Jim Greco: The year 13

[N.L.]

I liked it. Nice to see skateboarding represented in a different way. Pretentious as fuck but so what...

Brick tranny kickflips were beauty. Oh and Danny Sargent.

[raji]

brilliaint, so rad that danny sargent cameoed but let us just pray that he goes back to drinking before a 14 drops

[Level 60 Dwarf Paladin]

"Lemme get a porkchop and a coffee."

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

That's not how you make iced coffee Jim your shit's gonna be all watered down. Otherwise enjoyed it.

[JB]

vanity jim does it again!

[JB]

That's not how you make iced coffee Jim your shit's gonna be all watered down. Otherwise enjoyed it.

i was at this little coffee shop in a rural town once and they had iced coffee on the menu so i ordered it and they made it greco style. they charged 50 cents more than normal coffee too. i even asked them "so you just charged me 50 cents to add ice to hot coffee?" and they looked at me like i was the crazy one.

[vancanman]

I'll put this one in the solo male category. I do love watching Jim materbate though.

[CRAILFISH TO REVERT]

temped to make one of those 4 hour youtube edits of jim pushing/pulling the bench.

[Grampa]

Actual weirdos drink their coffee black. Fraud.

[tkp]

Never thought the ender of a skate video would be a ripping pro making iced coffee, but hey, I dug it.

All that shit he does on those brick trannies are insane. Those things are not easy to skate. The slappy ledge section was rad.

Unique style of film, reminded me of Pulp Fiction a bit. Someone has got to insert some Mystery Science voice overs for when he is pushing the bench.

The last time I skated downtown LA on a Sunday afternoon it definitely had a dystopian vibe going on.

[waltercronkite]

The skating and the filming were great. Greco took what I imagine were actually some fun sessions to be on and made them look serious and boring. Actually if I'm being honest all the people in this are pretty shit people so maybe these sessions were way to serious and boring.

[poor alice]

Sat through it and enjoyed it. The Dystopian feel gives it an almost Drive-esque quality, in that its one guy doing what he does best in this Neoliberal state.
Greco enjoys some eating establishments, Driver does the same- and it's pretty much his only interaction with the capitalistic side of society in the movie.
Driver is able to trade by using his body and his best skill to make a living; "I drive. That's what I do. All I do". Jim is the same only his market capital is skateboarding.

If any of you have read Drive, I don't think this is at all a stretch to imagine there is a similar idea going on with this little film. Kook away by all means, or engage in a discussion with me about it. I'm don't think this sort of reading of the film is giving Greco too much credit because I feel like he has to have a point in making these films, representing himself in the way he does and adding in bits like the coffee and pork scene at the end.

To talk about the skating; I loved it although the one sore spot is not seeing him make the 270 lip. Damm he has that trick.
However the 270 tailslide almost made up for it.

[Monkey_Mcpott]

Mob flips for days!

[peacepappies]

i liked it alot but i probably wouldnt watch it again. Really liked the colours of the film, anyone an idea which camera/film they could've used? And what kind of wide-angle lens?

[Owen]

Music was mostly well suited. Skating was a little bit underwelming. Very mob. More or less what I expected

Good choice on the pork chop on broken rice.

[micky682]

Sat through it and enjoyed it. The Dystopian feel gives it an almost Drive-esque quality, in that its one guy doing what he does best in this Neoliberal state.
Greco enjoys some eating establishments, Driver does the same- and it's pretty much his only interaction with the capitalistic side of society in the movie.
Driver is able to trade by using his body and his best skill to make a living; "I drive. That's what I do. All I do". Jim is the same only his market capital is skateboarding.

If any of you have read Drive, I don't think this is at all a stretch to imagine there is a similar idea going on with this little film. Kook away by all means, or engage in a discussion with me about it. I'm don't think this sort of reading of the film is giving Greco too much credit because I feel like he has to have a point in making these films, representing himself in the way he does and adding in bits like the coffee and pork scene at the end.

To talk about the skating; I loved it although the one sore spot is not seeing him make the 270 lip. Damm he has that trick.
However the 270 tailslide almost made up for it.

I liked Drive, now I just need to re-up on weed so I can watch this.

[poor alice]

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Sat through it and enjoyed it. The Dystopian feel gives it an almost Drive-esque quality, in that its one guy doing what he does best in this Neoliberal state.
Greco enjoys some eating establishments, Driver does the same- and it's pretty much his only interaction with the capitalistic side of society in the movie.
Driver is able to trade by using his body and his best skill to make a living; "I drive. That's what I do. All I do". Jim is the same only his market capital is skateboarding.

If any of you have read Drive, I don't think this is at all a stretch to imagine there is a similar idea going on with this little film. Kook away by all means, or engage in a discussion with me about it. I'm don't think this sort of reading of the film is giving Greco too much credit because I feel like he has to have a point in making these films, representing himself in the way he does and adding in bits like the coffee and pork scene at the end.

To talk about the skating; I loved it although the one sore spot is not seeing him make the 270 lip. Damm he has that trick.
However the 270 tailslide almost made up for it.

[close]

I liked Drive, now I just need to re-up on weed so I can watch this.

Pour some red wine and stick it on.

[JB]

poor alice, i think your girlfriend went on your slap account.

[Silky Johnson]

"Lemme get a porkchop and a coffee."

[poor alice]

poor alice, i think your girlfriend went on your slap account.

I doubt it.

[MexicanSpaniard]

it's different. I did stop 2 or 3 times for a smoke and to make food

[Joe Pesci]

Enjoyed it, also liked The Way Out when that came out.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

i thought it was interesting.
i enjoyed the music & vibes.

also in the credits:

Jermy Klein

main thing is, that Jim Greco is written correctly.
 

[hadouken]

i liked it alot but i probably wouldnt watch it again. Really liked the colours of the film, anyone an idea which camera/film they could've used? And what kind of wide-angle lens?

There was some 16mm and super 16mm in there, but most of the skating looked to be a DSLR, or a Panasonic AF100 (judging by the shadows). The colours and look come from software abuse, most likely Magic Bullet Looks.

I wasn't mad at it - I've seen worse and it's cool that Greco is still out there. If it takes something like this to get him jazzed to skate, no biggie. He could calm down on the credits though.

[Sondor]

Even J. Strickland said that Jim has an unique vision. He was right.
Great videography.

[Pretty Serious]

it's different. I did stop 2 or 3 times for a smoke and to make food

lol just smoked another bowl and took enchiladas out of the oven before I finished watching it.
Awesome!  Deep, even.  Thanks Jim!

[stephop]

Not trying to be Jeremy Klein enough.

[Mr. Fink]

I really enjoyed this. I like The Way Out more, but this one may grow on me.

[Getty]

That was just spectacularly awful.

I have a high tolerance for overly indulgent art films but a Greco makes Jim Jarmusch look like Michael Bay. He's in Jereme land with this one.

[perverted super otaku!]

That's not how you make iced coffee Jim your shit's gonna be all watered down. Otherwise enjoyed it.

He made coffee in a Vietnamese style, the coffee is brewed using a metal filter(you can see it on the table) that sits on top of the cup containing sweet condensed milk, then drank hot or poured over ice

Thought that was awesome, really different than other stuff coming out which is nice