RAD: The Raddest (and Only?) BMX Racing Movie - Rental Reviews
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- James Rolfe discusses movies with pals Justin Silverman, Tony from Hack The Movies and Kieran. Today the topic - A BMX bike movie called Rad from 1986. Is it bad or is it RAD?
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"thunder in your heart" and "break the ice" are amazing songs
Nothing beats the send me an angel scene.
John fernham man
@@cfhcowboy9292 Farnham ;)
I loved this movie as a kid, and it influenced me to push my mom for a new BMX bike. I have probably watched this movie 50 times!
Nothing says Friday like a trip to the Video Store
Christopher Martin Right?!? I think that’s why they upload these on a Friday. I remember growing up and I couldn’t wait til the weekend when I could rent one movie and one Nintendo or Sega game. FYI, I was born in 1979 so I’m probably a dinosaur to kids watching this
Yeah, I didn't realize how much my childhood conditioned me to video rental on Fridays until I had my own kids and suddenly I was instinctively going to Redbox on Fris
I'm really glad you brought this up, this was a common trend to hit the Eagle Video (local independently owned video store) right after pops came home from work. Must have been because payday was an easily justifiable excuse to rent a few flicks.
What else is there to do in Voorhees?...love the new series James
Christopher Martin true
You gents are obviously too young, BMX was HUGE in the 80’s!!!
They are from the 80s
they just played to much video games ;)
I bet you remember seeing Gleaming the Cube. I know I do.
@@JonGee420 wat the hell is that???
@@benconway9010 only the most bodacious and rad sk8r movie of the 80s
I saved money for a long time to get a BMX bike after watching this movie. I still have the bike.
I ended up getting a mongoose freestyle because of this movie.
what is it?
Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central what bike did you get man? Come on.
I got the 1988 GT pro performer. Best bike ever.
Mine always got stolen... :(
"Send Me an Angel" is my favorite 80s song. This movie introduced me to it so it'll always be worth something to me!
The Wizard introduced me to that song. 🤔
That song sucks
@@randalgraves6979 same
2019 and still watch this movie a couple times a year. Found out about it when I was a kid after getting a used 1987 GT Performer from an older cousin and he told me to rent this movie
Those of us who were a certain age when this movie came out love it. This was a huge part of my childhood.
The movie is deeper than they understand. Only 2 people truly see Cru's talent before he beats Bart Taylor; Kristen and the Duke Best. Kristen does everything to try and inspire him, and Best does everything to try and stop him.
Who's Kristen?
Christian!
I don't really consider that depth, it's just the plot of a cheesy movie.
Skateboarding not big? Thrashin'? Gleaming the Cube?
skateboarding got bigger in the 90's when everyone got the damned popsicle decks
Animal chin?!!!
Skateboarding was regional in the 80s, not national. Do your research.
@@voidremoved it actually went down in the 90s
Police Academy 4
My daycare had two films, Rad & Beaches. Guess what the all female staff made us watch every week for an entire summer? Not Rad.
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We had the Ewoks movie. Good times.
They couldn’t afford a copy of the Goonies?!.....Was Sloth too scary for preschoolers..😄
My daycare's go-tos were Ernest Goes to Camp and Willy Wonka.
Maybe..... I wasn’t alive in the 80s or 90s but when I was showing my video game collection to my 40 year old cousin she saw my copy of Goonies II for original Nintendo, had a bit of a nostalgia rush because she hadn’t seen the movie in forever, and was like “Sloth isn’t in that game is he? He always creeped me out as a kid”. This made me laugh because the Goonies was my favorite movie as a 7-year old. Made sure to explain to her about how there was a Goonies 1 game for arcades that followed the movie almost to a tee and sloth wasn’t even in THAT one.
I was sitting in the bleachers when they filmed the Hell track race scene.
I was standing on the bleachers, asserting my dominace when they filmed that scene too
@@Pancaketophat T T T T
i was still in my dads balls
I didn't see a robot there though...did i miss something?
Seriously?! That's Rad! Lol but seriously that's really cool, I loved this movie, I was young but it really had me hooked. Thrashin' is another really good one. Gleaming the cube too lol damn I miss the 80s-90s, I might of been kinda young but knew what was up lol!!!
i used to watch RAD on VHS all the time in my youth.
i still love its RADness.
