Why are ski movies so mellow?

Burrito

Burrito

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I just watched Push and Long Story Short. Both of them were just kind of, "I just watched a ski movie...eh. I think I'll go have a sandwich." The music and extreme slow motion just gave both movies a slow pace.

I remember the first time I saw Teddybear Crisis I was jumping out of my skin. It got me excited about skiing. It followed the same rhythm that skiing does: mostly fast paced and fun (like skiing steeps/park) with a few more relaxed segments (groomers/riding the lift.) It followed the Shakepearian method of alternating high emotion with low. Push and LSS were all low.

This mostly has to do with the music, but the variety of shots also has an effect. It doesn't help MSP to show 80 big mountain lines in a row (with one or two jumps thown in), and LSS was rail after rail after rail.

I loved the music and the variey of TBC, and I hope that attitude will return to ski movies.
 
I used to think like that but the more skiing I do and the better I get the more I like mellow stuff because that's how I am when I ski now.
 
Don't know why I hit reply I wasn't done.

Anyways the people making the movies make them according to how they feel about skiing and since most of those people are good skiiers that ski all the time they tend to like the mellow feel
 
i like the way Shanghai was put together

good balance between backcountry rails and jumps and whatnot, good music, good editing, unique stuff, and plenty of artsy shit
 
I agree with the original poster. Teddybear Crisis is my favorite movie and when I saw this years movies I was hopping for something along those lines but was a bit dissapointed.

Shanghai six also was good.

alot of snowboard movies have that energy that I really like in snow movies I wish we would get more ski movies like that
 
also the trailer to Long Story Short is exactly the type of energy in editing and music im looking for.
 
yeh teddy bear crisis was good if you like euro/techno/emo type music cuz eveyr song was the same. I thought lss was sick, good music that went to the skiing real well and cool travel shots and shit. Im not saying tbc was bad just saying its all opinion and most movies stick to one type of music
 
i get the same feeling about teddy bear crisis...after seeing ski porn it was the same...not to much rap but good alternative music and it was pretyty well edited...i enjoyed it.
 
did u just compare ski movies to shakespeare?? wow u r a fag. watch one of those chill movies baked and then tell me that they aren't good
 
That's why PBP has been my favorite, they are the most diverse i would say of the ski companies. Ski Porn didnt knock my socks off, but usually PBP is my favorite. I have to say I liked Push a lot this year, and i wasnt a huge fan of LSS... I liked it but i think it's way overhyped.
 
... are you serious? PBP movies are the exact same thing every year. It's ski porn (which isn't really a problem, in general you get a ski movie for the skiing) but it is probably the least diverse of any of the movies. When I say it's ski porn I mean it's just straigh skiing nothing else added to it at all. No soul. Apparently they're proud of that.
 
To many straight rails in LSS, its cool if its a hard rail...but a regular 2 kink just straight its boring.

Alot of good railing i LSS though, i liked the movie
 
wtf? it seemed like 50% of the movie was rails..well htats probably just a exaggeration but that one rail seggy seemed like 10 minutes long
 
yeahh.. i knew there was gonna be rails and stuff but i didn't think that many.. i have anomaly and if i remember right there was 1 rail and it was like a 1 sec. clip, when i saw it i just laughed cause it didn't even need to be in there haha yeah but ur right.. im def. into more big mountain pow, and i like big BC booters
 
i agree with you totally. all the new ski movies dont have any fast paced like techno or hip hop music which is the problem. half of a ski movie is the music it has.
 
I'm not sying it all has to be fast techno, I just want more variety. I loved TBC's soundtrack because it was a) a genre of music I've never heard and b) not the same tempo and energy the whole way through.
 
I wasn't surprised, I just didn't like it.

P.S. for all of you that think TBC is "emo," you have no idea what you're talking about. I hate emo as much as any sane person should, but the music in TBC is fun and exciting not slit your wrist.
 
I agree completely.

I loved the Skiing in LSS and Ski Porn, but the movies just miss the feeling. I didn't have this longing desire to find any songs on them that I needed to download right away because they pumped me up.

The skiing was ridiculous in both of them. But the music selection makes the movie, and I didn't see it.

And yes, TBC made me want to go ski a lot RIGHT away more than Ski Porn or LSS did. It energzed me bigtime.
 
From reading this thread and others I think there's a few different types of ski movie watchers.. cuz like, some people want to see in a movie what they would want to ski, some people would be way down to rip BC lines all day long, but they find watching it in slow motion on screen gets boring and repetitive after not that much time. Others like jibbing movies cuz its more diverse on film and there's more obvious progression from year to year. Others are looking for good skiing, but they're more concerned with how the film was made- mood, flow, editing, quality of shot, etc.
 
I agree, watching that trailer I got so pumped about the season to come, I saw LSS along with Witness at the premier in Kent, Ohio. LSS was still a good film, but the energy is what it's all about, I gotta go check out TBC.
 
ya dude, editing and cinematography are seriously the second most important thing if not the first most important thing in a movie, in my opinion. I can watch Sammy do his sick skiing with shitty editing, and I'll hate his part like no other. But if its some unknown kid doing B tricks but the filming and editing is really good, I will like it a lot more. The editing in a ski movie will be worth like 70% of my overall impression of the movie, so thats why TBC blew my mind because the editing was so flawless.
 
i think what needs to be done is we get a bunch of us to donate to ostness to help make a TBC 2, im dieing without it
 
Vivid by Absenthe Films, is one of the best edited Snow Movies. I found Teddy Bear Crisis edited similar to this sick movie. In turn makes Teddy Bear Crisis one of if not my fav ski movie ever!
 
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