Heres some surf flicks i thought id review for some advice. scoring is based on 1 to 5 stars, and ill give my thoughts on each. If you want to submit a review, send it to stoke14@musician.net.
- Lost Across America Vol. 1
****
This flick is endless, at about an hour and a quarter, it is for when you are totally stuck without surf, or a party or something. IT is filled with awesome footage, but mostly just endless tuberides.Lots of gay cheap punk songs. It will you stoke you out, and make you want to surf dirty new jersey waves. Definitly one of my favorites.
- Loose change
****
Loose change is the surf industries attempt at comedy/serious acting. lets just say most pro surfers are better at their surfing. However this movie is every top rated pro ripping their best in Indo and their own backyards. The acting is cheesier than jon Berger, and gets in the way, but this still an awesome vid.
Wide open
***
This vid is all the ozzie surfers trying to qwalify for the tour. Taj Burrow is awesome, and their is tons of awesome surfing at ozzie beachbreaks, but they throw in gay interviews and Occumentary style videography which gets in the way. Still a really good vid.
- Lost at Sea
***
Lost at sea is an endless indo dream that will never happen to any of us. They put a bunch of the best pros on a boat trip to perfect indo and film it all. its basically perfect head high barrel after head high barrel, and gets a little boring after awile.Not to say they arent ripping, at one point the camera doesnt even pan away. HTis vid also has an awesome soundtrack.
- Occumentary
****
Occumentary is occy's own surfing biography. Awesome footage and behind the surfing action. If you like occy and his surfing get this vid.
- Billabong's 9 Lives
****
THis si one of the best ive seen in qwality and action. You got everything from the Indo boat trip to Huge Australia to perfect undiscovered beachbreak. Every pro. Slater is a freak.
- Feral Kingdom (Rip Curl)
****
YOu probably will never find this video again, and i dont know when it was made, but this is one of my all time favorite vids. All i can say is absolutely bithchin new skool surfing (shuvits, 180 olleys, all kinds of airs) along with standard ripping and tube riding in autralia, Indo, ALASKA, fiji, and other unknown spots. awesome unknown australian surfers and a BoSS soundtrack make this vid a big stoke. if you find it, buy it.
- Lost Across America II The Decline.
7 out of 10
Good movie following the same format as Lost Across
America 1 and all-in-all very similar. Downpoints are
that thr soundtrack is no as good and it has lots of
skits that werent funny the first time. Goodpoints
are that it has lots of sick footage like skeg-first
barrels and pop shuv-its at Typhoon Lagoon and that
Chris Harmon is in it in a NY / NJ section
- The Experience
5 out of 10
Good, diverse footage and a pretty good soundtrack.
Includes some good skimboarding, WaveLoch and
Mentawais parts. An hour and a quarter long. The
O"neill team is really good.
- Kelly Slater in black and white
3 out of 10
Kind of short but has Kelly Slater in the whole thing.
Half the movies in black and white, but shows him
surfing as a young kid. His real first name is
Robert.
- Inspired
5 ot of 10
Normal video, everything is pretty good, nothing that
great. Very similar to Thicker than Water. Perfect
length, easy to watch through the whole thing since
there are no bad parts.
- Searching for Tom Curren
(not rated)
- Tom curren is not god. (harmon probably surfs just
as good) The soundtrack is ok . Curren does some sick stuff like ride a twin
fin in tripple overhead indo , its a six out of ten scooty.
- The September Sessions
- Really good surfers in really good waves. Its
mostly Kelly Slater getting ten second barrels. Theres good music too.
- Thicker than Water
(not rated)
- This movie is supposed to represent chris malloys life
but doesnt really acomplish that. Its a good movie though they surf awesome
waves in weird places like ireland and really heavy tahitti. Cool points in
the movie are seeing slaters waves at backdoor that won him the pipe masters,
and dan malloy surfing like 20 foot pipe on a single fin
- The Endless Summer
*****
This one is all time. I just watched it and realized how much i like this old skool movie. Thw waves they surf are more thatn epic, (cape st.Francis makes me want to cry.)and the old skool long boarding is inspiring. definitly great except for the corny sixties humor and narration, which is still classic. Go out and watch this movie.
- Computer body
****
Awesome Volcom vid with its breathtaking Ozzie wright part. Dustin Cuizon is crazy and inspiring, barney rolls, bruce irons all over pipe, and oska with jetty fastplants and crazt airs, Sick action but a little short in length. Great for pre sesh stoke.
****
Classical Gas is the worlds best long boarding at the best spots by the best riders. at one and a hlf hours, this vid is endless noserides, roundhouses,helicopters and even an air! I clocked one guys noseride at thirty seconds. New skoll longboarding and old. This vid is a bit long, but filled with awesome footage. A must have for any long boarder like my punkass brother.
- All The Way Live
****1/2
All the way live is one of the sickest vids ive ever seen, non stop airs and sickening barrells with the hobgoods, bobby martinez, and some other bitches. The vid id good length and really good qwality footage.
