Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Sure, its just West Side Story with skateboards but its....uh....hmmmm. I guess that's it.
What you've got here is your classic tale of boy wants to win skateboarding competition, boy meets his rival, boy meets girl, girl is rivals sister, boy and rival skateboard joust with bean bags in a burning drainage ditch, boy blames girl, boy beats rival in downhill skateboarding competition, rival and boy become brothers in law and America is united. That ol' joint, you know.
So if you're a skateboarder or someone who enjoys watching skateboarding, you're gonna prefer Gleaming the Cube over Thrashin'. Here the skateboarding is pretty sub-par for a film about a sport (aside from the pool competition that appears to be helmed by Steve Caballero and Tony Hawk). What Thrashin' does right though is ratchet up the corny cheese to about 50. The dialogue is so bafflingly terrible, the "tough" guys are comically fancy, And time after time, the characters make hilariously stupid decisions and then throw hissy fits about their actions. It was not a good look for a budding subculture in sports at the time and very far from what the culture actually was. I mean, nothing is more about fellowship and a communal love than skateboarding. Yet, here comes Tommy Hook and his band of ne'er do wells sabotaging competition because they came onto their turf.
Come on! Skateboarding gangs?!?! And they have turf?!?!? That they presumably acquired from actual gangs....you know...the kind with guns?!?!? Its so preposterous. Whats next? Xanadu skaters conquering Times Square???
Its so incredibly stupid that you can't help but love it and its a pure riffers paradise. Drop in and do it.
Druids - When do the druids show up?
Black Dog - The best bad truckin' movie ever
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo - or How To Save the World
The Adventures of Pluto Nash - "Adventures" is a strong word
Angel Has Fallen - The Last Banning?
Hobbs and Shaw - 2/3 full of Bald Bros or 1/3 empty of Bald Bros?
Convoy - So...where are we going, anyways?
Prom Night II - Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Plot
Dark Angel - Addicted to Human Crack!
Breaker! Breaker! - What's your 20 on the Pickle Park?
Voyage of the Rock Aliens - Countdown to Music Videos
Peacekeeper - Dolph can't die, literally
Steele Justice - Dance of the 3-Step
Love Potion No. 9
Diggstown - The Greatest Trick the Devil Pulled
Pass Thru - The Ditch Folk are Taking Over
Gas-s-s-s! - or - The Baby Boomers are hypocrites
The Jackie is Gone so Sam can Talk about MCU and Star Wars Not Special
Men of War - It's batshit, literally
Bubba Ho-Tep - The plot has left the building
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