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Gargantuanly Important News From Cannes: There's A POINT BREAK Sequel On The Way!!
Merrick here...
Jan De Bont - great cinematographer (DIE HARD, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER) turned not-so-great film maker (the pretty cool SPEED, the pretty dumb TWISTER) - is set to direct the long-rumored sequel to Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action slick fest POINT BREAK.
The new film will take place 20 years after the disappearance of one of the criminal surfers (Patrick Swayze).
Both the original and sequel are written by W. Peter Iliff. Plot details and possible character reprises have not been disclosed, but the film will shoot in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
A Swayze return seems unlikely for health reasons...God knows what Keanu will do about this.
Both the original and sequel are written by W. Peter Iliff. Plot details and possible character reprises have not been disclosed, but the film will shoot in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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Bring it on!
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Josh Harnett and Jake Busey in Point Break: The Next Generation!
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Jesus, I pictured them cranking it out asap, so his health might permit his involvement. Wouldn't be right to make it w/out him at all. I want him, Keanu, the 2 Chili Peppers, and cameos for Pegg & Frost.
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I thought it was very enjoyable. And the effects were fucking awesome for its time.
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but those 20 endings length equaled 1 of the 50 that ROTK had.
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If Keanu comes back, I will lose my mind. The immense talent that is Keanu Reeves will surley get an Oscar for acting, if he is given a script that is half as good as the last movie! And Patrick will need to come back. The chemistry between the two in Point Break is fantastic, and works better than between any other two Hollywood actors togheter.
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FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
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Anyone?
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really? hollywood out of ideas? dont mess with a classic! ( i use that term very loosely) god damm hollywood, fucking do an immortal iron fist flick. the arc thats just finished eps 1 -14 was fucking superb. kung fu, mystical east, superheroes. fuck it has everything!
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No plot, all nostalgia!
Not that I'm complaining about that but.....ORIGINALITY where are you hiding -
If they do HOT FUZZ II, here's hoping that Frost gets to say that line...pure awesomeness.
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I hope you have a Varsity Blues sequel up your sleeve too.
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uh..... EVERYTHING.
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Why? is my first question. Swayze can't be in it, Keanu prolly won't be in it. There's no need for this.
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I am surprised by this news. I wonder if Reeves will jump a shark with his board. :)
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..it doesn't mean one has to go see it. My guesses are, most people will go anyway, if the marketing is done right..
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Twister is a piece of shit.
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will be direct to video.
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direct to my heart.
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sweet
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BOGUS! or DUDE! in it, and get Keanu to say it, I do not care about this movie..
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Why? First one kinda-sorta sucked. As far as Keanu is concerned.....RUN!!
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Bring back the nazi surf punks.
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Johnny will Unite us. He is the one.
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the top? or maybe lori petty with a strap on?
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ZOMG!!!1136925111!! I'm so apathetic I just shit myself!!
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that this is one of those movies they came up with out of desperation during the writers strike. Guess they're moving forward with it after all.
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May 13, 2008 7:18:48 PM CDT
I wish I was a fly on the wall for the green light meeting on th
by g-ride9000
Herb West, you are probably right.
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Don't you mean Road House 3? They allready made a 2 and Swazey was dead in it
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I know man, idn't wild!?!?!?!?!
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but i guarantee Swayze will pop up in a cameo or small supporting role... assuming he's still able
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May 13, 2008 7:26:14 PM CDT
They already remade Point Break-it was called FAST & THE FURIOUS
by shiftyeyeddog2
seriously, that flick is like an exact copy, just with cars instead of surfboards
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How could they green light a movie during the writer's strike? What are you talking about?
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just a remake disguised as a sequel, with a new young cast.
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Then I grew up.
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There's your sequel right there.
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Is it?
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during a WRITERS Strike.. the only people on strike are the WRITERS. Everybody else keeps working. Which means they need to keep going on any pile of flung shit that sticks to the wall resembling a plot or project. I read the 'New Programming' submissions coming for the next season.. its SCARY how bad it all is.
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I'm not sure, but I remember hearing about this movie being made because of the strike back when it was going on. Maybe it was a privately owned script or property or something. I have no idea. Where's ScriptGirl when you need her?