10/10 would Ass Slide to it anytime.
BMX prom dancing. nuff said.
Rod and Rex spitroasted that freak. You know it happened LOL.
LOVED this movie as a kid, and I still enjoy it now. Somewhere I came across a 1080i version on DVD that someone made I think from a dish or directv showing or something. My uncle was into BMX and even made a replica of the ramp Cru is trying to backflip on. BMX Bandits has its place, but I think taking riders and having them act was better than taking actors and trying to turn them into BMX riders. Soundtrack is great on Rad, the stunts are great, the riding is real, and yeah maybe it's a nostalgia trip for me, but it's still worth watching if you haven't seen it.
Gleaming the cube... skateboard movie with Christian skater in mid 80's... also about a murder.. would make a great rental review
Robert Brentzel that was a good one
It’s one of the most accurate too. Tony Hawk did stunt work for it.
When my friends and I were in our skater phase , we wore that tape out.
Flea
Fun fact: the gray jumpsuits the twin bros wear are reused wardrobe from the 1980's TV miniseries 'V' and its sequels.
Back in my day you weren't cool unless you raced BMX bikes
this still applies to today
@@jonnie2bad i still got my Haro with the purple rims and matching bear trap pedals
I always wanted Haro Master back in the day. I had a GT Performer with those sweet rims.
+rangoononline yeah, both were awesome bikes, but the Haro Master was just so damn expensive. Same goes for Skyway and Hutch.
Our neighborhood was all about the Vision Skate Wear and doing tricks off of homemade ramps. We were trying our best to be as radical as possible on tight budgets..😄
When I was a kid, I lived in a group home and we had like 3 VHS tapes and this was one of them, so I have seen this movie probably 700+ times.
This was filmed in and around Calgary, Alberta, including the neighborhood called Bowness.
I used to live there, and this movie blew all of our minds with how *rad* they made our home seem.
Fun movie!
It's a true Mark in Canadian film making history, proving that Canadians can be rad too
I was unaware this film existed. Let alone filmed where I live.
Nobody cares
@@fastestdino2 No nation's potential radness was ever in doubt.
My dad watched that movie as a kid thousands of times and we loved it when he showed us and I mean it’s like 10 ten favourite movies type thing and I like just came back from Calgary and I just told my dad where it was filmed and now we are like Whattt?????!!!
As someone who rode BMX in the 90’s and 2000’s, my friends and I LOVED this movie for all its cheesy and sappy glory. For all the reasons the rental review guys say they don’t like it, all my friends and I got so much joy out of this movie!
RIGHT ON
You tried to touch your elbows too didn't you?
CosmeFulanito476 yes, lol 😂
I succeeded lol
No, I licked mine.
Dammit! Yes.
Yeah. Learned I could.
You don't remember BMX from the '80s? WHAT? Everyone had a BMX when I was a kid. I had a BMX!
I raced BMX in the 80's! This movie was my life!!!
I didn't grow up with BMX bikes around me lol skateboards and motorless scooters sure, not those kind of bikes. We had bikes, just don't recall BMX bikes 🙂
The only thing they know about BMX is Paperboy.
Not one of the people in this video did anything related to sports as a kid. They ALL were movie and game nerds. Not the BMX demographic.
@@Odious_One exactly 💯
these guys are just a little too young to remember but this is a cult classic for those born in the early to mid 70s. Right before video games, bmx was huge. Even this year there was a recreation of the track from the movie and had the star there. google Helltrack 2018... It's 32 years later!
Born in 85, this movie has a special place in my heart.
I was the target audience for Rad when it opened, was into BMX, and super-hyped to see it. I fucking hated it.
