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Summary: "Dogtown and Z-Boys" fresh, unique, and infectious
Review: Almost 30 years before the world had heard of Tony Hawk, three-sixties, or even Jackass, there was a place called Dogtown, a singed wasteland of ruin in Venice, California where a then overlooked group of rebellious youthful outsiders shared one passion...Skateboarding. Spearheaded by the unbelievable skating prowess of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and Stacy Peralta (who also serves as director here), the Zephyr Team would go on to revolutionize the world of skateboarding in only a few short years, and bring what was once a passing trend into a national, and inevitably commercialized obsession. "Dogtown and Z-Boys" passionately chronicles the skyrocket rise and subsequent fame of the Zephyr Team, particularly Alva and Adams with remarkable freshness and purpose. Rare and raw footage and pictures of the infamous Z-Boys blazing the asphalt and riding the dry-bone swimming pools of the early 70's is art in itself creating gripping visual moments set against a
soundtrack courtesey of Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, and Led Zeppelin, just to name a few. In any case, it's hardcore...a hardcore documentary experience that effortlessly recaptures a fleeting moment in history that will never be repeated, when a group of no-account skateboard outlaws rewrote the rules of the game and changed the way the skateboard was ridden forever. Clever, engaging, and purposeful in its storytelling, "Dogtown and Z-Boys" is a fascinating documentary, and certainly worth checking out.
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Summary: RIVETING !
Review: Wow, I'm originally from the east coast and never skateboarded in my life. I don't know JACK about it. But, I've gotta congratulate the entire crew responsible for making this movie. BRAVO! It ROCKS! The amount of film footage & stills is awesome and so is the SOUNDTRACK.......GREAT ,GREAT DOCUMENTARY.I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys GOOD FILMAKING.
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Summary: Those were the days...
Review: I started watching and was immediately thrilled! When the black and white photos from Skateboarder Magazine started showing up my head was filling up with flashbacks. Everything looked so familiar. My brother and I watched it and all we could say was "Do you remember that!!!" The classic skaters, the clothes, the hair, the pools, equipment,...everything is there. I went right to eBay and bought some vintage Skateboarder Magazines as soon as we were done watching it, again. I'm 36 now, this is what I grew up with. I don't skate anymore, but the surfing will never leave me. Buy it. Classic.
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Summary: Z-Boys...amazing story
Review: Most people know the name Tony Hawk today. He has his own series of incredibly successful video games (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater). Other X-Games superstars are also well known and have their own games and are nationally recognized (Kelly Slater, Matt Hoffman, etc). Snowboarding is an Olympic sport. Skateboarding is at an incredible level of popularity. Skateboarding today is alive because of a group from the Dogtown neighborhood of Venice, CA. This group was called the Z-Boys. The Z-Boys were from the Zephyr competition team. They were first an elite group of surfers who only started skating when the ocean didn't have the waves for surfing. The Z-Boys ended up helping propel skateboarding to new levels of popularity. Dogtown and Z-Boys is a documentary and it deals with how they got started in skating (and surfing, because it is relevant to the skating) and about the impact that they had in the skate world. The Z-Boys created new moves that would set the standard for what it means to skate. They began by using what they did in surfing and emulated top surfers, but when California had a huge drought, they started skating in dried out pools (often without permission). This led to the beginnings of vert skating, and had the Z-Boys not skated in pools, perhaps the style of skating today would not even exist (vert ramps did not exist when the Z-Boys were skating pools). They were testing the limits of what was possible in skating and with each passing day they discovered that more and more was possible. The Z-Boys made it to the top of the skating world, and they inspired new generations of skaters. This is their story. I had never heard of the Z-Boys until this documentary came out and the most I knew of skating was that I couldn't skate, and whatever I learned from the Tony Hawk video games. It would be hard to believe the influence that these skaters had on the skate world if not for today's influential skaters (Hawk, Burnquist, etc) also talking about how they were influenced by the Z-Boys. This is a must watch for any fan of skateboarding at all.
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Summary: Funny!
Review: You know the little skate rats in your town, the ones that interrupt sidewalk traffic and scar public property? Meet their heroes. This is a documentary about forty year old geezers who wax nostalgic about trespassing into peoples homes and ruining their pools by skateboarding in them. These pioneers of "Xtreme" sports speak with such seriousness about their "accomplishment" that you'd think they discovered penicillin. Bravo.
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Summary: Memory Lane
Review: I still have about 50 Skateboarder Magazines out in the garage. I was rattling off the old brands of gear as I watched the movie. Bahne, Sims Pure Juice, Kryptonics, Road Rider, etc. I love this nostalgia ...! Only 4 stars?? Obviously I wanted more. Extras, footage, whatever. Plus if that first reviewer really is HH, you all should know, that he could tear up the slalom.
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Summary: MOVIE SUPER! CANNOT ACCESS THE RAW FOOTAGE
Review: I'M A 50 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO HAS WATCHED THIS DOCU 6 TIMES!
VERY WELL DONE. MUSIC = INFECTOUS AND PERFECTLY TIMED WITH THE AMAZING STILL AND MOVING FOOTAGE OF THE BOZS IN THEIR EARLY DAYS.
PROBLEM WITH THE DVD = ON 3 DIFFERENT DVD'S THE RAW FOOTAGE AND DELETED SCENES ARE NOT ACCESSABLE. THE ICON COMES UP BUT HITTING "ENTER" DOES NOTHING.
CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THE SECRET OF HOW TO ACCESS THE RAW FOOTAGE?
THE SONY AND VANS WEBSITES HAVE BEEN NO HELP.
I WANT TO WATCH THE RAW FOOTAGE OVER AND OVER TOO!
WHETHER THE SPECIAL FEATURES WORK OR NOT THIS IS A DOCU THAT SHOULD NOT BE MISSED!
AMAZING FILM.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE SMOKES!!
Review: THIS FILM IS WAY OVERDUE! AS WE 70'S TRIPPERS ARE GETTING OLDER AND LIFE STARTING TO GET A BIT BOARING THIS FLICK PUMPS A LITTLE LIFE BACK INTO YOUR BELL BOTTOMS! (AND TO YOU CLOWNS WITH THE BAD REVIEWS GET A LIFE),THESE GUY'S LOVED WHAT THAY HAD GOING DOWN!! I WAS RACEING MOTOCROSS BACK THEN IN THE 70'S STEEL FRAMES AND DRUM BRAKES IN THE FRONT IT'S ALL WE HAD THEN BUT IT WAS TOP DOG, AND HOW HIGH CAN YOU FLY!
THUMBS UP TO YOU GUYS, MADE ME FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN.
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Summary: DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS!!
Review: THIS MOVIE SMOKES~~~GREAT ALL AROUND THIS STORY NEEDED TO BE TOLD!!
WOW! DID WE LOOK LIKE THAT BACK THEN?
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Summary: Rippin'! (did I just say that?)
Review: Great historical documentary of skatboardin' and concrete carving, not to mention the birth of pool skating. Very informative and an eye opener to those who live or have been in Santa Monica lately but not 20 years ago.
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