thrashin' / rad / north shore

[lester1/2jr]

here's 3 with the same plot.  Thrashin was the type of thing you'd rent before the skate companies started making movies.  some great old chilli peppers footage to boot, as well as absurd, non existant skate battles like weird skate jousting and of course, it ends with the LA Death Massacre.   I think the skater was josh Brolin.

Rad- same thing but with BMX.  The whole thing is him trying to do a backflip or something.  then he does it in a contest when it makes no sense to.  or maybe it did I don't know.  It had a good scene where they go to a dance and dance on their bikes to "send me an angel" the eighties song.

North Shore- the surfing component.  It's sort of like karate kid but surfing.           He needs to learn "Soul" from the guy so he can be one with the waves.  Then he picks up the girl who used to host "The Party machine" after Arsenio Hall and they have a romeo and juliet, whitey/hawaiin lady affair.  The ending one guy gave the other guy the "hang loose" sign and it was all meaningful.

[mr. henry]

was "quicksilver" mentioned in the earlier posts? though not really a quick lets-make-a-buck with a cheese flick based on skating/biking/blading, it was a strange 80's blend of the flashdance genre and biking.  and the wall street genre as well. wow. i guess quicksilver had it all. not to mention comedic genius paul rodriguez.

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reaching a little farther, ET would be a lot less interesting without the bicycle chase at the end. I was ten or so when i saw it. my whole block rode bikes around as if being chased by feds. good fun. whereas the skating in "back to the future" seemed like a huge grab at pseudo-coolness.

-mr. henry.

[Steven Millan]

                 As much as all four movies really do blow,they are all(of course)worth mentioning,so that we remember them again that they do exist.