Watched this movie last night. Was really good. I was a skater for many years, and still have my board collecting dust in the garage. Here's part of the stock description:
In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighborhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and offhandedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve 'Z-Boys' (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying 'vert' (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as 'extreme sports'...
If you're a skater, you'd enjoy this. If you're a snowboarder, you'd enjoy this. Good old footage from "back in the day", as skating vert was discovered and the beginings of the skating (r)evolution.
Posted by Kevin at July 24, 2004 11:08 PM