So much love and respect for this movie. For the actors, producers, directors, creators, and most especially for the OG Lords... The Z-Boys who lived, breathed and dominated Dog Town and the epic era they launched. They are often emulated - but could never possibly be duplicated. #MadRespect
idk thought it was fake. I mean spinnin' wheels was the first skate movie to come out n it wasn't like this. It's like I saw the actual footage n it wasn't like this. Those guys actually bombed hills, no one will do that now.
Steph who played peggi oki, is a long time ripper. She was a well known channel street loc and knew how to skate round wall long before this film. Coolest lady ever, too.
It's wierd, my dad, who grew up skateboarding in the 70s felt nostalgic when we went to theatres and saw this. Now I feel nostalgic watching this thinking of all my friends and how we used to just skate until the lights at the park turned off. The subtle heat coming from the concrete filling the cool air. The smell of weed and the laughter. Always trying to one up each other but never putting each other down. I miss those times and those people. Life has become very lonely. That was back in the early/mid 2000s.
guys in my hometown would hold a once a year night time skate session, we would borrow flood lights from the local garage, set them up, and skate from sun down to sun up, makes me miss the guys i grew up skating with, and i really miss our annual "monsters ball" that shit was wild, one year we busted a bunch of glowsticks and poured the gunk all over the pool, no lights, just toxic glowing goo, wild days
This is a great movie. I grew up in So Cal in the 70s and skateboarding exploded around 75. The clothes, hair and everything were pretty damn accurate. Looks like they had a pretty good budget for this movie. Well done.
Just the fact that these 3 young actors learned to skate at the Alva/Peralta/Adams level is MIND BLOWING, & you do not get more of a realistic portrayal of the Z-boys/Dogtown era than this. As another commenter quoted #MadRespect
I remember watching this movie in the theater. And it played a number on me. I actually found a fond interest in skateboarding. I loved cruising on my board, feeling calm, happy, free and alive. Skating was a great stress reliever.
Fuck I remember finding this movie in my dad's hard drive and was like, this seems interesting and turned out to be my favourite movie based or real life events, no joke
I was very lucky to have grown up in that era of skating and surfing in So. Cal. Even tho me and my friends were not part of Dog Town we skated alot of the same spots as those guys. The Fruit Bowl stands out as well as the school yard banks in Glendale. Times were good back then.
This movie raised me, I would see it almost every day as a kid and skate on old school skateboards trying to push myself to be better. I’m right know pursuing a career in surfing, I’m truly grateful to these amazing skaters and artists. Rest in peace Jay Adams.
This was great!!!! TH-cam is waaay behind sending this to me but I’m glad they did. RIP Jay. Really glad he turned his life around and got to live a happy life.
Lords Of Dogtown the z boys were the most badass skateboarders of all time.They were the real gods of skating. I still have my stacy peralta board ! Z BOYS !
All wickedly talented, all brought something new to skateboarding, but Jay was my favorite. R.I.P to that innovator, that incredible, iconic, wild spirit 😭
the move was called a bert, Cadillac wheels were soft and sticky much more than today and the pool was called keyhole (later dog bowl).... Stacey went international...Tony went Hollywood...and Jay went island style (then prison)....2Barb moved down south and started hanging with us...we all defended our turf and could back it up with our surf-skate style...the Baldy pipeline was still top secret but I was riding it....it all came to an end the summer of 1980 (known as the best summer ever) before corporate capitalism took over that decade...what happened ? ... we all grew up....I still surf and skate south county.🏄🏻
I was 7 yrs old in 76', Santa Barbara Ca. I got the blue hard fiberglass Hobie skateboard with red wheels. I was jumping off curbs and learning 360's. And was so excited when they started building a skate park.... Before it was even done, we moved to KANSAS!!! NOBODY skated in Kansas....! so I got a bike..wah Wah WAH..!
I've been skating for fun for over 20 years and those boys surpassed me at training camp. Mind you, I never had the Z boys training me. Imagine making this movie as a 20 year old. Mate. On top of the world. Huge fan of Emile's acting. Underrated film.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but what an awesome documentary!! The Bones brigade and all these guys were my heroes as a kid in NZ, miles from the USA. I I have to say right here that Lance Mountain, I personally feel, is the most underrated skater/ talent ever. Love ya Lance!
i didn’t think that i would like this movie as much as i did, gotta go onto my top 3 list for sure. i wasn’t even born in the 70s, yet somehow i felt like i was there. i just loved everything about it.