Dregory Dewhard exactly!!! 😉 We didn't watch these movies for the plot. We watched them to learn how to do the tricks. No RUclips back then, this was the only way. 😅
feel bad for ya..you might be more into inline skates lol
yep..you had a bmx..you watched this movie along with other Freestyle videos ordered out of BMX magazines..you went out and rode your bike ALL DAY..You either lived the life and "got it"...or you were unlucky enough to be super lame and didnt..lol
Bribing people to get your kids into elite colleges is so RAD!.😎
YES!!! I ACTUALLY saw this in the theatre... I wear that as a badge of honor, as I'm pretty sure it got a theatrical release window of about 12 hours. ;)
Hope GLEAMING THE CUBE is on the list for upcoming reviews somewhere :) THANKS!!!
That movie is fucking awesome
If only there was a cinemassacre rental store.
But the video tells you the location of the store though.
But it's in the Voorhes Memorial center next to Caldor
@@XxWolfcastlexX what's caldor is that He-man?
Daniel Yerke tbh I don't really know. I'm not an 80s or 90s kid, from the bit of He Man I've watched though I get the feeling they are not related at all
EDIT: Quick Google search returned a 90s discount store.
@@XxWolfcastlexX oh ok that makes sense thankya
Oh come on , Rad wasnt that bad ... and yes it is cheesy as hell but the races and the stunts are awesome
They suck
My favourite stunt it when they fall on their asses what a cool stunt
@@sneakysnake7695 you're so edgy
In memory of Burt Reynolds you should do Cop And A Half(1993) next
Agreed
No, in memory of ROGER EBERT ...
it's a legit good film.
If any Reynolds movie, it has to be Deliverance
poor burt
The twins' suits at the dance are from the "V" miniseries.
You guys should try Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater from '89. A bunch of teen skaters take down a crime ring and Rodney Mullen does all the skate tricks!
I'm gonna be that guy*. TECHNICALLY, he only does the up close freestyle tricks where Christian Slaters boards magically turns to a freestyle board while he's Gleaming (the cube).
Sorry for being that guy. You also see Rodney Mullen for like 4 seconds doing the freestyle thing in Breakin'.
is that the one where a young tony hawk works for pizza hut?
I loved his buddy's little hideout
Joey Victorio I loved Gleaming the Cube, last time I saw it was on TV and it was called “A Brother’s Justice.”apparently it was also known as “Skate or Die.”
A SUPER YOUNG tony hawk was in that movie.
They have a 4k version coming out. They have finally sent me an angel!
Here's hoping someone in the store is a skateboard fan because we've got Gleaming the Cube w/ Christian Slater & Thrashin' w/ Josh Brolin.
Classics. Gonna go watch gleaming the cube right now
saigrimm Thanks to the internet I now know what Gleaming the Cube means. So damn cryptic. They should have gone with Skate or Die.
Liked gleaming the cube as a kid. And I didn’t even skateboard.
I loved Gleaming the cube
It must be Friday... because me and everyone else is cueing up our copies of Gleaming The Cube
The face James makes when he says "how many BMX movies can there be?" Is so pure, I absolutely love this series.
Rad was one of my favorite movies growing up. I was born in 1982 and remember watching this from a local video rental store. As for a skateboarding movie watch the movie gleaming the cube. That one was great. Also a motorbike movie that was good was the movie called dirt bike kid
Promise me you’ll do “UHF” with Weird Al some day.
rented this so much as a child
Same
I was born in 82.
At least 20 times. Why I didn't just buy it.
My friends owned it. We watched it all the time when we couldn't ride LOL.
I agree it's cheesy, but it's also totally awesome! When I was 7-9 years old, I probably rented this movie 200 times... I injured myself many times attempting to emulate the tricks performed in RAD... I saved for years to buy a Haro because of this movie! I liked BMX before RAD hit, but this movie made my love for BMX eternal, because it's woven into the fabric of my childhood.
Thunder in your heart, send me an angel, RAD has some RAD songs!
Guts Puck that's rad dude
These are becoming my favorite videos at the moment, just dudes hanging out in a video store (James's basement). Good times.
My dad rented this movie for me FROM THE GAS STATION!!! Remember when your corner store or gas station could rent movies? We actually had to sign up and pay to rent from the corner gas station back in 1988. He brought "Rad" and "Adventures In Babysitting" home. One's a classic, the other, not so much. I do remember watching this movie though, back when I was 6 or so.
Are you really Thor? (They're both fine movies)
"Cause there's thunder in your heeaaarrrrrt. Every mooooove is like liiiiightning!"
