When I first watched Gleaming The Cube probably twenty years ago, I was highly excited by this farce. I liked it so much I probably watched it everyday for a week, hell maybe even a month. Then once I had finished watching I'd take my skateboard round to my friends then we'd head down to school, climb onto the long flat roof and skate around for hours rein-acting scenes from the film. Gleaming The Cube was just one of many films that had us acting like this in our youth.
Having just finished watching Gleaming The Cube for the first time in years I realised two things. 1. It doesn't have the same hold over me as it once did (but really why should it? I'm not ten anymore). 2. It isn't anywhere near as bad as some of the reviews I've read over the years.
Starring one of my all time favourites 'Christian Slater' in the lead role of Brian and starring no-one else worth mentioning, Gleaming The Cube is without doubt the best skateboard/mystery/drama that the world has ever produced. Slater spends his usual amount of time trying to pull of intense 'Jack Nicholson' style faces, but that's one of the things I always loved about him.
When Brian's stepbrother is found dead, the police say its suicide but Brian thinks different, so he sets out on his skateboard and tries to solve the mystery of his death. That's basically it as far as plot goes, but the film is carried forward with chase scenes and skateboarding action.
All in all it's everything an 80's skateboarding film should be. And I like it.
Having just finished watching Gleaming The Cube for the first time in years I realised two things. 1. It doesn't have the same hold over me as it once did (but really why should it? I'm not ten anymore). 2. It isn't anywhere near as bad as some of the reviews I've read over the years.
Starring one of my all time favourites 'Christian Slater' in the lead role of Brian and starring no-one else worth mentioning, Gleaming The Cube is without doubt the best skateboard/mystery/drama that the world has ever produced. Slater spends his usual amount of time trying to pull of intense 'Jack Nicholson' style faces, but that's one of the things I always loved about him.
When Brian's stepbrother is found dead, the police say its suicide but Brian thinks different, so he sets out on his skateboard and tries to solve the mystery of his death. That's basically it as far as plot goes, but the film is carried forward with chase scenes and skateboarding action.
All in all it's everything an 80's skateboarding film should be. And I like it.