"Dogtown and Z-Boys" doc shreds Hollywood

Growing up in the Midwest and subscribing to Surfer Magazine and living for BMX races probably doesn't put me in the bucket of unbiased moviegoers when it comes to critiquing the documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys.  It is directed by 70's skate legend, Stacy Peralta.  What's notable about this doc, first and foremost, is that it was actually kinda re-made as a sports drama three years later and directed by the cool chick, Catherine Hardwicke, who also did the amazing and disturbing Venice Beach drama, Thirteen.  I'll put that review on ice for another day, but the Hollywood version of the skate doc that she made is called Lords of Dogtown, and it starred big names like Johnny Knoxville, Rebecca De Mornay, and even Heath Ledger (who here as well, seems to morph himself into a completely different person somehow [maybe he was a shape shifter]).  That movie is pretty good, but the documentary is what speaks to me... maybe that's along the same rules as "the book is always better than the f*cking movie" for some reason.

Anyway, just watching these kids and the freedom that they experienced back then, of which, is far from what kids likely feel in big, oppressive cities nowadays.  But here, also in Venice, California, Stacy and his "local" group of surfers figured out that skateboards were only being used for cruising and slalom-style race competitions (p*ssies); yet due to a perfect non-storm, drought left swimming pools empty and a lack of waves left Stacy's clan searching for ways to re-create kick-turn wave maneuvers somewhere on land.  Ultimately, the excitement of trespassing over people's fences and dropping into those curvy-bottom pools charged their vision and quenched their thirst and changed the world.  Watch the movie trailer and read on because...

FilmBender is Funny Movie Reviews.  Now, even I have to say that these guys, as adults, really seem to think they are the sh*t and that kinda s*cks and gets old (hence why I've not given them the most wasted rating).  But you'll love the soundtrack and the thrill of watching, on film, the first-ever, since the universe was created, breaching of the rim of the bowl of a pool.  You can't ignore that these dogs ushered in extreme sports, and likely, a lifestyle that pervades all of our lives -- whether it's by way of snowboarding being an Olympic event or the fact that even truck drivers from Kokomo, Indiana seem to be wearing Oakley sunglasses.  F*cking radical, and possibly, the sh*t.

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