The Washington Post declares "Who wants to sit and watch 90 straight minutes of surfing?"
I think there is one, and only one, thing that surfers universally agree upon (aside from Italo Ferreira) and that is The Endless Summer is a very good film. It is fun, interesting, well shot and well cast. Bruce Brown, Mike Hynson, Robert August and the whole world sparkled beyond. I remember watching it for the first time, as a young boy, and wanting to be Mike Hyson more than anybody on earth. Cool, stylish, Californian.
Matt Warshaw, in his work of art The Encyclopedia of Surfing (subscribe here!) writes:
Long-celebrated surf moved made by California filmmaker Bruce Brown; originally screened on the beach city surf circuit in 1964, two years before it was put into general release, where it became a surprise critical and commercial hit. “A brilliant documentary,” a New Yorker review said of Brown’s deceptively simple $50,000 film, “perfectly expressing the surfing spirit. Great background music. Great movie. Out of sight.” Just a handful of surf movies are thought of as first rate; Endless Summer alone is regarded as a surfing masterpiece.
But the newspaper that took down Richard M. Nixon disagrees. In a recent Washington Post editorial mocking surfing the writer declares:
By the way, are you folks familiar with “The Endless Summer”?
I used to co-host “Reel Classics,” ESPN Classic’s weekly sports-movie presentation, with fabulously funny comedian Jeff Cesario. Just when Jeff and I thought we ran out of sports films, we discovered “The Endless Summer,” a 1966 documentary on surfing.
Who wants to sit and watch 90 straight minutes of surfing? I mean, I guess it beats watching 90 straight minutes of Rob Schneider in “Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo,” but, man oh man, freebasing Orville Redenbacher and Jack Daniel’s couldn’t save this baby for me.
Ouch. I suppose it would sting more if the writer didn’t try to be witty at the end but still. Unnecessary.
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Don’t worry I’m on the phone with Frank Underwood as I write this.
You’re trying a little to hard and not really amusing anyone other than yourself. Please aim a little higher
Yeah, because watching a baseball game is so exciting.
with such a broad generalisation like that do you prefer to be called, fuckwit or cunt , sir
dear Washington Post , Who wants to sit and read 90 straight pages of bullshit? but i do like the idea of freebasing jack daniels and popcorn
No, no. This is good. I want people like this squirrel to not get it. That’s part of what makes it special.
Typical Washington DC putz… can’t watch 90 minutes of surfing but spends 3 hours enthralled every Sunday watching the fucking Redskins lose, again, and again…
Send him to the packing line!
Sometimes on a flight I’ll pretend to read the Washington Times in a failed attempt to impress a sky waitress. So far I am 0 for 15 (minus the one fingering session on a Taca flight when I was 25).
It’s more the fucked up postage rates from the US that get me. You should move into global transport with Elon and sort it out.
You won’t be seeing to anything with that lazy eye!
If feel the same about listening to Australians talk. After 90 min. of listening to stupid comments like “is he the guy in the orange rashie” and hearing everyone called some form of a name ending in “o” I’m ready to kill somebody… somebody from Australia.
alright, well, first things first here… where are you from? please don’t say the US.
True about the Australian speech impediment, but their women are smokin hot, in that I’m not gonna try too hard kind of way, and cool with being naked.
The accent on our women sounds rough as guts usually.
Agree. I’m Australian. Generally, we are loud, annoying cunts mostly. I stopped talking years ago because the accent is so grating. Same could be said of sepppos too.
As the song goes, “we’re cunts but we’re not fucking cunts”!
Sort out your Australian Amazon arm as well! Shocking!
Sweet, then next get on a Waco-style surf dome on Lake Union!
Do you see what Kelly sees?
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90 mins – FB going to be epic fail once everyone decides to check other things after 10mins on their accounts. BUT Zuckerberg rubbing fingers together and Sophie will just count “hits” as success.
REBEL tour here we come!!
How come it’s taken 54 years the review it , surfing really must be hitting the mainstream of the USA now
Wait until he sees In God’s Hands…
90 minutes seems like a refreshing sip of pure bliss after two weeks of lay days, safety surfing, and ‘89 world champs.
Timely, I look forward to his review of Jungle Book, 1967.
“Racist, and unrealistic depiction of animal behavior”
Woodward & Boredstein