
Skatopia is an Appalachian farm where hardcore skating, punk rock and hillbilly culture collide in one anarchistic, unique community. Mad-Max style demolition derbies and spontaneous car burning accompany all-night skate sessions. Pain is a badge of honor. Tony Hawk calls Skatopia a "rite of passage" for hardcore skaters. Skatopia's owner, Brewce Martin, dreamed of a place where he could live and breathe skating... a place where people forget their "outside" lives by plunging... (Full plot summary below)
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Skatopia is an Appalachian farm where hardcore skating, punk rock and hillbilly culture collide in one anarchistic, unique community. Mad-Max style demolition derbies and spontaneous car burning accompany all-night skate sessions. Pain is a badge of honor. Tony Hawk calls Skatopia a "rite of passage" for hardcore skaters. Skatopia's owner, Brewce Martin, dreamed of a place where he could live and breathe skating... a place where people forget their "outside" lives by plunging into high-energy craziness. A continual work-in-progress, this rural farm is a mecca for skaters who want to live outside society's rules. "Dictator Brewce" presides over the mayhem like a modern-day Jim Jones. But despite Skatopia's infamy, he scrambles non-stop to keep the farm solvent. Now 40, he's bent on creating a monument to freedom that will outlast him. As filming begins in 2006, Brewce hatches a slew of plans to get out of debt and build crazy new skate terrain. His infectious optimism persists even as misfortunes pile on. But with an unexpected stay in jail, it looks as if the year's great potential is lost. He returns to Skatopia bent on salvaging his income, his relationships and rest of the skating season. The movie celebrates the freedom from everyday life that Skatopia offers, but it also takes a hard look at the flip side of Brewce's energy and charisma. No story-book hero, Brewce can switch from inspiring visionary to bullying cult-leader in seconds.
Leave your thoughts about Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy.
| Philadelphia Daily NewsMolly EichelThere are only so many scenes I want to watch of other people partying and destroying stuff. |
| User ReviewFilmGrinder S"You can survive without emersing yourself into the system."-Brewce Martin I'm going go ahead and call bullshit, as he fucks with lawyers and sponsors, but I like where he's coming from. You get all sorts, working and drinking for the next big bash, as long as you can handle the dictatorship of one man and one man only, which to me is not freedom. As far as the big bashes go, yes you can do what ever you wish, turn into an animal, but you will pay, there is a system and that system is Brewse and crew. Hope you don't need an ambulance. Fucking debauchery rules supreme! Oh yeah, I guess I should talk about the skating. If you like to skate, they got some some shit That scares, that pussy ass Bam what ever his last name is (starts with M I think). |
| User ReviewGare SThe documentary was okay, BUT DO NOT WATCH IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE SOME REDNECK KILL A DOG OMFG WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT IN THE MOVIE, ITS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT NOW (didnt show him killing the dog, but showed the dead body as he buried it) |
| User ReviewPaula Ma fascinating journalistic piece wasted by terrible filmmaking. It follows that if one is to make a movie about skaters skating then the DP should have experience doing so. Either that, or they need to stop drinking. I hate seeing such promise go to waste |