Such a great time spent. A magical result from the focused vision of like -minded professionals. Is there anything better? The hard work, the dream and and the story mated with a creative force to make something that will stand for all time. Sign me up.
Im almost 76 now and that was one of my favourite flicks, probably because I surfed, roller skated, and always been a biker, great watching how they made the movie, I honestly thought at the time those were the real characters, well done, only us so called rebels know that world,
This is great, I really appreciate seeing all this. I saw some of the set at IB in 2004, did some skating also, 360's old school, in style. I started skating in 1976, started surfing 1982. Not much anymore due to the rest of a great life. Living great, keeping vital and virile, with care.
Stacy seems like such a lovely guy. The way Rodney Mullen describes him in his book makes you just wanna go skate and try to impress him to make him laugh at you (appearently that was his way of telling you that he likes what you do) 😀
Had this movie on PSP never got into it til years later when I watched the Z-Boys documentary, don’t skate but love the culture that is skateboarding. 👍🏽
This is just footage from the special features on the dvd. Catherine Hardwick did a great job bringing the ZBoys to the big screen. Gotta give props to Stacy Peralta for telling the story in his awesome documentary. I was just a “Val” skater back in the day but these guys were legends and their pictures from Skateboarder were all over my walls. Such inspiration! RIP Jay, Shogo, Biniak, Baby Paul, Chris Cahill.
Was a special time. I picked up skateboarding around 1976 when it became big.. Tony Alva was the man! I still have my Fibreflex Bowl rider with Trackers and road rider4s..
I've only actually bought maybe 10 movies total in my entire life. Not streamed. Actually PURCHASED. Lords of Dogtown was one of em. One of those movies that will forever be ageless...
This movie is such a classic, Catherine Hardwicke, in hindsight was a really special director, it's a shame how Hollywood treated her after the colossal success of Twilight.
Who can forget the transition from clay to urethane wheels in the 70s? My first fiberglass board had Cadillac de Kine wheels & Chicago trucks. No more wipe outs when hitting a pebble. LOL. Graphite lube on the ball bearings. Skating pools & 6 man catamarans down some steepass hills. What a time to be ALIVE! This movie is a beautiful time capsule of the surf & skate culture of the 70s. The soundtrack! The hair! The tans! The girls! The weed! The cinematography! The acting! (Everyone is pitch perfect, but Heath steals every scene he's in!) I LOVE THIS FILM! Gets me all teary-eyed every time I watch it. "Skip called me 'bro.' " "Skip called you 'bro?' "
I loved both the documentary about the Dogtown and the Z-Boys and the movie. I just watched a documentary about some kids in Bor, Serbia called 'Kolos- BORba se isplati'. It's fascinating that this boys have adopted the American culture of skating! Great filmography, too!
I was so hyped when this movie was coming out. it gave me chills and made me feel like I wish I was there at the time. just watching this video gave me chills and happiness so many memories. by far the best movie to me personally I have ever watched
Can’t agree more I feel like a kid watching this again. This has always been one of my favorite movies ever but I refrain from watching it so that whenever I watch it again I get the same great feeling. Def will be putting this on soon, it’s been a few years.
This is hands down the best skate movie ever the z boys were the pioneers of skateboarding. The movie captures their life in their early teens extremely well and what they were like. I love this movie!! If you’re a skater please watch the lords of dog town!!
One of my favorite movies from my youth that has AGED well. Not like the beach hahaha man I loved this movie and still do. 05 I was 19 years old and man loved trying to skate.
I love this director. She makes it as real as she can, no shortcuts. Thought it would be cool to turn a doc I was a part of into a feature film. It's all about the character and our doc kinda was. It was about skating all the pools after the firestorm in Oakland in 1991. It got best story award at xdance in saltlake. These real life stories are so moving. Well done with the character dramma
Its crazy how much goes into movies. How many movies their are. How many good and bad ones their are. How much harder they are than music and just wow . Dope. Love this movie changed me as a kid and i dont even skate only skated for like a year 😂
On of my favorite movies... I was 9 when it came out and it's the reason I got into skateboarding. Until I watched this upload I almost forgot about the behind the scenes stuff on the DVD. Thanks for uploading!
