Movie Details
| Title: | Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off | |
| Director: | Sam Jones | |
| Year: | 2022 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 10.28.24 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 10.28.24 | Internet | One day not too long ago, youtube decided I should start watching Tony Hawk videos. It's an odd thing when something like that pops up on your homepage and I mostly resent what a vicious cycle it is where youtube's like "you should watch this, you should watch this" and when I finally break down and click on the video it's immediately like "you watched this! you must love it! HERE YOU GO!" So consequently I've been watching Tony Hawk videos recently. He has a podcast with an Australian skater and he somewhat recently broke his femur and he has a full skate park in his back yard and skateboarding in general is what I'd call "well documented," probably because getting tricks on film is so important. With that in mind, I saw that Sam Jones made a doc about him so I figured it was worth a watch. This was pretty good. It managed to distill everything i'd learned in ~a month's worth of podcast episodes into a couple hours while showing all the pertinent footage. I only have a few nitpicks. One is that the movie shows Tony visit his mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's. Maybe Tony was cool with that because she passed in 2019 so she got to be a part of his doc but to me it was too personal. My other complaint is the score. The soundtrack is pretty great but the space between needle drops is filled with the most basic documentary emotional manipulation nonsense. There must be a stock library somewhere of "sad guitar", "contemplative strings", "heavy weight pads", etc. Otherwise, it was interesting to see a Sam Jones piece in color, and having seen a bunch of these now (thanks to youtube I watched bits of Animal Chin, the animal chin reunion, a 20-year dogtown + z-boys mini-doc, and did I mention the podcast?), I'm pretty impressed with Stacy Peralta. I mean, I'm a fan of Tony Hawk as well, but Peralta's story and career is also pretty great, and the dude's interview footage is on point. Almost to where it sounds too rehearsed. No umms or ahhs whatsoever. For the z-boys retrospective they interviewed him standing against a wall of his garage and it was the same thing. Well-formed complete thoughts conveyed with passion. Is it his time behind the camera? Is that just how he thinks? Dude has some serious media training. Anyway, this was good. |
