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The Forgotten Coast

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This is right up there with Endless Summer. My husband loves it and has viewed it several times. If you have a couch surfer at home who talks about the good old days of surfing, treat him to this video.

I thought this was a cool documentary. It's a good movie about a journey of surfers who push the limits just to find some unsurfed waves. The quality of surfing is good, but it's the trip that's amazing.

This movie is not as much about the surf as the culture.. and the journey.. these guys are likely surfing waves never surfed in modern times, but "getting to them" is what interested me. The fighting with boat pilot, the cooking of critically endangered animals (not the surfers, but the locals), the infections gotten along the way.. really show what it takes to get to uninhabited coasts. It's great to watch the "price" these surfers pay along their journey. the interview with the blonde surfer within the DVD "extras" is creepy.. he's a good guy, but the camera person, for whatever reason, focuses up close, in on the guy's nostrils.. as he's talking.. very weird.. the movie is a bit strange in that the surfing is less interesting than the journey the guys take to get there. It's still a great movie. For those touting Step into Liquid, etc as better.. Step into Liquid is great also, but that movie contains surfing in Wisconsin, a waste of time, along with guys in Vietnam surfing sand dunes.. because there were no waves. Laird and his crew are only in Step into Liquid for about 20 minutes.. the rest of that movie is not really that interesting, to me. It's a surf movie for the general public.. With Forgotten Coast.. at least you should be familiar with the world of surfing before you rent/buy it.. that's assumed. People not into surfing movies will not like Forgotten Coast.. but they will like Step into Liquid (I like both).

As a VERY-casual surfer, I admit I do not have a full appreciation for surfing technique, which is why I particularly enjoyed the balanced combination of surfing, scenery, and story telling in this movie. Amazing scenery, funny surfers, and an interesting relationship between those surfers and the locals they encounter creates a very intriguing, re-watchable story.

It's a cool movie from surfer dudes for surfer dudes. Detailing a low budget expedition into Indonesia to look for perfect waves, including some pretty real adventures on the way. Surfing, boating and camping pretty raw.

The top of the line in surfing movies so far has been "Step Into Liquid"; if you haven't seen this yet - skip this movie and go straight to Boardwalk.

This has some surfing in it - and a lot of wierd in betweens of the surfing culture as this group saw it - but it was a lack luster production through and through. I felt like was used to help finance their little voyage - with not much in return but, ". . . yea Man, wasn't that a cool set of waves . . . " type dialogue for an hour or so.

Thumbs down. Get "Step Into Liquid" - a cross cultural, superior production.