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Things You Don't Miss About Old Ski Movies

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Dr-Strangelove
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Rap Metal
Aug 15 2010 11:46PM
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montanan
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thats exactly why i love old ski movies, wack music, crazy skiing.. etc.
Aug 15 2010 11:50PM
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JacheOReally
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Metal
Aug 15 2010 11:53PM
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broto
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the wacky interviews before somebody segment, normally where they say something along the lines of:

Hi, my name is ---- -------, im 19 years old, im from hometown, USA, and i love to go BIG.
Aug 15 2010 11:54PM
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Alex_G
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punk
Aug 15 2010 11:55PM
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corona
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I respectfully yet utterly couldn't disagree more.

Punk is what makes an amazing edit bonerific. Henry Rollins would agree..
Aug 15 2010 11:58PM
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faux_real
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Boyd Easley, Swollen Members songs already used in snowboard movies
Aug 16 2010 12:05AM
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Balto
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the lack of tom wallisch
Aug 16 2010 12:07AM
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faux_real
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Face to Face was pretty good. Not crazy about Pennywise, but PBP movies wouldn't have been the same without them.
Aug 16 2010 12:08AM
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drwclrk
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This is so accurate, I got a good lawl.
Aug 16 2010 12:16AM
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Sun_Ra
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Rails in the park with no tricks. That was by far the worst
Aug 16 2010 12:24AM
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Sun_Ra
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Rails in the park with no tricks. That was by far the worst
Aug 16 2010 12:25AM
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nellyyy
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before anyone posts in this thread, they all need to go watch Balance first
Aug 16 2010 12:27AM
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Drail
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you wouldn't be referring to all the repeated shots, and the shots that he put in opposite so it looked like they were spinning both ways?





to answer the question of the thread, I would say I don't miss the depth of the talent pool.

three or four ski videos full of the same skiers, usually with the same shots, or the same trick, just from a different angle.
Aug 16 2010 12:31AM
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ED.
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cameltoe grabs

Aug 16 2010 12:39AM
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freestyler540
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What I loved about old ski movies?

1-the poor quality video, with sick tricks. I loved the innovation, the sickest iron crosses on off axis tricks, but the poor quality showed it was done by passion, not money.
2-the soundtracks. It was a hit or miss thing, nobody knew where to start, or even knew where it was going. I missed JF Cusson's or JP Auclair's old segments. There was so much imagination because they started with the love of punk music...to break away from a mold. (newschool was illegal back then)
3-The community. I loved shots with 100 people in it cheering the riders on. Something like the last segment in ski movie 2, when a guy threw an ill cork 7 with a double jointed tail grab, then filmed a kid having his mind blown out of proportion. Now, its all about the image, not about having fun together.
4-The old technology. Remember the first 1080s, the yellow and black prototype? Those skis were impossible to handle, but guys were still doing amazing things with them. It shows the talent out there.
5-the dare devil look. These guys looked like they had found a way to make everything crazy, a reputation they never lived up to, but showed in the movies. Now, all I see on movies it nothing, skiing, party and getting high (ok maybe not, but you get the point)
6- the uniqueness. Every movie was so different. the spots, the skiers, the tricks, the music, everything was different. Today, every segment is rap or hip hop with the same tricks trying to imitate another rider's style.

On second though, I dont really care for the ski movies after session 1242. Everything after that got so artsy, a 6 minute segment included 4 minutes of scenery shots while the skiing part wasnt so interesting.
Aug 16 2010 1:02AM
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16candles
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tanner hall wearing his massive jeans
Aug 16 2010 1:05AM
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skiierman
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nothing, that's what made them so fucking awesome. you're all little bitches who are too used to the amazing quality and done movies today.
Aug 16 2010 1:17AM
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FUUUCK
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Brad Holmes
Aug 16 2010 1:25AM
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Jwalk
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old ski movies were great on so many levels.
Aug 16 2010 1:27AM
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freelowda
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Haha, so true. And I definitely don't miss a good portion of the old music either. Diversity was at a minimum on so many levels.
Aug 16 2010 1:39AM
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Rockhound
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Wski106 was the shit, cept for rory salvia's seg, that shit was weird
Aug 16 2010 1:44AM
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AptosFreeskier
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You son of a bitch. Boyd Easley represents everything that is right and civil about skiing.
Aug 16 2010 2:11AM
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shintastic48
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This. If L1P's realtime and Poorboyz Idea as old. Then i guess i can contribute. I'm going to be completely honest. I've only seen 1 maybe 2 movies that have topped those. Chaoz Shoot me definitely did. But I loved the creativity in the older movies. Realtime has my favorite, still to date, powder segment. I'll never forget the epic pow trip they had in Japan. Idea was ill in a different way. mainly pow freeskiers shreding big jumps with pow skis. I thought it was sick.
Aug 16 2010 3:19AM
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TheButterHashira
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watching guys land switch on non twin tip skis. Too before my time.
Aug 16 2010 9:32AM
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Mr.LemonPie
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we're talking pre-1242(poor boys)/Yearbook(matchstick)/forward(level 1)
Aug 16 2010 9:52AM
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Mr.LemonPie
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Forgot to add,

I really don't miss how replicable every ski movie was, because there wasn't much money, anyone could go out and find some talented skiers and start out a company that could make sick movies, I like that it happened so that companies like Rage and Meathead could come in and make movies that were equally as good as the pros, but I prefer it now, where you can come in as an amateur filmer, start your stuff up, then you have to prove yourself like 4bi9 and stept are doing. It's like having the minor league.
Aug 16 2010 9:56AM
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I_Am_Mod
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weird style....

these days style is one of the most important things a pro-skier must have, i just love when they make it look so easy...

in the old days they'd huck gnarly stuff, much respect for that, but sometimes i find it a shame they don't ride away clean...
(may also be because in the old movies they had to make a film with much less footage than they shoot nowadays, more footage = more chance of clean stomped tricks on tape ....)
Aug 16 2010 10:07AM
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KLovelace
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i like old ski movies.
definitely happy to be done with the metal and gnar rock soundtracks though.
Aug 16 2010 10:35AM
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jksl
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one thing i do miss from old movies is when jon looked like a dude, and had style.
Aug 16 2010 10:37AM
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Dr-Strangelove
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I love old ski movies. I watch a lot of them. I figured since theres a "Things You Miss About Old Ski Movies Thread" there should be one for things that weren't so great.

Mostly the music, although I hate Cali P and electronic.
Aug 16 2010 10:57AM
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Shadows
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i dont know if i hate or love this but guatamalen pursuader (spelling i know)
that movie was awesomely bad!!
Aug 16 2010 11:47AM
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A.Eberhard
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The lack of gang signs and rap music.
/sarcasm
Aug 16 2010 11:57AM
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