Lords of Dogtown
Recommended: Yeah, sure.
Comments: Skateboarding is not really my kind of thing, but this is an okay movie nonetheless. The best part was Tony Hawk playing an astronaut who falls off a board during a photo op with one of the skaters. Also, there was some killer rock and roll during the '70s, and a whole bunch of it makes it into this film.
While I'm here, though, I want to put in another plug for Murderball. A documentary about wheelchair rugby played by paraplegics, it was really excellent, not to mention much more broadly appealing than you'd think given the subject matter.
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I just wanted to say I thought Lords of Dogtown was a great movie, but my enjoyment of it was greatly enhanced by watching the featurettes on the DVD of the real-life Lords of Dogtown on which the movie is based. I love seeing the backgrounds of stories like this. And there were a whole bunch of skater cameos in the movie, but Tony Hawk is probably the most recognizable. I didn't know any of the others.
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