this movie be it all while everything while it have something for everyone and include a tanned and toned young michael vincent . there be action and a romance and funny moment and some action and good script and stun surfing footage and as well a plenty of action and but not too much . yes and big wednesday be a classic come out age story set in vietnam era america involve a group of school friend who love to surf . a be typical of these type of film we get a group of friend on the verge of grow up and set off on their own path and possibly part way and and have one last kick as summer . it remind me of my own last kick as summer with my friend . there be me and neville and bobert and shawsy and wee scott and bunter and fitz and simon and murph and stoat and biggles and rodger and as well a a few girl like jem and lee and gree and corky and of course my little brother andy try to tag along . that fool brendan and his scumbag mate try to spoil it on u and wherever we go and he be there to and look at u with his eye . sure enough the exam be do and we know that we would all be get job or go off to university and or be maul by bear and or move away . none of u be go to fight in vietnam ( though neville claim he have already be and would have frequent flashback ) and and none of u be into surf and but you can see the comparison . jan michael and co they just want to ride one last big wave and but the real wave ( the tsunami of life ) be wash towards them at an unstoppable rate and unavoidable and inevitable . crazy gary busey also star in this milius film ( milius would go onto wide spread acclaim and fame with knightriders and have already make a name write the godfather ) and and vincent would go off to become tv big star in airwoof . the army come to town to draft any young and fit men into the army any injured or crazy type have to stay at home ( this be base on actual event ) so busey stayed and get a job steal motorcycle and all the smart guy could go to college or become a military strategist . the remainder of the gang and include vincent go off to war and experience some terrifying event be lock in cage fill with water and rat and but no surfboard and and be force to play vietnam roulette with each other . the game be thus represent 5 cup be present and each fill with same colour liquid . the treat be that one of the liquid be actually so disease fill that as soon a it be swallow the drinker begin to convulse and blood pours from every orifice and they eventually melt . later they escape and before they go home they ask one request of one of their friend ( a young freddy kruegger ) who have now become their commanding officer will you surf before we go home . he have however succumb to the madness of war and wish to stay and and heart breakingly reply charlie don not surf . this prove to be one of the pivotal moment in 70 cinema and and indeed in american history and signifying loss of innocence and taint the american dream and and squirt out the final puff from the spliff of the hippy movement and freedom . i be fortunate enough to go off to university and subsequently get a 6 figure salary and some of my friend come along too and more go further afield and or stay at home and begin to fade away and lose the beautiful fire of youth that once burn ever so brightly . i sometimes wander through my home town now and and occasionally see one of the old gang across the street . i wave to them and but time and circumstance have be unkind to u and fate conspiring to gouge an impenetrable void between u . they do not wave while they barely look while in fact and they do not even recognise me . who would have though that all those joke we share and all those lazy day walk through the forest together and all the sunset we watch and the night we hop would never end and all those great time which would never come round again while who would have think that now it be a if they have never happen at all . i refuse to give up though i still chat with a few of them and those who make it . some be married and heck some even have kid . i know when we have a few drink and i see the old glint in their eye that our youth be still alive and well inside and it just have a lie down . sure i have new friend now and but it our old one that count most and those we share our define moment with . we do not say anything while we do not need to . we may have lose some along they way and but as long a there be at least one of u and we know we will be okay . best scene represent the flashback to the group of friend hug and laugh when time be good . the slow motion and the smile and the memory and the music . it be my life . i wish i could jump in and take off my shirt and and hug them too .