Point Break: A Beautiful Film

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Quite remarkably, the purest action film of all time. We can guage American culture pre or post-Point Break.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Radical son-of-a-bitch" answers here.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought the scenes where Keanu gets hypnotized by Patrick Swayse's eyes were kinda gay. Not that Patrick doesn't have dreamy eyes. Or when they grab each other in mid-air.

Some choice quotes from Imdb.

Ben Harp: You're a real blue flame special, aren't you, son? Young, dumb and full of come, I know. What I don't know is how you got assigned here. Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?
Johhny Utah: [quietly] Not so far.

[Johnny Utah and Bodhi just beat the hell out of 4 surfers]
Bodhi: This is stimulating, but we're out of here.

[Angelo Pappas is aiming the gun at a surfer]
Pappas: Speak into the microphone, squid brain!

[After a long discussion about which parachute Johnny Utah should use]
Johnny Utah: You gonna jump or jerk off?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"100% Pure Adrenaline!" - still makes me cringe. it's pretty much the nu-metal of movies.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Bodhi also sports one of coolest mullets in the history of cinema.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer Chow, your comment is a very "post-Point Break" thing to say.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Remember when casting people would look at Lori Petty and think "female lead"? How weird. Female lead in a hot homoerotic surf movie, maybe. I love Point Break. Doesn't Anthony Kiedis get his ass kicked at some point? Yeah!

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't Anthony Kiedis get his ass kicked at some point? Yeah!
see, it IS the nu-metal movie!!!

and Ex-Tennis Star, we're living in a post-Point Break world.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony Kiedis and Warchild and Co. get their asses handed to them by Johnny Utah and the Bodhi-Satva. Then, Anthony later shoots his dumbass in the foot but he did survive the FBI raid at Warchild's house. Warchild and Co. never really understood the "spiritual" side of surfing.

Spencer Chow, yes we do.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd nail Lori Petty! I'd rip the crotch out of that Body Glove wetsuit.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 04:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever happened to the days when plain-jane-types Elizabeth Perkins & Debra Winger & Margot Kidder were cast as romantic leads instead of the Wiser Best Friend or Worldly Co-Worker or Older Mother Figure (or Crazy Loon, in Ms. Kidder's case)? They're casting the same guys as they did back then (sorta) (well, not really) (OK, never mind) - show the ladies some love, damn it!

I ask because I have a crush on Bonnie Hunt right now. Back off - she's mine!

This really doesn't have much to do w/ the Mary Stuart Masterson / Lori Petty / Ally Sheedy tomboy/Peppermint-Patty-as-hetero-love-interest thing, but I just wanted to mention it. Yeah.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 December 2002 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Demi Moore ruined it with G.I. Jane.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i love this film. so many quality moments.

Utah on tailing Bodhi:
"he stops off at tower records, buys some CDs, has lunch as Patrick's Roadhouse" (hawhaw!)

Pappas on meatball sandwiches:
"Johnny! Get me two!"

Nixon:
"I am not a crook"

RHCP:
"that would be... a waste of time"
"we're just gonna fuck you up"

other quality moments:
Pappas the wax expert
"one fucking hair"
"who packed my chute?" scene
"i... am an F...B...I... agent!"

i could go on forever...

"sorry jonny, looks like you don't get to be president"

(yes, i have seen this film an unhealthy number of times)

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

great dialogue...not. action movies are up there with seinfeld in their suckiness, vin deisel especially and keanu couldn't even articulate woooh, they had to redub it.

― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 19 December 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

bah! how dare anyone trash this film.

Patrick's Roadhouse! DO YOU SEE??

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 December 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Great flick. Can't say enough about it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Great flick. Can't say enough about it.

yay! let's start a self-help group, we seem to be the minority.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I learned how to do body shots with chicks from Bohdi.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Point Break vs. Top Gun????

Hmm, this is a tough choice for me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Point Break, for sure. Would Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer actually do their own skydiving scenes like Patrick Swayze. Don't forget Gary Busey's Angelo. He is way cooler than Anthony Edwards as a sidekick. Top Gun has some classic one-liners but you could turn some scenes in Point Break into songs. Edge: Point Break.

― Ex-Tennis Star, Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"well the list is long and distinguished...."

"yeah so is my johnson"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

bbbbut, the scene with "Take My Breath Away" is grebt.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where is Keanu these days? He's a bad actor, but in a way I find completely inoffensive. He's also so very cute. No matter how buff he gets, he still seems all sweet and submissive. And such pretty eyes. *swoons*

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 19 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

revive. I watched this masterpiece the other night for the 100th time. Its got it all, action, drama, whoa's, Lupton Pitman, Anthony Kiedis, Bunker Weiss and Angelo. Kick ass.

