Point Break | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@MisterJ2300]

Hot Fuzz references this movie quite a lot, primarily when Danny has a chance to shoot his dad, but does the Keanu shoot the air and scream move

[@ManlyStump]

"No I have not fired my gun up in the air and gone 'argh'"

[@Dr.Acula76]

@@ManlyStump Ever fired a gun whilst flying through the air?

[@donaldseale2700]

I also find it kind of funny how George mentioned the paperwork when it was a similar comment that Sgt. Angel (Angle) said about it.

[@777Nny]

They're literally watching Point Break in Hot Fuzz. lol

[@waynecanning4122]

@@777NnyI know- they either totally spoiled Hot Fuzz or described the obvious to anyone who’s seen it. Either way… what a fucking dope

[@zmarko]

I was sure Simone was gonna catch Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in this movie. I base this solely on her shirt choices over the past 3-4 years.

[@Dr.Acula76]

Seriously

[@James_Loveless]

You expect too much from younger generations

[@listershat]

Very few people recognise Flea in The Big Lebowski either...

[@scottwilson3741]

I was expecting it too

[@scottwilson3741]

​@@listershator the Back to the Future trilogy

[@kurthockenbury]

Hot Fuzz is the film that showed that clip from Point Break, which it later referenced. Are you going to watch Bad Boys II next?

[@LeoGarcia2.0]

Good call. I was going to make a comment about it

[@RussellCHall]

"Have you ever fired your gun into the air and gone AAAHHHH!" PC Danny Butterman 😊

[@pokerhulk52]

Beat me to it 👍

[@claymccoy]

You haven't watched Bad Boys II?!

[@BrahmaDBA]

I still remember the Hot Fuzz reaction where Simone is just screaming because Nick Frost's character is about to spoil the plot of Point Break lol. Now you guys are reacting to Point Break, time flies.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

I remember watching the first Fast and Furious movie and thinking that movie was just Point Break with cars instead of surfing

[@fredfredburger5150]

I had the exact same thought!

[@defunctus408]

Agreed... An FBI agent infiltrating a squad of robbers who are into extreme sports...

[@tylerfoster6267]

You look it up in the video, but the skydiving scenes were achieved through a combination of two techniques: real skydiving sequences, and then scenes that used a giant air fan (akin to modern indoor skydiving facilities) so they could shoot close-ups showing the actors. If you look at the movie closely, you'll see that any shot where you see Reeves' face has the camera on the ground pointed up so you can't see the fan rig, and the shots with the ground visible so you can see they're really skydiving are naturally pointed down from above. Kathryn Bigelow understood the sex appeal of Reeves and Swayze in a way that some male directors might have ignored. I believe she had to fight a little for Reeves in particular, but she could tell he had "it." If I remember, she was the one who came up with the denim in the rain stuff to accentuate that. If you two get to A League of Their Own, you'll see Lori Petty again.

[@shanewillis316]

And Tank Girl. It's based on a comic book series. Odd, but a good movie.

[@tylerfoster6267]

@@shanewillis316 I actually had Lori Petty sign my copy of Tank Girl a couple of months ago! I only went with League because it's hard to say how a cult oddity like Tank Girl would go over.

[@476429]

And Swayze actually did fall backward out of the plane and parachute to the ground. He had to fight for permission to do the actual jump out of the plane that appears in the film.

[@donrichards271]

@@shanewillis316 Tank Girl is a blast and Lori Petty kinda kills it in the role. I got a feeling both George and Simone will love it but for totally different reasons. Especially if they get a little altered first.

[@terrylandess6072]

If you're familiar with JJ's Trek, you might know those 'skydiving' scenes were shot upside down while they stood on a mirror with wind blowing down on them. Neat trick but still a trick.

[@mojoshivers]

No one delivers, “I am an FBI agent!” like Keanu. This movie is so over the top that it’s no wonder that Hot Fuzz used it as inspiration. But it is a classic of 90’s cinema and I love it.

[@todd8398]

"I am an F! B! I! AGENT!"

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

I feel like 90s action movies in general got pretty zany, even though 80s action flicks get all the flack. Hopefully it won’t be long before they get to the crown jewel: Face Off.

[@mojoshivers]

@@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield Face Off is pretty zany, but I think The Last Boy Scout gets pretty out there-what with guns on the field during a football game, stuffed animal murder, and an ex-football player solving crimes.

[@mojoshivers]

@@todd8398 Best use of emphasis and pacing in the entire film. Lol

[@BigPat6521]

This has good and bad aspects. Like so bad its good

[@silentjay01]

I feel like Lori Petty should have been more of a household name in the early 90s given all the good movies she was in. You guys should watch "Tank Girl".

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Drugs... She got heavy into drugs after this movie, (even on the Tank Girl set) and became unworkable. (Both couldn't work and nobody wanted to hire her.) After a while she got clean. I think Orange Is The New Black was her first acting gig clean.

