Catherine Hardwicke ruins a great idea

Rating: 2/10 (21 March 2006)

Lords of Dogtown was a great idea for a film. A true story involving a lesser known but potentially riveting aspect of recent American life.
Unfortunately, someone bought into the Hollyweird hype and hired Catherine Hardwicke. Instead of a director, they got someone whose only directorial move is to constantly shake the camera.
Frankly, this is a great example of the state of current studio cinema that someone as incompetent as Hardwicke would get assignment after assignment. Somehow, the studio executives have bought into the "MTV Generation" nonsense and can't seem to see the sinking box office for what it is: a rejection of bad films made by bad directors like Hardwicke.