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Point Break (4)

Published:: 2010.Aug.10 / 11pm

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- Runtime: 120 minutes (2 h 00 m)
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow 39 yrs old
- Cast:
  
  Bodhi
  
  Patrick Swayze 38
  
  Johnny Utah
  
  Keanu Reeves 26
  
  Pappas
  
  Gary Busey 46
  
  Tyler
  
  Lori Petty 27
  
  Ben Harp
  
  John C. McGinley
  
  Roach
  
  James LeGros
  
  Nathanial
  
  John Philbin
  
  Grommet
  
  Bojesse Christopher
  
  Alvarez
  
  Julian Reyes
  
  Babbit
  
  Daniel Beer
  
  Bunker
  
  Chris Pedersen
  
  Warchild
  
  Vincent Klyn
  
  Tone
  
  Anthony Kiedis

Point Break

From Jon Madsen’s Movie Commentary Podcast:

Wow! Only an hour has passed since the last commentary and already we’re back with a vengeance. Is there a more perfect movie than Point Break? Maybe, maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it’s close.

We discuss Keanu’s lack of merit, yet his ability to be in incredible movies. Also, toward the end I mention the serious/cheese overlap of the movie that makes it so fun. Tangents galore in the middle.

This time we got me (Jon), Zo, Jen, Chad, and Scott. Pretty much the exact group from the little Lost Boys fix-up from last time.

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze.

Maybe this is why they got Lori Petty, but during silhouette dark scenes, Lori Petty and Keanu Reeves look exactly the same. — Jon Madsen and friends,
Point Break @0:29:19

Any girl could probably beat the crap out of me if she was naked. [laughter] ‘Cause I think that’s how she got the drop on, what, two guys? That naked woman just leveled two FBI agents. — Jon Madsen and friends,
Point Break @0:58:07

[Johnny chooses not to shoot Reagan-masked Bodhi; as Danny from Hot Fuzz] It’s ’cause he loves him so much! Or is it because … he appreciated what Reagan did for the country? — Jon Madsen and friends,
Point Break @1:13:12

Would you guys say you’re probably a bit more gay than you were two hours ago? I’m a little gayer. — Jon Madsen and friends,
Point Break @1:56:57

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Zarban 2010.Aug.25 4pm

Jon Madsen and friends do a good job with the best president-mask-wearing, parachuting-and-surfing, bank robber movie ever. They indulge in a fair bit of chit chat about upcoming movies at the beginning, which is annoying. Spoiler for Book of Eli around 1:33:00. General heist-like movie talk around 1:35:00

They mess up the countdown. The correct place to start is with the 20th Century Fox title, which they sing along with.

Wait—Better off Dead and One Crazy Summer are the same movie?! You take that back! One of them has a French girl and the other has Demi Moore! And one of them ends with a ski competition and the other ends with a boat race! They’re completely different, I tell you!

I’m pretty sure that the reason they use Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and LBJ and not Ford is because no one ever made a Gerald Ford Halloween mask.

Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino talked about how much they like the foot chase in Point Break in their commentary for Hot Fuzz (which parodies it).

I think what Bigelow brought to the film was the sense to emphasize the building of the friendship between Johnny and Bodhi. The protagonist and antagonist become close friends and have two of the biggest character arcs in genre film.

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