Votes for Best Skating Movie

Can break it down further if you are inclined
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Best Technical Skating:
Most Dramatic Skating:
Best Overall Movie:

Saw Gleaming the Cube was coming on and made a point to sit down and watch since it was one of my favorite movies growing up (was 10 when it came out) and it was one of those movies I always watched and loved.

Was actually suprised after seeing it again, I honestly expected it to be a lot more hokey than it turned out being. With a lot of the movies I loved but haven't seen in a decade this usually ends up the case; I watch it, I remember and can see why I loved it so much, but invariably the weaker and rougher patches are much more noticeable.

Gleaming the Cube really didn't have the cheese I was expecting (the opening song was probably the cheesiest part of the movie) and is definitly not a movie I would be semi-embarassed to say I loved when I was younger.

People talk about some of the plot holes but honestly a lot of them are plot-holes a very very large percentage of movies had before a certain point. Forensics and crime scene investigation and leaving evidence behind at the scene of the crime were not something most directors thought to much about. In my opinion this is simply do to the facts the general public as a whole didn't think about them (gotta remember this is way before the days of CSI)

So yeah I of course had those sort of thoughts while I watched it (all the fingerprints Brian left behind everywhere and how no arson unit in the world would miss a pair of skateboard trucks laying around) but the more movies I watch from my youth the more I realize that forensics were rarely brought into the bigger picture and that writers and directors at the time had enormous amounts of leeway with what they could show computers doing with out the auidence immediately scoffing like a lot of people do with movies like 'Hackers' (though in that case the silly graphics of viruses and worms were one of the reasons to watch aside from Angelina Jolie.) Overall, I say the movie was pretty decently scripted, especially realizing the movie was mostly a platform for skateboarding.

So for myself, I would have to say Gleaming the Cube gets my vote (though I haven't seen Thrashin' or any of the Dogtown movies) as far as the technical side goes I think the rest will be hard put to top... sure a lot has changed since now and then but I mean this movie had Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, Tony Hawke and Gator Rogowski. Not to mention Stacy Peralta as an advisor.

Lets hear what everyone else thinks!