[@vincegamer]

A league of their own is classic, but she was overshadowed by Gena Davis - kind of appropriate though

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

She kinda was.

[@stumpy2000]

Tank Girl is part of the reason she isn't, that movie bombed hard.

[@JGComments]

Also, the girl who opened the door at the raid, she’s been bouncing around in my head for about 30 years lol.

[@javix2013]

This movie was the inspiration for Fast and Furious 1, the story is practically the same, but in different environments, where Paul Walker would be Keanu Reeves and Vin Diesel would play the role of Patrick Swayze. So we owe the Fast and Furious saga to Point Break.

[@thatguymark8381]

Remember the movie XXX (2001) with Vin Diesel? (Point Break + X Games + Bond) x Red Bull = XXX

[@brianbrown66]

Every time I see this movie it reminds me how Fast and Furious is just Point Break with cars.

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

except Keanu is awesome and paul was a child groomer

[@ThesteelLion]

Rob Cohen makes no bones about how this is the exact inspiration for Fast and Furious I'm just glad I didn't make 10 sequels that got progressively worse after 5:00

[@randolphhaddock4635]

Right down to the tuna on wheat

[@shainewhite2781]

One of the very first Keanu Reeves movies I saw growing up! RIP Patrick Swayze. He's surfing with God now. Originally Ridley Scott was going to direct this movie, but turned it down to film Thelma And Louise instead. Kathryn Bigelow was picked to make the project after producers were impressed by her action film Blue Steel starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Bigelow would be the first female director to win both Best Picture and Best Director for the action war epic The Hurt Locker.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

Most likely, dancing too.

[@thatguymark8381]

My wife and I were in Costa Rica years ago, sitting on the beach watching the surfers - making sarcastic comments about their rides "ho ho short ride, that guy sucks" etc. The next day we went for our first surf lesson and GOT WIPED OUT. I managed to stand for about 3 seconds and we agreed it was an achievement. After that our whole attitude changed, whenever we saw someone have a good ride or a bad one, we always cheered them on !

[@Dr.Acula76]

Good on you! Glad you tried and now realize it's not as easy as it looks

[@joshuahermanson341]

"I AM AN F...B...I... AGENT!!!" Greatest delivery ever!

[@marclewis5505]

Damn right.

[@korybeavers6528]

This was directed by Katherine Bigelow, the ex wife of James Cameron, she went on to direct Hurt Locker and become the first female director to win the academy award

[@kinzer1756]

I also like Bigelow´s Blue Steel although the villain is so over the top^^

[@kevinmatthew1050]

She also did zero dark thirty which is a great movie

[@jaredragland4707]

@@kevinmatthew1050 It super is! ...if you were in the intelligence community. The army guys who thought Hurt Locker was the peak of her career snoozed through Zero Dark Thirty, and well, I thought Hurt Locker was about as thrilling as warm goat cheese on cold flatbread. (still a good movie, just harder to relate to the characters)

[@EchoPenumbra]

@@jaredragland4707 as someone who spent 12 years in that community (98G/35P, C-IED and "other stuff" later), I have to agree! They're both Hollywood versions of reality for a number of obvious and practical reasons, but ZDT is much closer to the intel/ops world than Hurt Locker is to EOD. I spent a year working at "Rocket City" a few miles down the road from Camp Chapman (then called FOB Chapman) when we got the big boom in June 2012. I was still there when ZDT came out in December and less than a week later, on Christmas Day, there was another SVBIED attack at Chapman. Of course I didn't get see the film until I got back to the states but it was kind of a surreal experience after having some direct IRL context.

[@FernandoMahave]

Strange Days, too. A must.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

As an ex surfer the worst part is getting out when it's big waves, paddling out my first time when it was big and choppy by the time I made it past the break my arms had no strength left and when I sat down on my board to rest and wait for my wave my calf muscle cramped up. So embarrassing but surfers are a cool group and laughed at me and asked if I was OK. I sucked at surfing but the lifestyle and the surfer crowd are cool

[@Dog_will_hunt]

Oh yeah, I remember the cramps. I'd eat a banana every morning before surfing. For those that don't know, bananas help with cramps.

[@cleonmagabeefy8500]

Gary Busey was a great actor before his motorcycle accident... I love him in Silver Bullet and he was nominated for best actor at the academy awards for The Buddy Holly Story!!!

[@pjay213]

his story in Surviving the Game was amazing

[@McPh1741]

Roach is played by actor James Le Gros. He was in one of the best horror movies ever, Phantasm 2. That and the first Phantasm are well worth watching. Also, the naked chick that kicked Utah’s ass in the house bust was super sexy stunt woman Julie Michael’s. She’s an accomplished actress, stunt woman and producer. She played the end boss’ main girl in the Swayze movie “Roadhouse”. Her strip tease in that movie is OMG. She also helped kill Jason Vorhess is “Jason Goes to Hell”.

