Lords of Dogtown gets my vote!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2006)

I really liked this movie and I don't know why your bashing it so much.
The plot is of the three main z-boys Stacey, Tony and Jay and some of the parts of there lives that happened, of course with a few Hollywood fiction points added.
The real people from this movie that are still alive and where involved say this is a terrific film and is like stepping back in time.
While some people believe the camera was shaky and disorientating if you look closer you will notice a lot of special filming technique's such as a lip stick camera and some shots are made to make you feel you are actually skating. Each character was also given a style of filming to their attitudes. Stacey is mostly shot straight on. Tony from an angle upwards and Jay from all over the place.
While I don't really skate and didn't think I would like a skating movie I loved it. It has a deep character based plot and startling settings and shots (think where Jay skates of the pier). The acting could have been a touch tighter but considering they were playing poor teens in the seventies there would have been slang and uneducated speech.
Maybe one of the reasons I Love this film so much is that I am a eighteen yr old who relates to the film, even though I wasn't around in the seventies.