Wow. 5 posts ago was my 200th post and I didn't even notice. It was the Regina Spektor, beautiful day in NYC post. What a perfect post to be the 200th post.
Anyway, today I saw the film Planet B-Boy. I realize it's been out for more than a month now so this is a little late in coming, but I've been busy. I transcribed a bunch of their footage for them 2 years ago, so I wanted to see how it turned out. Much to my delight, my name was even in the credits, which I didn't think it would be. It was kind of funny to me that so little of the footage I transcribed was in the documentary, but I know they had crazy amounts of it in all different languages, so I guess I'm not that surprised.
Planet B-Boy is a film about breakdancing teams from around the world going to Germany to compete in Battle Of The Year. I believe they originally followed around 8 teams but only 5 were in the film. The film is really engaging for the simple fact that these break dancers are amazing. They defy gravity. I swear. The things they do with their bodies seems completely impossible to me. You can't look away for a second or you might miss some crazy move (I glanced at my cell phone because someone was calling me and both of my friends were like "oh my god!" and I instantly regretted looking away because I know I missed some awesome move).
I also really liked the way they made the dancers characters, so it wasn't just about the dancing. I had read a review of it that said the opposite - they didn't like the side storylines and they felt it took away from the dancing. But in order for you to care about the competition, you need to care about the characters. And I think the film did a good job of making us care.
The one thing I didn't like was how contrived certain scenes were - like the French B-Boys breaking in front of the Eiffel Tower or the the Korean army guys breakdancing on the North Korea/South Korea border. All of those "let's put the b-boys with stereotypical things about their country in the background" clips bothered me. The other thing that bothered me was how during the final battle they suddenly put things in slow motion and interupted the dancing with clips of the dancers talking about their lives and it was kind of cheesy because for one guy there was a picture of him with his father superimposed over him dancing in slow motion. It was a bit much.
But overall I liked the film. If you have a chance to see it, I recommend it. You'll at the very least be impressed by the breakdancing. If you live in New York City, it's playing at The Sunshine on the Lower East Side.
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Anyway, today I saw the film Planet B-Boy. I realize it's been out for more than a month now so this is a little late in coming, but I've been busy. I transcribed a bunch of their footage for them 2 years ago, so I wanted to see how it turned out. Much to my delight, my name was even in the credits, which I didn't think it would be. It was kind of funny to me that so little of the footage I transcribed was in the documentary, but I know they had crazy amounts of it in all different languages, so I guess I'm not that surprised.Planet B-Boy is a film about breakdancing teams from around the world going to Germany to compete in Battle Of The Year. I believe they originally followed around 8 teams but only 5 were in the film. The film is really engaging for the simple fact that these break dancers are amazing. They defy gravity. I swear. The things they do with their bodies seems completely impossible to me. You can't look away for a second or you might miss some crazy move (I glanced at my cell phone because someone was calling me and both of my friends were like "oh my god!" and I instantly regretted looking away because I know I missed some awesome move).
I also really liked the way they made the dancers characters, so it wasn't just about the dancing. I had read a review of it that said the opposite - they didn't like the side storylines and they felt it took away from the dancing. But in order for you to care about the competition, you need to care about the characters. And I think the film did a good job of making us care.
The one thing I didn't like was how contrived certain scenes were - like the French B-Boys breaking in front of the Eiffel Tower or the the Korean army guys breakdancing on the North Korea/South Korea border. All of those "let's put the b-boys with stereotypical things about their country in the background" clips bothered me. The other thing that bothered me was how during the final battle they suddenly put things in slow motion and interupted the dancing with clips of the dancers talking about their lives and it was kind of cheesy because for one guy there was a picture of him with his father superimposed over him dancing in slow motion. It was a bit much.
But overall I liked the film. If you have a chance to see it, I recommend it. You'll at the very least be impressed by the breakdancing. If you live in New York City, it's playing at The Sunshine on the Lower East Side.
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