[@Dr.Acula76]

Never knew that was her in this one. Thanks!

[@jmhaces]

The scene where Utah recognizes Bodhi and starts shooting at the sky in frustration was referenced in Hot Fuzz. Nick Frost's character asked Simon Pegg's character if he'd ever done that in real life in the scene where he's asking him about his crazy experiences as a cop in London, then later they watched "Point Break" and that clip was shown on the TV, and finally Nick Frost did it himself when he couldn't shoot his dad after finding out he was one of the bad guys.

[@Dylan_Stockdale]

FINALLY you guys got around to POINT BREAK (1991) its an amazing film always go back to this film. Also known fact Patrick Swayze was a well trained skydiver he did about 55 takes when doing the scene when he jumped out the plane. The studio didn’t want him doing it cause their thought he would get hurt but he did it anyways.

[@Cadinho93]

The fact that Patrick Swayze was really doing those jumps is awesome, his moves during that first skydiving scene are always cool to me. Also, Keanu Reeves is probably the most humanitarian celebrity to exist. He's such a nice guy. He once met a family at an airport that was stranded because their connecting flight had been cancelled, so he rented a car and drove them home.

[@neil2444]

And you know he does that because he genuinely wants to help too. If he wanted to do it for the PR value, he'd simply throw money at them instead. Lets just say, if he's faking the humanitarian thing, he hasn't dropped the mask for *decades*.

[@McPh1741]

@@neil2444 These days, If he was doing it for PR like most celebrities or most people for that matter, he would be pulling out his phone and recording the whole thing.

[@nicolehand]

When Octavia Spencer first moved to LA, her car broke down in the middle of an intersection. A hundred ppl drive by, but Keanu pulled over & pushed it out of the road. 🥰

[@timcook6566]

Two things about when Johnny jumped without a parachute; You can clearly see that there is a backpack underneath his shirt. Bodi was casually descending with arms and legs spread to control his speed, while Johnny was in a diving position to catch up

[@randohuy9446]

I think you cracked the code, batman! Now, the next question is: NO SHIT.

[@lobachevscki]

Laughing at people learning stuff (and specially the gym example George used) is definitely more frowned upon these days than when the movie was released. It is not perfect but as a kid of the nineties I can safely say things feel better now than those days.

[@FiddlersGreen667]

For me, the core of this movie is the surfing Zen thing. Utah found a deeper, more spiritual element to his life while Bodhi had that element as his focus to begin with, but he only really felt it in the adrenaline high.

[@noneya3635]

Yeah, that's what they want you to come away from that movie feeling. Realistically however, this is a movie about a law enforcement officer giving into his baser instincts, getting his partner killed, and releasing a bank robbing murderer.

[@Harv72b]

I think this ranks fourth on the list of "100% American" Patrick Swayze movies, behind _Uncommon Valor_ (1983), the original _Red Dawn_ (1984), and _Road House_ (1989). _Hot Fuzz_ was the other movie with that scene, when Reeves fires his pistol into the air rather than shoot Swayze's character.

[@Dr.Acula76]

For me, there is only one Red Dawn

[@Harv72b]

@@Marco-vw3mv I thought about that one. It's an entirely American movie, but more in the way America _is_ (or was) vs. our global stereotypes. Great movie regardless.

[@kevinmatthew1050]

Red dawn is amazing!

[@MegaJSK123]

Something to note about the end, when Johnny lets Bodhi go surf at the end, Johnny tells him "Vaya con dios" which is Spanish for "Go with God" Johnny knew he was sending Bodhi off to die. I love the ending, Bodhi did change Johnny in the end, considering Johnny proceeds to toss his badge into the water, and continues to surf everyday.

[@garethjones6141]

If you guys enjoyed this you should really give strange days a try, a massively under rated Katherine Bigalow movie.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Strange Days is amazing.

[@crigarsha]

Not even 20 minutes into the movie and i feel like George has already had a couple of therapy sessions! Between the "learning to swim" story and "the gym shaming"...George needs a hug! 😥😥

[@MegaJSK123]

This is my favourite film. Ever. I never get tired of watching it, I'm so happy to see some reactors finally checking this film out. Thankyou so much. 😊

[@greatesthit]

Yes! Been looking forward to this since your Hot Fuzz reaction.

[@Jim-yn9rm]

Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone 'aaahh'?

[@Dr.Acula76]

@@Jim-yn9rm Ever fired a gun whilst flying through the air?

