Somehow I had never seen it before. Really uplifting and enjoyable film

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50022980)

Should have just died at age 27 when we were all still together

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50023008)

The part where he jumps out of the plane without a chute was legit awesome imo. Really captured the spirit of the movie

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50023507)

other poasters are also correct that this is an off-label james cameron movie so of course it's good. cameron's fingerprints on the really well shot action scenes are obvious. combining the cop moving tropes with the surfing and other 'extreme sprots' type action was a good capture of the cultural zeitgeist of the time. it has aged really well and is like a cultural document of the early 90s.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50024094)

"cultural document of the early 1990s"

To me it's always been Point Break and Heat

Is there a 3rd movie on this level from the 90s?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50029727)

Cameron and Bigelow performed surgery on Iliff’s production draft from Rick King’s story concept.

Bigelow “directed” it in the way that Women direct things.

Patrick Swayze supplied the soul. Keanu supplied whatever Keanu supplies. Then lightning struck and the thing got up and surfed. That is what I mean. Imho the Film’s escalating action structure is Cameronian af.

Film has many of these disputed creatures, e.g. Poltergeist is credited to Tobe Hooper, but Steven Spielberg originated the story, co-wrote and produced it, and was extremely active during filming iirc. Cast recollections and production accounts have kept the “ghost director” question alive for more than 40 years.

Percy Shelley, btw, demonstrably edited Mary’s manuscript and contributed language. There’s hard liberal arts evidence he wrote like 5-10% of it anyway. But don’t get Mary Shelley mixed up with Harper Lee who probably couldn’t even spell “mockingbird” imho.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886015&forum_id=2#50023774)