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MYTHBUSTERS DISPROVED POINT BREAK'S PARACHUTE JUMP AT THE END!
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Space:2037In this high impact, futuristic adventure, Patrick Swayze returns as Dalton 2.0. When the long lost twin brother of "Wild Bill", Cyrus (Jake Busy), looks to serve revenge on every last cooler in the galaxy, there seems to be no hope left in space. But when a lone, rogue genetic engineers stumbles across the remains of the greatest cooler in history, history will be made again.SUMMER 2013
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Keanu goes into a time traveling phone booth where he must (with the help of Gary Busey) save a bunch of passengers on a bus that must remain above 55 while trying to outrun Hurricane Swayze.
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will be there.
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Just follow the guy around during his day: to the grocery store, doing his laundry, harassing innocent bystanders in the park: crazy times. It'd be cinematic gold; until he started rambling on about Jesus, that is.
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Jan De Bont can stage action like a motherscratcher
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May 13, 2008 7:40:27 PM CDT
OH SHIT, SOMEBODY GET VERN IN HERE
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
He had these hilariously awesome ideas for Point Break sequels, they seemed like just some awesome yet far fetched pipe dream then, but THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
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Stunt doubles, CGI, come on!
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We just lost Jack Palence a short time ago.. Sean Connery's the only one left. :(
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Yeah, that'd make Breaking Bonaduce and Hogan Knows Best look like after school specials.
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John Cusack's "War, Inc." more or less IS a sequel to Gross Point Blank. I spoke to him at a screening and he said that's what it was written as, but Disney wasn't interested, so they had to change the character names and other stuff. You look at Cusack's fighting in it though, and the role his sister has, and it's pretty obvious.
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About what's wrong. Apparently more people started chasing twisters in their cars after the movie came out. Experts say it's the worst place to be (vs a solid building) because they get tossed about easily and all those people who got killed last week were in cars.
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Playing Sir August De Winter in The Avengers movie and Allen Quartermaine in the LXG movie = bowing out gracefully?
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unless swayze's character was a superhero, there's no way he survived that huge ass wave at the end...so please dont tell me they're brining his character back.
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I actually rather enjoyed this script, but last I read - and I'm pretty sure it was the latest draft - there's no Johnny Utah, so Keanu would be out. Of course I'm sure they could write him in if he got interested, but right now it's a completely new dude in Utah's role.
******SPOILER ALERT************
Seriously, don't keep reading if you don't want to know....
The new guy (can't remember if he's an FBI Agent or something lesser) finds Bodhi - he survived the big wave - in jail and gets him out to help infiltrate a new group of bank robbers.
********END SPOILERS**************
Not really original, but does anyone care? Also, if you live in Los Angeles, you must - you absolutely MUST - seek out POINT BREAK LIVE, a play that's put on every weekend downtown. There's a wind machine involved, pyrotechnics, and the guy who plays Johnny Utah...is picked out of the crowd five minutes before the show begins and reads all his lines off of cue cards. It's magic. -
"Days of Our Lives" with really bad weather.
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He's a great character actor, and given the right material can be quite convincing. He will never however, be a bad-ass.
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May 13, 2008 7:59:04 PM CDT
Worth noting that we're talking about Point Break, Dan
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
See? Point BREAK. Not GROSSE Point BLANK. Just little handy trick called reading comprehension I picked up a ways back.
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May 13, 2008 8:04:32 PM CDT
They have to get Swayze and Keanu
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Otherwise whats the point? This is way more important than Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man or ANYTHING
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a sequel to a 17 year old movie that recasts the original actors. Guess they really were desperate.
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Look it up on the Internets. I'm telling you, you will love it.
myspace.com/pointbreaklive
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May 13, 2008 8:23:06 PM CDT
Ian the Grey as Keanu and Christopher the white as Swayze..
by madcapper
And fuckin' Frodo as sharkbait..
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that Ian McKellen is a rump ranger. Holy shit.
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Why, was Gandalf a tail gunner in the original LOTR novels?
