hyped garbage

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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I ran across this feature and live in Ventura so I wanted to see what it was all about. After watching it initially I was kind of disappointed. It is a typical low budget National Lampoons feature that fell short... but I did a little more research and found most of the characters are real life Venturians that moved and lived in the heyday of surfing and skating in this blue collar surf town, mostly in downtown/midtown near Pierpont. Mike Mooney, Sparks, Lardo, and others were caricatures of the real people. It turns out Mike Mooney is a fixture in town and still shapes boards and that Sparks, where the story eludes to him riding his last wave at 25, took his own life when he was 25.Here is the article: http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/the_way_we_were/7014/It was fun to see all the local shops and spots, even though most of it was shot on Sea Street near the surf shot and down in the Pierpont condos.I wish it could have been a sweeter film, more nostalgic and period piece and coming of age film rather than trying to force it into a shallow comedy and dramatic formula. However it was funny to hear people called southies (from LA and The Valley)...

The weakest part of this is story. Spoiler: there is no surf party in it. Instead, we have some road movie like visit to LA . What means that real spoiler is movie's title.There was lot of cliché in. Pretty much forgettable. But there is one thing what I will remember for sure: our heroes were very mad and demanding because of their stolen surf board, while they regularly steal beer from small shops - 2 cases during their trip shown. To say something good: there were some cool shots of surfing in first part. There was Joan Jett in smaller role. But her character was really undeveloped. There was some moral blah at the end, but not what I hoped - about "do not steal" .

Such a stupid plot. A guy loses his surfing board, gathers his friend and goes out to look for it, finds the board, cannot find the one who stole it, waits for him, and when he comes back, his dad gives them option of either calling the cops or get 3 shots at the guy. The drunk one mistakenly gets the turn and fails to hit him in 2 shots, takes one more gets a good shot and thats it they return home with the surf board. On their way back the surfboard gets crushed by a car and they end up with nothing. back. Seriously, its nothing more than that. I beg all of you not to spend your precious hour on this.The actors were quite bad and there was nothing I enjoyed in the movie. I don't believe how i watched the complete movie. I wonder why this movies not in the bottom list of IMDb.

Whenever I watch such kind of crap, I wonder are there real people like those in the movie. The acting is OK but there is no plot, fun, comedy etc. The whole story is about returning back a stolen surf board in an ordinary way. There is nothing interesting or funny. We have watched such kind of movies since now but even the worst had something enjoyable. This movie really needs a lot of things to be considered as good. I think directors use celebrities (likewise in this movie - Matthew Lillard) to get attraction. I wonder why known actors accept such kind of movies. There is no need to wait for the finished job. Anyone who reads the scenario would have said: "so what?"