🤘🏻🙌🏻🎶
Great episode, but I think you missed two big points about this movie: #1 It had Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner - that alone is worth discussion. However point #2 is a far bigger omission: this movie was Directed by the great Hal Needham! Smokey and the Bandit! Cannonball Run! Hooper! Megaforce! C'mon guys, this film is noteworthy for its Director more than anything
Considering Hal Needham was Burt Reynolds stunt double and directed some of his most famous films, its seems like an odd omission. Although this video was posted a day after the announcement of Burt Reynold's death.
These videos are recorded a month in advance
you left out his greatest ouvre d'art: 'Body Slam' LOLz
It's a discussion about the movie, not a list of everything associated with it.
Agreed. I scanned most of the comments and you are the only other to notice Bart.
How have you not reviewed the 90s classic airborne. That is prime fodder🤣
Y’all better put some respect on “Rad’s” name!!! Also “Thrashin” was the skateboard equivalent of this movie. I LOVE both of them!!!
I love thrashin also...i actually own it on dvd..josh brolin the star of it actually hated it so much after he made it he gave up acting for several years in the late 80s-mid 90s..
this was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I had my parents rent it for me multiple times.
I would love this series as a podcast
It basically is haha. Just close your eyes.
Billiam same. 100% same.
😍 yeesss
teamstarpug key words were "as a series". This is one episode.
Austin Dude, they've done several Rental Review episodes so far.
Rad was huge in my childhood. One of my favorite movies! Lori Loughlin was hot as hell, too.
Damn this movie was a HUGE part of my childhood! They need to bring Hell Track back!!!
The did a couple of months ago. An exact replica!
"Beam me up" is simply because the storekeeper has that bad Scottish accent.
Keep these commin. 3 ninjas, sidekicks, cobra, all the 90s freshness
This film was made in 1986
Surf Ninjas
and Encino Man, and Bio Dome and...
Please keep doing these guys I have enjoyed these just as much as avgn. Thank you
These series is one of the few i dont check the video lenght or pay mind how soon it's til it ends 🙏🙏🙏🐜
THIS series IS...is wat i meant o.O
James, you're my favorite RUclipsr, you have inspired me to choose film as my career. Thank you, man, really.
Holy beef...
Wow. Get off his nuts
Ive met James 4 times! He’s the nicest, coolest, genuine guy. He’s been a huge inspiration in my life too
my abode is adorned with photos of the good Rolfe himself
He is a bit of the gold-standard as far as RUclipsrs go. I agree.
That Tony guy could not have been less enthused... I found it distracting to be honest.
RAD was such a fun movie and had one of THE BEST SOUNDTRACKS EVER!!!!
indeed
I never saw this one, but I saw Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater.
I saw 'Gleaming the Cube' at the cinema, but I'll be damned if I can remember anything about it.
Rocky
Karate Kid- Rocky of karate
Rad-Rocky of BMX
Thrashin-Rocky of Skateboarding
North Shore- Rocky of surfing
Side Out- Rocky of Men's beach volleyball
Airbourne- Rocky of Inline Skating
Rad is not bad
Rad Is not bad. Is crap. (If you Like it cool. I just wanna to say that)
but don't break it
The fact that you say that makes me Glad but it makes me Sad that it's not Bad in like an 80s way.
It does have "Thunder In Your Heart" by John Farnham though.
Dude every one was killing it stunt wise
I loved this movie growing up.
Airborne from 1993 is a good movie too
Rad was one of my best movies in the late 80s🤔
Agreed!!!!
Mine too. Is it me or they totally bashed Rad? Lol well look at that them lol Everyone except the AVGN, don't look like if they ever rode a bike
"I'm sure there's some kind of skateboard movie-" Holy crap, kick that guy out of the damn store
fununcle I’m a big fan of “{Hot Rod}because I’m like 2 years old, and can’t appreciate some of the good in a movie”.
@@indianajohns8943 exactly
I would say something about the large guy saying he didn't know much about BMX growing up in the 80s... and point out an obvious possible reason... but nah.
