watching point break, never seen it.
Lori Petty 
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This is my number one guilty pleasure movie. I love it so much and don’t care how dumb it is at times.
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My wife had never seen it because in 1991 she would have been doing something useful like winning a bunch of high school academic awards. Anyway one of the funniest days of our marriage was a few years back where the sequence of events was:
- I explain the general concept of PB
- She insists that I am just teasing her and no such movie could possibly exist. Undercover Keanu surfer cop. Uh huh, sure sweety.
- Me insisting that not only is it real, it’s actually good.
- Her face going sideways when she looks it up on Wikipedia.
- Us watching it, her loving it
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Sounds like a keeper.
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It’s disappointing to see Point Break in the TV listings only to find out it’s the crappy remake.
Point Break is a legendary film in the skydiving communitiy. Not only did it inspire a generation of skydivers to get into the sport, but it gave us a “hero.” Not Keanu.
Patrick Swayze and his brother, Don, actually learned how to skydive, went through certification courses, and got licensed. Don still jumps every once in a while at the drop zone in Perris, CA. It was a HUGE blow to the community with Patrick died.
One of my good friends still has one of the parachutes that was used in the movie. 
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Like how all archaeologists love Indiana Jones even though it’s total BS in terms of what we do.
Exactly. Top Gun was the same way for pilots.
They may be completely ridiculous, but I also wonder how many people were inspired to at least try archaeology, or flying, etc because of those movies?
Most of the archaeologists I know cite Indiana Jones as a major reason they got into it.
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Also, the Rambo films for US Army recruits.
I actually became a psychologist, in part, because of the Bob Newhart Show.
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(old but funny)
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Stop it.
Oh man, maybe you can confirm…
Legend has it the studio refused to let Patrick do his own skydiving, so he got a cameraman to jump out on his own dime without telling the studio and that’s why the movie has actual footage of Swayze in the air.
Yes that’s true. Tom is a legend himself in the skydiving world (and a genuinely nice guy).
I’ve met Don before, but regrettably never had the chance to meet Patriick
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The definitive skydiving movie is not Point Break, it is Drop Zone starring Wesley Snipes and Gary Busey. Don’t @ me because I’m kidding.
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Oh we loved that one too, but mainly to dunk on it.
You want a REAL deep cut that skydivers love…Fandango is the one 
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Mickey Rourke did a great interview a while back on Alec Baldwin’s podcast. He said he did a movie for the paycheck once (Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man), hated it, hated himself for doing it, blew the money (bought a house and lost it) and swore never to do it again and hasn’t. He could do a lot more but he won’t do any project again if he doesn’t think it’s good and he can be good in it.
Also, Aronofsky had to agree to let him rewrite a lot of his dialogue before he would agree to do The Wrestler.
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I’m cautiously optimistic about this movie, but trailers for trailers is absolutely the stupidest god damn thing to happen to movies in the past 10 years.
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