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the first one is Wooden tops finest 2 hours but a sequel couldn't work it was a creature of it's time.
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how the heck was that NOT the title merrick used for this post?
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The key is the "doom 2" part. There will be cyberdemons!!! And... The Rock! And... chainsaws!
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No new ideas, or even new takes on old ones.
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Get me two!!!
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I wish I could say I was surprised at this move, but then Hollywood recycles more than aging hippies on Earth Day. I recently rewatched Point Break and while I have neer been a fan of the film, I could see why it's cult status endures as it plays to more than just a few action cliches. Still, it also reminded me that I outgrew it a long time ago.
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Oh I hope Swayze is doing better.
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Whoa...
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I thought Patrick Swaze was dying of cancer
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it's one of the worst of all time (he also did the second tomb raider)
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Busey at his best
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You break my record, now I break you, like I break your friend.
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You should check out I'm with busey pretty exactly what you said http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i%27m+with+busey&search_type=
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Speed is more than just "pretty cool." It's one of the best action movies ever made.
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Somewhere in the corner of my mind I thought they'd done a Busey show. Still, thanks for the link. My favorite Busey moment of all time is when he guest-spotted on the Simpsons hosting an informational video on restraining orders: "Hello, I'm Gary Busey" (inexplicably cackles madly for a minute before regaining his composure). Busey rules.
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Is Dafoe willing to jump aboard? Come on, let's get a fucking SPEED 2 reunion together!
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Bodhi is reincarnated as a talking fish to work off his karmic misdeeds as a bank robber.
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INT. CANCER WARD
Johnny Utah: (to Bodie)
"You're cold because your dying... all the chemo is running through your body... you're going to die!!" -
just kidding. i liked Point Break, but probably wouldn't even see Poitn Break 2: Point Breakin to the XXX-Treme starring Vin Diesel and Shia Labeuf
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It was called the fast and the furious.Whoever thought of this, did he just watch Weekend at Bernie's?
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GREAT MOVIE! I have spoken.
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He threw his badge in the ocean. I have the same question about the X-Files movie.Anyway, Point Break should be given respect just for giving us that scene in Hot Fuzz.Twister is a fun movie when you're high. "He doesn't care about twisters. He's in it for the money" Then there's Philip seymore Hoffmaan. "TWISTERS! WOOOO!
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Neo has to infiltrate Dalton's new Road House, and pretent to be a hard-as-fuck bouncer in order to gain the respect of the bar staff. Having done this, he can learn the whereabouts of the bars crazy owner, Dennis Hopper, who has planted an EMP bomb on the nebuchunezzer hovercraft, so that when it drops below 100 mph it is activated, thus crippling the craft and allowing the squiddies to attack. But Neo accidently breaks Dalton's pint glass, spilling his Budweiser... and so Dalton fucks him, because he used to fuck guys like him in prison. Seriously though I've only waited my whole life for this. And thats not sarcasm. Point Break is fucking cool. But the reason its so cool is because its so shit because of Reeves and Swayze... without the cheesieness of those guys, it just wouldn't be shit... and therefore wouldn't have what made the first one cool... if you follow me. But Jan de Bont... though questionable, is a natural choice.... as the only other film that can rival Point Break as the gretest yet dumbest Keanu action film ever, is indeed Speed. Bring it on. Ask James Cameron to write a script for it.
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It's the worst photographed of the series. Which is weird because most of his work is good.
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With her busy schedule of Tank Girl appearances and knocking on everyone who's ever written Tank Girl fan fic's door to see if they want to finance a Tank Girl sequel. TANK GIRL!!!! Even the comic SUCKED!
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If you, ah, know what I mean.
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-Nuff 'said.
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I just pray Keanu is in it.
