Lords of Dogtown

Tonight I saw Lords of Dogtown, because I was in the mood for a summer movie and there was something about it that appealed to me in the trailers. I guess I figured there would be more surfing in it than there actually was, (because I'm about 90% clueless about the skating culture,) but regardless, it was fairly entertaining. Most of it was just cool shots of skating, but I was okay with that, because I can sort of get into that stuff sometimes.

The acting was pretty good. At first I thought, "A bunch of kids, whatever," but they were all surprisingly decent, and I found myself thinking that it was too bad that Hayden Christensen couldn't bring the amount of depth to Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader that these boys brought to these mostly normal people. They were all surprisingly good, very un-selfconscious. Heath Ledger was almost unrecognizable (not that I've seen him in very much,) and I liked him better in this than in the one, maybe two other movies I saw him in.

The movie, I found out, was actually written by Stacy Peralta, and thus it was a bit pro-Stacy Peralta, but it also didn't (usually) feel like a spin. I could be wrong. He was played by John Robinson (omigod you wanna pinch those apple cheeks and Michael Jackson needs to be barred from ever seeing this film...) who reminds me very much of Jeremy when he was that age. The whole movie I kept thinking, "Who the hell does this kid remind me of? Damn!" And it just came to me. I don't know how I missed it. Anyway, he was good as the very mellow and sweet good guy, thought sometimes I did wonder if maybe the writer was sort of biased. ;D

Neat to see Tony Hawk as the astronaut, falling off a skateboard. Hee.

Mostly entertaining film, if you're into subculture or are just plain bored you should see it.

Lords of Dogtown

Tonight I saw Lords of Dogtown, because I was in the mood for a summer movie and there was something about it that appealed to me in the trailers. I guess I figured there would be more surfing in it than there actually was, (because I'm about 90% clueless about the skating culture,) but regardless, it was fairly entertaining. Most of it was just cool shots of skating, but I was okay with that, because I can sort of get into that stuff sometimes.

The acting was pretty good. At first I thought, "A bunch of kids, whatever," but they were all surprisingly decent, and I found myself thinking that it was too bad that Hayden Christensen couldn't bring the amount of depth to Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader that these boys brought to these mostly normal people. They were all surprisingly good, very un-selfconscious. Heath Ledger was almost unrecognizable (not that I've seen him in very much,) and I liked him better in this than in the one, maybe two other movies I saw him in.

The movie, I found out, was actually written by Stacy Peralta, and thus it was a bit pro-Stacy Peralta, but it also didn't (usually) feel like a spin. I could be wrong. He was played by John Robinson (omigod you wanna pinch those apple cheeks and Michael Jackson needs to be barred from ever seeing this film...) who reminds me very much of Jeremy when he was that age. The whole movie I kept thinking, "Who the hell does this kid remind me of? Damn!" And it just came to me. I don't know how I missed it. Anyway, he was good as the very mellow and sweet good guy, thought sometimes I did wonder if maybe the writer was sort of biased. ;D

Neat to see Tony Hawk as the astronaut, falling off a skateboard. Hee.

Mostly entertaining film, if you're into subculture or are just plain bored you should see it.