“you’re about to jump out of a perfectly good airplane johnny, how do you feel about that?”

the movie blog is running a piece about a possible sequel to point break.  i am vehemently opposed to this idea.  when i was a kid, point break was one of my favorite movies.  today, it’s still pretty badass.  keanu has effectively been playing the johnny utah character ever since (surfing cop!!1!), swayze is at his swayze-ist, and anthony kiedis gets shot in the foot, which should have happened in real life years ago.

but i seriously doubt anyone can recreate the magic of the 90′s gem more than 15 years later.  this supposed sequel smacks of roadhouse 2: last call, a straight to dvd “classic” that does all it can to erase the glory of another swayze masterpiece.  it’s a cash-grab.  the only way i see it working at all is if they get both keanu and swayze back, which i really don’t see happening.  point break was a time and a place that cannot be revisited without a suped-up delorean.

this more or less echoes my feelings about indiana jones and the kingdom of stephen spielberg’s bank account.  but that’s for another post.

-srd