Holy shit I could watch this all day, soo fucking interesting ❤ I knew it was actually them boarding, it had to be!!! Maaaan I had no clue actually how much work and effort they truly put into this movie! By far one of my favorite movies of all time, absolutely loved it back in 05 when I first watched it! Upon rewatching it the other day with my brother we contemplated showing this our niece who is 13 and has taken up skateboarding as well... I was that old when I saw it, man how flies 😶 Freaking flawless film 🙌🏻
If you think about it, this is was a multi-month private session skating 101 that guaranteed the actors to get good enough to skate bowls and even learn basic surfing to catching actual unbroken waves from pioneers of modern skating, without anyone around to make fun of them with any hassling or shit-talk. And the crazy part is, they got paid for it. Cmon man, these guys get to take away the skill of skating bowls for the rest of their lives and getting an popular acting gig that's on their resume for the rest of their lives. The dream
Watching this smokin bowls in my car and I had a realization about halfway through when they were talking about learning to skate for the movie, specifically “don’t be so stiff” As a car guy and a skater it made me connect the looseness to springs. Stiff springs transfer more weight, it’s all physics and works the same anyway. Next time I skate I’ll definitely keep the is one in my mind to see if it makes a difference.
I grew up in the same time but in Florida coco beach ,we surfed skated and dreamed of one day going to California, Alva was my hero, I wore his shirts, same board I was fucin brain washed. Finally made it to Ocean Beach surf was great but people sucked. And I realized I had been living in a fantasy land for so many years, but I wouldnt change it . Now I'm 56 and still skate with my 18yr old son.
Great movie great time got my first skateboard when I was about 12 it was a skinny plastic yellow took a while to get the hang of it then surf&skate opened bought several boards we skated everywhere pools ramps there was a place we called the key it was a concrete ditch shaped like a key there was one kid he would get going so fast and olly over trash cans we all drove vws lol we surfed a place called half moon bay this movie brings back a lot of memories thank you for sharing your video its relaxing to sit back and watch something real and forget about everything that's going on it was a great time to be a kid
I went to Pali High, mostly stayed in the Palisades wrecking havoc with my Pali buds and we used to kick it at Paul Revere every now n then . Skated a bit but was more into terrorizing the Samo Mtns on our dirtbikes. Cahill was a good friend too, hung with him a bit before he passed RIP brotha Chris Cahill..
Lance Mountain is a dude, that's a cool dude, but a dude who knows his abilities and his flaws dude, that ability is a major asset to give a view on the dude he is filming and give the impression that what the dude is attempting is more difficult than it really is (Not allways) but the outcome usually represents more than just physical skating, its shows thr emotion into the ride, the discipline and importance of practice, Lance knows when to be sure that he gets the dudes facial reactions and body language upon a successful trick, aswell as the disappointment of missing the trick. All in all the dude who knows the importance of eye contact, the physical movement in faces when raw emotions are being felt, the intensity and flow your body will take when your attempts are on point and goals are made in a solid fluid motion. Lance never fails to catch all those small moments in time, that everyone else rarely recognizes at the moment it happens. Great job, and Great idol for anyone who is intrested in filming, or plain ol living deep.
Dude . No way . I have your slolom board it's my favorite. Original but it doesn't sit on the shelf. Best turning radius ever made. No way, Henry heater. So stoked your a ledgend man
Brings back memories. I remember my first skateboard. It was a Variflex. Clear blue plastic type board that was slippery as all hell. I don't think they even made "grip tape " yet. Ha, "we were doing evil kanevel on Freddy Flintstone boards". Best quote ever .
i remember being OBSESSED with that documentary in college. I was a skater who at least knew who Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta was... but had never heard of Jay Adams, and only VAGUELY knew who the z-boys were. So yeah, as a skater... it was like a serious history lesson. When I found out they were going to make a movie about the z-boys? I just wanted it to be done right, and use the documentary as a template. I was very impressed with the final result, especially Ledger's portrayal of skip.