That said growing up in the 80s while I didn't know a lot about the "pro" scene of things, I did know a good amount about the bikes because I road them everywhere as a kid... back when you could do that it seems.
Yeah because you can't do it now it's illegal.
Now it’s on 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome. :) it’s Glorious.
Rad is great, but not as sweet as Airborne.
Gleaming the cube >
wstine79 you are wrong.
Love airborne.
Is Airborne that roller blade 90s movie where they race down that big hill at the end???
@@jesseswarbrick7895 Devil's Backbone to be exact
21:39 Pogs were my shit back in the day! I used to have a huge collection of them with slammers omg! (So much nostalgia here ever!)
Sorry, I'm stopping this video to watch Rad. Never seen that, really want to see it now.
I LOVE this movie. Great soundtrack!! "Getting ready to break the ice!!"
State of the art database software. 💓
Which version of DOS might it be running on?
@@theharbingerofconflation I think is Basic
You can't really tell what it's written in but I doubt it runs solely on an interpreter as this is at least an 8080 and not James's C64. I think either MS-DOS, CP/M or it's just a screenshot xD
You guys should do the 1989 classic Gleaming the Cube where a young avid skateboarder played by Christian Slater uncovers a government conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.
That movie is awesome
I discovered this movie in the 80's, along with The Dirt Bike Kid. Love them both and still watch them today. Yes, they're cheesy but it's good cheese, in my opinion. Oh, and Winners take all. Another good one.
Winners Take All! No one ever brings that up. All those pop culture movies of the 80s are so awesome. Thrashin, Gleaming The Cube, Dirt Bike Kid.
Thanks for mentioning the Dirt Bike Kid. I'd forgotten about that movie.
Omg, dirt bike kid!!!!! I used to love this as a kid and somehow forgot about this. I'm going to go watch right now! Thanks !!
@@cabaldwin3 You're welcome. I think I'll watch it after while too.
I watched all those as a kid and would watch them over and over. Loved those movies. I also watched stand by me a lot as well.
Also see 'The Dirt Bike Kid' (which came out around the same time as Rad). There's 'Gleaming the Cube' and 'Thrashin' if you want 80's skateboarding movies. I remember the 80's and early 90's being big on skiing movies too.
I have to put this suggestion in caps, but please do THE GUYVER review!!
The sequel wasn’t as fun but it didn’t suck. Oh well. Stryker was the best. Dynomite...
I LOVED this movie as a kid!!! It was more about seeing the tricks and jumps then running out and trying it on your BMX. Bitd before the internet you had to rely on movies like this to learn something new or know that it was possible to do it.
Next review: "Gleaming the Cube"
Seems like a lot of the points these guys “came up with” were lifted directly from The How Did This get made podcast from a few months ago on Rad. Same thing with the Surf Ninjas review.
SEND ME AN ANGEL was also used in the Jason Bateman movie Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Yeah the 80's had BMX Bandits, Rad, and Pee-wee's Big Adventure for BMX. Also, Rad has Send Me an Angel which was in The Wizard also a classic.
You HAVE to watch the 80's skateboard movie THRASHIN' if you haven't! It has so many big/cult actors and a live performance by Red Hot Chilli Peppers!
“Hulk Hogan eat your heart out!”
Talia Shire's husband at the time, Jack Schwartzman, owned the company (Taliafilm) that produced Rad.
Talia produced it with him uncredited. I think her "Rocky IV" salary went into this. I know her salary for "Rocky III" went into "Never Say Never Again."
One of my favorite movies of all time. The reason I owned a mongoose. I probably watched it 100 times.
I'm assuming mongoose is a bike, not the creature.
