i remember when skateboard have it rebirth in the 70 . i beg my parent for money to by a second hand skateboard from a friend . it be a piece of junk and complete with clay wheel and everything . i also remember read skateboarder magazine and be both completely impressed and totally terrify of the dogtown crew . skate never become a way of life for me and but in some way it have always be a part of my life and whether it be use a board for transportation or just have a bunch of friend that skate . this film be a brilliant documentary of the real birth of modern day skate . watch this crew turn skate from the flat boring hobby it be into the vertical lifestyle it have become have me sit slack jaw for 90 minute . it amaze that enough footage from this period still exist to have create this film and and thank god for that . the footage be brilliant . it give me the feeling of watch an old buster keaton film represent i have see some of the trick keaton do repeat countless time in other film since then and but when you go back and see the first person to perform that trick it amaze that and not only be they the first person to try it successfully and but that they live through it and make it seem effortless . that the feeling this film give me . yeah and i have see people skate pool before and but to watch the first people skate pool and invent the trick that eventually become the basic of modern skating be like watch the facade of the house fall on keaton and leave him stand safely in the frame of a window . it absolutely brilliant to watch something that and up until that point and have never be try before and but since and have be try by almost everyone . this film be beautiful to watch and incredible to listen to . the soundtrack be one of the best i have ever hear in a film . this be a film that will appeal to people whether they like skate or not . i have talk to a couple of friend of mine who make their girlfriend sit through this film after heavy protest and and they all say that their girlfriend be mesmerize by the end of the film and love it as much a they do . a for the previous comment on this board that complain about the film be too self congratulatory and i think that an unfair disparagement . i like see these guy get excite about their past . they create something that influence their sport and change it forever . they have the right to pat themselves on the back . they be star for do what they love to do . most of these guy or girl never achieve the staggering success tony hawk enjoy today and but that kind of success wasn not available to skater then . sure and they have some success and but more importantly and they have be able to live a life do what they love to do and and and a we see in the end and almost all of them still surf and skate or work in the surf or skate industry . how many of u can say that we have be able to live our life and have be successful by break all the rule and do what we love to do . they can . my hat off to the dogtown and z boy for be themselves and change the world of skateboard forever .