An Excellent Addition to the Documentary

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2005)

That whole deal from the unemployed critic is bogus. Don't listen to him. This movie was excellent and the points he touches on are complete crap. I think that creating the documentary into an actual feature film was a great idea. In my mind, it turned out excellent and did a stupendous job portraying the whole image of the z-boys. There may be some aspects that were not reached but it does not show through in this movie. Peralta did write the screenplay so it is kind of hard to argue with that. Touching on the whole camera work of this movie, I think it was wonderful. There was a wide variety of moving camera angles and more zoom like schemes. I really like the moving camera. It makes the action seem so much more realistic and in-your-face. It is really hard to film skateboarding while moving yourself (I know from experience) and the filmers in his movie did a satisfactory job of that. The set for this movie was remarkably realistic of it's era. The crew had to completely recreate The Zephyr Shop, P.O.P Pier and the streets of Venice in the seventies and if you watch the documentary or other footage from that area in that era and compare, you'll see near perfect results. I enjoyed that aspect. Also, the costume design and stuff is pretty accurate. The soundtrack for "Lords" was off the walls, with some good beats from the sixties and seventies. The skating was real enjoyable in this movie. Heck, Alva and Peralta were their own stunt doubles. The seventies is probably my favorite era of skateboarding and it was really cool being able to see it recreated on the silver screen. The documentary shows actual footage from then and I like how this movie was able to resurrect that style and skill. On a conclusive note, you really gotta get out and see "Lords of Dogtown". It was really amazing how well it turned out, especially having the pressure of following "Dogtown and Z-Boys", the documentary.