The Endless Summer

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Summary: Great scenery, even better movie
Review: "The Endless Summer" is a great movie to watch when you just want to relax and see a good movie. It's about a couple of surfers who go around the world trying to find the perfect wave. You'll see them travel to many places while they try to find the best surfing spots the world has to offer. Really, the movie's not completely about surfing, it's about being young and free and just enjoying yourself. I've been to the ocean several times, but I've never really tried to surf, but I really liked this movie. The scenery and photography is done as well as it could've been and the storyline is interesting and it will keep you watching the whole time without you getting bored any.

I recommend anybody to get "The Endless Summer."

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Summary: The Perfect Wave ---- A Beautiful Journey !
Review: "The Endless Summer" is truly a thing of beauty. Bruce Brown captures so much greatness -- the warmth of the sun, the ocean's vast power and the bond of friendship -- and ties it all up in a humorous and touching tale about surfing. We the audience are swept away to exotic locales -- Hawaii, Australia, and Africa --following the carefree journey of surfers Robert August and Mike Hynson. Undoubtedly the luckiest guys in the world, Mike and Robert goof to the max as Brown's hokey, but oh so funny narration keeps us entertained. In fact, throughout the film, we hear only Brown's voice and some really cool 60's surf instrumentals. I truly love "Endless Summer". It effectively captures a time and, perhaps, an innocence which is forever gone. Most of all, it captures our imagination. Who among us wouldn't trade our stressful lives for a life of endless sun, sand and surf? Until I can capture the peace of mind so beautifully expressed in "Endless Summer", I'll just have to watch the video over and over again. Enjoy it. Surf's up!

Rating:
Summary: Great scenery, even better movie
Review: "The Endless Summer" is a great movie to watch when you just want to relax and see a good movie. It's about a couple of surfers who go around the world trying to find the perfect wave. You'll see them travel to many places while they try to find the best surfing spots the world has to offer. Really, the movie's not completely about surfing, it's about being young and free and just enjoying yourself. I've been to the ocean several times, but I've never really tried to surf, but I really liked this movie. The scenery and photography is done as well as it could've been and the storyline is interesting and it will keep you watching the whole time without you getting bored any.

I recommend anybody to get "The Endless Summer."

Rating:
Summary: The Perfect Wave ---- A Beautiful Journey !
Review: "The Endless Summer" is truly a thing of beauty. Bruce Brown captures so much greatness -- the warmth of the sun, the ocean's vast power and the bond of friendship -- and ties it all up in a humorous and touching tale about surfing. We the audience are swept away to exotic locales -- Hawaii, Australia, and Africa --following the carefree journey of surfers Robert August and Mike Hynson. Undoubtedly the luckiest guys in the world, Mike and Robert goof to the max as Brown's hokey, but oh so funny narration keeps us entertained. In fact, throughout the film, we hear only Brown's voice and some really cool 60's surf instrumentals. I truly love "Endless Summer". It effectively captures a time and, perhaps, an innocence which is forever gone. Most of all, it captures our imagination. Who among us wouldn't trade our stressful lives for a life of endless sun, sand and surf? Until I can capture the peace of mind so beautifully expressed in "Endless Summer", I'll just have to watch the video over and over again. Enjoy it. Surf's up!

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Summary: AN ENDLESS CLASSIC
Review: A testament to the world of surfing, old-skool style. Funny and entertaining, and also a super geography/humanities lesson. It's worth the bucks. (Also check out The Endless Summer II...)

Rating:
Summary: AN ENDLESS CLASSIC
Review: A testament to the world of surfing, old-skool style. Funny and entertaining, and also a super geography/humanities lesson. It's worth the bucks. (Also check out The Endless Summer II...)

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Summary: Timeless
Review: Although the boards may change size, the wry humour sound a bit corny, the fashions change, the places they visited in the 1960s become more developed and lose their charm and innocence, the waves still break over the same points, the wind blows the same way, and will do so, long after the surfers have come and gone.

