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Summary: A must have hip hop film
Review: This film is a must own if you consider yourself a hip hop fan!Plus the extras are dope.
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Summary: History
Review: This is a must have video...I was about twelve or thirteen when this was released...I was only able to catch a glimpse of it on PBS when it was first aired twenty years ago. Coming from a kid who was into breakdancing and graffiti...I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: This is perhaps the greatest movie I've ever seen. It's even better than WILD STYLE.
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Summary: The Best One yet
Review: This is possibly the best graffiti movie ever made and the reissue brings this film into the circle of the greats. From the unforgettable quotes (with his Lucille Ball hairdo) to the great footage of the tags and whole cars this 2 DVD set is worth the cash ten times over buy it and watch it and learn.
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Summary: Hit em up y'all...
Review: This is probably the most important documentary of my generation. I can relate to this, I'm not from NYC and I'm too young to have been involved with "writing" back in 83. Grafitti was the begining block of the Hip-Hop culture. Tony did a spectacular job capturing the essence of being a B-Boy in the eairly 80's in NYC. I feel the documentary holds more weight because of who made it. Tony wasn't involved with the culture, he made a film, not even understanding the culture. And with no idea that it would become the biggest money maker the world over, all in less then 20 years after this was shot. It's really an amazing work of art. Grafitti never got the respect it deserved, not just from the genral public. Who you'd expect to not understand, and therefor hate. But, outside of the true heads, graf wasn't a big deal. I love the drama in this movie. You have the writers, who the people of NYC, including the Mayor hate. Tony doesn't paint them as villians, or as heros. He just tells their story, or rather allows them to tell their own story. But even with them being villians, you have Cap, a bomber who tags over the writers peices. In a sense he is a villian even to the villans. Some of the interviews with the kids are really outstanding. You can learn a lot from a 13 year old. Even better on the second DVD you have interviews 20 years later with some of the "kids" from the movies. It was something to see that a lot of them have taken their talent, aned turned it into legal business, and are getting rich off it. I love art, and I find good grafitti, illegal or not, to be beautiful. This is a timeless peice, and it sheds a lot of light on a culture that so many kids today love, but so few actually know about, especially the roots. And "Style Wars" is as close to the roots as you can get. Tony Silver & Henry Chalfant set out 20+ years ago to make a different documentary. As they say in their interviews now, they had no vision back then that this would possibly be one of the most important movies. About a culture, that would turn out to not be a fad, but be as real as anything else. This Documentary should be required viewing for everybody. It tells the story of many people who never got the chance to speak.
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Summary: Hiphop started out in the park!!!
Review: This is roots. Little did these kids know they were starting a revolution that would take over the world and make white kids in Iowa wear their hats sideways and rake in BILLION$ for coporate America when they were sure it wasn't a fad as it was often discribed back then. I can't express the feeling this video gave me whenI first saw it on PBS at the age of eleven. You young bucks should know back then you had to listen to college radio stations at 2:00 am to hear and record hip hop. You couldn't buy in the store,(I still have all them tapes, no player though!) you prayed for "Rap Week" on Video Vibrations on BET. Like Wu said, "Can it be that it was all so simple then....."
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Summary: A Classic Collectors Item
Review: This video is a classic must have in addition to The freshest Kids and Wildstyle. This DVD was definatly a flash back as I was growing up in the Bronx during this era. This brings you back to the essence of the Hip Hop culture, before all of the bling bling, and art galleries started to pay for artist to paint murals.
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Summary: Very, very sad
Review: To the moron in California- you need to get your head examined. What is presented as (sub) culture in this video/dvd is NOT culture of any sort. It is true that this "artform" is hideous when it is done on public property, and also true that this "artform" comes from inner-city black and Hispanic teens. Therefore it is only logical to attribute the birth of and the spread of this crap to the aforementioned peoples. That is not a racist statement at all, it is simply the truth. If some of you are too liberal and/or uneducated to realize this, then I feel sorry for you.
Also, the music and films which I gave 5 stars are some of the greatest pieces of art that this planet has ever produced. If you are a pathetic fool with no attention span and/or you are lacking the ability to sit through a three minute record with scratches on it, then I'm sorry. If you can't sit through or appreciate a gorgeous Japanese film from the 1950s you are truly doomed as a human being.
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Summary: someone should tag neonx83's face...
Review: Word up to the "moron" from cali... the *actual* moron lives in plainview, NY. as everyone can see, mr. neon's commentaries have not inspired anyone (as is remarkably evident by 27 to 30 people checking the "not helpful" box next to his reviews). mr. neon, take a hint, no one agrees with you! maybe you should take an introspective look, and realize that you are a close-minded fool. however, what will actually happen is you'll probably write another dumb review to much of everyone's dismay. really dude, if you are so "ashamed to be reviewing this piece of crap" then stop doing it! are you a little crazy in the head? (ahem, maybe you should get your, um, "head examined" har, har..)
so my two cents on this DVD: buy it, rent it, borrow it. it's cool. hey, i'm not from new york, but it's interesting to see how these kids have made their own little sub-culture (yes, for the record, this is a type of CULTURE. it doesn't matter if you like it or not) in their own little niche of a packed city with trains, concrete, and underground alleys. these kids are really creative. it's like the result of an experiment: you put creative kids in a poor urban setting and what happens: they make their own language, their own art, their own dance, and their own music. plus, if you're tagging, beaking or rapping today, then it's imperative that you learn it's roots. these guys started it all...
as for "mr. neon" (sigh...), go ahead, everybody knows you're going to write another one of your ignorant reviews (especially to rebuff this one. plus, it really would be inconceivable for you to stop at 4 or 5, right?). every time you do, all you end up proving to the world is how ignorant you really are....
(by the way, would you like me to write it for you? they all sound the same, and i know all your little cliches...=)
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Summary: Nope.
Review: You guys are wrong- I don't know how else I can put it. I'm not going to write about this movie any more. I'm going to go about this in a logical way: if anyone wants to debate the issue of how Style Wars does or does not represent culture, simply IM me! My screen name is Quicksi11ver. And for the record, I'm familiar with anthropology, world cultures and religions, and world languages. I have been to many places in this country and am educated about the development of African American culture, thanks to history classes and my interest in the evolution of blues and American folk music. I have a great deal of compassion for all minorities, but when the worst aspects of a people are revealed, it is very upsetting to me.
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