Just about everything about that movie was horrible. The director and editors didnt even take the time to re shoot shots wher tricks went wrong but I can only assume they didnt want to take the time to get it right. The only good thing that really came from that movie was the fact that some pros got paid to shw off their skills. RAD was a horrible movie that exploited everything about our sport and gave nothing in return. Bill Allen was a hack back then and he still is now. I am only 24 so I didnt get to live through that era, but I would love to see this new generation of kids coming up to experience that awesomeness that the movie brought to alot of people here, especially myself who without that movie wouldnt be interested in this stuff at all. I am not a fan of the Fast and the Furious stuff but I did see all the movies they made just because people had them on or whatever, and using that as an example they made 2 sequels that failed hard, then brought back the original cast for the last movie they made and it was actually pretty decent, and it helps alot when you keep the original characters and actors. Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Bart Connors, etc. This was a sports movie when it was released, aging has turned it into a comedy.Leave what alone? TOO RAD? if they brought back the original people i.e. It’s a great document of era long gone and just fun to watch to see how serious it takes itself when all you get us scene after scene with guys and girls doing tricks on BMX bikes. With the right mindset Rad is an awesome movie. The bad guys are just a couple of local business men who try to keep someone out of a race. This is very strange because he looks just like Johnny Lawrence or even like Malfoy from Harry Potter, you really expect him to be evil. That’s is actually a very nice gesture of him, he could have just decided to keep on biking and win the thing. There is no “sweep the leg” in this apparent Karate Kid rip-off, quite the contrary in the final race he actually waits for Cru to catch up to him so they can go one on one. One would expect reigning champion Bart Taylor with his blond hair would be the antagonist, but he’s basically neutered and doesn’t do much. So the second act is basically a couple of kids and older townsfolk coming up with the money. Of course local hero Cru wins but then some of the organizers protest his participation in Helltrack and go to great lengths of denying him his earned position by coming up with rules like “You don’t have a sponsor” and “Oh you have a sponsor? Well then, he needs to make at least $40,000 a year in profit”. To make this event extra attractive for the local youth a race is organized for them of which the winner wins $10,000 and a place in the actual race. A small town is organizing a BMX race named Helltrack and the best BMX racers are invited to compete. The lengths the makers went to incorporate bikes in every scene, even when the lead boy and girl go out on a date which consists of them doing all sorts of tricks together and even landing their bikes in the water on purpose.Įven the story hardly makes any sense. I had a great 90 minutes just because this movie tries so hard to make something as silly as guys doing tricks on a BMX bike be so cool. It’s so dated, unrealistic, badly acted, and yet so much fun to watch. If there was ever a movie that defined guilty pleasure for me it’s this one. This guy rides his bike though the school corridors and even takes it with him to a school dance, a scene which ends up in what is most probably the most ridiculous dance scene ever, it’s also very funny because it takes itself so seriously. The end-result is a weird but very watchable movie which has a lead character, named Cru, that basically seems to see his BMX bike as his conjoined twin. Rad is an obscure movie cashing in on two trends at the time: BMX bikes and sports movies like Rocky and aforementioned Karate Kid. I’m still perfecting my Crane technique almost 30 years later. First rule of sports movies: have your protagonist fail at a certain technique at first so that in the final showdown all comes down to performing that technique with success. BIKES FROM RAD MOVIE HOW TOWhere The Karate Kid was a movie in which the actual character learned something, made progress and eventually came out on top with the help of some classic movie montages and John Esposito’s “You’re The Best”, Rad features a kid who already is the best BMX bike rider in town and the only obstacle he has to overcome is to learn how to do a back-flip, something which isn’t even used in the final race. Rad is generally described as The Karate Kid with BMX bikes which is only partially true.
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