S4E23: Point Break (2015)
This may in fact be the point, at which you break. We have reconvened to discuss the 2015 Point Break remake, its foibles and achievements, because consistency is the name of our game.
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Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can.
-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine
https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity
-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla
https://www.waterislifegaza.org/
-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also
https://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848
-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza
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Comments (49)
He changes his name origin like da Joker telling stories about how he got these scars
The existence of extreme poly implies the existence of moderate poly, and even centrist poly.
Starting the movie with bikers in Mumbai made me think this would be an American remake of Dhoom, which is already a Hindi remake of Fast and Furious... You guys should definitely watch the Dhoom series, it's crazy
If you're remaking Point Break. You get the first fast and furious. Cop infiltraits subculture, falls in love, helps subculture crime figure, basically stoos being a cop at the end
Please make sure you have the climbers in the room when you watch Vertical Limit and/or Cliffhanger
Fuck yeah Ben Mendo
The idea of an undercover cop that was a YouTube celeb is great. Looking forward to Point Beast, the 2030 remake
WISCONSIN MENTIONED!
Go Badgers
Listening to this and it's like, damn, you've gotta watch the XXX movies (they're about extreme sports heist/spy stuff not porn I promise)
I feel like an adaptation or remake being conspicuously embarrassed of the source material like this should count towards the smarm score. It's not exactly being overly pleased with itself but it is doing the double negative and being overly afraid of the possibility of being displeased with itself.
i don’t know why, but to me vaping is spiritually israeli
The black keys also did a crypto conference that if memory serves had a guest speaking spot from Donald Trump
Most believable thing about this movie is the FBI will take 17 months to catch a guy and instead wait for hime to do some shit
Black Keys are embarrassing/were embarrassed for playing the “America Loves Crypto” event. I believe in everyone’s right to sell out but you need to know who’s buying you.
So, am I to understand that no one in this movie is full of cum?
Was genuinely in the middle of a really quite sketchy slab boulder when I got to the 'don't listen to this while climbing' bit :D
The Wrong Trousers is also the second film in the W & G franchise
Do you mean the Topkapi spinoff ?
I am ending the cycle of samsara via a series of heists and doing cool sports.
“Gold ore”? It doesn’t react with anything, does it? Disbelief unsuspended.
Johnny Utah on 2008 YouTube: "Hellooo, this is the Adrenaline Addict. I base jump so YOU don't have to!"
(Channeling the spirit of Cliegg Lars) "Johnny Utah, Jeff is my wife."
Jeff Utah, of the Ohio Utahs?
Watch robot jox
*Jabba the Hut takes a drag from his hookah*: "Matcha Labubu Pilates Rave, ohohoho!"
It kinda sounds like the people behind this saw Triple X and loved it, then decided to slap it into their remake of Point Break.
Until the mention of him I had completely forgot that I used to watch a Documentary about Steve Aoki's life over and over again when times got tough, perhaps I outta give it another go
Please, Please, Please cover The Day of the Jackal and the remake, "The Jackal." You get gaymaxing Bruce Willis and Jack 'Moving Target' Black, an IRA Terrorist Hero, his Basque Terrorist lost love and a badass Russian Policewoman. I think you'll love it.
8BomberGuy
I have a movie recommendation and it's not a heist, and it's probably not religious (it might be? There's a case to be made there maybe), so I have no way to pitch it beyond it being a very strange and very special movie. It's called Sorcerer. Made in 1977. Stars Roy Schneider and Bruno Cremer, directed by William Friedkin. I believe that you would all dig it, and I feel bad that you had to watch the Point Break remake.
I love Sorcerer. It could be done in a pair with The Wages of Fear which was also an adaptation of the Georges Arnaud novel of the same name. I can't recommend Sorcerer highly enough, a dreamlike battle against the elements for men who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
He's going to make the FBI cool again, from the inside. Y'know, like Kash Patel.
This sounds like if somebody remade XXX, but made it bad. "We need an extreme athlete to infiltrate this group of international terrorists"
Sadly we missed the window on xXx, which should obvioulsy have been one of the highlights of Eurospy season (although xXx 2, which they canonically would have done, is strictly an America Fuck Yeah vehicle).
Phase out the President masks? No bricks in the swimming pool? Embarrassed by the last name Utah? Ok. But remove the homoeroticsm? No, sir. That will not do.
On Saudi E-sports greenwashing, the event you're thinking of Abi was for Rainbow Six Siege which Captain Fluke commentates for. Yeah that one got cancelled but it ended up meaningless as the Saudi's have bought pretty much every E-sports tournament organiser and run their own greenwashed esports world cup with such a huge prizepool that Orgs pretty much force their players to go.
The FGC has been affected especially hard by this. Evo, the largest international fighting game tournament series, recently got bought by a Saudi media megaproject, and stalwart fighting game dev SNK is currently owned 98% by MBS’s private foundation. The latter has gotten so bad that MBS favorite DJ and football player have been shoehorned in as playable characters in the big revival of Fatal Fury.
Top Billing on the patreon shout outs.. honoured! I wont be watching this one.. so thanks for taking the time so I don't have to.
Swayze discovers The Wave That Kills You Instantly.
I feel like "Spiritually Israeli" is the perfect term to describe this sort of media slop. Being a hedonistic asshole who doesn't care that their actions endanger the lives of others? Living a superficial and hollow existence at the expense of everyone else? Glorifying violence for personal entertainment and gratification? Claiming to have a deep spiritual life but doing nothing except stealing ideas from other cultures to pretend you're enlightened? Saying that you care about the environment and climate change but the extent of your actions are just for show and accomplish nothing? All Spiritually Israeli. It's literally all of the worst aspects of an imperialist colonialist culture. All vapid excess.
It's a little unfortunate that The Fast & the Furious couldn't get slotted in between the original Point Break and this one, because it was very much (and was pitched as) Point Break with street racing instead of surfing. But that would have interrupted the flow of both franchises, I suppose.
Wait, the only named woman in the movie is a white woman named Samsara?!? After the Buddhist cycle of rebirth which stems from earthly attachment? What?
White girl-ass name
8:20 Heath Ledger Joker voice: "I'm a Federal Agent of chaos."
Honestly obsessed with the idea of Bread Point
I remember being bombarded with trailers for this while opening payday 2 which had a tie in dlc
Thank you for being the sin eaters for these bad bad films
"the point where you break" i am going to throw a surfboard at this screenwriter, this is an actionable threat