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As long as we're talking about sequels to minor 80's cult films, how about a sequel to CROSSROADS? Not that Britney Spears thing, but the Ralph Maccchio guitar movie. Remember that? He had the duel with Steve Vai at the end. I want to see that shit get revisited 20 years later (or however the fuck long it's been). Here's my plot idea. Macchio (now an instructor at Julliard) has a son who plays guitar in a numetal band. The son (who should be played by Shia Laboef) learns of an unrecorded song written by Dimebag Darrel Abbott shortly before he died. Shia goes questing for this lost song with the goal of passing it off as his own original at an upcoming battle of the bands. Blind Willie is dead, but Shia hooks up with Willie's grandson Rocko Caine, who is an aspiring rapper with a shadowy, gangster background, who is currently doing time in a county jail. Rocko claims he was once a roady for Pantera and knows the location of a High Times magazine on the back of which Dimebag tabbed out a set of allegedly "incredibly kick ass riffs) on the night before he was shot. He will only lead Shia to the song if Shia busts him out of the joint. Shia does. They road trip. There is some kind of pussy oriented subplot along the way. Then Shia finds out that Rock caine sold his soul to th Devil and Shia has to duel with the devil's chosen axeman to win it back. The devil's guitarist is played by Buckethead. Shia beats him in the duel. He has begun to believe that there really is no lost Pantera tune, but Rocko leads him to a hotel stayed at by Dimebag on the night before he died and finds the High Times magazine with the tabbed riffs hidden in the heating vent (I stole that part from NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN). Her's the twist, though -- the song sucks. It sounded really good to everybody on the night that Dimebag wrote it because they were all shrooming their nuts off. Shia returns to his band, songless, but during the movie, he has begun working on a riff of his own. The riff evolves into a kick-as song all it's own. He plays it at the battle and wins. The end. Shia's guitar prts should be written and played by Dave Mustaine. The Title should be CROSSROADS 2: THE SHREDDING. Don't tell me you guys wouldn't watch that if it was on HBO and you were, like, already high.
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my new screename!
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The sequel would only make sense if they put keanu and swayze back in their roles..Its conceivable that Bodi maybe couldve survived the wave crash..maybe not, but its hollywood, fuck it, it was only a lil bit of water... bring Swayze and Keanu back!!
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in the sequil?
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But I don't know if this is a necessary sequel. I hope Keanu will be back and DeBont finds back to his old form.@ caruso_stalker217: I really like the way that LETHAL WEAPON 3 is shot. There are lots of very awesome shots in it, e.g. the shot of the plane during the chase.
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You liked him as Magneto? Would you stupid little boys just crawl off and play with your action figures; Ian McKellan is a bona fide genius of the stage; an unstoppable charismatic force of nature who has made nearly every great classical role his own. He could have done Gandalf in his sleep.
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... and just say: "I'm . . . so . . . happy!!"Guess I gotta go see 'Point Break: The Musical" again to celebrate, right?Right?
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The CHICK Katherine Bigelow. You forget that your testicle-rattling favorite was made by a woman. Point Breaks is a STUNNINGLY homo-erotic film; it reeks of queerness.
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Not this sequel, I mean in general...
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We can get Jason Patric and Sandra Bollocks. Set the movie in a pool with a wave machine - that sort of thing...
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"Harp, I want to tell you something. I was in the bureau, when you were still popping zits on your funny face and jerking off to the lingerie section of the sears catalog."
They should seriously get Anthony Kiedis back for this one, he could just go around in an artificial foot or something.
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Brittany Murphy IS Fuckhole for Crack!! If Keanu and Lori can't make it, consider this part of the casting done!! Sample snappy dialogue...IDAHO: Fuckhole, I'm a freelance investigator. I'll be helping you out on this case. FUCKHOLE: Groovy. I've got my own private eye-daho. (!!) Whether it's de Bont, van Sant, or von Trier directing, box office gold awaits!! Even Uwe Boll can't fuck this one up!!
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You can hear me not giving a shit. Point Break is the benchmark for how to make a great film from a silly premise. One of the last great non-cgi action moviesOf course, with a Jim Cameron (under a pseudonym) screenplay, what do you expect.Jan DeBont can fuck off, he's never made a good film yet.
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The original fanbase isn't going to show up if they recast Keanu or Patrick period.
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That..Would be..a Waste..of Time.. -gets shot in foot- AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
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Action sequences were great in that movie.
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But Evil Dead the Musical was pretty tight.
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some of the posters on here are slating Point Break. I guess some people just don't understand what good filmmaking is.
