Blood and Steel, Cedar Crest Country Club (2017)

Blood and Steel, Cedar Crest Country Club: Directed by Michael Maniglia. With Bruce Adams, Andy Bittner, Sam Boo, Pat Clarke. In the middle of nowhere lived an unexpected piece of skateboarding and punk music history. “The Crest”..a skateboarding mecca of the 80’s, a veritable metal monolith, tucked away on a country club in the suburbs of the nation’s Capital. It was a place of pure unadulterated expressionist freedom where cutting edge skateboarding and punk rock music collided and made history. Professional skaters and legendary bands, 11 gauge steel and, of course, blood. “Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club” is the story of a one of a kind skateboarding playground that attracted skaters and bands from all over to come experience what became known simply as, “The Crest”.

“Fascinating story about a massive, professionally built skate ramp in Northern Virginia. This doc starts out charting the skateboard craze of the late 70s and early 80s before litigious suits brought it all down. Out of desperation and luck, we see how the Cedar Crest Country Club ended up with a legendary ramp and scene.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHowever, thereu0026#39;s no real meat here to grab ahold of. It lacks any real cohesive story and pacing to keep the viewer entranced. This ainu0026#39;t no Dog Town and Z-Boyz! It trails off into uninteresting home movies and too many personal u0026quot;whoa, rad dude, letu0026#39;s partyu0026quot; anecdotes before the whole thing fades away. Honestly, the second half was a tough slog to get through.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGlad it was made, but surely a two paragraph Wikipedia entry has exactly the same info.”