SLAP SHOT

10) Slap Shot
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Depending on your movie buff level, you may never have heard of Slap Shot, particularly if you're the kind of person that collected action figures at the turn of the century. Fans were confused -- why would Todd McFarlane make these figures from a comedy that a lot of people either forgot or never heard of? They would eventually go to the clearance rack, but it turns out there really was a good business reason to do them-- it gave Todd the chance to show professional sports teams the level of quality they could put into an officially licensed sports figure, which we'd start seeing at the end of summer in 2001. But at the time, this was a baffling choice when put against monsters of music, film, and the comic book world. Today, the bloody variants of the brothers Hanson go for a good chunk of change, so perhaps they weren't that horrible.