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May 14, 2008 3:32:50 AM CDT
I thought James Cameron Helped Write Point Break?
by alice cooper stalker
I seem to remember that James Cameron had writing credits on Point Break. He was married to Kathryn Bigelow (director) somewhere around then. I'm not going to get too excited about this given no mention of Cameron...no mention of Begelow...no mention of Swayzee...and no mention of Keanu. It's a sequel in name only. At least Predator 2 had the Aliens returning.
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Seeing how that entire franchise has ripped Point Break off to fuck, no kids today will have any interest in this sequel. Gotta love the first one though. "I know you want me, Johnny. You want me so bad it's like acid in your mouth!"
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When she was boning Cameron: Point Break, Strange Days, Near Dark, all great.
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"I think we can all picture Gollum buggering various things (sheep, fish, cows, dead orcs, a heavily drugged Samwise)" Somewhere Ringy exploded when that was put up.
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I'd love her to make action movies for ever. So glad you posted up this sequence. I'd love to see it on IMAX. Say what you like about Keanu, but with Point Break, Speed and Matrix he made three brilliant action movies. More than most. Oh, by the way, this sequel sounds appalling. After that HAUNTING film, I will never pay to see anything directed by Jan de Bont.
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Am glad to see STRANGE DAYS getting a bit of love - it's kind of a forgotten movie and really worth catching up with, I loved it. From the days where you could make a big budget sci-fi movie that was not only violent but also had ideas.
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I. AM. AN FBI. AGENT!
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With the "Utah, get me two." line dammit! that being said there are so many others. "You can be just like all these other corpses driving around in their shiny metal coffins." The sequel is a bad idea and way past its expiration date. Loved that movie though.
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I can't think of a better summary for all the non-original ideas we are getting now. Kudos Yack.
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It's not Point Break without Bodi. And be sure to include Anthony and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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As long as they let Mark Isham do the score again. It was the strongest thing about the original "Point Break" movie.
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yeah.
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May 14, 2008 7:28:42 AM CDT
How in the hell do you go from Bigelow to DeBont?
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Arguably the only female director who is up their with the greats of action cinema(Cameron, Mctiernan, Walter Hill, Peckinpah), and you replace her with the guy who abused us with Speed 2, Twister, The Haunting and Tomb Raider 2. The only guy who nears DeBonts incomprehension of a good action flick is Lee Tamahori. I prefer Bigelow to even Cameron. Her films feel more raw and primal.
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I'd switch it up to BIG WAVE tow in surfing ... and switch Keanu to the washed up Busey character and bring in Shia or Paul Walker as the New, hungry, FBI kid. This will be totally awesome. I'm available to consult and for rewrites.
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I read it.
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I'll see you in hell, Johnny!!!!
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...that Swayze is dying of Cancer? Boo news if that is so :(
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Criminally underrated, visionary sci-fi thriller!
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whats up with Swayze? some asshole TBer mentioned lung cancer, does he have it?
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Keanu and Cage trying to outoveract each other on surf boards = movie perfection
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"... didn't you use to be quarterback for the Steelers? Shame about that career ending head injury. Now shut up and put on your Hillary mask."
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obviously.
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in case anyone else didn't know what the "health issues" were.
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Twister has some goofy moments but it's practically a documentary next to Speed in terms of realism. Speed hasn't aged all that well and really wasn't that great a film to begin with, at least for me personally. Twister is still fun to watch and has a pretty damn good cast to boot.
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I'm certainly glad that you find Twister fun to watch, as I find it quite unbearable, Helen's ta-ta's notwithstanding.
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Seriously, think about it. That movie predicted that rappers would be incredibly influential in the future, and how the death of the most famous rapper would shake up the culture. Truly visionary on many levels.
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...I'm in full-on non-stalker love with Julliet Lewis and she's gratuitously and gloriously nudified in Strange Days (plus future hints of her musical career too!). Hell, there's practically POV porn with her in that movie and I love every second. Otherwise it's sort of a cheesy flique but definitely has some great moments.
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Where is the REMO WILLIAMS sequel??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
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