I'd nail Lori Petty! I'd rip the crotch out of that Body Glove wetsuit.

Wonderful

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

action movies are up there with seinfeld in their suckiness

I usually hate American bravado, but this statement makes me want to kick some commie faggot ass.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I would say that most action movies barely approach Seinfeld in suckiness.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

this movie and the dialogue quoted herein (esp. g-kit's) rule. i should be disturbed by the number of swayze movies i like. maybe he's the BAD (as in Paul Fussell) generation's gene kelly. i'm not sure what basis i have for his aesthetic distinction, but don't be lumping ally sheedy in with MSM (eh) or Lori Petty (meh). is californication a post-point break record?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

this film is kinda v. bad. and the acting is the worst thing about.

the "guy's waxing his mustache on the beach..." conjecture is really funny, though.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

should be "this" aesthetic distinction, not "his"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

on tv again last night. of course i watched it. I still can't get over the fact that Utah doesn't shoot The Swayze after he chases him down that waterway thingy when he's got him in his sights and stuck on the fence. I mean is it whats underneath the mask? That wet poodle Swayze wears on his head throughout the film? I mean Utah, this guy used to fuck your girlfriend and now he wants to kill her. Shoot the fucking guy.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer's right, but it's still a blast to watch. Awesome movie.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"guy's waxing his mustache on the beach..."

arf. cinematic history was made with this theory.
possilby.

"takes it off with his shoe.."

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Point Break LIVE

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

holy. SHIT.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I am DYING to see "absurdist" on-stage surfing.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Best of all, the starring role of Keanu will be selected at random from the audience each night, and will read their entire script off of cue-cards!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, and I thought the Road House musical was the be-all end-all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

argh Tom and I will be in NYC March 17 but I don't think by 8:30pm :( :( :(

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh I was so fucking crushed when that came to town and I missed it.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- I will pay money if you get there early enough to take the role of Keanu.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I WOULD LOVE TO

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I like the scene where Angie Dickenson pounds mercilessly on Lee Marvin, but it doesn't even budge him - he literally doesn't blink - and she wears herself out and collapses on the floor.

What?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i have somehow never seen this all the way through until tonight

"i would eat these out of a rhinosaurus's ass"

― latebloomer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

"I..am an F-B-I AGENT"

― latebloomer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

once again:

http://www.365halloween.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/ex-presidents1.jpg

― Eisbaer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

;_P

― Eisbaer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Expresidents.jpg

:-)

― Eisbaer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Expresidents.jpg

― Eisbaer, Friday, 10 August 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

wow never noticed that patrick's roadhouse thing.

― pisces, Friday, 10 August 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

this is my favorite keanu movie, and that's saying a lot

― max, Friday, 10 August 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 59 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

this post is the best justification ever for ILX's suggest-ban system -- what a douchetard.

― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 10 October 2009 10:43 (sixteen years ago)

I have yet to see solid justification for ILX's suggest ban system. That post is nonsense, is all.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:15 (sixteen years ago)

ha that post kinda rules

― butt sound insanity (gbx), Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

Had this outta the library for a week. Didn't watch it.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

Well, you gave yourself a fair chance to watch it. What else can you do?

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Oh wow, I didn't know Concrete Blonde was on the soundtrack.

Still, it's hilariously easy to spot the exact moments where Adam Carolla or somebody would go off on eviscerating how stupid this movie gets.

― kingfish, Friday, 27 November 2009 08:06 (sixteen years ago)

Sequel?

When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there hes recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like The Ex-Presidents, a bank robbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago.

I'm guessing this might not be quite such a beautiful film.

― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 27 November 2009 08:25 (sixteen years ago)

Kenan thanks for those youtube links. Shipsterns..

― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Friday, 27 November 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UwxGISyRSY

the best thing about the movie IMO.

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 28 November 2009 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://mypartyshirt.com/tshirts/movie-shirts/johnny-utah-jersey?track=fb

― kenan, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

watched this thanks to the action movies thread, so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVQ6Qp7DPnU

― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 04:12 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

is this the thread where we discuss POINT BREAK 2015: THE EXTREMENING?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvFAm4kYCo

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:03 (eleven years ago)

Ha, James LeGros is in both versions.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:16 (eleven years ago)

wat why

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:21 (eleven years ago)

geez i dont even like the first cheesefest that much except for the gay vibes, but really low to try this

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:26 (eleven years ago)

where the fuck are the chili peppers

― adam, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:43 (eleven years ago)

just tell us which alt-rock singer gets the shit beat out of him xpost

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:44 (eleven years ago)

aging out of their youthful unattractiveness

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:46 (eleven years ago)

well that trailer showed a bit too much didn't it, we now know how shit its going to be already

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:08 (eleven years ago)

the directors name is "Ericson Core"!

and the screenwriter (who also wrote the "Total Recall" remake) looks like this:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjI2MjQ3MDU0Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODY3NTcxOA@@._V1_SY317_CR1,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

surely this will be a masterpiece.

