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Big dogs versus little guys

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Mr.Bishop
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After watching every trailer out there, I got a real feeling that this might be the year of the underground flick.

It seemed to me that the small guys really made a push to do something different. It makes sense, as there's so many movies coming out, its do something different or get lost in the mess.

I for one am claiming that one of the unknown companies puts out the movie of the year. Don't know which one yet, as I don't believe you can judge a movie by its trailer. :)

I really liked http://www.twoplank.com/video-shop/screenplay/ this one... don't know what it was but it really hit me.

All you little guys out there, keep fighting, and keep doing something different. The people who have been involved in skiing for too long are getting stale, this is your time to strike.

Sep 3 2006 10:16AM
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Intergalactic
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wow i thought that was really really sick. 2/3 of those shots would fit in bigger companies trailers. Its also rad because jesse hall went to the same high school i go to!
Sep 3 2006 11:28AM
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DynastarriderGP
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i like am films better, i don't know why maybe it's cuz i can relate to them more, atleast last season, the 05/06 pro ski vids sucked in my opinion (being extremely critical)
Sep 3 2006 11:45AM
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triebby
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word to that D. bishop
Sep 3 2006 12:50PM
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DrewR.
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that was sweet deffinatly a buy
Sep 3 2006 1:07PM
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golf
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I like am films better too, the movies usually have lots more urban and id rather watch park skiing than people slashing pow
Sep 3 2006 4:48PM
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Grimace.
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im looking forward to i hate newyorks sequal to bogart.
Sep 3 2006 6:21PM
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DDrem.
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suprisingly that looks ill
Sep 4 2006 12:26AM
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KeegLove
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ya man it should be interesting to see for sure.
Sep 4 2006 2:20AM
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D-40
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last year was the year i started buying more movies from the smaller companies and i really enjoyed them a lot better than a couple of the major vids like war n hitlist (christmas present, i didnt buy hitlist let that be known). re action was so much different than anything i have seen before, it was so sick.

this year im getting 3 vids from the big guns, photoplay skimatic and long story short, and i will probably get 4 from the smaller companies, ata, i hate ny, and im deciding from a couple others snowy delight, and hold your own are probably the ones i will get. i liked hold your owns trailer the best from the am trailers for this year.

but anyways im so stoked on the vids coming out this year, i think it will be the best year since the year 1242 n forward came out
Sep 4 2006 11:08PM
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cobra_commander
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I wonder what counts as an am movie maker, does Theory-3, how about Stept, MeatHead films, or I Hate NY. I mean where do we draw the line, what counts as an Underdog in this becuase it is no longer a few big companies and then a bunch of small ones ther are alot in between, And if you look at a companie I am sure alot of people will call and am film companie, OFS had a privet park jump shoot with a heli, but did Level 1 have any heli shots.
Sep 5 2006 2:05AM
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lalalalaura
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Apparently people like watching skiing that's relevant to what they're doing, as opposed to retardly highbudget helishoots on blue bird pow days.
Who would have thought people like watching the same type of skiing that they themselves do! Yay!
Sep 5 2006 11:10AM
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=FLO=
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Screenplay is sick, this movie will blow you away. So many good segments from huge pros and the next big ones like John Scott. Put this one on your must buy list 4 sure.
Sep 5 2006 11:36AM
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matthasaurusrex
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versays from two plank was one of my favorite movies of all time. looved it;
Sep 5 2006 4:43PM
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leone
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everybody watch out for meathead films this year, every year they just get better and better
Sep 5 2006 5:21PM
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deleted4
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pterodactyl blood is gonna own
Sep 5 2006 7:57PM
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flatspinner
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Screenplay will be sick. end of story.

Sep 6 2006 2:45AM
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D-40
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i change my mind, probably my number one am vid that im goign to get is content. that trailer is siiiiiiiiiiick
Sep 6 2006 4:18AM
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FUUUCK
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so many movies, so little money, i think ill be getting LSS and PT blood
Sep 8 2006 8:59PM
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AhrenStein
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am movies dont have a chance to be good, noone lets them
Sep 9 2006 7:12PM
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dwalk
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that was a long one
Sep 9 2006 11:58PM
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justinm
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snowy delight!!! wait till you see the vast awards vid
Sep 10 2006 10:53PM
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industry-insider
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i liked ATA and two plank.. quality vids from small companies are nice to see.
Sep 13 2006 3:33PM
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SIX
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Snowy Delight is going big. Watch out!

I'll be making a movie next year too, should be dope.

Sep 13 2006 6:55PM
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Myke
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That trailer was insane. +1
Sep 15 2006 2:08PM
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MrScruff
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i completely passed over screenplay because i'd never heard of them, might have to get some copies into my shop now i've seen the trailer :D
Sep 17 2006 11:30AM
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Carter23
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glad to hear you like it.. i'm pumped on it, it turned out sick.
Sep 18 2006 12:30PM
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horrified_nights
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snowy delight will kill! i have a crush on charles
Sep 18 2006 3:03PM
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selfportrait
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I was looking through the list of snowboard trailers today and found that the most average and the most forgettable of the snowboard trailers have higher production values and are, really, are just more interesting than a lot of the ski movie trailers that kids on this get site get really excited about.

Doug said that he thought this year might be the year of the underground flick.  I don't really think we're there yet.  Yes, more and more kids are going out with their cameras and getting movies made, which is now and in the long run a wonderful thing, but that doesn't really mean that they are producing quality material.  Only a few of the trailers that have come out this year have really stuck out at all in my mind, and maybe one or two of those were amateur movies.  In the snowboard world on the other hand, of all the movies being released fewer and fewer companies are producing the typical movie that has become all to familiar to us. 

A bigger industry is a big help to movie production.  As Doug said, more movies are getting made, so more people realize that they have to do something out of the ordinary, and do it well, to get people to acknowledge it.  As we grow in the same way that snowboarders have, we're going to start seeing nicer shots, fresher ideas, and with work and faith, producing things that have some sort of beauty engrained in them.  Whether that has happened this year; I don't think it has.  But I do believe that it will happen soon, and I think it's fair to say that it will be the little guys who are the first to produce something beautiful.

What has recently happened in snowboarding and has started to happen in skiing is that people realize that making movies is not only a way to show off riding, but is an artistic medium that is brimming with so much potential.  What may have started as competition will evolve into art, if we are only willing to take the steps to change.
Sep 20 2006 10:45PM
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J.D.
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As far as I'm concerned it already happened: Wicked was the movie of its year for me, and it, too, was very different from everything else out there.
Sep 21 2006 12:43AM
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mikee
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Wicked wasn't actually a good movie though, think about it.
Sep 21 2006 6:17PM
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mikee
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And personally I would say neither is that trailer.
Sep 21 2006 6:37PM
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dead
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thanks brain!
Mar 29 2007 11:25PM
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[~_~]
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looks SO SICK think thank has their shit together


I have a lot of good ideas for a movie. some that would require me to spend every day during the summer and fall inside my basement slaving away at coding and keyframing. I plan do to this in my upcoming film Welcome to the Anatomy, which should be out early 2010.

but as for next year, I will be working on NEON, which comes out either Fall 2008 or winter 2009, it really depends on how fast I edit it.
Mar 30 2007 3:05PM
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