I remember as an east coast first gen skate rat waiting at 711 for the next skateboarder magazine. The zboys were Rockstar and the magazine was basically just about them. When I visited cali years later I most definitely did a self tour of Dogtown. Kinda mystical to me. So yeah great flick....really up my alley....great job by all involved.
This movie made my adolescence. crazy to think now, how all the OG members and even the skaters of the generation that succeeded them were all involved. lance mountain, tony hawk... fuck! WEAR IT WITH PRIDE MAN!
What is it with all the people here having this film on there PSP’s when they were younger???😂 i got this on DVD when it came out after seeing it advertised in Sidewalk magazine about 15 years ago, great fuckin film👌
So much love and respect for this movie. For the actors, producers, directors, creators, and most especially for the OG Lords... The Z-Boys who lived, breathed and dominated Dog Town and the epic era they launched. They are often emulated - but could never possibly be duplicated. #MadRespect
idk thought it was fake. I mean spinnin' wheels was the first skate movie to come out n it wasn't like this. It's like I saw the actual footage n it wasn't like this. Those guys actually bombed hills, no one will do that now.
Gasolina... it was fake. Everyone hated this movie. Stacey, Tony... they all thought it turned out to be trash and it did. It was laughable
@@Scott-eo7lj WKND - DEATH DANCE. Now that was a good movie, even tho some guy in the comments section thinks they ride for Buffalo Exchange.
They also left Jeff Ho out. Eh....not so real.
Boba fett
The fact that the actors learned to actually skate pools is something to respect...
Makes me happy to know they weren't posers
Steph who played peggi oki, is a long time ripper. She was a well known channel street loc and knew how to skate round wall long before this film. Coolest lady ever, too.
They had stunt men. adam alfro or something like that did pool stunts for tony
They had stunt doubles the actors weren’t skating those pools😂
@@liamschannel6294 Steph limb was. Fact.
Seeing jay laughing and smiling with his old boys at the dog bowl really hit me in the feels R.I.P Jay Adams
I feel it 🙏🏽
Celebrating rapists and hate murders. Yay. Fuck jayboy. Trash.
@@gardavis you're fried!
@@gardavis Take a chill pill
@@gardavis fuck you
I really miss Heath. Such a great fun actor.
Me too. He plays great as Skip and Joker.
A.J Thomas you mean Sid or am I dumb you can call my dumb
A.J Thomas I mean skip
He’s been so heavy on my mind and my heart recently ☹️
@@oholly18 He doesn't even know you. Calm down hun. You have your whole life ahead of you
It's wierd, my dad, who grew up skateboarding in the 70s felt nostalgic when we went to theatres and saw this. Now I feel nostalgic watching this thinking of all my friends and how we used to just skate until the lights at the park turned off. The subtle heat coming from the concrete filling the cool air. The smell of weed and the laughter. Always trying to one up each other but never putting each other down. I miss those times and those people. Life has become very lonely. That was back in the early/mid 2000s.
Times have changed.
guys in my hometown would hold a once a year night time skate session, we would borrow flood lights from the local garage, set them up, and skate from sun down to sun up, makes me miss the guys i grew up skating with, and i really miss our annual "monsters ball" that shit was wild, one year we busted a bunch of glowsticks and poured the gunk all over the pool, no lights, just toxic glowing goo, wild days
This movie was so well done. Congratulations to everyone involved. You made a classic skate movie that is going to live on forever.
Heath Ledger did an amazing job with his portrayal of Skip. RIP.
They did such a great job on this movie . its the most authentic movie I've ever seen where you really feel like your there in the 70s
Yes
lisa walker Bullshit
As someone born in 1960, I have to agree with Lowell (below) . The movie WAS decent, but Stacy’s doc was way way bettah.
This is a great movie. I grew up in So Cal in the 70s and skateboarding exploded around 75. The clothes, hair and everything were pretty damn accurate. Looks like they had a pretty good budget for this movie. Well done.
I love this! Born in 1960, lived in LA my whole life, surf/skate culture! What a masterpiece! Congratulations to everyone!
