Catherine Hardwicke: The new name in bad directing

Rating: 2/10 (20 March 2006)

In the "grand tradition" of Michael Bay and McG, here is a new name to consider for the pantheon of directors without the slightest clue how to make a film: Catherine Hardwicke.
Ms. Hardwicke tries to hide that sad fact by hyping her lack of knowledge as a "style", but really, when has shaking the camera indiscriminately at everything in sight been a style? Rather watching one of her movies makes you cringe and wonder what happened to the art of movie making.
Lords of Dogtown follows in the footsteps of Thirteen in the exercise of fake "documentary-style" filming that a real documentarian would be ashamed of. Guess what, documentary filmmakers don't shake the camera at things. They try to get as good a shot as they can.
Hardwicke endeavors to get as bad a shot as she can and that's a sad day when she is given more directing assignments and the opportunity to kill more stories with her lack of talent.