The movie companion to the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary on the same subject, namely the rebirth of skateboarding in the 1970s at a surf shop. The Z Boys were a group of surfers who, using the new urethane wheels, brought surfing-like tactics to skateboarding and birthed a phenomenon. There's a great story to be told here but the movie itself is something of a mess. Besides messing with chronology, merging multiple characters into a new one who didn't exist (the "Sid" character) and was less important than portrayed by the movie, deleting other people entirely, and ignoring Jay Adams killing a guy, the movie definitely is more concerned with its style than its structure or story. And it captures that style well - a gritty 1970s style with warm colors and a very distinctive look. It's hurt by seemingly random scene cuts and an edit that makes the movie feel like it's just not "smooth" for lack of a better word. Anyway, this was pretty good but could have been a lot better. 6/10.
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