1959 Australia 🌊🌊
Tears running down my face the whole time... grew up during this time... so many memories
Tried not choke up when Jay and Biniak saw each other at the end, RIP to both!!
JW 36 Chris Cahill and Shogo Kubo too from the original 12
I did choke up. Rest in peace Jay and Shogo
I cried. That was a beautiful moment
Very real, very emotional moment... Tear in my eye, smile on my face....
Just the fact that these 3 young actors learned to skate at the Alva/Peralta/Adams level is MIND BLOWING, & you do not get more of a realistic portrayal of the Z-boys/Dogtown era than this. As another commenter quoted #MadRespect
RIP Jay Adams and Heath Ledger
I remember watching this movie in the theater. And it played a number on me. I actually found a fond interest in skateboarding. I loved cruising on my board, feeling calm, happy, free and alive. Skating was a great stress reliever.
Fuck I remember finding this movie in my dad's hard drive and was like, this seems interesting and turned out to be my favourite movie based or real life events, no joke
oh ok. thought you were joking.
I was very lucky to have grown up in that era of skating and surfing in So. Cal. Even tho me and my friends were not part of Dog Town we skated alot of the same spots as those guys. The Fruit Bowl stands out as well as the school yard banks in Glendale. Times were good back then.
5150 Abbott, Also skated the same places the dog town crew did.Do you remember Paul Revere?
@@danieldawson222 Ya the school. Didn't skate that spot. We skated other schools in Glendale that had the same type of banks.
Glendale, Armo land
Awesome, I love this so much. hope you're doing well, skate on
Lords of dog Town is one of my favorite movies of all time. I still watch it a bunch. Kinda makes you feel like you were there with them.
i got my first board at 8 in the 70's thank you Z BOYS. when the movie came out i was stoked. it became my favorite movie
The crazy part is so much of this movie was my childhood on the west coast - 30 years later the vibe isn’t exactly the same but it’s still there
50 years isnt it
Seeing the end at the dog bowl brought me to tears. I love skateboarding.
This movie raised me, I would see it almost every day as a kid and skate on old school skateboards trying to push myself to be better. I’m right know pursuing a career in surfing, I’m truly grateful to these amazing skaters and artists. Rest in peace Jay Adams.
This was great!!!! TH-cam is waaay behind sending this to me but I’m glad they did. RIP Jay. Really glad he turned his life around and got to live a happy life.
Being taught to skate by the great Tony Alva, Most of the skaters I know would die for such and honor.
Awesome video, really takes me back.
Lords Of Dogtown the z boys were the most badass skateboarders of all time.They were the real gods of skating. I still have my stacy peralta board ! Z BOYS !
All wickedly talented, all brought something new to skateboarding, but Jay was my favorite. R.I.P to that innovator, that incredible, iconic, wild spirit 😭
The true OG's who started it all. It's that simple and it's undeniable.
Jeff Ho started it.
this movie 100% changed my life
The movie was great. Brings back memories. I give the actors so much respect to learn how to skate and be good at it; hats off to these guys!!!
the move was called a bert, Cadillac wheels were soft and sticky much more than today and the pool was called keyhole (later dog bowl).... Stacey went international...Tony went Hollywood...and Jay went island style (then prison)....2Barb moved down south and started hanging with us...we all defended our turf and could back it up with our surf-skate style...the Baldy pipeline was still top secret but I was riding it....it all came to an end the summer of 1980 (known as the best summer ever) before corporate capitalism took over that decade...what happened ? ... we all grew up....I still surf and skate south county.🏄🏻
Far West sick story, thanks for sharing!
Cool story vro
Holy shit you’re one lucky human.
I was 7 yrs old in 76', Santa Barbara Ca. I got the blue hard fiberglass Hobie skateboard with red wheels. I was jumping off curbs and learning 360's. And was so excited when they started building a skate park.... Before it was even done, we moved to KANSAS!!!
NOBODY skated in Kansas....! so I got a bike..wah Wah WAH..!
@@2869may you should have started the trend in Kansas!
I've been skating for fun for over 20 years and those boys surpassed me at training camp. Mind you, I never had the Z boys training me. Imagine making this movie as a 20 year old. Mate. On top of the world. Huge fan of Emile's acting. Underrated film.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but what an awesome documentary!!
