'Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” on HBO Max and 'All the Old Knives' on Prime Video are among the movies you can watch this weekend.
It’s odd in a way that skateboarding has become such a huge spectator sport. Sure, its big-air tricks look spectacular — when landed, anyway. But a lot of top-tier skating requires athletes to wipe out, over and over, painfully and often in public. Sam Jones’ documentarymakes that plain in its opening sequence, in which the celebrity skater, now in his 50s, tries and fails repeatedly to stay on his board while attempting an almost impossible spin.
Hawk has participated in multiple very good docs about the rise of skating culture, but Jones’ film is the most comprehensive to date about Hawk himself. Clocking in at just over two hours, “Until the Wheels Fall Off” tells pretty much his whole story: from his days as a skinny teenager who favored balletic grace over macho power, to his rise to fame and fortune in the X Games era.
Yet what makes this such an engaging and enlightening documentary is Hawk himself — so frank and reflective in his interviews. He’s had rough patches: some family heartbreak, some busted relationships and some economic hardship when skating waned in popularity. But his good heart and his dedication to pushing his limits has won converts even among some formerly bitter old rivals.
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