Review(s): DVD Riding Giants (Special Edition) / Dogtown and Z-Boys (Special Edition)
giants defeats zboys
Great 2 DVD set that appears similar on outside but is very different from both how you enjoy it and how you would review it as a film critic. Giants is best thing I have seen and I could watch it almost every night. I do surf, but have plenty non-surfing friends of all ages who also like it. Dogtown follows same outline with skateboarding, but is tremendously self indulgent in the skaters glorifying themselves. The surfers are downright humble by comparison. Summary - great to watch, but could also be used by a film class to compare/contrast the two.
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Thanks to Dana Brown's delightful Step Into Liquid, the surfing scene in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should get a healthy boost. That's because Brown, in the tradition of his father, filmmaker Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), has captured dazzling images of surfers riding curls in some of the world's most exotic--and sometimes unlikely--places. Besides the action on Lake Michigan, Brown leads us to Costa Rica, where the sport's senior elite (including Summer star Robert August) prove they still have the moves, and Oahu's North Shore, where the legendary Pipeline inspires this quote: "It's so scary, maybe you die a little." Most entertaining is a segment in County Donegal, where the American Malloy brothers startle the locals and meet their Irish counterparts on the grayest... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Dana Brown (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 20 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Sweet shots sweet music by Jack J and his crew. Faces tell stories. I'm not a real surfer but it doesn't matter cause the 16mm film used and the pictures it produced tells a story about something even greater than Surfboarding. If your into things that are great i guess. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jack Johnson (IX) DVD Release Date: Released the 17 December 2002 Usually ships in 6 to 8 days
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Riding Giants is more than another blissful surfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stacy Peralta DVD Release Date: Released the 04 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In addition to boasting one of the most astonishing opening sequences in the history of extreme-sports filmmaking, Billabong Odyssey offers a breathtaking survey of big-wave surfing at a pivotal stage in its evolution. With the advent of Jet-Ski Waverunners used for "tow-in" access to gigantic waves that paddle-surfers could never reach, this three-year, globe-trotting quest for the world's biggest waves is nothing less than spectacular. As documentaries go it's a bit cruder than 2003's other surfing movie, Step Into Liquid, and many of the same world-class surfers appear in both films (including 49-year-old Ken Bradshaw, still going strong). But Billabong is unrivaled in its abundance of jaw-dropping footage--most of it shot from helicopters hovering in close... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ken Bradshaw - Ken Collins - Brian L. Keaulana - Brad Gerlach Director(s): Philip Boston DVD Release Date: Released the 27 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I just bought this DVD and am very disappointed. Yes, the soundtrack is good, however the footage is very boring. Some sections of the movie (like the surf session with the old "singlefin green") are nice for the soul content, but the rest is very, very substandard surfing (nothing really amazing on the wave size or on the "gnarliness" of the moves). I haven't watched the bonus video yet, but I don't think it'll be that good to change my rating. If you're looking for soul content, you're much better off buying "Singlefin Yellow". If you want to buy this for the soundtrack, then buy the CD. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jack Johnson DVD Release Date: Released the 25 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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