Essentially a filmed Wikipedia page - for real at one point they LITERALLY film the Wikipedia page! Less development BTS and more meandering & back-patting than I was hoping. 

That said, still charming/nostalgic enough that I just preordered the THPS remaster 🛹 

PS didn’t effect star rating but fuck the THUG badmouthing it’s the best one dont @ me

EDIT: just got the remaster of THPS 1+2, it’s fantastic. Would love to see a real documentary about how these games were made some day, wouldn’t that be neat?

Erwartungsgemäß unterhaltsam.
Unsereiner merkt zwar schmerzlich, dass mindestens einer der beiden Editoren kein Skater war. Das tut dem Spaß aber keinerlei Abbruch - natürlich auch deswegen, weil ich "Co-Produzent" dieses Filmes bin!

Who hasn't played some Tony Hawk right? It takes me back to playing Tony Hawk 2 when I was younger. It was nothing but quality times and though I haven't stuck with the serious at all, I have nothing but love and respect for the memories. It was interesting to see how the game came to be and the real impact it had when it came out. I enjoyed this a lot and I think that any fan of the games can find a level of entertainment value here. I have to get that remaster already. I'm slacking.

Finally a documentary about the only thing I’ve cared about since 1999. 

This was a fun watch! It reminded me that the games fucking ruled, consumed the entire world and brought back basically every single memory I have of being 10. 

Tony Hawk fucking rules. What a mad dog. The 900 is the only sporting achievement that impresses me.

There’s a doc where everyone can be happy... it’s the most beautiful thing in the whole fucking world.

A legitimately very interesting documentary about the infamous Pro Skater series and its legacy. I thought the interviews conducted with skateboarders and actually developers of the games was a nice balance and very honest.

I was also pretty surprised there was some upfront honesty about some of the later games sucking. Pro Skater 5 itself isn't addressed but having the creatives involved in the series admit it was burning out or some non TPS entries just being bad was pretty refreshing to hear.

Also getting to hear about the skateboarding scene at the time of the first game's creation and the pop culture boom it made was fascinating. Given how I was born a few months after this boom my only major exposure to these games was TPS2.

THUG > THPS2 > THAW > THPS3 > THPS4 > THUG2 > THPS > THP8

Activision.
Neversoft.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
The 900.
Superman by Goldfinger.
The Birdman.
Legend.
The Rest Is History.

Ojala hubiese sido un poco mas largo, siento que quedo algo incompleto, pero igual la nostalgia es absoluta.

If we could all just try to be more like Rodney Mullen everything would be ok.

As a big fan of the games, this was a lot of fun.  It focuses on the first one for the most part and then races through the rest of the franchise, but it’s still really cool. 

A wholesome documentary about the impact of a video-game that doesn't really go into what made said game so good. While this prevents it from getting bogged down in nerdy technical jargon, it also makes the film's narrative feel very shallow. Like it's missing ~30 minutes of interview footage detailing how the design and game feel made THPS 1-4 some of the best games ever. Instead it's more focused on the games' impact on skate culture, to likely help make it as accessible as possible. Treating the quality of these games as if they were inevitable like the tide.

Decent documentary. Bonus points for the nostalgia factor

I love playing these games. I just wish the doc had been a bit longer. While I know financially they didn’t sell as well I love the Underground games and would have loved more time on the games past the first one. The others were just mentioned like oh yeah the series continued.

That one guy saying the games got ‘too satirical’ though.

Short version: the video game was very popular and changed the world's understanding of how tite a Double Front Foot Impossible is.

Honestly pretty disappointed in how this documentary about the Tony Hawk video games spends astonishingly little time talking about the games. There’s a decent, if loosely structured, amount of time given for the original, but all subsequent games are just breezes through. They honestly spend way more time in this film discussing the origins of skateboarding culturally than they do the actual subject they’re making a documentary about. It would have been nice too if they analyzed this as more than just pro skaters’ perspectives on the game, and brought in either more people who worked on the games themselves or everyday people influenced by the games. Still, despite being incredibly loose and not super compelling, this is nonetheless a really pleasant and digestible way to wind down for the night.

Basically just a vibe check that ignores how bad the later games were BUT those fucking 1-4 vibes are insane, so no shame in checking back to a better time.

I loved the games, I love the docu

+ It brings back the vibes of the games, supported by the legendary soundtrack

- more talking heads then actual footage

THUG > THPS2 > THAW > THPS3 > THPS4 > THUG2 > THPS > THP8

tony hawk is so cool. he looks like what the halfway point between bill gates and mark zuckerberg would be. keep calm and skate on!