PowerHOST
Michael Dowse calls this film his white whale.
Christy LemirePANELIST
Uh, Jay Baruchel's from Montreal.
Christy LemirePANELIST
Uh, Michael Dowse, who directed this, also directed Baruchel in Goon, which is a really great hockey movie.
Christy LemirePANELIST
There aren't a lot of great hockey movies, and that's also extremely Canadian.
Christy LemirePANELIST
So there's a lot of affection for the '70s and Canada, and just what a larger-than-life figure this guy was, and just, like, the clothes and the hair.
JoshHOST
Well, Regardless, that's also coming out.
WillisHOST
Who directed Goon, for those of you who might remember.
WillisHOST
That's, you know.
WillisHOST
Oh, yeah.
Daniel BaptistaHOST
[laughs] I wore it for you.
Daniel BaptistaHOST
Um, and yeah, Michael Dowse, you know, he's made some awesome films over the years, A Goon being one of my all-time favorites.
Daniel BaptistaHOST
It's just, uh...
Daniel BaptistaHOST
Yeah, and it's hockey season starting up.
Shahbaz SiddiquiHOST
Would love that.
Jay BaruchelGUEST
Well done.
Shahbaz SiddiquiHOST
Uh, Michael and Jay, obviously you guys worked together on Goon, which was one of my fucking favorite movies ever.
Jay BaruchelGUEST
Thank you.
April EtmanskiHOST
So kind of like funny things kind of ensue from that.
April EtmanskiHOST
But there's still like a lot of like serious moments of like shootouts.
April EtmanskiHOST
And there's some fun fight scenes, but there's some martial arts in this.
April EtmanskiHOST
But it is a little bit more of like a kind of a pow pow movie than that.
April EtmanskiHOST
And the police are also horribly inept in the movie as well, which made it also very funny.
April EtmanskiHOST
I was laughing consistently, but it is kind of like a thriller, dark comedy.
April EtmanskiHOST
visually i thought it looked stunning lots of beautiful rich colors the score was also great uh like towards the beginning i was almost reminded of like stravinsky um this kind of like beautiful classical score and like you know you can you you do like feel bad for like this main character uh because like he doesn't really know what's going on but he's trying to kind of do his best and I got the impression that he suffered from a brain trauma for injury, and that's why he has this memory loss, because he seemed to kind of be haunted by this previous case.
April EtmanskiHOST
I would absolutely recommend this movie.