Thrashin'. The 1986 portrayal of an up and coming young skaterboarder (Josh Brolin), trying to win the famed, "LA Massacre" downhill competition. Because he's from, "the valley," he almost immediately gets into it with the local skateboarding punks known as, "The Daggers." He finds adventure and love on his way to the top, but will an injury collapse his dreams? Find out.
This is maybe one of the cheesier movies I've ever seen now that I'm watching it and am no longer an impressionable little bastard in the 1980s. Even still for nostalgia purposes, it was awesome because it's exactly what California was like in the 80s.
One of my favorite exchanges from the movie:
Girl from Indiana: God those kids are crazy. Back home you don't see that kind of stuff; just frat parties and homecoming games.
Brolin: They're just thrashers. They're all right.
Girl from Indiana: Thrashers? They sounds like vandals or juvenile delinquents--troubled youth.
Brolin: Noooooo, no. Thrashin'. It's just an agressive style of skating. You know... We... Thrash.
Girl from Indiana: Well what do you thrash.
Brolin: What do you got?
AWESOME.
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