The birth of Skateboarding in Southern Califonia

Rating: 2/10 (23 June 2005)

I was looking forward to see how Skateboarding developed, (in Southern California) and was disappointed in how there was no compelling story. I wanted to like it, but I was bored to tears, and left the movie before it ended. I also remember that my son who grew up in the 70's had skateboards that were much further advanced, so the time line on The Lords of Dogtown, seemed to be in the mid 60's, and not the 70's as the movie depicted
The clincher for me, was how a Producer of Art Linsons stature, could economize on the music. I wanted to hear the soundtrack of the time, but I found the music was very generic........ It's to bad, because I noticed that he worked with his son on this project, somehow the vision was not executed in a compelling manner......