The Bones brigade and all these guys were my heroes as a kid in NZ, miles from the USA. I I have to say right here that Lance Mountain, I personally feel, is the most underrated skater/ talent ever. Love ya Lance!
My favorite movie of all time. So much nostalgia and meaning behind this film
i didn’t think that i would like this movie as much as i did, gotta go onto my top 3 list for sure. i wasn’t even born in the 70s, yet somehow i felt like i was there. i just loved everything about it.
Such a great time spent. A magical result from the focused vision of like -minded professionals. Is there anything better?
The hard work, the dream and and the story mated with a creative force to make something that will stand for all time. Sign me up.
The final sequence at the Dog Bowl choked me up. ❤️
Im almost 76 now and that was one of my favourite flicks, probably because I surfed, roller skated, and always been a biker, great watching how they made the movie, I honestly thought at the time those were the real characters, well done, only us so called rebels know that world,
This is great, I really appreciate seeing all this. I saw some of the set at IB in 2004, did some skating also, 360's old school, in style. I started skating in 1976, started surfing 1982. Not much anymore due to the rest of a great life. Living great, keeping vital and virile, with care.
Its hilarious that Lance Mountain was portrayed here as a glorified cameraman when the dude is a Bones Brigade legend
Oi. Us glorified cameramen are legends too, ya know?
I was like, don't they know??lol
Stacy seems like such a lovely guy. The way Rodney Mullen describes him in his book makes you just wanna go skate and try to impress him to make him laugh at you (appearently that was his way of telling you that he likes what you do) 😀
Had this movie on PSP never got into it til years later when I watched the Z-Boys documentary, don’t skate but love the culture that is skateboarding. 👍🏽
The doc is where its really at
"Our competitive days are over, now we can just be friends" That hit so hard
This is just footage from the special features on the dvd. Catherine Hardwick did a great job bringing the ZBoys to the big screen. Gotta give props to Stacy Peralta for telling the story in his awesome documentary. I was just a “Val” skater back in the day but these guys were legends and their pictures from Skateboarder were all over my walls. Such inspiration! RIP Jay, Shogo, Biniak, Baby Paul, Chris Cahill.
wow good choice of actors for the parts, they look similar
Was a special time. I picked up skateboarding around 1976 when it became big.. Tony Alva was the man! I still have my Fibreflex Bowl rider with Trackers and road rider4s..
I've only actually bought maybe 10 movies total in my entire life. Not streamed. Actually PURCHASED. Lords of Dogtown was one of em. One of those movies that will forever be ageless...
that bowl session with Jay Adams...oh man,that´s just too much, we miss you Jay,,buaaaaahhh!!!(tears in my eyes)
This movie is such a classic, Catherine Hardwicke, in hindsight was a really special director, it's a shame how Hollywood treated her after the colossal success of Twilight.
Who can forget the transition from clay to urethane wheels in the 70s? My first fiberglass board had Cadillac de Kine wheels & Chicago trucks. No more wipe outs when hitting a pebble. LOL. Graphite lube on the ball bearings. Skating pools & 6 man catamarans down some steepass hills. What a time to be ALIVE! This movie is a beautiful time capsule of the surf & skate culture of the 70s. The soundtrack! The hair! The tans! The girls! The weed! The cinematography! The acting! (Everyone is pitch perfect, but Heath steals every scene he's in!) I LOVE THIS FILM! Gets me all teary-eyed every time I watch it.
"Skip called me 'bro.' "
"Skip called you 'bro?' "
I loved both the documentary about the Dogtown and the Z-Boys and the movie. I just watched a documentary about some kids in Bor, Serbia called 'Kolos- BORba se isplati'. It's fascinating that this boys have adopted the American culture of skating! Great filmography, too!
Duuuudddeeee this is 1 of my top 3 movies ever!!!!
I was so hyped when this movie was coming out. it gave me chills and made me feel like I wish I was there at the time. just watching this video gave me chills and happiness so many memories. by far the best movie to me personally I have ever watched
Can’t agree more I feel like a kid watching this again. This has always been one of my favorite movies ever but I refrain from watching it so that whenever I watch it again I get the same great feeling. Def will be putting this on soon, it’s been a few years.
