Directed by Stacy Peralta
When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
Bones Brigade An Autobiography, Bones Brigade: Uma Autobiografia, 白骨队：滑板最初的记忆, 본즈 브리게이드: 언 오토바이오그래피, Bones Brigade: autobiograafia, Bones Brigade: Автобіографія, 白骨隊：滑板最初的記憶
Estonia Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 
USAR Estonia USA 
This is a Rodney Mullen appreciation post.
One of my all time favourite documentaries and a very much needed dose of P.U.R.E. P.O.S.I.V.I.T.Y. during these harsh WTF times.
I remember seeing this in theatres back in 2012 and absolutely loving it. The story of Stacey Peralta's legendary skateboard team was not only chalk full of the kind of underdog wizardry we all nourish ourselves on, but it was also a well made doc that was equally slick as it was engaging.
The following year was when I really latched onto this film even more as I was going through what would easily be one of the most challenging and traumatic years of my life. The summer of 2013 I must have watched this about 10 times, alternating…
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As always, fantastic to see everyone giving the standard, great skateboard documentary stuff of "we were all stupid dickheads, my parents were real mad about this, everything depended on this very insane man, these guys were inventing reality, let's be real, I wasn't 100% on Tony Hawk"
Meanwhile Rodney Mullen is like a dark souls npc who meditated so long he never fully came back. Always going to be interesting when someone develops an understanding of a niche that is so total they end up understanding the universe.
"I had 34 trophies...but I really have none because I threw them all away...because I HATE THEM"
Lance Mountain's lifelong struggle with imposter syndrome bums me out so bad
All these guys were at their most popular around the time I took up skating, so for me this documentary relates to a big part of my childhood. Having only known them through magazines and videos I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how how the whole thing evolved, and loved the insights from the interviews with original Brigade members and others from the scene. Much like Dogtown, Peralta's previous skateboarding doco, it's been very lovingly crafted and features an impressive amount of footage from the early days. I'd say that even if you weren't into skateboarding you'd still find much to like here.
the whiplash when fred durst shows up in this...
“Don’t let anything poison your individuality - be away, break away, look in and not outwards”
I love Rodney Mullen. That’s it. That’s the review.
6 nerds with a skateboard meet George Harrison
The history of skateboarding. Pretty in depth story about how rodney mullen is a literal autistic savant. He created every flat ground trick (including the ollie) in a small garage on his farm property after his dads attempts to get him to stop skating. Talks about and shows old vids of tony hawk, lance mountain, steve cabellero and of course rodney mullen
Being a woman and watching this is mind blowing. I got skate pilled. I understand men my age on such a deeper level after watching this; I didn’t even know the skater-psyche rabbit hole went this deep. The pathos of the “boy scout” skaters vs the “bad boy” skaters and how this has shaped, in all boy skaters, their particular sense of being a good person and a bad person. The Bones Brigade Effect on the Millennial male’s search for an alternative masculine identity.
If you’re a woman who has lusted after skater boys at any point in your life, this is a must see. You will start to draw connections between the damaged psyches of the skater boys you know…
Absolutely fantastic in every way, save for Fred Durst appearances. Peralta is a gift and something about Rodney Mullen's sensitivity and wisdom is extremely comforting and influential in itself. If that man's talent and mind doesn't make you question the validity and importance of what you're doing...
