Posted on 05/27/2015 1:50:17 PM PDT by Drew68
In 1991, what appeared to be a serious movie was released by 20th Century Fox, a serious movie studio. The movie, “Point Break,” featured two serious movie stars, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. It was helmed by serious talent Kathryn Bigelow, who would become the first female director to win an Academy Award (for “The Hurt Locker,” in 2008). It cost serious money — $24 million — and made very serious money, grossing more than $80 million dollars. And now, it’s getting a 100 percent serious $100 million remake, the trailer for which was released Tuesday (here).
Yet, “Point Break” was transparently ridiculous.
Plot: Reeves is Johnny Utah, a curiously named FBI agent who must go undercover as a surfer to infiltrate a gang of surfer-bankrobbers led by Swayze, a.k.a. Bodhi — short for bodhisattva, an enlightened being in Buddhism. Though it is Utah’s mission to apprehend Bodhi, he falls more than a little in love with the man, who robs banks wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, and his pseudo-Zen lifestyle.
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Over at IMDb.com I don't see a "Taylor" role in the new film. The first female lead is "Samsara" played by Aussie stunner Teresa Palmer (who definitely qualifies as "eye candy").
Yes, Lori Petty was woefully miscast in the first.
Love Point Break and Road House. I will stop and watch anytime I’m channel surfing. Got to say the same about Matrix.
“And I’ll watch it until the end when I come across it on TV. One of my guilty pleasures. “
I’m that way with Roadhouse.
Only in Hollywood can you create crap and get rewarded for it.
We need to look at the greatness of this film as it is remade. The waves will be 100 times higher due to global warming. Which means that wave at Bell’s Beach will be like 5 miles high.
They obviously will need an African American character who can wear the Obama mask. Can Will Smith surf?
Just to name drop,I got to meet Tony Curtis shortly before his death, and he said be did the movie Taras Bulba only because of the climactic scene in which Yul Brynner (his father) shoots him through his armored breastplate.
Point here being I don’t think the author appreciates that Pointe Break it’s a silly movie but the iconic scenes stick with you. Whether they make sense or not.
I like the movie and have seen it several times, but the philsophy espoused in the movie is simply self indulgence. Sex, drugs, rock n roll, surfing/skydiving and armed robbery to support it all. Nothing to admire in that, at least from a Christian perspective.
I doubt if the remake will be as good as the original.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHPIPcX3W0
The Keanu Reeves school of acting.
They better not be north korean bank robbers this time around.
“Will they shoot their guns into the air and yell “Arrgh!?”
Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air? “
“...what was the second most painful...?”
KYPD
Check Out This New Photo Of Jeff Goldblum From The Set Of ‘Independence Day 2′
You had to do that. Ugh. What were they thinking??
The first movie was entertaining, but kind of retarded, which means that the remake is going to be SUCKTACULAR.
Any remake of Independence Day would be an improvement.
In other words, it was brilliant.
The movie stays with you in a way that others don't.
Maybe it was the president masks.
Funny thing, but there's even less from a Zen Buddhist perspective. It makes the writers as stupid as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda believing the central message of Buddhism is "Every man for himself".
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