I love this movie. It's one of my all-time favorites.
Respect and love from Mexico.🇲🇽
I loved this movie growing up
God bless you for uploading this
"Geez man, i think we broke the piñata with that video...we can't even keep up with orders!!" 😂😂😂😂
This is hands down the best skate movie ever the z boys were the pioneers of skateboarding. The movie captures their life in their early teens extremely well and what they were like. I love this movie!! If you’re a skater please watch the lords of dog town!!
One of my favorite movies from my youth that has AGED well. Not like the beach hahaha man I loved this movie and still do. 05 I was 19 years old and man loved trying to skate.
Such a magical time. I wasn't out in CA yet, but I'm glad I was around for it.
I love this director. She makes it as real as she can, no shortcuts. Thought it would be cool to turn a doc I was a part of into a feature film. It's all about the character and our doc kinda was. It was about skating all the pools after the firestorm in Oakland in 1991. It got best story award at xdance in saltlake. These real life stories are so moving. Well done with the character dramma
seeing how much focus they were on the intricate details of the film makes sense on why the movie came out so good
Lived in Venice and Mar Vista...the 70's were like the hangover of the 60's...the hair....the clothes...the cars...and the MUSIC😂🎸🎶♥️🎶🎸 20:48
The fact that all 3 actors were able to ride over the light is pretty crazy lol skating pools is scary af
that's what I thought. impressive.
Hats off to the Art Department. WELL DONE!!!
Just got in from ripping and catch this on my recommended feed, very chill🤙🏼😎
Its crazy how much goes into movies. How many movies their are. How many good and bad ones their are. How much harder they are than music and just wow . Dope. Love this movie changed me as a kid and i dont even skate only skated for like a year 😂
On of my favorite movies... I was 9 when it came out and it's the reason I got into skateboarding. Until I watched this upload I almost forgot about the behind the scenes stuff on the DVD. Thanks for uploading!
I love Skip's way of speaking, the syntax and cadence is kind of poetic.
Holy shit I could watch this all day, soo fucking interesting ❤
I knew it was actually them boarding, it had to be!!!
Maaaan I had no clue actually how much work and effort they truly put into this movie!
By far one of my favorite movies of all time, absolutely loved it back in 05 when I first watched it!
Upon rewatching it the other day with my brother we contemplated showing this our niece who is 13 and has taken up skateboarding as well...
I was that old when I saw it, man how flies 😶
Freaking flawless film 🙌🏻
i lived in San Pedro, Calif. and i would come home at night and watch the film production's Second unit shoot scenes a few blocks from my place.
this movie was super impactful to me for my first year skating.
so good. what an epic time to have been alive, and what an amazingly raw movie. respect!!!
If you think about it, this is was a multi-month private session skating 101 that guaranteed the actors to get good enough to skate bowls and even learn basic surfing to catching actual unbroken waves from pioneers of modern skating, without anyone around to make fun of them with any hassling or shit-talk.
And the crazy part is, they got paid for it. Cmon man, these guys get to take away the skill of skating bowls for the rest of their lives and getting an popular acting gig that's on their resume for the rest of their lives. The dream
I know right. Call it a blessing.💪
I just watched it on my 42nd B day. 1981. My brother had an alva board from the 86-88ish. Wish i kept it
Watching this smokin bowls in my car and I had a realization about halfway through when they were talking about learning to skate for the movie, specifically “don’t be so stiff”
As a car guy and a skater it made me connect the looseness to springs. Stiff springs transfer more weight, it’s all physics and works the same anyway. Next time I skate I’ll definitely keep the is one in my mind to see if it makes a difference.
Dude heath ledger got Skips voice so on point, Wow
very very cool movie and a fantastic soundtrack of the best popular hard rock songs of the period!
damn imagine how lucky the actors are tho, they'll be able to say that they were basically taught how to skate by Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva
Lance mountain is a boss
JD Atkins
Got his board
Same I got the new series 12
Yea. Once we went from clay to urethane wheels it just blew up. Fiberglass Bahne board w/ Cadillac Wheels. Good times in Redondo!
