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I wasn't around when this movie was first released, and to my knowledge it has never been broadcast on network TV, but as a kid growing up on the beach in Southern California it was inevitable that I would at one point in my life get to watch a midnight showing of it at the iconic La Paloma theater in Encinitas, literally walking distance from the equally iconic Moonlight Beach and Swami's. But that was a long time ago and weary of the newly discovered culture of cancelling history that pervades America I wanted to revisit if only for an unfortunately short 95 minutes this innocent slice of surfer life in these troubled times with a movie that planted an adventure seed in millions of young people's minds.
Sure I could have rented it but the tipping point that caused me to purchase my own permanent DVD copy was an opinion that for some misdirected reason life in 1966 would be expected to conform to a myopic vision of today's messed up world - I wanted to be sure such shut-eyed thinking wouldn't result in the remaining copies of this movie being burned in a huge bonfire in the streets at a temperature of 451F, and I'm not talking about the kind of bonfire the surfers enjoyed at the beach.
Now look, this isn't a cinematic masterpiece, it's more like one guy's home movies and the whole thing cost them less than I paid my car but despite the lack of digital effects or surround sound (trivia fact: originally the film didn’t even have audio, the director Bruce Brown would play records and narrate it live in theaters) the photography at all twelve locations is stunning. Nor was it intended to be a study in social mores - we're talking about a bunch of surfer kids looking for the perfect wave. But come to think of it aren't we all looking for that perfect wave in our lives? Didn't we all seek to learn from our foibles and imperfections and build a better us and by extension build a better world around us? We will never reach that promised land if we can only seek to tear down and destroy our history and find fault in the stepping stones we used to reach the point where we are today. Without learning from history we are cursed to have no tomorrow.
So for me it was easy to look past those moments of kids simply being kids and return to a time of innocence, that day when the last period in school ended and we were free to grab our surfboards and take off in a world free of TSA, social distancing, face masks and a society filled with animosity; and with pure and simple innocence seek out our own beautiful endless summer.
Fluffy gives this movie 4 paws up.
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I wasn't around when this movie was first released, and to my knowledge it has never been broadcast on network TV, but as a kid growing up on the beach in Southern California it was inevitable that I would at one point in my life get to watch a midnight showing of it at the iconic La Paloma theater in Encinitas, literally walking distance from the equally iconic Moonlight Beach and Swami's. But that was a long time ago and weary of the newly discovered culture of cancelling history that pervades America I wanted to revisit if only for an unfortunately short 95 minutes this innocent slice of surfer life in these troubled times with a movie that planted an adventure seed in millions of young people's minds.Sure I could have rented it but the tipping point that caused me to purchase my own permanent DVD copy was an opinion that for some misdirected reason life in 1966 would be expected to conform to a myopic vision of today's messed up world - I wanted to be sure such shut-eyed thinking wouldn't result in the remaining copies of this movie being burned in a huge bonfire in the streets at a temperature of 451F, and I'm not talking about the kind of bonfire the surfers enjoyed at the beach.Now look, this isn't a cinematic masterpiece, it's more like one guy's home movies and the whole thing cost them less than I paid my car but despite the lack of digital effects or surround sound (trivia fact: originally the film didn’t even have audio, the director Bruce Brown would play records and narrate it live in theaters) the photography at all twelve locations is stunning. Nor was it intended to be a study in social mores - we're talking about a bunch of surfer kids looking for the perfect wave. But come to think of it aren't we all looking for that perfect wave in our lives? Didn't we all seek to learn from our foibles and imperfections and build a better us and by extension build a better world around us? We will never reach that promised land if we can only seek to tear down and destroy our history and find fault in the stepping stones we used to reach the point where we are today. Without learning from history we are cursed to have no tomorrow.So for me it was easy to look past those moments of kids simply being kids and return to a time of innocence, that day when the last period in school ended and we were free to grab our surfboards and take off in a world free of TSA, social distancing, face masks and a society filled with animosity; and with pure and simple innocence seek out our own beautiful endless summer.Fluffy gives this movie 4 paws up.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020
I wasn't around when this movie was first released, and to my knowledge it has never been broadcast on network TV, but as a kid growing up on the beach in Southern California it was inevitable that I would at one point in my life get to watch a midnight showing of it at the iconic La Paloma theater in Encinitas, literally walking distance from the equally iconic Moonlight Beach and Swami's. But that was a long time ago and weary of the newly discovered culture of cancelling history that pervades America I wanted to revisit if only for an unfortunately short 95 minutes this innocent slice of surfer life in these troubled times with a movie that planted an adventure seed in millions of young people's minds.
Sure I could have rented it but the tipping point that caused me to purchase my own permanent DVD copy was an opinion that for some misdirected reason life in 1966 would be expected to conform to a myopic vision of today's messed up world - I wanted to be sure such shut-eyed thinking wouldn't result in the remaining copies of this movie being burned in a huge bonfire in the streets at a temperature of 451F, and I'm not talking about the kind of bonfire the surfers enjoyed at the beach.
Now look, this isn't a cinematic masterpiece, it's more like one guy's home movies and the whole thing cost them less than I paid my car but despite the lack of digital effects or surround sound (trivia fact: originally the film didn’t even have audio, the director Bruce Brown would play records and narrate it live in theaters) the photography at all twelve locations is stunning. Nor was it intended to be a study in social mores - we're talking about a bunch of surfer kids looking for the perfect wave. But come to think of it aren't we all looking for that perfect wave in our lives? Didn't we all seek to learn from our foibles and imperfections and build a better us and by extension build a better world around us? We will never reach that promised land if we can only seek to tear down and destroy our history and find fault in the stepping stones we used to reach the point where we are today. Without learning from history we are cursed to have no tomorrow.
So for me it was easy to look past those moments of kids simply being kids and return to a time of innocence, that day when the last period in school ended and we were free to grab our surfboards and take off in a world free of TSA, social distancing, face masks and a society filled with animosity; and with pure and simple innocence seek out our own beautiful endless summer.
Fluffy gives this movie 4 paws up.
Sure I could have rented it but the tipping point that caused me to purchase my own permanent DVD copy was an opinion that for some misdirected reason life in 1966 would be expected to conform to a myopic vision of today's messed up world - I wanted to be sure such shut-eyed thinking wouldn't result in the remaining copies of this movie being burned in a huge bonfire in the streets at a temperature of 451F, and I'm not talking about the kind of bonfire the surfers enjoyed at the beach.
Now look, this isn't a cinematic masterpiece, it's more like one guy's home movies and the whole thing cost them less than I paid my car but despite the lack of digital effects or surround sound (trivia fact: originally the film didn’t even have audio, the director Bruce Brown would play records and narrate it live in theaters) the photography at all twelve locations is stunning. Nor was it intended to be a study in social mores - we're talking about a bunch of surfer kids looking for the perfect wave. But come to think of it aren't we all looking for that perfect wave in our lives? Didn't we all seek to learn from our foibles and imperfections and build a better us and by extension build a better world around us? We will never reach that promised land if we can only seek to tear down and destroy our history and find fault in the stepping stones we used to reach the point where we are today. Without learning from history we are cursed to have no tomorrow.
So for me it was easy to look past those moments of kids simply being kids and return to a time of innocence, that day when the last period in school ended and we were free to grab our surfboards and take off in a world free of TSA, social distancing, face masks and a society filled with animosity; and with pure and simple innocence seek out our own beautiful endless summer.
Fluffy gives this movie 4 paws up.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2013
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