- Point Break.
- Point Break, perfect movie, still holds up.
- Absolute classic.
- It's one of the best action movies ever made.
- The premise of this movie is insane.
- Surfers are hot.
- Utah, two.
- I am an F.B.I agent.
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- Point Break is about the slippery slope
of new age spiritualism leading to a life of crime.
- Former high stake quarter back goes undercover
with a group of bank robber surfers
to try to catch them while working for the F.B.I.
It's a tale as old as time.
- Keanu Reeves goes surfing, and then he finds
Patrick Swayze and then he's friends with him
and then he realizes oh my God, those are the bank robbers
and then he has to take him down.
- It's not a movie when someone describes it to you
that sounds like it makes sense.
It sounds like someone's describing
four different movies to you.
- They had a dartboard and they were like,
hey football player, joins the F.B.I.
And (mumbling) the surfer gang that robs banks.
- It's all just kind of mixed up in a big blender.
There's like meat and fruit and ice and you're like,
this is all good for me, I don't know how it tastes
as a composite, but I'm drinkin' it every time.
- It is a movie that I saw because people were like,
Point Break is awesome!
And I watched it and was looking around the room.
Like, oh we're all into this?
Okay.
- Talking about the sort of veracity of Point Break
seems very beside the point to me.
I think you just kinda have to go with it.
You gotta ride it like a wave baby.
- It's got everything.
If you ever wanted to watch somebody
in a Ronald Reagan mask in a tuxedo,
and turn a gas pump into a flame thrower,
and throw a pit bull at Keanu Reeves,
it's got what you want.
- One of the reasons Point Break has held up the way it has
is that it's so quotable and it's also one of those movies
that has lines that don't really mean anything
but they're delivered with conviction
and feel like they mean something.
- I am an F.B.I agent!
- I know man, isn't it wild?
- I am an F.B.I. agent!
(laughing)
- It makes no sense for an F.B.I agent
but really any occupation in that tone of voice,
it just sounds fake.
You know like, I am a certified CPA.
No.
I am a car salesman!
No.
- There's so many good lines,
I am an F.B.I agent, via condios.
My favorite though is not one of the main characters,
I think it's Roach at the bonfire.
He's like when you're hittin' a wave man,
it's better than sex.
And it's like why is this guy so horny for waves.
Also like we've never heard him speak at all
and now he has this big monologue about sexy waves.
- It feels extreme.
Like everyone in it feels like
they're about to go insane.
Like that they're about to finally snap
and lose their mind.
- Almost everything Bodhi says could just be
a terrible tattoo that somebody got in 1991.
He speaks in shitty bumper stickers,
which is beautiful.
If you wanna take the ultimate ride,
you gotta be willing to pay the ultimate price,
is like pretty great.
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- I think this is the best Swayze performance.
I guess if you're talking iconic roles,
I suppose you have to think about Dirty Dancing
or Ghost or even Roadhouse or whatever.
But I think this gets Swayze the best,
it gets how alluring but a little weird
his onscreen persona has always been.
And in this he's really kind of a maniac.
- Swayze in the villain role, you're not expecting it.
But he nails it.
- When he's selling Keanu Reeves on like
why they're doing these bank robberies,
I actually start to believe it a little bit
'cause I'm just like, yeah man the system
does need to be taken down.
- This is how good Bodhi is.
He murders so many people that Keanu cares about.
He almost murders Keanu's girlfriend
and he's still like ah, let 'em go.
Incredible.
- Point Break is a love story about Patrick Swayze
and Keanu Reeves.
- They just hit it off.
It was so fast they fell in love.
I've never seen two people love each other so quickly.
- People will forever debate whether or not
Keanu Reeves is good in this movie.
I maintain that he is good.
- The idea to me is that he just like
walked out of a baseball card.
Right?
Like he seems like someone drew a sort of perfect
man with perfect stats on the back
and then he just walked out
and he's like, I'd like to solve some crimes please.
- It sounds stupid to say Keanu Reeves
was underrated in Point Break
but I think people didn't appreciate him.
They're making fun of him.
It took until John Wick for everyone to be like,
oh wait this dude rules and we're all like, yes.
