Nostalgiaaaaaaaa!!

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2020)

Oh the nostalgia on this one! I can still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard of this movie. I was in 7th grade math class when the buzz of Lords of Dogtown first came about. We were all about 13 at the time, and many of my classmates were in a huge rush to see it, and the ones who had would not stop raving about it. I missed the boat on catching this one in the theatre, and still to this day wish I would've had the theatre experience of this one. Truly one of the best movies I've ever watched or remembered. I'm not a skateboarder, but being a musician I can somewhat relate to the close knit skate community, just in a different sense. It followed really events for the time frame when the skate scene was just erupting onto the so cal area, and how the skaters are rushing to keep up with it and also make their mark. It follows their group troubles, friend and family troubles, adolescent troubles, all kinds of issues that are easy to relate or remember to all of us. If I was reading right, I also remember reading that this was based off of real skaters from the area at the time, which, if true, made this movie that much better. Also has a killer soundtrack. Watch it, you will not regret it.