Info
- Title:: Brink!
- Producer:: Greg Beeman
- Year:: 1998
- Runtime:: 99 min
Log
2023-02-22 chloe
i’d been meaning to rewatch this for years, but i guess i never got around to it?
and then i made chloe track down a download for me, but then we never watched it
and then i saw Commodifying Leisure pop up in my feed, and that reminded me that maybe we should actually get around to it.
- brink x val is such a ship.
- chloe said that brink reminded her of arin hanson. i said that he reminded me of beck hansen. truly, the one thing we can agree on is that he reminds us of some hanson.
- the commodifying leisure perspective is especially interesting now because i feel like, these days, the expectation is that we’re supposed to monetize our hobbies and passions in some form or another. everything has to be a side-hustle now, and things are often sold to us on the basis that they can become our new side-hustle.
- does this say something about the economic anxiety that is endemic to modern western society, where it feels like we’re perpetually one missed paycheck away from everything falling apart? it’s hard to say, but maybe it’s also telling that financial worries are what compels brink to join the x-blades.
- i think i used to tell people about how this was my childhood favorite movie, because extreme skating is cool.
- i remember more of the plot than i was expecting? or i remembered the general outline, and that scene where gabrielle eats shit.
- that scene was, uh, gorier than i was expecting a disney channel original movie to get
- this is absolutely a time capsule of the ’90s, in pretty much every way that matters. the fashion, the music, the lingo, the subject matter… if i ever had to explain to someone what the 1990s was like, i’d tell them that everyone looked and acted like this, and watched movies like this, and we loved them.
- the moral it goes with – that you’re defined by the company you keep and how well you treat them – is a genuinely good one. it’s one that i think, just maybe, i needed to hear right about now.
- as for the larger anti-commercialism messages, i can’t help but wonder how much those later influenced my decision to become a pissy anti-commercial artist.
- chloe pointed out that inline skating is surprisingly popular in korea, and maybe that’s what they were going for with that one comment about the secret skater being korean. i suspect that this film was made by people who were actually passionate about skating, and i really do appreciate that.