Christian Slater is out for some get-back in this 80's skater classic with a wacky title. Gleaming. This is what the movie comes down to. Whatever gleaming is its awesome and all skaters do it, or did about twenty years ago. Watched this often as a child and it helped propel, sustain, my skateboarding throughout the careless 80's into the carefree 90's and on and on. I still skate and conjure up images from the film when I'm in a helicopter scoping out some killer bowls or when I'm skitchin off Tony Hawk's Pizza Hut delivery truck, which happens quite often. The movie follows Slater as he tries to connect the dots of his brothers murder. Adopted as he may-be Slater nonetheless goes on a crusade that includes pool halls, weapons cache's and in true 80's fashion a geek to chic makeover scene that has to be witnessed to be real. So along the way there are some truly rad sessions from street to vert to freestyle. The scene with him skating mad through the warehouse is probably my favorite, but to nail down one thing alone i like about this movie would be an impossibility. Slater looked cooler in this movie then he has before or since and everyone on film cash's in a good performance to back him up. Plenty of twists and turns and mctwists as well so strap on your kneepads and take an acid drop off a high building of interest into this movie. You will not be let down. Slater ill never let you down girl! Ten skirts.

this movie is iconic for the 90's and the entire skate boarding era. I will admit I am 28 and have been watching it just about daily since it has been out. my fab cousin taught me how to skate board when i was a youngin' and I have been hooked ever since. If any one that is a true skater and has not seen this movie they need to re-evaluate their priorities and get it done. NOTHING BEATS THIS skate film period. Tony Hawk is hysterical in his lanki-ness and cuteness and hair cut, really? Hey there's my pizza hut! I have been obsessed with this movie since it came out and have been introducing it to many a young-en and older my entire life. Everyone thanks me for the introduction and doesn't understand why it was not more widely promoted. Thank goodness for the followers. My entire family was searching for the DVD for me and the sound track for years before they found one and at a reasonable $40. I recommend any chance you have to get a glimpse, do it!

As anyone knows who has seen it, "Gleaming the Cube" is not on par with Citizen Kane or a film with A-list acting, but what it does do is capture the "zeit geist"(I think thats how its spelled?) of the late 80's. It captures the "spirit of the time" in a way that few other movies have, maybe Thrasher, but that movie is almost impossible to find. I remember five of my skater buddies and I pooling our money together to get the movie. It was one of those movies we could watch over and over. We loved the skating! Christian Slater's "fuck off" attitude didn't hurt either. We would watch that movie and then go out and skate for hours, it was great. I'm sure you just had to be there, but for those of us who were, it was awesome.

I absolutely love this movie, no doubt about it!10/10. A great display of tacky, bad acting, bad storyline, eighties brilliance at it's best.Drop me a line if you the same way. There has to be more than just myself out there who love this kind of trash.