1st off...fuck that man, if i were making a movie and sponsors said theyd give me X amount of money or give me a all expenses paid trip somehwere as long as i throw in their logo and say a nice thing or two about that (one of which how rad they are for giving me the benefits and shit) FUCK YEAH id do it.
2nd...do you know how much a heli trip costs buddy? or maybe how much it is to rent a helicopter, or travel to not only one or two places over the world but go look how many far out places they travel to, all that shit takes BANK. fuck yeah l1p is sick as fuck with their movies but they barely travel (except for the 4frnt trips that are paid for, or the japan trip taht dna funded **ding ding oohhh my gooooddd commercialism eeekk !!!**) matchstick for sure uses all that money, just not in the way that A LOT of people like. but in the way that they use their money, they kind of blow others out of fthe water, except for maybe tgr.
last movie i bought from msp was yearbook, and i thought that was a pretty sweet movie, except for the skibase jumping and some of the footage of their alaska trips where theyre on the boat got a lil tiring.
lastly, so many people give them shit for the heli shots on the whistler booter...can anyone deny that those are some sick ass shots? NO, theyre amazing man! but people give them shit for doing "the same shot blah blah blah" if your so commited to that you should give every fucking movie that shoots from the knuckle of the landing shit, or maybe from the side of the rail...or fuck it, give l1p shit for shooting with a boom for 2 years now...if you direct your hate at msp, direct it to others taht do the same thing then as well. like that guy above said, a lot of people or just jumping on this bandwagon of hate and its retarded.
then again, that does suck about the whole teddy bear/helly hansen thing...nothing is ever really clear cut i guess.