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  1. May 27, 2011 · 5. It's actually gleaming the cube and as the Urban Dictionary says: To fail so badly that there is brilliance in the failure; A phrase coined by Cinema Abattoir bloggers in reference to a 1989 movie starring Christian Slater. The movie they're talking about is of the same name, Gleaming the Cube.

  2. Apr 18, 2005 · To push your self to dangerous new limits, hence being outside of the cube and able to polish it creating the gleaming effect.

  3. Gleaming the Cube. Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's Justice and Skate or Die; released in the Philippines as Challenge to Win Again) is a 1989 American film directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.

  4. I cheated and asked AI. "Gleaming the cube" is a phrase from the 1989 movie Gleaming the Cube that refers to pushing one's limits to the brink. The phrase originated from a question Garry Scott Davis asked Neil Blender in a 1983 Thrasher magazine interview, "Have you ever gleemed inside a cube?" . In the movie, Christian Slater's character ...

  5. That movie is called Gleaming the Cube. Gleaming the Cube is, in short, a completely insane phrase. It seems like a joke. It feels like the kind of thing some 50-year-old would have written in 1991 to make fun of skateboarders. Or worse, I would think it was a phrase that made sense for a “cool” skateboarding teen to say.

  6. The meaning of "gleaming the cube" is defined In-Universe as pushing yourself beyond the limit of what is normally possible - if you envision the normal limits of possibility as a cube, if you're beyond that limit then you're outside the cube and can polish the surface to make it shine. Note that this page will have unmarked spoilers about the ...

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  8. "The term “Gleaming the Cube” meant nothing as far as I knew in October of 1987 when I shot photos on the movie set of the film with the same name in the Hollywood Hills. Stacy Peralta was the second-unit director and technical adviser, and that pretty much means he coordinated all of the skateboarding stunts during the filming.

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