# What am I missing from Point Break? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145 "2009-09-07T05:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/41 "2009-09-09T15:05:37Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > You’re not missing anything. Despite the film’s best intentions at trying to make the Swayze character some type of hip, mystical zen-surf guru whose final wish to go out in a wave of glory not only be respected but valorized, he is actually just a scumbag and a reprobate, and if the film had any real balls or convictions, it would have had Keanu take his “mentor” and throw him in the can instead of moronically letting him hit that surf one last time in a swell of faux-machismo bullshit. Oh, thank you. This is exactly how I feel about this movie. The ending ticked me off completely, letting that self-absorbed jerk go out on his own terms. I thought that for once, he should’ve had to play by the same rules as everyone else, but no, he got to screw everyone over in life and in death. I couldn’t understand exactly why I was supposed to sympathize with him, and I never did. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/42 "2009-09-09T15:16:03Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Yep, ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson. It would have been fun to see Utah dressed as, say, Polk, and have no one recognize him. Incidentally, Wiki says a sequal is in the works. [Read it and weep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Break#Sequel). Shocking yet amazing… Bodhi survived the 50-year storm? I thought it was “death on a stick out there, mate?!?” What are the chances of a Keanu cameo? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/43 "2009-09-09T15:37:17Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Bill! > > I am an FBI Agent! > > I know Kung Fu! > > Same wooden delivery. > > It doesn’t matter what the genre of film is: > > A Walk in The Clouds > Matrix Trilogy > Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure / Bogus Journey > My Private Idaho > Dangerous Liaisons > Speed > Point Break > > Keanu keanot act. It doesn’t matter to me. It matters not. Keanu brings something unique to the screen, and acting has little to do with it. I can watch his movies without the sound turned up. I don’t CARE that according to common consensus he “can’t act”. I also have a lifelong mad crush on the boy and think in his blank way that he’s unspeakably gorgeous, and what’s wrong with that? How about the latest skank-of-the-month in the latest toy movie? No one says, but Megan Fox can’t ACT. No. So? And the man-candy/ gay subtext in Point Break is what’s fun about this awful-in-a-good-way movie - worrying over the plot is kind of a waste of time. IMO. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/44 "2009-09-09T18:13:03Z")
Also, topless Lori Petty. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/45 "2009-09-09T19:50:09Z")
The movie itself was unbearably stupid. But the silliest part of all was Keanu’s name. Johnny Utah? OHHHHHH, I get it. Like Joe Montana? Real clever. :rolleyes: I know- let’s add a former basketball player named Mark Lebanon (like Michael Jordan- getit? Get it?)! Or an ex-golfer named Jaguar Forrest (like Tiger Woods? Get it? get it?)! Or a baseball star named Billy Stocks (instead of Barry Bonds? Neat, huh???)! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145/46 "2009-09-10T05:18:19Z")
It’s a fine bit of cinema. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWOYfkf8aE&feature=fvw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWOYfkf8aE&feature=fvw) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-missing-from-point-break/509145.md?page=2)