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Man, it's funny how this movie has changed now that I'm older.

posted 15 years ago by toxicrocksyndrome
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Brian says toward the beginning that adults are predictable because they all believe that life as they know it was going to go on forever and that he didn't know what was worse - the world blowing up or having a 7-11 on every corner in 30 years.

That was my personal philosophy as a teenage skater in '89. And now I realize that the adults were right and we were just too juvenile to realize it at the time.

I still have fond memories of me and my friends trying to emulate Brian's hairdo and cross-type dangling earring. Seriously, this movie was THE reason that I got my ear pierced as a kid.

And this movie was so 80's! What the hell were we all thinking back then?? Do you think Tony Hawk still has a stash of pink t-shirts tucked away somewhere?

[–] toxicrocksyndrome 15 years ago

And is it just me, or does it seem like Christian Slater is just doing a Jack Nicolson throughout impression the entire movie?

Also - his character should be a barber - managing to give himself that spiffy haircut with just a pair of scissors and a mirror.

[–] Viltrumite 15 years ago

Brian should definitely have gone pro. He was an awesome freestyler, plus he was great at vert, street and downhill! If he had gone pro, he'd have been raking in the cash, then who could call him a bum?

[–] toxicrocksyndrome 15 years ago

They lived in a no-pro world I think. Tony Hawk was delivering pizzas for Christ's sake!

[–] Cloudburst2000 15 years ago

I think there might have been pro skaters back then but they didn't make much money. It's not like it is today. Back then, skateboarding was still very much a fringe sport...kinda like freestyle biking.

[–] Viltrumite 15 years ago

Pro skateboarders didn't make much money in the late 80s? You're joking, right?

[–] rl-10 15 years ago

He did go pro, but Powell Peralta revoked his pro status when Christian Slater tricked him into carrying tiny toy cars made of cocaine in his smelly butthole while doing gnarly mctwisties on gay pee poles.

It was then that he knew in order become pro again, he had to design the most awesome of graphics for his deck, and a invent the worlds first blinged out truck copers. Thats right... diamond blinged copers. He ripped up the Del Mar bowl and destroyed the coping, thus resulting in the closing of the worlds greatest bowl ever.

Mount Trashmore was next to go, as he shredded it while recycling every peace of garbage there was, thus turning it into what we now know as mount rushmore. Which ironically featured Gator, Neil Blender, and Kevin Harris. One of these people obviously had to be removed. Kevin Harris was not happy about that. Sorry Kevin, you were such a nice guy to me once...

Gator remained on Mount Rushmore until Brian Kelly dressed up as a woman and framed Gator one night out in the desert. Brian Kelly's chopped up tranny remains, reconnected and arose from the dead to become Brian Deegan's father. Thats right... That brian Deegan.

Brian Kelly knew this was not right and he returned to his old identity, the one his mother gave him... Christian Slater... and he has not been heard from since.

Tony Hawk is still driving a Pizza hutt til this day.

[–] SevenKal-ElGuiry 14 years ago

now thats a 2nd Gleaming the cube i want to see lol

I KNOW 2 things that are clear.I'm a great sinner,Christ is a great Savior.

[–] JudgeNotLestYeBeJudgeReinhold 9 years ago

You funny! 😂

[–] ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch 12 years ago

"And is it just me, or does it seem like Christian Slater is just doing a Jack Nicolson throughout impression the entire movie?"

Thats all he did during his career circa-"Heathers".

"Lemme at 'em! I'll splat 'em!"

[–] JamieWJackson 11 years ago

I'm glad someone else noticed that. It was distracting to me. I wanted to like him, and sort of did, but... argh.

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[–] ssjtom-1 9 years ago

He actually said recently on the nerdist podcast that he had a role before Heathers where he was supposed to play a young Jack Nicholson. So he spent a long time trying to emulate his acting style then when he didn't get the part he channeled that performance in Heathers so he was probably largely influenced by Nicholson at this point as it was a few years before Heathers.

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 10 years ago

I still have fond memories of me and my friends trying to emulate Brian's hairdo and cross-type dangling earring. Seriously, this movie was THE reason that I got my ear pierced as a kid.

I actually saw this movie in the 90s, but I still tried to emulate the hairstyle and earring except that I didn't want to actually pierce my ear, so I got a clip-on 

R.I.P. Rick Ducommun and Tony Longo

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[–] Viltrumite 8 years ago

Maybe he did. I wonder if Brian's friend Buddy and Sam met Tony Hawk and Tommy Guerrero? They resemblance is uncanny.