[@Waldorf-2020]

I had an uncle that was a surfer. He was riding a wave in off the California coast, and he could see people on the beach pointing at him. He thought it was because he was hot shit. All the pretty girls looking at him. As he got closer, he could hear screams, and more people were pointing and jumping up and down. He finally glanced over his shoulder to see a whale riding the wave next to him. 🐳 It was the late '70s early '80s, so they probably thought it was a shark. 🤣

[@BulletTooth504]

I figure a whale would realistically be more capable of killing a guy than the average shark. Still, that must've been pretty awesome.

[@Dog_will_hunt]

Sounds like a cool uncle telling stories.

[@wickedymike]

To George: I am afraid of heights too. Yet I have 1000+ skydives under my belt. Fear of heights never entered my mind in those moments (except once when jumping from a balloon at relative low height and having to climb the basket to jump). It really is too high for it to matter. There is also no real fear of falling which is pretty much what fear of heights is... I'd highly recommend you see it through and try a skydive (tandem is easiest). Also recommend you take Simone to a wind tunnel and do some freefall there (and document it for our entertainment).

[@kurtl8425]

My fear of heights doesn’t kick in until the ground rush at 50’ or so but it’s not that bad as at that point I’m concentrating on aiming for my landing point and form so I don’t hurt myself.

[@Patriiiiick]

I'm the same. I hate going up ladders, metal stairs that you can see through but I love really high rollercoasters and loved the one time I was in a low flying helicopter with the doors open. I'd also love to jump out of a plane!

[@wickedymike]

@@Matt_Mosley1983 Doubt all you want, but it's the truth, really up to you if you don't wish to believe it. And I got those 1000+ jumps in a period of about 6 years, mostly weekends indeed. No need for an average of just 50 jumps a year for 20 years, that would be jumping at a very leisurely pace.

[@Patriiiiick]

@@Matt_Mosley1983 I dunno dude, if i'm 10ft up a ladder my legs wobble and I can feel the very top of my sphincter squirm but a helicopter flying at 150ft in a hard turn off the ground didn't bother me bother me in the slightest. Even the tallest rollercoaster in the UK didn't bother me.

[@williamdrake6711]

I'm afraid of heights yet I use to go cliff diving... I don't like being on ladders or in high buildings but on a 50' high cliff, jumping, had no problems

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

Unloading the gun in the air at 20:43 is from this movie, but it was referenced in Hot Fuzz twice. Them watching the movie at home and when Danny had a chance to shoot his father in the back as he ran away, but he instead fired the gun up into the air in frustration.

[@inarar5334]

3 times. First is when Danny asks if Angel ever saw it, and if he ever fired his gun in the air and gone argh. Then they watch the movie with that scene. Then Danny does it himself when his dad is running from him at the end.

[@chrisgrove7829]

Ah great pick. You got Keanu Reeves first action role, Gary Busy playing a fairly normal character, and Patrick Swayze playing a pretty solid heavy:) Good times:)

[@brom00]

Can't wait for the monthly recap to hear how you forgot about Hot Fuzz while watching this. 🙂Simone, at least nine Bond films have great skydiving stunt work, including a jump of the Eiffel Tower in "A View To A Kill".

[@jhenierlopez1861]

If I'm not mistaken, Mythbusters had a chapter about this movie, it was for the scene in which Keanu jumps from the plane without a parachute and catches the other guy. It was perfectly possible because based on your body's "position" you are more aerodynamic (I assume), so you "fall faster".

[@SilentBob731]

Aside from the myriad other elements of this movie that I love, John C. McGinley delivers one of my all time favourite lines early on. And y'all almost included it. "You know nothing. In fact, you know less than nothing. If you even knew you knew nothing, that'd be something, but you don't." 🤣

[@pumkinheadfanvhsforever6087]

This was the second film Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze were in together. Their first was the 1986 film Youngblood where they played Ice Hockey players on a minor league Canada Ice Hockey team. Rob Lowe was the lead in the film(Keanu was only in it as a kinda extra with a few lines). Oh and I think part of the the reason Gary Busey was cast was due to 2 things: 1) Predator 2 had come out the previous year so he was kinda name at this point. 2) Big Wednesday(1976)! This would be a good future film to react to for Cinebinge! It stars Gary Busey, William Katt(The Greatest American Hero) & Jan-Michael Vincent(Airwolf) as 3 Surf boarders who end up getting drafted in Vietnam and follows their individual stories... KInda a decent drama.

[@Dr.Acula76]

One of the hockey movie greats! Keanu played a great French Canadian goalie and I believe he actually played in the film

[@tweak991]

While some of the surfer violence/territoriality seems comical, it does happen and was prevalent for a while on the west coast (and other areas of the world). Surf gangs were a real thing and at times pretty dangerous to non-locals. Luckily, I surfed on the third coast in Texas, lol. But there were still rules and a loose structure of where you could/should surf based on your skill. We had places called The Octagon (for a weird domed house) and The Flagship (named after the hotel that was on the pier) where the seasoned surfers would hang out.

