Big Wednesday

Right-wing politics in the guise of a surfing movie.

A silly movie that treats this story of three California surfers like some kind of modern-day Greek myth, but mostly works just because it's just so damn sincere

Perfect coming of age, end of innocence, buddy movie. A little misogynistic (sp?) but that's Milius all over. Plus points for the Keola Beamer / Bail Poledouris soundtrack

The best part is the draft-board scene.

Milius's epic-scale treatment of three surfing buddies and their California Casual lifestyle is always pleasantly absurd, but its most side-splitting possibilities, in the mock-heroic mode, are not realized until the lugubriously nostalgic second half, when the three blond beachniks must face up to the problems of Aging, the Changing Times, and finally the mightiest set of waves ever to pound the West Coast.