The movie follows a couple of surfers as they chase waves around the world in the burgeoning 'surf safari' culture that developed in the 1950s and 60s. This film led a whole new brand of adventurous surfers out to surf the world's remote places, to find their own little paradise, and of course, surfers still do.

It's charm is its innocence, and beauty, the thrill of searching wild places for the first time, and seeing different lands and cultures in the relatively innocent late 1950s and 60s.

Modern surfers will note such places now more well-known for their surfing in: SW Australia, Bells Beach (Victoria), Sydney, Cape St Francis (South Africa-there is an intersting side story here-see below), Raglan (New Zealand), Tahiti, and places still relatively unknown fo surfing: eg west Africa.

Their visit to Cape St Francis has an interesting side-story here. They were the first to surf it, thinking they had found a really fantastic and remote point break, when in fact an even better wave (one of the world's very best, if indeed not the best- outside perhaps Grajagan in Java, as most surfers think), was just around the corner at Jeffreys Bay. (I have surfed both J-Bay and Cape St Francis, and it is amazing that these two waves are so close to each other, and yet that they went half way round the world and unfortunately missed the far better one).

Innocent and full of charm and 60s-style rebellion, it is one for the collection, and to reminisce on times gone by. For the keen surfer it is definitely worth a look, especially if you plan to go on surfari-the spirit of adventure never changes.

The sequel (1994) is not rated as highly by some, but it has some good updated surf culture and surf spots such as: Tavarua, Grajagan, Burleigh, Elands Bay, Namibia, J bay (of course), Central America, and even Alaska (for the novelty, not the surf-even though Sitka has a spot rated highly-but very hard to get to-and very cold).

The 'endless summer' will continue, even after the surfers are gone.

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Summary: surfingislife
Review: As a lifelong surfer from the Pac. Coast, I have seen many surfing movies throughout my almost 40 years, and the Endless Summers can't be beat. Loved the original, and liked the second even better without "The Big Kahuna's" narrating and more unbelievable sites. Pat and Wingnut are sweet to watch in action in Endless Summer 2, and the destinations and action of the first were SO sweet to watch when it first came out. Must have watched the original 100s of times in high school and college, and it never got old. A must watch!

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Summary: The Seminal and Consummate Surfing Masterpiece
Review: As a So Cal native stuck for a time in DC, my recent purchase of the DVD version of Bruce Brown's 1964 work of art (i wore out the VHS) was like a breath of fresh air. The first (and one of the only) to really tell the story of surfing like it is, Brown captures waves that most of us can only dream of, while going to places no one had ever surfed before with a couple of eager 18 year old Californians and still gives a powerful yet light commentary on the beauty of the native cultures they visited. Anyone who sees this film cannot help but be drawn to the majesty and humbling thrill of the ocean and boardriding. True to their Dana Point, CA, roots, Brown--along with star Robert August--still today surf their local breaks. Mike Hynson and August were truly the luckiest guys of their time, able to live the dream of searching for the perfect wave all over the world. Shot with sincerity, passion, and innocence, Brown, August, Hynson, Greg Noll, and all the other guys and girls show the greatness of surfing in that era, along with an appreciation for the ocean and its culture. Anyone from a land-locked inlander to a geezer to a pro can't help but feel good after watching it. Add to that the original tunes of the Sandals and some funky tribal beats with Brown's honest, funny commentary and Mike and Robert's light-hearted fun, and you've got one of the reasons why surfing is so popular today. So do they find that perfect wave? You'll just have to watch it and see. Then get up and go surfing!

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Summary: 1966,Uof Hawaii,Free showing,Bruce B.in person,one of many
Review: Back in '66 , I was just a college student in Hawaii. LOVIN' it, surfing when ever we got the chance. Bruce would preview his short movies on surfing at the student union bldg. on campus. His films sparked the thrill of the surf scene. This movie shows us that age of inocence lost, when kids rode the waves and didn't make waves, was cool. Pre-Psychodelic for the kids on the west coast and especially in Hawaii, Bruce's love for the sport clearly comes through in this film. Buy it, watch it, and let it carry you back to a different time....