amazing movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2006)

To understand this movie, you have to have some experience skating or surfing, or at least have some appreciation for it. You also can't go into it thinking you're gonna hate it. I personally think it's an amazing movie, if you disregard some of the (according to the first comment) "amateaur" acting. It has a sort of young person feel and you have to be young or remember what it's like to be young to appreciate it. Someone also commented on the camera use, the camera use just makes it better. It gives it a more frenzied feel and gets you more into the movie, it makes you feel like you could be one of the characters. Take Baz Luhrman for example, who directed Moulin Rouge and the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet. The camera literally goes all over the place, especially in Moulin Rouge, but it adds to the effect of the movie, it doesn't take away from it. Sure you can go watch the documentary if you want, and it will probably be more accurate and tell a closer story to what really happened, but this actually gives you a feel of what it would be like to live in Venice, California in 1970 and through the rest of their lives.