Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Venice Beach, 1975, is the locale credited with the beginnings of 'modern' skateboarding. It's then that a group of youths, later known as the Z-Boys, got their hands on some urethane wheels for the first time. Their reckless attitude, and general asshole-ness towards anyone and anything that they didn't like, imbued the practice with a punk edge that took it to the next level.
Written by Stacy Peralta, one of the aforementioned, the LoD film tells that story in a direct manner that lacks spark. The skating scenes, especially the pools, are as good as the real thing, but a lack of passion in many of the cast drags the experience down, which the powerful ending highlights more so.

2½ backyard pool boyz out of 5

TWILIGHT [2008]

Oh, sweet zombie Jesus.

Director Catherine Hardwicke does a shitty job at adapting Stephanie Meyer's first shitty tween romance/vampire novel, Twilight for the screen.  Robert Pattinson, who I normally like, wanders around like he doesn't give a shit (as it turns out he didn't).  Kristen Stewart who is great at playing insecure, broken characters is absolutely terrible at playing a "strong" protagonist.  Carter Burwell's score distracts like it was written for a 90's TV movie.  The stormy sky backdrop is quite nice and so is Peter Facinelli as a *lol* bleach blonde vampire doctor.

I know I'm not the target audience here but it can't be denied that tweenage girls can do so much better than this shitfest.  

2 smelly girls out of 5