Riding Giants (Special Edition)
by Stacy Peralta
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Actor: Buzzy Kerbox, Darryl Virostko, Evan Slater, Gerry Lopez, Mike WaltzeDirector: Stacy Peralta
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Riding Giants (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Giants Riding Giants
Summary: 5 Stars
This is only one of three surf movies I actually paid to see in a theater before buying the DVD. I watch it at least twice a year. The "brief history of surfing" is absolutely hysterical. If you had to describe the surfing culture to someone who didn't surf, this is what you'd show them. Greg Noll makes the movie. His language and candor is a refreshing change from modern day professionals.DVD Review: Flows Amazingly
Summary: 5 Stars
I borrowed this from my Library but I am going to order it asap. Amazing documentary following the different lives of surfers. Laird Hamilton is my hero anyway, but I was so amazed how well this documentary flowed from one story to the next. I just kept thinking that through it. And the passion of the surfers shown is evident and amazing. I have amazing respect for these men and women. Definitely buy it when you get the chance, you won't regret it!DVD Review: It ain't about surfing, its about living big
Summary: 5 Stars
Listening to Greg Noll talk as old man about his relationship with the giant waves who every once in a while will wink at him is so powerful it almost takes your breath away. This movie is completely captivating and portrays the roots of surfing in a very personal way. Its just something these guys did, something no one else had done and they just did it without thinking about it - and big wave surfing was born.
I don't surf but I recognize the pull of getting in that zone that certain sports produce. This film gives you a window on that zone in surfing.
DVD Review: Makes me wish I could surf.
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie on TV and kept watching it everytime I saw it was on. It really makes me wish I would have learned to surf when I was younger. It's really a wonderful film.DVD Review: Ultimate Big Wave Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is THE movie for people who are fascinated by big wave surfing.
Nice historical background as well. The helicopter sequenes are just jaw-dropping.
Description of Riding Giants (Special Edition)
Riding Giants is more than another blissful surfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll. Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. --Tom KeoghFrom its early Hawaiian roots to its current status as a recreational lifestyle enjoyed worldwide, bigwave surfing is given the definitive exploration by acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys).
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