I grew up in the same time but in Florida coco beach ,we surfed skated and dreamed of one day going to California, Alva was my hero, I wore his shirts, same board I was fucin brain washed. Finally made it to Ocean Beach surf was great but people sucked. And I realized I had been living in a fantasy land for so many years, but I wouldnt change it . Now I'm 56 and still skate with my 18yr old son.
Great movie great time got my first skateboard when I was about 12 it was a skinny plastic yellow took a while to get the hang of it then surf&skate opened bought several boards we skated everywhere pools ramps there was a place we called the key it was a concrete ditch shaped like a key there was one kid he would get going so fast and olly over trash cans we all drove vws lol we surfed a place called half moon bay this movie brings back a lot of memories thank you for sharing your video its relaxing to sit back and watch something real and forget about everything that's going on it was a great time to be a kid
Thanks for the upload!
I love your movie,I I can see your movie every day my girl got mad cuz I’ll see ur movie like 10 times a day
PG,93650 what are u saying man
This is the only movie I have watched over and over ,, I was 18 in 78 🇦🇺 had the chance to live USA
Jay Adams Da man Surf Skate n Party he lived it more than anyone, Love to Dogtown OG z
I went to Pali High, mostly stayed in the Palisades wrecking havoc with my Pali buds and we used to kick it at Paul Revere every now n then . Skated a bit but was more into terrorizing the Samo Mtns on our dirtbikes. Cahill was a good friend too, hung with him a bit before he passed RIP brotha Chris Cahill..
Lance Mountain is a dude, that's a cool dude, but a dude who knows his abilities and his flaws dude, that ability is a major asset to give a view on the dude he is filming and give the impression that what the dude is attempting is more difficult than it really is (Not allways) but the outcome usually represents more than just physical skating, its shows thr emotion into the ride, the discipline and importance of practice, Lance knows when to be sure that he gets the dudes facial reactions and body language upon a successful trick, aswell as the disappointment of missing the trick. All in all the dude who knows the importance of eye contact, the physical movement in faces when raw emotions are being felt, the intensity and flow your body will take when your attempts are on point and goals are made in a solid fluid motion.
Lance never fails to catch all those small moments in time, that everyone else rarely recognizes at the moment it happens. Great job, and Great idol for anyone who is intrested in filming, or plain ol living deep.
Such a good documentary of a documentary
Dude . No way . I have your slolom board it's my favorite. Original but it doesn't sit on the shelf. Best turning radius ever made. No way, Henry heater. So stoked your a ledgend man
Brings back memories. I remember my first skateboard. It was a Variflex. Clear blue plastic type board that was slippery as all hell. I don't think they even made "grip tape " yet.
Ha, "we were doing evil kanevel on Freddy Flintstone boards". Best quote ever .
This had to be the greatest movie to be a part of.
i remember being OBSESSED with that documentary in college. I was a skater who at least knew who Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta was... but had never heard of Jay Adams, and only VAGUELY knew who the z-boys were. So yeah, as a skater... it was like a serious history lesson. When I found out they were going to make a movie about the z-boys? I just wanted it to be done right, and use the documentary as a template. I was very impressed with the final result, especially Ledger's portrayal of skip.
Rewatching this cause it's that good.
I remember as an east coast first gen skate rat waiting at 711 for the next skateboarder magazine. The zboys were Rockstar and the magazine was basically just about them. When I visited cali years later I most definitely did a self tour of Dogtown. Kinda mystical to me. So yeah great flick....really up my alley....great job by all involved.
I was really surprised to find out that the boy who played Jay was the kid in ‘the girl next door.’
I remember meeting Tony Alva....at mad dog bowl.. London in the seventies it was a wicked skate park to..✌️😷..
I grew up idolizing these guys so cool
This movie made my adolescence. crazy to think now, how all the OG members and even the skaters of the generation that succeeded them were all involved. lance mountain, tony hawk... fuck! WEAR IT WITH PRIDE MAN!
This was the only movie I had for my PSP... watched this movie so many times , great fucking job!!🤟
What is it with all the people here having this film on there PSP’s when they were younger???😂 i got this on DVD when it came out after seeing it advertised in Sidewalk magazine about 15 years ago, great fuckin film👌