You should do a chopping mall or gleaming the cube episode
Holy shit,, chopping mall,,,way back in the day,,laserdisk
Gleaming the cube is rad as f
Skateboard movie - Gleaming the Cube with 1989 Christian Slater
Rlloerblade movie - Prayer of the Rollerboys with 1990 Corey Haim
Ok guys, I was 13 when this movie came out, and it was amazing!! I loved it. BMX was hot at the time.There were freestyle comps and dirt track races all over the place. I remember going to the bookstore and begging my mom to buy me a BMX magazine. Everyone in school was talking about this movie and loved it! This is a movie , that if you were a teen in the 80's YOU 100% KNOW AND LOVED THIS FILM!! This wasnt some unknown movie that no one knew about! Skatrebording was getting big at the same time too. Tony Hawk was skating for Powell Peralta with the legendary Bones Brigade. This was a convergence of pop culture that would eventually lead us to the X Games. Any way, if you talk about rad you gotta talk about thrashin !! They go so well together. I fell you cant talk about one with out talking about the other. They need to be box set..lol
I was born in 79 so I remember this movie being a pretty big deal growing up (even though I never saw it) and skate boarding was pretty popular in the 80's far as i remember
Man, BMX was booming when this came out when I was a kid. We watched it a ton of times. It's crap, but when you were a kid into doing tricks on your bike? These crap movies are the only way you get to see these tricks get done in those days. Otherwise it's just pictures in a magazine. Thrashin' and RAD were my childhood.
I love this movie to death and I don't care who knows it. Taking my VHS to the coffin with me.
I love spending Friday afternoons at the Cinamassacre Video Store
Glad I’m not the only one with that “oh god no why are they touching, that’s terrible” reaction to the elbows. It’s like touching nails to each other.
thunder in your heart was opening song in TURBO KID as well and fits perfectly. TURBO KID is awesome
I was going to say Rad did finally get a blue ray release but they just remastered it to 4K and you can buy it in Apple TV. Maybe one day they will give us what the people want.
That guy on the far left needs to get KO'd. This movie is a classic if you grew up then, besides, Lori Loughlin.. She was the original Kelly Kapowski
Agreed. That dude's a jackass in all these reviews.
Geez nostalgia sure is powerful. This looks awful.
It’s great 80’d nostalgia..that I saw 5 years ago and loved. Go watch Rug Rats the movie, if you don’t like it.
Every kid wanted a BMX bike in the 80's to ride around and get permanent scars on their elbows and knees attempting tricks. (We didn't need no pads back then!) We used the trick pegs on the rear and front axles to haul passengers. All one had was solid plastic frame wheel rims and front and back hand brakes along with being able to spin the handlebars 360 degrees. I got a cheap Huffy but hey I was still happy and must have put a thousand miles on the thing. Everyone rode bikes back in the day-kinda sad to see not many kids doing it or when they do their parents make them put motocross armor on. We learned how to ride by realizing the more we crashed, the more painful the learning experience would be.
Everyone with a skateboard and boombox (that took 6 or 8 'D' batteries) would play 'Send Me An Angel' while skateboarding in the park.
James Robert I was part of that bike culture, but still put my kids in helmets. Saved my daughter's life when she clipped a curb following me down a hill. I kept the cracked helmet for years as a reminder. Not a lot you can learn if your brains are splattered across a sidewalk.
You guys neeed to do Thrashin now
7:43 "Send Me An Angel is by Real Life, not Real Talk 👍🏻
I guess BMX and 80’s music isn’t their expertise.
Yep
Do Dirt Bike Kid
Beat me to it.
I was born in 1980. Where I grew up in New York this movie was like a holy grail. We were all big into Mongoose bikes with the spokes for tricks on the back tires. None of us were any good, but we idolized this movie for some reason. The bike dance scene...wow. Edit: Fun fact....Talia Shire actually owns the rights to the movie and has tried to shop around for people to make a sequel.
Bmx bandits was trash! RAD is great cult film loved it as a kid my son now loves it & I always though that Rod and Todd could have been cast as the Gi Joe Cobra twins.
Love them both
How DARE you!
Everyone check out this square, talkin' shit about BMX Bandits...
Yeah east coasters talking about SoCal culture, they just don't understand how huge this movie is.
I love RAD. My cousin and I would watch this and Gleaming the Cube all the time. Laurie Laughlin was hot and that send me an angel song is great! I would rather watch this than Star Wars: Rey Rules The Galaxy any day of the week.
You kinda had to see this movie during its era. It was perfect for its time. I love it, even though i know it is super cheesey and full of cliches. The music was awesome esp thunder in your heart and send me an angel.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up, I used to rent this every weekend from my local video store.