Mid90s

I was a little nervous when I read that Jonah Hill was writing and directing a skateboarder drama. Being a skateboarder myself all my life, I really focused on how this movie was. Was it gonna be a wacky comedy or something serious? I walked out of the movie theatre with a massive smile on my face! This movie had the perfect tone to it. You really do feel for the characters and you really feel for Stevie. Growing up a skater, I really related to Stevie in the movie. while it focuses on a little kid becoming a skateboarder, it also deals with a lot of real life problems. Future, health, how hard some people's lives are. And this movie portrayed that beautifully! Hat tipped to Jonah hill! This is a must see not just for skateboarders for for everybody!

Just incredible mixed feelings after watching: sadness for time passing by, melancholia for those ages and of course, joy for being part of them...Well done Jonah!

This movie was the 90's skate scene to a T. The music, a mix of punk, indie and hip hop, the clothes, baggy pants and 2XL tees, drugs, underage drinking, and of course street skating. If you were there, you know, if not you can experience a time that will never come back. Skating is not the outlaw thing you do to escape your sh!tty life anymore, it's city built skateparks and X games. That's why this film hits hard. Everyone who was around then had their crew and every crew had the jokester, the pro, the poor kid and the hanger-on who wasn't really good but a nice dude so you kept him. That's what Stevie is in this film and that's why you feel for him. Jonah Hill has made an authentic time capsule into the mid 90's that feels real and not forced.

Aside from a couple minor issues I had with this film, I loved it. It just felt incredibly real. I didn't feel like I was watching actors. I felt like I was watching the lives of these kids unfold, and that those lives would just continue unfolding even when the camera wasn't rolling.

This is a amazing ( but maybe a bit too short) movie about the lifestyle of a skater. Let me start off by saying, No you don't need to be a skater to like this movie. I personally was growing up, and this movie resonated with me like no other.

This film isn't one of those typical "900 on a mini ramp to win the championship" movies that skateboarding usually is depicted as in movies. This is a perfectly done setting, perfectly shown lifestyle of the behind the scenes of a skater. The substance abuse, the grind to get that ONE trick, the looking down from society. It's all there.

I see a lot of reviews that talk negative about the legitimacy of how young the kid is and how old the other kids are. Saying they would NEVER accept the kid at that age, saying the drugs, the alcohol isn't realistic, that simply isn't true. Many kids at my local park skate every day, look up to these older skaters and everyone accepts them because they are trying to do what every other skater is. I personally even used to hang with a kid who was much younger because he was on our level of skating, and now he's actually passed all of us. And touching on the subject of drugs..... Yes, iv seen many be influenced into drugs, fighting, drinking at such young ages. That movie shows that, it's not promoting it, it's just being realistic.

I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who has any interest in skateboarding, and even as a normal viewer I still highly recommend.

Also I wanted to add, hats off to Jonah hill for picking such great talent from the skateboarding community to actually be casted and play the roles of these kids.