I disagree in part – not a huge fan of Cory Kennedy or Malto, but McCrank, at least these days, kind of embodies everything I like/once liked about Girl. Doesn’t take himself or the industry too seriously, loves skating even though you don’t see tons of footage of him, simultaneously dorky and cool, and I think his style has really evolved ever since he started skating tons of transition over the big rails and stair sets that dominated his earlier career.

Will someone please take on the challenge and explain the illustration/video game reference?

People should be bitching about the terrible trend of heavily over-exaggerated camera movements. Im sure everyone has seen it where the fisheye is all over the place, moving as quick as the board itself. Doesn’t matter how steady or smooth the camera work is, it completely ruins the footage (unless you slomo it) and makes the viewer dizzy. Same with over-zealous zoom ins and outs from the long shot. Filming seems to be a lost art these days.

It’ll never happen, but if only there could be an Aaron Meza cut of the movie. His edits still have the whimsy (in a good way) that the old pre-Ty flicks had.