Point Break: A Beautiful Film

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?

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

Spencer Chow, yes we do.

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.

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)

Patrick's Roadhouse! DO YOU SEE??

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

Hmm, this is a tough choice for me.

"yeah so is my johnson"

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

Wonderful

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

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

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

"takes it off with his shoe.."

What?

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

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

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

once again:

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

;_P

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

:-)

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

wow never noticed that patrick's roadhouse thing.

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

also best gary busey movie

no wai... that's Lethal Weapon

rhinosaurus?

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

He may sport the only cool mullet in cinema history.

Keanu is so good. But nothing will touch his role as a French Canadian goalie in Youngblood. Nothing. What's that line? "He's like fucking an animal" or something?

rhinosaurus?

-- gabbneb, Friday, August 10, 2007 3:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

busey seems to pronouce it like that

plus iwas too lazy to google the correct spelling

I'd never seen this until last night, when I specifically rented it because I was so ashamed at this missing link in my knowledge of the world. And it did not disappoint. When I saw John McGinley and James LeGros in the opening credits I knew I was in good hands. Thumbs up to all the aforementioned lines, the smart casting of Lori Petty as Love Interest, hott bromance. And maybe I've just been ruined by today's editing, but I found all the action sequences really coherent and exciting, esp. the foot chase where teh Swayze just runs through peoples' houses all Ferris-style, picking up dogs and throwing them at Keanu, leaping fences, whatever it takes.

wow never noticed that patrick's roadhouse thing.

-- pisces, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:11 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

seen point break 700 times and roadhouse like twice but still O_O

I will endeavour to share this fact with everybody I meet in future.

p.s Gonna watch this tonight.

This movie used to be on TV at least once a month back in the 90s, kind-of like Zoolander. Thank god for Fuse, I almost forgot it existed.

"Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna PADDLE to New ZEALAND!!"

Anthony Kiedis being shot in the foot is my favourite moment in this film. Presumably where he found the inspiration to hop around on stage like a cunt for the past 20 years.

i saw this for the first time recently and was pretty much amazed

the smart casting of Lori Petty as Love Interest

haaaaaaa

NO ONES BIN OUT AND NO ONES GOIN OUT, DEATH ON A STICK OUT THERE MATE

is my fave line

"you can't just call time out and stroll back to the beach when things aren't going your way"

my fucking pb memory: i returned from work in like 1992 to find my roommate again planted on the couch watching this rental for the nth time. we were at the "i hate you on sight- go ahead say something" stage of roommate-dom. bag and coat in hand, i looked at the tv, looked at him, rolled my eyes and blurted "o god. that patrick swayze, he's soooo dreamy."

boom! he vaulted from semi supine clear over the back of that couch in a nano second and was in my face with the "what the fuck you wanna go blah blah blah."

good times, good times. but, he has better taste in movies than me.

haha that's a funny story

100% Pure Adrenaline, bro. you can hardly blame him.

well, the homophobia underlying the event grates on me as i think about it-- i may as well have said "omg you are such a fag about patrick swayze"! but the story is offered as to pure spiteful button-pushing, and its object is clearly not to cover either of us in glory.

i'm sure this film has perpetrated lots of homoerotic tension btwn roomies

Time for a revive.

I have never forced even the most skeptical person to watch this movie who didn't freakin' love it.

Kem Nunn ought to be namechecked somewhere in this thread. They ruined his book, but in a totally awesome way.

the curse of co-starring in a 1991 film w/ Keanu strikes again.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Point Break (1991)

will Alex Winter be next?

love this movie so much

Never saw this (and don't need to) but a cousin did upon its release, and described it, and the ending sounds like the coolest ending ever

No, you need to. You really need to.

This movie was to my gang's post-pubescent ideas about the world what Star Wars was to our pre-pube ideas.

Luke Skywalker vs. Johnny Utah!

pre-pube ideas. - dude, gross.

sockish, even.

Or else clever.

Oh to be young, dumb, and full of cum.

it's not so much cum as it is 100% pure adrenaline!

Bodhi: [getting ready for their next robbery] 90 seconds Johnny. That's all I ask for, just 90 seconds of your life Johnny, that's it. This is our tatic, is we strike fear. Once you get them peeing down ther leg, they submit. Also about fear, fear causes hasitation, and hesitation, causes your worst fears to come true.
[hands Johnny a shot gun]
Johnny Utah: I can't do this.
Bodhi: Yes you can, who knows, you might like it.
Johnny Utah: Bodhi, this is your fucking wake-up call man. I am an F, B, I, Agent!
Bodhi: Yeah, I know man. Ain't it wild? That's what makes it so interesting. You can do what you want, and make up your own rules. Why be a servant to the law, when you can be it's master?
Grommet: Fuckin' a!
Nathanial: I love this job.

xp 100% pure cum!

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Point_Break/point_break_movie_image_patrick_swayze.jpg

RIP,
King-Like Bodhisattva.
Suffer no more.

Thanks for the good times.

One of my fave films. I have it on DVD and will probably watch it again soon. RIP dude, you were fucking hott and sweet.

No better thread to post this stuff. I recommend turning the sound down for this first one, because the music is entirely inappropriate to how truly fucked up this wave is. I love the shot where the wave grabs the dude by his head and flips him like a cartwheel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWNVpVjY2A

The music on this one is pretty dope. RJD2. It's just a little bit mournful, so you remember that YOU CAN DIE DOING THIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gJtUd0tH48

This one is goddamn poetry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362l3VIpSPI

This movie was to my gang's post-pubescent ideas about the world what Star Wars was to our pre-pube ideas.

I hope you all get out of jury duty.

Watching this tonight in honor of the man.

On iPlayer (UK only I guess)

http://bbc.co.uk/i/dtjjp/

A Beautiful Film

"I caught my first tube today... Sir."

lol Keanu

cool, do iplayer often show full movies? or is this a one off.

First time I've noticed a full movie. It was a good way to kill an afternoon off work.

Fantastic. I've never seen this film, but have thought for a long time that I need to.

It pretty much lived up to it. God bless you BBC.

:)

You crossed the line. People trusted you and THEY DIEEEED.

YOU GOTTA GO DOWN. THAT'S THE WAY IT HAS TO BE.

(That's what she said, etc.)

"I KNOW YOU WANT ME SO BAD ITS LIKE ASS IN YOUR MOUTH"

how could Johnny have been so sure that Tyler wasn't in on it, and why wasn't he under protection once his cover was blown?

There's so many holes it's not worth seriously thinking about them. It's a movie, a ridiculous movie at that. This is not a bad thing.

Next Of Kin, lest we forget

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), Thursday, May 8, 2003 9:22 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

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

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

ha that post kinda rules

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

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

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.

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.

Kenan thanks for those youtube links. Shipsterns..

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

the best thing about the movie IMO.

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

watched this thanks to the action movies thread, so good

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

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

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

Ha, James LeGros is in both versions.

wat why

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

where the fuck are the chili peppers

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

aging out of their youthful unattractiveness

xp

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Coincidence???

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

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.

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

Usher as Sugar Ray Leonard in the Duran movie yoo

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

xxpost extreme scripting

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

i think my first mobile phone was an ericsson core btw

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

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

ha! i forgot about the projectile pit bull.

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

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.

that was a first-rate chase

and yes it is deeply stupid, but not pernicious

(unless yer a Buddhist perhaps)

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.

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

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

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

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.

Release date: 30 years ago today

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?"

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.

That's how you know they mean it.

such beautiful, boldly chosen nonsense

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

point breeeaak forevverrr