[@lechat8533]

I love this movie, and I love your reaction :))) Keanu and Patrick look great. Thank you, Simone & George!

[@ASADragon]

My mom growing up in the 60s in HI used to surf for gym in High School. Her board was called "The Green Pickle" - it was a 6 foot board, and my mom is a little under 5 feet tall.

[@NoelMcGinnis]

It was Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz references this movie several times and shows the shooting scene.

[@TOPHOLM04]

This is such a good movie… they sure knew how to make great action movies in the 90’s

[@kinzer1756]

Yup. Another great female action movie director Mimi Leder. I hope they watch The Peacemaker. Such a ride.

[@neil2444]

20:50 The movie you're thinking of is Hot Fuzz. If you recall Danny's character in the movie had his own version of that towards the end when he couldn't shoot his own dad trying to escape.

[@bigredtlc1828]

Hot Fuzz did the shooting in the air scene as a homage to Point Break. Hilarious.

[@manzell]

I drowned in a river as a kid and later had a severe panic attack when swimming and didn't swim for a long time. I think it's worth taking a lesson again, especially as an adult when you know how to express your boundaries and such. Swimming feels so liberating!

[@danielpersson7483]

w8,if you drowned in a river then your a ghost...you die when you drown...

[@barbaralenihan7451]

@@danielpersson7483 Pretty sure he meant to say that he almost drowned, but i thought the same thing when i first read it.

[@yotuel9064]

@@danielpersson7483 Yeah, all those people that are rescued after drowning are a conspiracy. RCP it's just alien and flat earth gaslighting...

[@miriam8376]

same. swimming lessons actually got me over my fear of water. It's a comfort to know that unless I get dropped into the middle of a squall in the ocean, I'll be fine. And the squall thing just seems unlikely.

[@LaoWatsonSmith]

Well, you didn’t drown

[@TheTimGree]

28:54 Is it possible to catch someone that has jumped out of a plane? Yes; skydivers do it all the time, but you need altitude to do it. You have an easier time catching up to someone if you leave very close to when they do (like touching them close) but people can get pretty separated if there is a delay. There was a significant delay between Roach and Bhodi, so that would have taken extra time to catch up. Same thing with Johnny. All that being said, if I heard it right, Bhodi told the pilot to climb to 4000’ (I assume above ground level) to get to a “safe” jump altitude. 4000’ is not high enough for anyone to catch-up to anyone in free fall like they did. Some drop zones jump at 10,000’ while others will go up to 14’500, which may give you 45 seconds to a minute of free fall respectively, which is likely what they jumped from in the exterior shots. 4000’ AGL is a safe altitude for what is called a “hop ‘n pop” where you jump out of the plane and free fall long enough to clear the aircraft, then immediately deploy your parachute. For reference most new skydivers and tandems in the US pull their chutes at 6000’ to give time to respond properly to malfunctions, and very experienced skydivers may pull as low as 2500’.

[@ferchrissakes]

Somehow forgot Lori Petty was in this, but, now reminded: you should watch "Tank Girl" from 1995. Just because it's a weird trip

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

and a cool soundtrack! I wish I knew who plays the cool guitar when Tank Girl outfit gets the make over!

[@jdupre7877]

If I remember correctly, Travis Pastrana jumped out of a plane years ago without a parachute and attached to another skydiver with one like in the movie. Luke Aikins did the same but flew into a huge net on the ground that caught him. Not sure when these happened.

[@Dr.Acula76]

You are correct

[@Dog_will_hunt]

Yep, best video ever. Dude is nuts and awesome.

[@suprstng6]

Some great lines, and some terrible lines. Bad: "My name is Johnny Utahhh" and "Ill learn to surf or break my neck". FYI: A Point Break is basically the perfect wave where you get the longest ride on your board. Some good cameo's in this movie: Tom Sizemore (Heat, Blackhawk Down): The undercover DEA Agent, John McGinley (Offiice Space, Platoon): FBI director at the beginning of the movie, Anthony Kedos (Red Hot Chili Peppers singer) guy who says "That would be a waste of time" and gets shot in the foot I believe. Good review guys.

[@placebo5466]

Spent a couple years surfing off the coast of New Hampshire (yes they have a coastline) when I was younger. In 2001 (7th grade) I went out with a friend and his family right before a Nor'Easter was about to hit. 30 degrees F outside, snow on the beach, rode the wave correctly for the first time and it was about 5 feet which was taller than me at the time; core memory for sure. Scariest story, I got separated from a friend and ended up in a riptide. Didn't know how to get out and was paddling going nowhere for about 20 minutes straight, exhausted, and no one in sight. I swear, out of nowhere a dude on a long board paddle up about 20 feet away and told me to paddle sideways to get out. I was free in about 10 seconds, rode in, and nearly passed out on the beach. I would've been a goner if it weren't for that stranger, never saw him again. Edit: I've tried the beer and cherrios. Beerios. Excuse; I lived in the barracks while in the Army.

