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Whistle Stopper - Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
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List Price: $14.94
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Tony Alva, Bob Biniak, Paul Constantineau, Skip Engblom, Tony Friedkin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404977655
Format: Color
ISBN: 1404977651
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2005-05-03
Running Time: 91
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Summary: A wonderful walk thru skateboarding history
Comment: As someone who grew up wanting to be a skater, was not very good, I remember reading about many of these guys and watching skate movies that featured several of them. It was great to see how the whole movement came about.
I found it very interesting to see the areas of Venice and The Santa Monica Bay and what they looked like at that time. I spent four summers lifeguarding Venice Beach in college and recognized alot of the locations or recall hearing about "the old days" from those that had worked the beach back then.
Stacy Peralta makes his mark as a legitimate film maker and documentarian with this film. If you enjoy this type of film and have not yet seen Riding Giants, take the time and watch it. You emerge with a great respect for those that are able to and willing to tackle and ride some of the largest waves on the planet.
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Summary: Growing Up In Dogtown
Comment: Dogtown and Z-Boys brought back the feel and culture of Venice and Santa Monica in the 70's. I was born and raised there and remember hearing about many of the skaters depicted in Dogtown. Especially Tony Alva, everyone knew who he was. One night while at a teenage party in Malibu he managed to offend one of my girlfriends who promptly pushed him into the pool. This movie brought back so many memories of that time. Anyone who grew up in the 70's is sure to love this movie. All the skaters of today should watch this to learn more about the true roots of skateboarding.
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Summary: AWESOME Documentary (even for this 40+ year-old!
Comment: I'll keep it short: this is an OUTSTANDING documentary on the roots of radical skateboarding. It's an outstanding documentary, period. Well done, very insightful, loads of fun, and it makes me want to get out on the street and start shredding again.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, even if you aren't a skateboarding enthusiast.
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Summary: Poor side o' town diversion goes international
Comment: It's always great to watch something grow and evolve: just as baseball probably got started in backyards and parks many centuries ago, skateboarding has kick-started its' own "learning curve", and it seems to be a much faster pace than America's Favorite Sport.
The kids with a few bucks could buy (I hope) a nice plank of maple or oak...then fashion something funky for cement, asphalt, or what swimming pools are made of.
These young guys found a spot to enjoy themselves, to hone their craft, although I doubt they knew what "hone" meant or that they were initiating a new sport. (Which at its' best involved alot of skill, grace, and...rowdiness).
I can't call them "working class" heroes because in this film it seems that the only poeople with jobs are the surf-shop owners and the police.
There's a very telling image of a skateboarder circling some presumptive *private* swimming pool - there appears to be a combination of standing gray water standing and green slime. The dude falls right in.
Did he say....wow....that's a sign. I'm going for my GED. (Then I'll apply for a job as Swimming Pool Technician.....). Forgive my presumptuousness, but I doubt it.
They spend just a little too much time "sidewalk [and private pool] surfin'" back then - and it's not cool to tear up a tax-payers' private digs and make Police waste time on punks (with hearts of gold - threw that in).
Interviews with those who were there are professionally done; an interview with legendary Jay Adams, now in drug-related custody, is at once riveting and repelling. Interviews with those who got rich and famous are also well-done, particularly with the interviewee who affirmatively asserts that he was *there* when the name "Dogtown" was created.
It appears that one original skateboard icon has actually moved on to environmentally-positive endeavours: the healthiest, happiest appearing exponent of the 'boarding pre-history is a woman - can't say it was a "sport formerly dominated by men", as she had equal status as a founder.
Ex-skateboarder Sean Penn does a nice, mellow narration - an adroit approach considering that the sport basically is a quiet one.
The actual footage appears to be all Super-8, so we have that "home movie" feel which nicely complements the high-tech. quality of the contemporary footage of the stars.
There's extras including an interview with the Producer of "The Lords Of Dogtown", which create interest in seeing that flick.
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Summary: Fast shipping
Comment: I recieved this right away and in new condition, just as promised. Thanks you very much!
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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" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade
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