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Point Break is an awesome fucking movie
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:33 AM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Ending leaves a bit to be desired but the rest of the movie is incredible
Somehow I had never seen it before. Really uplifting and enjoyable film |
Date: July 25th, 2026 12:47 AM Author: excitant grizzly fat ankles toaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023001) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:48 AM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023004) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:51 AM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Tfw you've slowly drifted away from all your ride or die bros and you only have a couple left
Should have just died at age 27 when we were all still together |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:52 AM Author: Light exciting kitty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023011) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:52 AM Author: excitant grizzly fat ankles toaster lesson in there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023013) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:52 AM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023014) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:02 AM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023045) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:02 AM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023046) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023374) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:15 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023616) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:36 PM Author: razzle irate brunch the foot chase through venice is better than any 100 million dollar cgi stunt in any of these "blockbusters" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023435) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Cr
The part where he jumps out of the plane without a chute was legit awesome imo. Really captured the spirit of the movie |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023555) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy I somehow didn't see it coming at all. I assumed he was gonna grab another parachute that was in the plane to go after them. When he just jumped I was like holy shit fuck yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023651) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:36 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023661) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:20 PM Author: Azure gunner the dialogue from the van scene is too. shouldve gotten both keanu and swayze oscars. the bank scene is too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023626) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:22 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023627) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023641) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: Bateful orchestra pit Lori Petty was 10/10 in that movie and then never did anything else worthwhile and shortly turned into a freak show. Point Break is the perfect movie and endlessly rewatchable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023545) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: Light exciting kitty TFW no 90s tomboy-lite harem anime existence of Lori Petty and Natalie Imbruglia fighting for my attention (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023556) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Azure gunner same with the dumb bitch from top gun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023624) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:22 PM Author: Light exciting kitty “Women, actresses especially, are 180” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023628) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Azure gunner its actually shocking how badly actresses turn out. theyre totally fine until like 40 which is way more time than normal men/women get and then ljl. the woman who played marcy in married with children was actually very attractive albeit with a dyke haircut and turned out the same way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023633) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023636) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy She wasn't my type but she's the kind of woman who I can tell that other guys find her really hot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023642) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Light exciting kitty 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023643) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: Azure gunner i was in my 30s before i realized princess leiah was supposed to be attractive. as a kid she just looked like an ugly old woman to me. she was early 20s at the time i believe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023645) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:33 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Yeah she was a mid Jewish broad. Basically all women under 25 are fuckable if they're not fat or completely busted. But she definitely wasn't "hot" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023649) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Azure gunner cr she made lori petty look like helen of troy (the one from homer not the nolan one) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023653) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Light exciting kitty Lol’d at the parenthetical, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023665) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Light exciting kitty 90s kid me wanted a Princess Leia and/or Princess Portman mommy gf, 00’s teenager me thought they’re cute but too high maintenance, 10’s me realized “haha wow holy shit Jewish women are 180” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023652) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Azure gunner an emily ratajakowski mom if you will (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023655) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:36 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023662) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023657) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023689) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Boyish frisky abode jew This thread sucks because (as is typical for xo) it misses the forest for some stupid trees. The film is a classic because of Patrick Swayze period. He owned the role and was the most underrated actor of our time. If you discuss the movie without mentioning his contribution first and foremost then you suck imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023650) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Light exciting kitty Swayze and Keanu in their primes were an off the charts dream team, CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023658) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Feel free to start the glazing circle jerk, Champ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023687) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Light exciting kitty “I understand and wish to continue” 🐶 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023688) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: Boyish frisky abode jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023782) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50024269) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 6:15 PM Author: yellow unholy station keanue was weirdly good too but you are right, without swayze's well tuned performance and antihero charisma, it doesn't work as well.
other poasters are also correct that this is an off-label james cameron movie so of course it's good. cameron's fingerprints on the really well shot action scenes are obvious. combining the cop moving tropes with the surfing and other 'extreme sprots' type action was a good capture of the cultural zeitgeist of the time. it has aged really well and is like a cultural document of the early 90s. |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50024270) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:51 PM Author: Boyish frisky abode jew Cr
"cultural document of the early 1990s"
To me it's always been Point Break and Heat
Is there a 3rd movie on this level from the 90s? |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:53 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029731) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:56 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Independence Day imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029740) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:01 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029758) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:18 PM Author: mauve fragrant hall roommate Armageddon is in the running. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029805) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:26 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029842) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy This is even better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029855) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029857) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:55 PM Author: cracking crackhouse James Cameron was involved behind the scene imo. It’s basically the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein of Film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023716) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:56 PM Author: Light exciting kitty 180^180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023717) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 2:57 PM Author: Light exciting kitty I get his attraction to Kathryn Bigelow and his current wife, but who the Eff finds Linda Hamilton attractive I don’t get it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023719) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 3:08 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Go on. I need more Curation on this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023742) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: cracking crackhouse James Cameron was executive producer and was married to Bigelow during production. Iirc Cameron claimed last year that he wrote Point Break and had been stiffed by the Writers Guild. Iliff acknowledged that Cameron and Bigelow created the production draft and that Cameron added major material, including Utah jumping from the plane without a parachute. The WGA nevertheless awarded Iliff sole screenplay credit. Cameron and Bigelow performed surgery on Iliff’s production draft from Rick King’s story concept. Bigelow “directed” it in the way that Women direct things. Patrick Swayze supplied the soul. Keanu supplied whatever Keanu supplies. Then lightning struck and the thing got up and surfed. That is what I mean. Imho the Film’s escalating action structure is Cameronian af. Film has many of these disputed creatures, e.g. Poltergeist is credited to Tobe Hooper, but Steven Spielberg originated the story, co-wrote and produced it, and was extremely active during filming iirc. Cast recollections and production accounts have kept the “ghost director” question alive for more than 40 years.
Percy Shelley, btw, demonstrably edited Mary’s manuscript and contributed language. There’s hard liberal arts evidence he wrote like 5-10% of it anyway. But don’t get Mary Shelley mixed up with Harper Lee who probably couldn’t even spell “mockingbird” imho. |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Soul-stirring stage therapy Interesting. I'm willing to believe this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023838) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: Azure gunner theres literally no way a woman was in control of the production of point break beyond maybe casting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023937) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Bateful orchestra pit This is an aha moment for me. Thank you for sharing. She directed this like Courtney Love wrote the early (good) Hole songs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50030717) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50024271) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: infuriating potus Its an underrated Film. The remake was retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50023844) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50024273) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: Mint twisted corner The novel that it is loosely based on is also 180. Tapping the Source. Surf noir (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029874) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: Light exciting kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50029892) |