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Dogtown and Z-Boys | Year: 2001 Classification: Kategorien - Rock - Allgemein Directed: - Stacy Peralta Actors/Actresses: - Sean Penn entertaining film for experts and novices alike Somebody commented that this movie would bore anyone who wasn't a skater. No way! I live in Canada, touched a board a couple of times and had no idea who dogtown or the z-boys were, but I loved this movie. The editing is wonderful, stylish without being too self indulgent, and the soundtrack is perfect. I never realised how beautiful skateboarding was to watch, I think because these guys really approached more like a cross between surfing and figure skating, it was more of an art than about tricks and getting vertical, as it seems today. True, the movie is self-congratulatory and "gee, weren't we cool", but lets face it, these guys *were* pretty friggin cool, check out any of the fish-eyed Tony Alva photos from the 70's, that guy makes rock stars look like dorks, he had style ... The story is also pretty riveting, and the fact that there was so much footage from the time is great (vertical skateboarding was made for photography, you suspend yourself at rediculous angles for a split second, just long enough to take a shot). This movie will pump you up and make you want to go carve some pools, even if you've never skated in your life which is a testament to the power of this film. Long live the Dogtown days This movie did not come to my town, so I had to wait and get the dvd to watch it. Let me first say, for any of you out there who are in your mid 30's - 40's, and did not skate back in the 70's, probably will find this movie (this is more of a documentary then an actual movie) boring and lacking. On the other hand, if you are like me, in your preteens-teen years back in the mid-late 70's, and lived to skate, then you will love this film. It will bring back so many memories of how the scene was back then. Narrated by Sean Penn, and directed by a Z-boy himself, Stacey Peralta, and numerous interviews with other Z-boys (and girl) legend Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and also Tony Hawk speaks on the tremendous impact the Z-Boys had on the skate world. This film took me back, and made me want to grab a board and start skating again, and im in my mid-late 30's. I think the younger newer generation skaters should watch this film, and then they will know where it all came from. Long live the Dogtown days, and the Z-boys.... "Dogtown and Z-Boys" fresh, unique, and infectious 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 <BR>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. Buy Dogtown And Z Boys at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Dogtown And Z Boys Search with the Priority Search Engine on Dogtown And Z Boys This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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