[@jarrodoakley6911]

Simone keeps talking about how similar this is the Blue Crush, when clearly it’s The Fast and the Furious

[@tj_2701]

I'm fairly sure that the first fast and furious movie was highly inflamed by this movie. Change surfing to driving and banks to trucks and it's mostly the same movie.

[@johnheale6000]

I hope the Patreons have gotten "Near Dark" on their watchlist from the same Director. It's up there as one of the best Vampire movies after all.

[@Mr_Incognito113]

Nobody reacts to that movie but it is a fine film and maybe one of the best vampire films out there

[@EricNovak-un9cj]

As many others have noted, P. Swayze was an avid sky diver. Keanu stated in interviews for the film that Patrick gathered the other actors playing the “Dead Presidents” for sky diving trips during their downtime from shooting, to the degree that the studio had to step in and stop him. And the shot of Swayze doing the epic acrobatics was real and filmed after completion of principal photography because Katherine Bigelow knew she had a star and that it would look great for the film. I guess that’s why she has an Oscar and I have a margarita.

[@dan0507]

Actually, myth busters proved that the whole Utah jumping out a plane and catching up to Patrick swayze is actually possible. Oh yeah, the stunt guy was wearing an e chute underneath his shirt.

[@izzyryder4969]

Skydiver Luke Aikins, made history, when he jumped from 25,000 feet out of an airplane without a parachute, landing safely in a net, setting a world record.

[@mrd4785]

Where I lived in South West Australia there were a large number of the kids at my school would go surfing before and after school. They all had surfing brand pencil cases etc. and there were surfing posters on the walls in the classrooms. A number of the teachers surfed too. Apparently most of them couldn't fit in time for a shower, so whenever they moved their head, sand would fall onto the desk. I remember everyone got further excited when this movie came out. I feel like interest in the sport in terms of competition etc. was at a peak in the early 90's and that's when everyone was wearing surf brand gear like Quicksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl etc. Apparently these brands lost a lot of popularity lately with kids because those same kids have grown up and are now dads, and kids don't tend to think that things their dads are wearing are cool anymore. Any locals who went professional seemed to be somewhat treated as royalty.

[@Dog_will_hunt]

Lol. I grew up in Southern California and we would surf before school sometimes. Yep, no time to shower. Back then in the eighties it was the surfers that wore Uggs after surfing, before they became a trendy chic boot.

[@antpal319]

Bodhi knew skydiving would blow Johnny's mind. That's why he took him skydiving.

[@donbergeson6771]

My dad was also scared of heights. He went skydiving once just to prove to himself he could do it. Never wanted to go again but he was glad he did it. I've been a few times and absolutely love it. I'd go every day if I could. Biggest adrenaline rush I've ever had other than getting shot at. Another great skydiving movie is Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes.

[@patjacksonpodium]

While it is indeed fun to imagine Swayze skydiving on the studio's dime, I'd guess that the previous skydiving scene could also be there partly to show that Johnny now knows how to work a parachute, since he hadn't jumped before. I mean, it's a stretch but that might be a plausible enough reason to have it in the story.

[@MikeB12800]

That was Anthony Keidis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers

[@blanewilliams5960]

Too much complaining about technicalities, George. Simone was right, Busey should have been watching when he sent Keanu for food. This is a movie, not real life or based on actual events for cryin' out loud. Finally, you want the bad guys to get their comeuppance...hmm, I believe they all died.

[@SoaringTrumpet]

I totally agree with you about George, he was obnoxiously nitpicky and even belligerent towards Simone during this one.

[@sherigrow6480]

If this and Blue Crush are the same movie because someone's learning to surf, then really they're both just new versions of Gidget. 😊 I love this movie, really especially the vibes between Keanu and Patrick, Lori, and Busey.

[@jenniferdarling6]

Endless Summer is the quintessential surf film btw and a must add to your documentary watch list if y'all have one❤🌊 I don't even really like surfing it's just a classic movie

[@Dr.Acula76]

Or Soul Surfer. Although I prefer the Bethany Hamilton documentary Unstoppable

[@lifeofswebb]

Big Wednesday too. What a film!

[@lupolinar]

I had a nice greeting by the sea when I started surfing. I tried to catch a wave, fell off the baord which hit me on the side of my head and then I got draged under water, behind the wave and I only saw light/dark for an eternety and then got spit out on the beach. That day, every beer tasted wonderful and the next days went smooth. Rough start, but never regret it. xD

[@abatage]

The real skydiving shots are even crazier - the production team didn't want Swayze to do it for real, so he got some camera men and other divers to go out early one day and get the shots without the knowledge of those in charge - the dude really likes skydiving lol

[@BFKate]

“Have you ever fired your gun in the air while going ‘Aaaaaaaa’?” The scene is referenced in Hot Fuzz.

