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Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
Brooke McCarter
- Tyler
- (as Brooke McCarter Jr.)
Gary Goodrich
- Skate Club Announcer
- (as Zachary)
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Great skateboarding movie for it's time but Rad and Gleaming the Cube were soooooo much better! Just can't give it more than a 7 ....
This was one of those not well talked about 80's gems. I loved it. Some of the acting was pretty corny but the leads were all good. Also some of the skating through town scenes went on a little long, but they were all exciting and worth watching.
The ending LA Massacre skate was pretty intense and very well done!
The ending LA Massacre skate was pretty intense and very well done!
THRASHIN' is The Movie! Everything is right in this '80 classic. There are greater movies. More profound movies. Movies of greater artistic vision or originality or political significance. There are other titles I would put above it on my list of the best films of all time. But when it comes right down to the movies we treasure the most, when we arelet us imagineconfiding the secrets of our heart to someone we think we may be able to trust, the conversation sooner or later comes around to the same nine words: "Well what do you thrash?" "What do you got!" Life shod be like Thrashin': not to complicated,with good friends,not so bad enemies,sweet girlfriend and YES a happy ending !!! My candidate for the best Hollywood '80. movie.Good race!!!
Corey is the golden boy of skating. But when he drops in on Captain Hook's family half pipe, road rash and gnarly pavement are the least of his worries. Corey's got the hots for Hooky's bodacious babe sister, Chrissy. But Corey is blinded by valley vision and he's not familiar with one of Daggertown's truisms – if you hang out here, you hang out with Daggers! Hook doesn't appreciate Corey ruining his show and anyone who knows Hook knows that Hook's show never stops. With the help of Monk the Punk and the other dirty Daggers, Hook is determined to keep Corey from playing kissy with Chrissy. But Corey is in over his head and he's about to find out that there are some games he just doesn't know how to play. When Hook challenges him to a game of joust, the odds are against him. It could be because, unlike Hook, he doesn't have a lock of his girlfriend's hair attached to an earing as a good luck charm. Hook won't be happy until Corey is just like break dancing, a memory! If Hook has to burn a ramp, get medieval in a half pipe or race the guy down a hill at sixty miles an hour to make that happen then he'll do it. Oh and by the way, that wild Indian picture happens to be stylin'!
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It doesn't matter if its a bad movie with bad 80's quality. It was after this movie that Europe started to get into some serious skating, including me as well ;) I'm sure that most of the living legends of skateboarding thinks this is a kick ass film. Its so 80's and that rules! BTW How many movies in the 80's where really good blockbusters? LOL. Well this movie has it all, skates, skaters, romance, cool 80's skate tricks, red hot chili peppers, and a hell of a romeo and juliet theme all over it. I have watched it like 300 times on a very bad copy VHS tape. Hehe to bad i doesn't have my old Powell Peralta board with kryptonics wheels still laying around. I recommend this movie to any and everyone. Hugs and kisses from me ;)
Did you know
- TriviaJesse Martinez: lying on the ground at the L.A. Massacre, with medics tending to his broken leg. His leg was really broken, and the medics were not actors.
- GoofsWhen Chrissy is showing her skateboard skills for Corey, she starts in a regular skateboard stance. After her tricks she stands in a goofy stance.
- Quotes
Tommy Hook: That wild Indian picture happens to be stylin', you don't know what you're talkin' about.
- Crazy creditsCatherine Hardwicke appears on-screen in the opening credits during her credit as Production Designer.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Makin' Thrashin' (2003)
- SoundtracksThrashin'
Performed by Meat Loaf
Written by Larry Frankland Lee, Alan Sacks and Jodi Micheli (as Jodi Sacks-Micheli)
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- Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA(As the Bronson Canyon halfpipe joust.)
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