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!
Not gonna lie now that I think about it, I was glamorizing the beginning of the underground skating era. I wanted to be apart of it, that would be so cool but I thought their story was 80’s or 90’s, not the 70’s💀 idk if I’d want to have lived back then in that era, that means now I’d be 65😮💨 I’m happy where I’m at, but watching this move you realize you’re watching a bunch of dudes from the 70’s who blew up skateboarding, it was so much before my time it’s insane. Still respect it but man it feels like it happened in the 90’s, not the 70’s😵
Fake ass BS. Born and raised Cali started skating in 1966 and been skating for over 57 yrs, this is all garbage. At the end of the movie their is a disclaimer "This is fictional".
This movie lost money for the producers and distributors . The budget was 26 million dollars . A movie needs to make double the budget or more to be profitable. .So they needed at least 52 million or more . It only made 13 million at the box office. . So they lost 40 million dollars. .. ...
The fact is Dogtown and the Z-Boys was an incredible documentary and brought me back to that very special period of my life in a very profound way. The movie Lords of Dogtown, by comparison, absolutely sucked. I can totally understand Stacey Peralta's motivation to expand on the original documentary with a "Hollywood Movie," but the movie failed to capture the raw feeling of the documentary. IMHO
So this be sad but true story. I be on set for this on they 98th day of filming. They be doing a bunch of shots near this beat up Cafe so I tried making myself visible . I bump into Fricking the joker himself. Heath ledger I say I love his movies. He says am I freaky? So I let him slide in my yams in back alley. I hadn't gotten my surgery yet and my dead name was devontay Walter. I was still a woman just in a man's body. Well he finished and I'm trying to wipe up the mess and I see a name tag on his shirt. Harry. I ask him what is that? He laugha and admits he wasn't heath and he be Chinese and heath be white. I was sickened. I gave myself to this liar and racist wanna be colonizer White Supremecy won't win today. So I admitted that I got that bug and he entered unprotected so he now got it. Have fun at ya Trump rally #BlackLivesMatter #AsiansBeRacist
I know the breakup of the Zephyr team was really emotional for Jeff Ho and Skip Engloom, so I'm glad Skip had a chance to work with the movie set. If it wasn't for Ho and Englom, none of this would have happened.
I don't buy many movies, but this was a must. I think they know now, but at the time, the influence they had - I mean, Alva was the king of air. Skateboarder mag took it from the street to the pool. I was an East Coaster and everything skating was dictated by these guys. Skateparks blew up across the country, contests, product, a gold rush! .... for a moment. I did the breaking into pools when they closed down for fall and drained them (almost) for photoshoots. We tried to replicate the shit man - and getting chased out - we did public pools, the deep ends with the diving boards were always the best but some weren't worth the climb over the fence, all square. They were the shit man. When a new mag came out we gathered at a house where 2 brothers had a half pipe in the backyard. We smoked shitty pot, looked through the pictures and got to work on the lastest whatever. It was a good day when no one went to the hospital but there were times of realville. Anyone says they never got hurt? weren't skaters. This is what California dreams were made of late 70's
I’ve always loved this movie since it came out, I hadn’t watched it since like 2010 maybe, last night though me and my girlfriend watched it, it was her first time watching it, she loved it, and as for me, watching it again as an adult was really awesome! ☺️ also seeing the movie on a better tv on Prime was great, got to really see scenes that were originally very dark back in the day lol😆
I watch this entire movie being filmed I was security guard for executive insurance filmed in Venice Beach San Pedro Culver city Baldwin hills 20 something years ago
My pops grew up with these guys. Peggy Oki is still a friend of our family. It’s a shame she wasn’t in the movie more than just a quick clip. She was the badass girl in the Z boys crew
This movie was as good as Hollywood will ever get to making this film! And the worst part was when it came out… everyone shit on it because the documentary was so good! I sown this blue ray, seen this making of… and just watched it again on my phone… what a feat this crew accomplished!
