Riding Giants / Dogtown And Z-Boys (Box Set)

Advantages: Skate Film
Disadvantages: Story line quit long

...At first glance, lords of dogtown seam quit long and well not so much boring, but lets say it drags on quit a lot, althought it is a brilliant film, and as askater myself, i would hate to put down a film that was made from stacey parrelta! But never the less, the film is actually quit good, at first i was lik WOW! at the fact that there was an actual skate film out that wasnt just skate footage, so i was dead intrested to watch it and yes it was intresting, and its good in the sense that if you do watch this film, you learn quit a lot about skateboard culture wich is realy good! The running time for the film is 1hour and 48 mins which is quit long, it is about the legendary z-boys, there is lots of additional features, like deleted scenes and outakes, it is defiantly one to watch!... Read review

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Advantages: Straightforward and engaging
Disadvantages: None

...The number of films which popularise sub-cultures are legion: Elliot and the gang rode BMXs in ET; Harry Potter lead to a surge in boarding school applications; and Indiana Jones made archaeology sexy. But Stacy Peralta has done more than most. Dogtown and the Z-Boys was a superb look into skateboarding genesis (and was notably a pet subject, Peralta being the first skateboarder to land a major sponsorship deal) and Peralta has now followed that up with a brief history of surfing - or more accurately big wave surfing. The film is split into 3 separate sections, concentrating on different surges in popularity of big wave surfing. We begin in the 50s with the true pioneers who made an art form out of being beach bums. Migrating to Hawaii where the truly big waves were, these guys lived a life of total anti-establishmentarianism. Teachers... Read review

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Advantages: This is the definitive and legitimate biography of the birth of the skateboarding phenomenon.
Disadvantages: It makes you somehow sad that some of these pioneers are almost forgotten.

...- the "cool" white scene , and it is revealed that skateboarding developed from this very surfing culture in Dogtown.Surfboard designer and builder Jeff Ho has a shop nearby and is a bit of a "buddy " to the young crew. By the time we learn all this , which is fairly early on in the DVD, we're totally hooked ! The documentary show s us the lives of the Z-boys ( the Zephyr sakateboarding team) who spend their days surfing at Ocean Park Pier , a broken - down amusement park ( a la Atlantic City only smaller and warmer ) now known as "Dogtown". This is a particularly dangerous part of the beach , surrounded by a jetty on either side which made showing your chops a rather dangerous business. Their part of the beach is defended quite ferociously - should any out - of - towner gooks be foolish enough to find their way there , this would be heralded... Read review

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