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The Drifter

Post by Biggun » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:11 pm

anyone seen it?
wealthy westerner travels to indo to surf and comment on what idyllic lives people have in 3rd world countries and then farks off back to civilization
nice waves but too much irreverent seppo rambling IMO

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Re: The Drifter

Post by LONGINUS » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:19 pm

lol, after I saw the scene where Rob is supposedly 'drifting' through some seedy south east asian red light area and there is a buzzing neon sign with the 'Hurley' logo on it I laughed out loud, ejected my pirated copy and threw it in the bin.
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Re: The Drifter

Post by mical » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:34 pm

Interview with Machado in this months Stab with him being fairly forthcoming about how most of it's staged. You'd be naive to think it wasn't.

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Re: The Drifter

Post by LONGINUS » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:42 pm

It was a great concept and Rob's admissions mean that the door is still open for someone that really wants to do it properly. Sounds like an ideal Paul Witzig or Bruce Brown (back in the day) opportunity. At least they wouldn't have to stop filming every 10 minutes to get Rob to pretend to help dig out a ditch or something to shoot boardshort ads.

The Drifter is nothing short of arrogant exploitation IMO, not sure how much longer brands are going to get along by treating their core consumers as fcuking idiots.
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Re: The Drifter

Post by pridmore » Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:28 pm

maybe some are ??? the marketing bs has been fooling many for along time now, whats gunna change ???

Rob rips and does it alot of diff craft, thats why I wanna see it, not for any boardies ads and shite....

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Re: The Drifter

Post by Chillin » Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:47 pm

I bought the movie for same reasons as Prids says.
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Re: The Drifter

Post by LONGINUS » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:00 pm

Rob Ripping....

Image
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Re: The Drifter

Post by mical » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:31 pm

I liked it more than most of the surf porn that floods the market these days.

At least it attempted to be different :idea:

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Re: The Drifter

Post by LONGINUS » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:39 pm

True, but when you say 'different' in surf films I was hoping for Image or this Image

not this Image whoops..wrong Hurley.

I mean this...Image


Yeah!!! let them eat Mictory!
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Re: The Drifter

Post by twistedrifter » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:57 pm

Plagiarist. He stole that idea from me!

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Re: The Drifter

Post by WANDERER » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:15 pm

One California Day is a very nice film if you are after something different, yeah there's some longboarding in there, but what the hell, it's a nice concept and the editing and quality is top notch, so much so that even the second DVD with the out-takes makes bloody good viewing on it's own (especially the beachie left with the Currens - how it didn't make the cut I'll never know).

I am using it as day-dream fuel for my upcoming roadtrip through north america.

Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAX0r8oDg0

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Re: The Drifter

Post by oldman » Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:28 pm

I'll take a look at that Wands, immediately.
LONGINUS wrote:True, but when you say 'different' in surf films I was hoping for
"Zen and Zero"

The blurb says "gonzo film making at its best. Leave it to five landlocked Austrians to discover the true heart of west coast soul."

And it is, and they do.

Sorry, you won't see any notable or even good surfers in it, just a trippy road adventure down from California to Costa Rica.

So NOT mainstream, so NOT the same as every other surf movie I've ever seen.

Further blurb.

"This is the movie Bruce Brown would have made if he followed Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac down to Costa Rica with nothing in his board bag but super 8 film and Cuervo."

I think I will watch it again when I'm next bent, I think it would be enhanced by it.

Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IS0IQDJ7a8
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Re: The Drifter

Post by gibber » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:46 pm

Surf movies aren't targeted towards guys my vintage so I don't bother anymore.

Drifter sounds like a good concept but you would have to have your head firmly inserted to the second sphinter to think it wouldn't be a hillghly polished promotional vehicle (read: highly polished turd). I'd prefer to see guys like banksy or Doris documenting there travels through the archipelago of dutch east indies. Least it'd be more real and the barrel riding would be par excellence

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Re: The Drifter

Post by pridmore » Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:34 am

I just like watching good surfing

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Re: The Drifter

Post by gibber » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:09 am

pridmore wrote:I just like watching good surfing
I like watching good surfing too Mark. Just don't like it mixed with pseudo spiritualism and contived attempts at appearing 'hardcore'.
Basically I want a bottle of milk that tastes like milk

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Re: The Drifter

Post by WANDERER » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:29 am

gibber wrote:
pridmore wrote:I just like watching good surfing
I like watching good surfing too Mark. Just don't like it mixed with pseudo spiritualism and contived attempts at appearing 'hardcore'.
Basically I want a bottle of milk that tastes like milk
"this tastes like real milk but with only 2% fat" :P :lol:

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Re: The Drifter

Post by Davros » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:30 am

Watched Chasing Dora the other night and its pretty good.

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Re: The Drifter

Post by onawave » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:07 am

i quite liked it for its surfing. the barrel that rob gets at the end on lombok is frikken awesome.

for its other "acts" i thought it was good for what they were trying to achieve. my girlfriend really liked the entire movie, including the surfing. and for a non surfer to say this, i rekon thats pretty good.

she isnt the biggest fan of indonesia, and this helped explain why i love the place so much. EVEN though for us who have been there the movie seems well very setup etc, i thought steele and crew did a good job.

whats more interesting is that steele is releasing a drifter follow up of just the surfing that was filmed. now that will be good.

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