• I just saw Lords of Dogtown. I don't know how to skateboard but it made me want to skateboard. The footage from the movie was very impressive. The kids in the movie could skate like nonother. Maybe the scene in Back to the Future when Marty Mcfly is skating on the back of the pick up was taken from this style of skating. Probably was. Surfing and skating. Every kid's dream these days. This movie was almost like the skater kid's Dazed and Confused. The party scene. The girls. Hanging out with a crowd out of your leauge. Working your way to popularity and acceptence. Getting by with about anything. I know this movie will be appealing to many youth after seeing hundreds of kids come through camp enamored and obsessed with skating. It seems there is a shift. Used to all the kids wanted to be the football star. They wanted to lift weights and be the guy playing quaterback in the fourth quater. Kids wanted to go to all the parties after the game and be the guy everyone highfives. It seems these days kids are beginning to abandon the big three sports(baseball, football, basketball) and head toward skating and extreme sports. Kids don't have to deal with coaches when they skateboard. They can do their own thing. When all the kids quit basketball and baseball and football they will meet all their friends at the park for skating. Maybe listen to a little music. Now we have this movie out presenting a lifestyle that presents a glorified lifestyle that appeals to the kid who has hopes of becoming a skate champ. That lifestyle used to be presented in movies like Varsity Blues, American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait and Van Wilder. Now it is presented in a different style in this movie with boys who are 16 having sex with girls who look like their big sisters. Are you kidding me? That doesn't happen. It just doesnt. Just like all those scences in those other movies I mentioned. Television producers feed us males a big lie when we see these other males having the time of his life with an older woman. Hollywood portrays sex as the pinnicle of our existence. When it comes down to it we get manipulated into believing a lie. They choose to show us what happened out of the Lord of the Dogtown story. The story is based on a true story. We have to remember when we watch a movie like this we can be easily manipulated. Francis Schaeffer words this well: "Actually, TV manipulates viewers just by its normal way of operating. Many viewers seem to assume that wehn they ahve seen something on TV, they have seen it with thier own eyes. It makes the viewer think he has acutally been on the scene. He knows, because his own eyes have seen. He has the impression of greater direct objective knowledge than every before. For many, what they see on television becomes more true than what they see with thier eyes in the external world." This is honestly what was going through my head when I was watching the Lords of Dogtown. I've been through high school and I can honestly say that I know what happens. Alot of the stuff portrayed in all those football movies and this movie are exaggerated. We gotta be careful what we the television feeds our heads. We have to be critical of some of the things we see in movies and not be so naieve to think all this stuff happens. Then we look at chick flicks............ I'll step back off my box now.

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