Valhalla floatiest movie ever?

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rylee.the.jedi

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I just got done with Valhalla and holy shit it's flowing as fuck! The movie shows that once you mix pow and shots of tits together you get a masterpiece. Thoughts?
 
So it's better than Into the Mind? Becasue IMO Into the Mind was far too focused on the editing and trippy weird story line to be a proper ski movie
 
I found they cut off too many shots and did not show the landings. This really annoyed me throughout the movie. The last segment was sick as fuck though and I enjoyed the cut-offs in that scene, just for the effect of never showing snow.
 
Yeah, i actually liked into the mind but valhalla was definatly better. There was storytelling in valhalla like into the mind but there was skiing after skiing instead of storytelling into storytelling into a little bit of skiing like into the mind. Worth buying for sure and the powder skiing in that movie was phenomenal.
 
I thought Valhalla was better. It made me smile while Into the Mind did not. They both had amazing cinematography but Valhalla was also super chill.
 
Camera work is incredible, skiing as well, amazing concept, a work of art!

Havent seen Sherpas yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.
 
For sure, that's what skiing has been missing, I'm already in talks about getting my own old Tibetan guy for my season edit this year.
 
To my mind, the best aspects of Valhalla come in the form of a well told, visually connected story. It's a ski movie, in that it's a movie about skiing, but what Sweetgrass shows us is more about what skiing actually means--freedom. Joy. And how powerful it can be to find those things in the snowy woods.
 
Too much hippy shit in my opinion. Don't get why people complain about the asian guy in Into the mind, but Valhalla having an asian sun-praying snowboard guy who does his weird tailor seat thingy every morning is a good idea?

Beside that the actual pow skiing is pretty good, although it kinda lacks more tricks...
 
I have nothing to say except that I just spit wine all over my girlfriend's carpet. So thanks for that.
 
I've heard people complain about how vahalla's shots were cut to short; no landings, half lines, maybe one cliff drop with no ride out. I think those are perfectly valid complaints regarding a documentary style movie which follows real athletes to real places, but that's not what valhalla was about. When it is said in the film that "Every breath radiates opportunity and hope; every sense thrives on the wealth of the present; every thing whispers of brilliance and awe," it shows that the movie is about the briefest of moments, the slivers of a run when you are reminded that skiing is what makes you happy. As often as not, the most euphoric sensations I feel when skiing are the single perfect turn through powder, the little shifty in a blind 2, the weightlessness of dropping a cliff. It is in those microscopic explosions of emotion that always call me back to the frozen north, searching for the pure joy I knew only as a child. So while valhalla may not have showcased the raw talent of the athletes by trumpeting "hey look what cool thing this guy did!" it did more to showcase the love we skiers have for our sport than any other ski film to date.
 
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