[@martingibson4474]

Nice one guys, bad boys 2 now and you can finally re watch hot fuzz properly! Great work you two

[@gabrielmauller8137]

“Back off Warchild, seriously.” If you haven’t seen Roadhouse, I would highly recommend it.

[@paulshaw9953]

I only saw this for the first time recently and I would have loved it if I'd seen it as a younger person... as it was, I was kinda disappointed

[@tobiasmccallum9697]

I've heard of alcoholics in the UK having cider with cereal as breakfast, but not beer lol And the movie that parodied that scene was Hot Fuzz

[@TheRealRodent]

Ah, the movie that gave birth to the 700 Fast and Furious movies.

[@warrencornell430]

@ 15:26 Her name is Lori Petty. She's had many roles, but is maybe? most famous for playing Kit in "A League of Their Own", which doesn't seem to be something you've watched. You should check it out. Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell. @ 16:15 They're called "Beerio's" and are allegedly a hangover cure.

[@Kabuki986]

You guys should do a reaction for the documentary...Step Into Liquid, the cover/poster will have you jumping on-board. (Many puns there). I have only Boogie boarded Lake Michigan, 20+ yrs ago. The fetch off the beach can bring in 6 to 8 ft waves, any strong storms will do this but the best season will be the end of August/early Sept.

[@willcool713]

Warm beer and Wheaties with a cigarette and coffee used to be my breakfast of champions. I loved the smell of sardonic irony in the morning. John Belushi fan, too, but it's actually pretty good for a hangover. Cheerios float too much, imo. Grapenuts, yes; cornflakes, no [bleh]. And red wine ice cream floats, fyi. Everybody hesitates, but they're great. With wine coolers, too.

[@goatbrother8718]

The „girl“ that looks like Courtney Cox is Lori Petty, she played the role of Lolly Whitehill in Orange is the new black and she was in the 1992 A League of their Own and the 1995 Tank Girl. Can recommend all of them

[@Random-qo6br]

Russian soup is called "okroshka". It contains meat, cucumbers, radish, kvas (non or very low alcoholic bread-based beverage) and sour-cream. Sometimes onions, and always some green stuff (like green onion). And it is great during summer heat! Also the most effective meal to counter hangover)

[@noneya3635]

PMSL "loving you" George you brilliant bastard, you just made my Thursday.

[@DravenMercer]

Scary Surf Moment: I grew up surfing New Smyrna Beach in Florida, which is the shark bite capitol of the world. Once when I was out waiting for the break, I kicked a shark. I knew immediately as my foot ran across the leathery skin what it was, and it was big. Definitely an eye-opener.

[@martinholt8168]

Now you need to watch BAD BOYS 2. And then, you will be prepared for the greatest action movie ever made - HOT FUZZ.

[@PirateTrowel85]

Gauranteed theres been more than 1 surfer killed riding a wave big enough to touch on tsunami scaling. Surfing is like all extreme sports, the waves to big when you get scared and stop having fun. But theirs always people who will always be pushing what they can handle, and those of us who back off and say, do you know what this is hard enough and im comfortable with this size wave. Never used a surf board myself, only kayak surfed. which kinda made me the enemy (always rivalry in similar sports, skating/blading/bmx for example). But as long as you know the etiquette for the sport, so in most sports 'droping in' on someone is usually considered bad form for example. So usually its just a bit of friendly banter/rivalry (unless you find the dickheads) The largest i was comfortable with was 4/5 footers , so about 6-8 foot faces, this was waaaay back when i had skill and enthusiasm to drive 2-3 hours to a half decent beach, more for good ones Scariest moment, at a beach that had a very shallow angle of incline going out. So i was still roughly at least 15 metres (50 feet) of the beach when i went over in the soup (white frothy aerated water left after a wave has broken and just before it starts drawing back for the next wave) and got pinned between the back of the kayak and the floor, it was just to shallow to unpin myself from the back of the boat, but to deep for me to push off the bottom and clear my head . Had to wait for a wave big enoug hto pick me up enough to lean forwards allowing me to hand roll up (it would have also allowed me to grab the tag that would pop my spray deck holding me in the boat which i couldnt reach before). 100% this was the moment i chose to stick to river kayaking..... It didn't help i had also dropped my paddle in my panic which i had to furiosly hand paddle towards before the next big set of waves came in. Mad respect for anytype of surfer, and i do miss the adrenline rush of catching a wave and having a nice clean line to ride out a tube. Also the unloading the gun up in the air scene was homaged in Hot Fuzz by Nick Frosts character when he didnt want to shoot his dad

[@Tigermania]

Well ... thank god you guys watched the original Point Break and not the tepid remake from 2015.