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:49 (eleven years ago)

i like the original movie well enough, but jesus christ on a cracker keanu reeves cannot line read.

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:50 (eleven years ago)

listen to those lines when you can look at 28yo Keanu? i didnt hear most of em.

this is the original's writer:

http://www.cinefamilia.net/images/casting/160x206/WPeterIliff.jpg

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:55 (eleven years ago)

need to work on my Ericson Core

Edgar Ramirez is a babe, obviously, but that Johnny Utah is some unknown lame-o

"extreme athletes," KISS MY ASS

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:02 (eleven years ago)

so does everyone in PB now look like Gary Busey did then?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:03 (eleven years ago)

Eriscon Core was dp on the Mel Gibson remake of Point BLANK.

Coincidence???

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:04 (eleven years ago)

man, it's getting tougher and tougher to remember how amazing Edgar Ramirez was in Carlos

― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:05 (eleven years ago)

haven't seen him in anything since except the functional role in Zero Dark Bullshit.

He's in a Roberto Duran biopic soon... with deNiro as the trainer.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:12 (eleven years ago)

that pic of the writer of the remake isn't showing up for me so i looked him up and feel it is important to share (again)

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/kurt-wimmer-premiere-total-recall-01.jpg

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:15 (eleven years ago)

Usher as Sugar Ray Leonard in the Duran movie yoo

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:17 (eleven years ago)

no Merd, mine is the ORIGINAL bandanna-and-cigar writer

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:18 (eleven years ago)

xxpost extreme scripting

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 05:35 (eleven years ago)

for all the exxxtreme-to-the-maxxxx action on display in this trailer i bet there's nothing as exciting as the sequence in the original where keanu chases swayze on foot over fences and thru alleys and houses, which remains fucking amazing

also this luke bracey guy does an amazing job of sucking the life from the screen every time he appears on it

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:23 (eleven years ago)

i think my first mobile phone was an ericsson core btw

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:23 (eleven years ago)

swayze at one point throws a pit bull at keanu, which almost makes up for zero dark

― adam, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:40 (eleven years ago)

he does! at 1:53 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=113&v=kmvXdUaUqgA

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:45 (eleven years ago)

ha! i forgot about the projectile pit bull.

as i recall that chase just goes on forever and it's great.

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:33 (eleven years ago)

watched this tonight, man I forgot how stupid the second half is. it's about on par with a 70s doctor who episode in terms of plot.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:42 (eleven years ago)

that was a first-rate chase

and yes it is deeply stupid, but not pernicious

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 May 2015 04:26 (eleven years ago)

(unless yer a Buddhist perhaps)

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 May 2015 04:26 (eleven years ago)

some of the dialogue is kind of pernicious. it's pretty much an exercise in exuberance and style, and everything else is just wasted motion.

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 29 May 2015 19:45 (eleven years ago)

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/dude-what-is-to-blame-for-the-new-point-break/

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 13:56 (eleven years ago)

scheduled to be released on December 25

this remake looks like shit but 20 y.o. me would have loved spending Christmas watching the original

is going to the cinema on Christmas Day a thing in the US? i think they're maybe closed for the day in the UK

― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:18 (eleven years ago)

read today that the rock wants to star in a remake of big trouble in little china, confirming my suspicions that hollywood is attempting to fuck with all the movies i loved as a 15-year-old

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:20 (eleven years ago)

Christmas is still a massive movie-going day in the US, as is Thanksgiving. A great way to pass a couple hours with family; nobody is allowed to talk.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:22 (eleven years ago)

six years pass...

Release date: 30 years ago today

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:09 (four years ago)

First movie I ever saw when I was high. Freaked out inside when Utah almost got his head shoved in the lawnmower.

I just googled when it was released on VHS and one of the questions google suggested was, "is Point Break based on a true story?"

― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 12:00 (four years ago)

I just caught the second half of this last night. Loling at the part where the Ex-Presidents are so radical that when it comes time to make a bonfire, they don't open the container of lighter fluid, but stick a butterfly knife in it. Seems like a terrible bonfire/great way to set yourself on fire.

― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:30 (four years ago)

That's how you know they mean it.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 July 2021 19:36 (four years ago)

six months pass...

such beautiful, boldly chosen nonsense

Lori Petty's character is as underwritten as any in film tho

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 21 January 2022 23:51 (four years ago)

point breeeaak forevverrr

― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Saturday, 22 January 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.