Buster007
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This documentary follows two different Counter Strike teams as they travel the world and battle each other and show off their skills.
The film makes a case for these e-athletes and treats professional gaming as a sport. However, the film displays why these events will never garner widespread popularity. Unless you are intimately familiar with the maps of a specific game it is not fun to watch as a spectator sport. It would be like the size and shape of a football field changing every single game. In addition, the match footage is not edited together in a way that even fans of the game will find compelling.
That said, some of the talking heads make some interesting points and it is fairly interesting to see some of the back stories of the players, even if they are mostly interchangeable geeks.
The film is also quite sloppily made and misspells words and names of cities. It is also quite condescending in tone to some of the rural families depicted..
The film makes a case for these e-athletes and treats professional gaming as a sport. However, the film displays why these events will never garner widespread popularity. Unless you are intimately familiar with the maps of a specific game it is not fun to watch as a spectator sport. It would be like the size and shape of a football field changing every single game. In addition, the match footage is not edited together in a way that even fans of the game will find compelling.
That said, some of the talking heads make some interesting points and it is fairly interesting to see some of the back stories of the players, even if they are mostly interchangeable geeks.
The film is also quite sloppily made and misspells words and names of cities. It is also quite condescending in tone to some of the rural families depicted..
This movie is an anachronism. Based on the clothes, music, hairdos, and so forth, it seems like this should be an eighties film.
Horkheimer, Adorno, and others of the Frankfurt School of thinkers argued in the 1940s that mass media was used to control the people and ultimately resulted in sameness. Double Trouble certainly proves the latter. The plot and the villains are all plucked willy nilly from various 1980s films. One of the barbarian brothers accidentally steals a card that gives access to a vault of diamonds just above the subway in downtown LA. The other barbarian brother is a cop forced by the chief to partner with his larcenous brother. Oh, the other barbarian brother...
How could anyone wear what this guy wears? The Raiders sweatshirt/half shirt with high-waisted, acid-washed jeans? But all of that pales compared with the mullets sported by each brother. Paging Billy-Ray Cyrus. The guy can't run either. He has a worse gait than Keanu Reeves.
Whoever thought that wrestlers could act anyway?
This film is about as fragmented and nonsensical as this review of it. In the right company this could be part of a beer-fueled evening with friends, or consumed alone. Regardless, mouths will be agape. The horror, the horror.
Horkheimer, Adorno, and others of the Frankfurt School of thinkers argued in the 1940s that mass media was used to control the people and ultimately resulted in sameness. Double Trouble certainly proves the latter. The plot and the villains are all plucked willy nilly from various 1980s films. One of the barbarian brothers accidentally steals a card that gives access to a vault of diamonds just above the subway in downtown LA. The other barbarian brother is a cop forced by the chief to partner with his larcenous brother. Oh, the other barbarian brother...
How could anyone wear what this guy wears? The Raiders sweatshirt/half shirt with high-waisted, acid-washed jeans? But all of that pales compared with the mullets sported by each brother. Paging Billy-Ray Cyrus. The guy can't run either. He has a worse gait than Keanu Reeves.
Whoever thought that wrestlers could act anyway?
This film is about as fragmented and nonsensical as this review of it. In the right company this could be part of a beer-fueled evening with friends, or consumed alone. Regardless, mouths will be agape. The horror, the horror.
The documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of Steve Rocco and his World Industries family of skateboard companies in the late 80s and early 90s.
Up until this point, skateboarding in the 1980s had been dominated by vert skating. Stars like Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Gator, etc. had been the superstars of a sport controlled by the likes of Powell Peralta and Vision. Of course, vert skating required access to a large ramp which most people did not have. Therefore, it is no wonder that street skating evolved into the most popular form of the sport. It took the technical aspects of freestyle and some of the tricks of vert and merged them into something new.
This documentary is a fascinating look into this transition from the perspective of Steve Rocco. It contains recent anecdotes from most of the people involved. Or, at least most of the people involved on the Rocco side of the divide. Granted, a lot of the people here had some sort of falling out with Rocco, but they were all on his side at some point. I would have liked to see some more people from Vision or Powell. As it stands, the only real voice of dissent is from Tony Magnusson of H-Street and Evol fame.
H-Street is also one of my other rubs with this documentary. H-Street was a skater-owned company, released amazing street-skating videos shot on tape and did all this BEFORE Rocco and World Industries. H-Street's Shackle me Not from 1988 was THE quantum shift in skateboard videos. Watching excerpts of it on YouTube today it still amazes. That is not to take away from World Industries' Rubbish Heap, but H-Street did it first. Therefore, I would have preferred some acknowledgment of this. As it now stands, the documentary makes it seem like Rocco created all of these things.
I would also have liked to see more of an emphasis on the negative aspects of Rocco's influence on the world of skateboarding. In some ways, skateboarding shifted away from skateboarding to clothes, videos, music, and lifestyle with World Industries.
However, apart from all of these niggles, I found this documentary to be a compelling look into a long-lost era of the sport. There is amazing footage of skaters like Jason Lee, Guy Mariano, Danny Way, and others doing their stuff, and equally compelling interviews with them today. Well worth watching
Up until this point, skateboarding in the 1980s had been dominated by vert skating. Stars like Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Gator, etc. had been the superstars of a sport controlled by the likes of Powell Peralta and Vision. Of course, vert skating required access to a large ramp which most people did not have. Therefore, it is no wonder that street skating evolved into the most popular form of the sport. It took the technical aspects of freestyle and some of the tricks of vert and merged them into something new.
This documentary is a fascinating look into this transition from the perspective of Steve Rocco. It contains recent anecdotes from most of the people involved. Or, at least most of the people involved on the Rocco side of the divide. Granted, a lot of the people here had some sort of falling out with Rocco, but they were all on his side at some point. I would have liked to see some more people from Vision or Powell. As it stands, the only real voice of dissent is from Tony Magnusson of H-Street and Evol fame.
H-Street is also one of my other rubs with this documentary. H-Street was a skater-owned company, released amazing street-skating videos shot on tape and did all this BEFORE Rocco and World Industries. H-Street's Shackle me Not from 1988 was THE quantum shift in skateboard videos. Watching excerpts of it on YouTube today it still amazes. That is not to take away from World Industries' Rubbish Heap, but H-Street did it first. Therefore, I would have preferred some acknowledgment of this. As it now stands, the documentary makes it seem like Rocco created all of these things.
I would also have liked to see more of an emphasis on the negative aspects of Rocco's influence on the world of skateboarding. In some ways, skateboarding shifted away from skateboarding to clothes, videos, music, and lifestyle with World Industries.
However, apart from all of these niggles, I found this documentary to be a compelling look into a long-lost era of the sport. There is amazing footage of skaters like Jason Lee, Guy Mariano, Danny Way, and others doing their stuff, and equally compelling interviews with them today. Well worth watching