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Lords of Dogtown
Jun. 14th, 2005 11:29 amJon's got the right idea. Screw stress, it's movie review time.
Lords of Dogtown is easily the best new movie I've seen so far this year. Okay, granted, I've only watched about 5 movies and they were all mediocre, but still. Maybe I was just in the right headspace for this film or maybe it was just a damn good film but... Letsee. It's gritty. It's got the feel of Suburbia It's not a Hollywood glitz and glammer. They didn't change the story to sell it to the mainstream, and it doesn't have a hollywood happy ending. On the other hand, it didn't sell itself as being 'real, yo' or 'hardc0re'. Like Suburbia, it just was. (Sorry I keep mentioning this old obscure film that probably no one has every seen, it was important to me a long time ago) Anyhow.. Um. Like Jon said. The real problem with this film was that coming out of it, you wanna thrash stuff.
I sold my board in 1994. It was a Santa Cruz board with BlackCat speed wheels and low trucks. Even all bashed up, I got $50 for it when I sold it. Before RetroGirl, I was a skate punk, or at least a poser. (I certainly always called myself a poser at any rate) This movie brought me back into a lust for it, hard.
Earlier in the year I'd been thinking about getting back into surfing. I miss it. I miss skateboarding too, and I live walking distance from a fairly big skate park, no less. Last night we looked around in a shop and .. stuff is a lot cheaper than it used to be, or I have more money now. Not sure which but... I could so afford a good deck. So. Pros and Cons time.
On the additional pros and cons for both, I'd haveta say that both are Athletic. The kind of surfing/skating I used to do, Surfing is a lot more athletic, but skating is still using a fair bit of energy. Both can also be done rather non-competitively, unlike say Soccer. On the other hand, both detract from art time and time for other projects. Also, what if I get on, do it for a week and then put it aside? Waste of money and all. :/ I know I'm like that a lot. i get pumped on something then when I go to do it, I turn into a total loser. And um.. Hey, this was supposed to be a movie review and no negativity!
So um anyhow.. Skate, Surf, or neither?
Edit: I also wanted to mention some odd thoughts I had about the movie. Like noting that it must be strange for the actors in that they were playing their stunt person in a lot of cases and their stunt double was better known than they were. Also, a lot of the props in the movie were made by the people depicted in the movie.
Lords of Dogtown is easily the best new movie I've seen so far this year. Okay, granted, I've only watched about 5 movies and they were all mediocre, but still. Maybe I was just in the right headspace for this film or maybe it was just a damn good film but... Letsee. It's gritty. It's got the feel of Suburbia It's not a Hollywood glitz and glammer. They didn't change the story to sell it to the mainstream, and it doesn't have a hollywood happy ending. On the other hand, it didn't sell itself as being 'real, yo' or 'hardc0re'. Like Suburbia, it just was. (Sorry I keep mentioning this old obscure film that probably no one has every seen, it was important to me a long time ago) Anyhow.. Um. Like Jon said. The real problem with this film was that coming out of it, you wanna thrash stuff.
I sold my board in 1994. It was a Santa Cruz board with BlackCat speed wheels and low trucks. Even all bashed up, I got $50 for it when I sold it. Before RetroGirl, I was a skate punk, or at least a poser. (I certainly always called myself a poser at any rate) This movie brought me back into a lust for it, hard.
Earlier in the year I'd been thinking about getting back into surfing. I miss it. I miss skateboarding too, and I live walking distance from a fairly big skate park, no less. Last night we looked around in a shop and .. stuff is a lot cheaper than it used to be, or I have more money now. Not sure which but... I could so afford a good deck. So. Pros and Cons time.
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On the additional pros and cons for both, I'd haveta say that both are Athletic. The kind of surfing/skating I used to do, Surfing is a lot more athletic, but skating is still using a fair bit of energy. Both can also be done rather non-competitively, unlike say Soccer. On the other hand, both detract from art time and time for other projects. Also, what if I get on, do it for a week and then put it aside? Waste of money and all. :/ I know I'm like that a lot. i get pumped on something then when I go to do it, I turn into a total loser. And um.. Hey, this was supposed to be a movie review and no negativity!
So um anyhow.. Skate, Surf, or neither?
Edit: I also wanted to mention some odd thoughts I had about the movie. Like noting that it must be strange for the actors in that they were playing their stunt person in a lot of cases and their stunt double was better known than they were. Also, a lot of the props in the movie were made by the people depicted in the movie.