[@476429]

Saw this movie a few times when it first came out. Up to this point, Keanu was generally thought of as Ted. Like people assumed that's just how he was in real life. When we saw trailers for this movie, we laughed at the idea of Ted in an action movie. But he pulled it off, and this was the movie that proved he could be a leading man and an action star. Without Point Break, Keanu may have not been in Speed, The Matrix, or John Wick.

[@wubranch1]

Ok, you just watched The Fast and the Furious, wait😅. Also, I’m glad George said that about Bodhi being a cult leader. He ran a death cult, and wants to take his cult with him for “the ultimate ride”.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

Point Break the original Fast & Furious

[@PhilipCarroll64]

No. God no.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

@@PhilipCarroll64 just replace surfers with street racers.

[@PhilipCarroll64]

@@-EchoesIntoEternity- No. Just no. Don't compare that trash to this masterpiece

[@zhivik]

I would actually agree, it does follow the same formula. Besides, the first Fast & Furious is actually a fairly decent action flick. Everything after that is better to be avoided, of course, but the first one is watchable.

[@mascan7905]

This is beat for beat the exact same plot as the first The Fast and the Furious movie, only a decade earlier. Swap out extreme sports for cars, and you're there.

[@TomVCunningham]

Yep

[@spccolts]

FYI- one of the surfer gang guys (That would be a waste of time..) who beat up Keanu Reeves is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

[@Pestsoutwest]

The government knows if you have parents, siblings, kids, spouse, even ex spouses, and known criminal associates (people you have been arrested with)… where they live and if they are still alive. When hunting for fugitives its the first place they look.

[@ventusvero4484]

Hot Fuzz had that scene in it.

[@NeilLewis77]

Between 1990 and 1995 bank robberies in LA were at an all time high anywhere ever. I saw a guy break down the numbers and he said if you worked in a bank in downtown LA in the early 90s then there was a %75 chance that you would be robbed at least once a year. some banks knew that because they hadnt been robbed for 4 months that they were due one any day. Point break Heat Bandits Set it off the score reservoir dogs out of sight and many more take huge inspiration from that particular crime wave. fun times.

[@Pestsoutwest]

I grew up in the town Buggs Bunny is always trying to get to, Pismo Ca... The best California beach town to visit. The only place in Ca you can drive and camp right on the beach.

[@stonecoldku4161]

You've gotta to watch Road House and Red Dawn now. Two classic Patrick Swayze movies.

[@ck_idgaf1680]

Ummm... yes, they would have that information.. cause she was an orphan, so they would record that information of her parents dying and detail and yes, it will be available. It's also for her to know when she got older, sometimes kids forget trauma or why they ended up in an orphanage. It's not about privacy, she broke the law, its part of building her profile.

[@Charsept]

You guys didn't recognize the love interest actress? If you two haven't seen A League of Their Own you really should.

[@austincanes]

Road House is a must watch Patrick Swayze film probably his best. Point Break was his second

[@lordinvex1406]

11:37 Anthony Kiedis af Red Hot Chilli Peppers 🤘 (The guy that says “That would be a waste of time”)

[@Luke17-10ministry]

If you want to see something on big wave surfing, there is an excellent documentary called Riding Giants you should definitely check out.

[@TheMsLourdes]

Thing is, the water gets into you. I grew up near harbor without a wave in sight and the water calls me to this day. Its a place you just have to get back to. So if you have that experience early on, you get it. So George, your being afraid of swimming, flattens the end for you. I get it. But there is something about the water. We came from it and something in our DNA says to go back to it.

[@DIGMyers]

Johnny Utah (Reeves) jumping out of the plane with out a parachute is one of my favorite action scenes of all time. Was even 10 times more badass watching it in the theater when I was 15.

[@GrumpySoth]

I did my Chefs apprenticeship just around the corner from Torquay (That was not it, Bells is an offshore break too so way further out from the shore) around the same time as this movie came out. The territorial aspect of this was pretty accurate and I've seen glassings on the beach, knives pulled and people (generally out of towners) get the absolute shit beaten out of them for not following the unwritten rules that locals make up as they go along. Lots of bronze whaler sharks around that tried to get friendly every other day too. I had a wonderful time after I'd lived there long enough and I genuinely miss some of the people I became friends with down there but some gorillas that probably still live there I wouldnt piss on if their teeth were on fire.

[@Journeyman.71]

25:30 I was a small-town cop for about 20 years. When I went to the academy, back in '94, they actually showed us this scene, and then talked about how, if we ever found ourselves in something similar, our best course of action was to be cool, and to be a good witness! Unless and until it seemed imminent that someone was going to get hurt, or worse, and then we had to make a judgement call.

[@stearnsy80]

After a keg party, my buddies and I realized we didn’t have any milk for our cereal in the morning. We still had some beer so we poured it on our Cheerios. It was incredibly foul.