Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2011)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn't always like that. In the early '80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade. This documentary chronicles their epic rise, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony
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An exhaustive - no, make that exhausting - look at a team of young skateboarders ...
Top CriticLike a high school reunion, filled with affectionate memories of an earlier, more innocent, time.
This film makes a great companion piece to Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys,'' which leaves off where "Bones Brigades'' begins.
Gradually becomes an echo chamber of personal dramas and exploits, not to mention propulsive soundtrack cues - all within a sport already nursing a penchant for self-documentation.
The film risks self-importance, but when Peralta admits through tears just how much he loves his skater charges, it imparts what every parent knows ...
Peralta's doc is a generous, tasty slice of skateboarding history.
Aside from a lack of journalistic integrity, it's a well-assembled film, one that capitalizes on the charisma of its interview subjects.
The film may be shameless self-promotion and navel-gazing (it's sponsored by Vans), but the interviews are so candid and introspective that it's worthwhile.
makes its nostalgia seem earned...
You don't need to be knee-deep or even care about skateboarding to fall in love with this film. Bones Brigade: The Autobiography is a masterpiece.
For anyone who's ever wanted to know how tricks like the "Olly" and the "McTwist" came to be, or how exactly Tony Hawk became a superstar, this movie is highly informative and even inspirational.
Audience Reviews for Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
I think finally I get what all those skateboarders are so nuts about.
Great story about a fine group of kids.
Lots of love here. Good shit.
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