Skateboarding Reviews - Videos & DVDs

If you saw Stacy Peralta's Dogtown documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) in 2002, you may be wondering why he made the same movie just a few years after. I'm guessing it boils down to money. Documentaries are notoriously un-promoted and basically viewed in a whole other light from conventional Hollywood movies. Enter "Lords of Dogtown" a Hollywood view of the Cali skate scene in the mid seventies... and a much more commercially viable way to make some money as a film maker.

Before you drop a few bucks renting Lords, check out Stacy's first effort - the documentary. That's where you'll find a more complete accounting of the early days of skateboarding. Stripped of glitz and laden with fact the documentary account is far more appealing.

As feature films go, Lords isn't really a bad movie, its just a step down from Stacy's documentary account. Its not Grind or Skater Dater, but it doesn't measure up. From this flick, you'd think that skateboarding was invented by three guys in Venice Beach and that each of them wound up millionaires on the coat-tails of various pimp-looking dudes that probably never set foot on a skateboard.

Johnny Knoxville should have stuck with Jackass. His roll in Lords was a slap to his comic genius. Tony Hawk has a cameo as a clumsy astronaut - don't ask.

If you saw Stacy Peralta's Dogtown documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) in 2002, you may be wondering why he made the same fucking movie just a few years after. I'm guessing it boils down to money. Documentaries are notoriously un-promoted and basically viewed in a whole other light from conventional Hollywood movies. Enter "Lords of Dogtown" a Hollywood view of the Cali skate scene in the mid seventies... and a much more commercially viable way to make some fucking money as a film maker.

Before you drop a few bucks renting Lords, check out Stacy's first effort - the documentary. That's where you'll find a more complete accounting of the early days of skateboarding. Stripped of bullshit and laden with fact the documentary account is far more appealing.

As feature films go, Lords isn't really a bad movie, its just a step down from Stacy's documentary account. Its not Grind or Skater Dater, but it doesn't measure up. From this flick, you'd think that skateboarding was invented by three fucking guys in Venice Beach and that each of them wound up millionaires on the coat-tails of various pimp-looking dudes that probably never set foot on a fucking skateboard.

Johnny Knoxville should have stuck with Jackass. His roll in Lords was a slap to his comic genius. Tony Hawk has a cameo as a clumsy astronaut - don't fucking ask.