I finally watched the Lords of Dogtown!
In highschool, my friend Alli would rave about this movie and would flip our every time she remembered that I hadn't seen it yet. Well Alli..I have!
hmmm..what to say about this one! haha. Well this movie is based on the life of the Z-boys..who became professional skateboards. Growing up in the 70s in souther california..this movie follows the Z-boys (Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams)...and their group of friends. We watch as the life of these boys unravel : surf. skate. party. thats basically it.
They run into some problems with parents, money, competition, and even death...and ultimately this movie shows the growing pains of these professional boarders. Their life is skateboarding...and it consumes them. Its who they are and what they do..and its what their life revolves around.
What tripps me out about this movie is that its real. Real people, real stories...and its hard for me to imagine this as someones life! But none the less..get past all the grunge, drugs, and reckless behavior...and you see a documentary of the life of these kids who would one day become icons.
This movie is definitely full of a lot of darkness (sex, money, drugs) but I grew to admire the boys freedom and the way they loved the sport of skateboarding. They lived such free lives...running around outside and growing up with such adventure. Definitely a crazy life...but it made them who they are and they became legends. crazy!
1/73
TOTAL POINTS: 73
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