4/12/11

Chasing the Lotus (2006)

          

     If there should be a surfing movie that represented something like a compendium of surf history this is it. The project was itself colossal: to reunite 40 years of surf history based on surf photos mainly taken by legendary surf photographer Greg Weaver from Surfer magazine and also footage from many landmark movies. The task was largely unmeasured and the expectations were maybe too high but, after all, lets be reallistic: 40 years of the rich history of surf would never fit into only 90 minutes of film. However, some good aspects are effective in hiding some of the flaws found in the movie. The interviews and the interviewed are excellent, and the authors (Greg mad it together with Spyder Willis) are sucessfull in grasping the adventure like sentiment and wanderlust that surround surfing since its invention. Oh, and Jeff "The Dude" Bridges does the narration.

verdict: 7/10 Check a more detailed review in the next link:  http://www.onelastwave.com/SurfFlickReviews/ChasingTheLotus.htm

12 comments:

  1. Definitely interested thanks.

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  2. sounds like a movie worth watching to learn the history of surfing.

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  3. awesome, wonder if bridges surfs too

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  4. Love the title of this one too.

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  5. I LOVE Jeff Bridges! Definitely gonna look this up

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  6. Neat. I'll see if I can find this movie after I've found The hunt for the Red October

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  7. Sounds, interesting. Might take a look, thanks.

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  8. Aw man, i wish you posted a trailer so I can check this one out!

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