- Keanu does great as an actor in this movie.
I think he really commits.
I believe he's Johnny Utah.
- What a name.
What a name.
His name is Johnny Utah.
- Within the last 30 years there was the main
character of a blockbuster film named Johnny Utah?
That sounds like a name Michael Scott would make up.
- Just perfect.
That's a name that's so good, you come up with that name,
and then you figure out the script.
And that may have been what happened here, we don't know.
- Johnny Utah, who by the way I just thought of this,
did not change his name when he went undercover.
He's just like, I'm also still just Johnny Utah.
Like it's the most haphazard undercover job ever.
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Swayze and Reeves and they're wonderful
but this is a very solid Gary Busey performance.
He is just weird enough.
He's not goin' over the edge yet, it's just unhinged enough.
(laughing)
- I think Gary Busey in any movie is Gary Busey
and there was a time where that was something we wanted.
This movie is absolutely batshit.
So, it made a lot of sense.
- I mean, for someone my age seeing Gary Busey
like not screaming about chemtrails
is just always interesting.
- Almost everything Gary Busey says
is just instantly iconic.
You know, Utah get me two, is a classic.
- Right around that corner, there is a sandwich shop,
they sell meatball sandwiches, best I've ever tasted.
Would you go get me two?
- Gary Busey's like sending Keanu to get him sandwiches
while they're on a stakeout.
It's like wait no, just pay attention
to the bank robbery that's about to happen.
But Busey's like actually there's a great sandwich
spot around the corner.
- Utah, get me two!
- He was gonna eat two?
That's insane.
Who needs two meatball subs?
- A lot has to be going wrong in your life
for you be like, okay, well I guess I'll have
two meatball subs and we'll just continue
sitting in the car.
I don't know how he's ordering two
and continuing his work that day as an F.B.I agent.
- This is a job where, at any given moment
you could have to start sprinting after somebody,
you're staking out a bank robbery,
and this guy wants to be full of meatball subs.
- I feel like ordering two of something,
you gotta get a selection.
That's the better move.
Eating two things in a row, that's insane.
That's some Gary Busey shit.
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- The bank robbing scenes are like really well executed.
This is Catherine Bigelow's first huge film
and she does an incredible job.
- The gold standard for bank robber masks
is the presidents, is the ex-presidents.
Like it's such a nice cover for what turns
out to be essentially like a bunch of stoned surfers.
- When you are wearing political masks,
it seems like you're about to make a statement
but then you pick random presidents,
it's like okay, are you?
'Cause you're robbing a bank right?
In president's masks.
First thing I'm thinking is like,
what statement are you trying to make.
And if the statement is, me love to surf, drown me.
- It's not like they're trying to say something
about government corporation, it's just like
yeah these guys wear these masks, that's it.
It's like they went to Party City
and they were just like well this is all they have,
and we're that now, it's our brand.
So we can't change it up now.
- Maybe I'm crazy but I thought surfing was free.
They need to rob banks to fund surfing?
Is parking at the beach that expensive?
- We also like skydiving.
Okay.
So skydiving I guess costs money.
Yeah it costs like 200 bucks.
So why are we robbing a bank?
- One lesson to take away from this,
if you're gonna rob banks with a mask,
don't moon the camera at the end of the robbery
'cause the undercover F.B.I agent working
on your case, might recognize your ass later.
And then you're sunk.
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- I would have nothing to change in Point Break.
I wouldn't allow myself near it.
It's like the Mona Lisa, don't ask me
what to add to it, Da Vinci did it, he's got a good idea.
- (sighing) You gotta see Point Break
if you haven't seen Point Break.
It's the beginning Keanu as an action star,
it's the beginning of Catherine Bigelow's
as a great American director.
It's still like the most fun, the most stupid
movie about cops and robberies ever made.
- It should be preserved in the library of congress.
- I don't know why you wouldn't like this movie.
I think it has something for everybody.
- Gary Busey, watch this just for the Busey scenes, please.
- Surfing, bank robbery, Keanu Reeves staring into space.
- What a good movie, what a good movie.
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- Utah give me two, two!