Ski Movie Season

Holy Moley. Aren't ski movies the shit. I've been watching ski movies nearly religiously since I was a toe-headed little grom. Every year, I pop'em in and proceed to get so amped that nearly nothing gets done for a week after the initial viewing. All I can do is think about snow, think about the season, reminisce of seasons past and imagine myself on top of a peak ready to throw-down Seth Morrison style (yeah, I know it's all in my imagination) (Seriously, no one has even stepped-up to what that guy was doing 7 years ago. Sheesh.)

Anyways, so this season I've unfortunately only watched a handful of flicks. More are to come, though here is what I thought of what I've seen so far.

MSP's 'Claim'- Holy Moley this flick is good. Probably there best to date and the first ski flick I've seen in a long time that doesn't have any sections that slow down or drag down the movie. It's a fresh take on the old porn format. So sick. Highlights include Abma's creatively edited and amazingly skied seggy. Heimer's huge huge huge stomp. PK Hunder's flawless trickery and last but not least the titties deep pow seg in BC. A.

Rage Film's 'Down Days'. This flick is a really cool introspective look into what goes into a three week AK heli-shoot. The ups and downs and everywhere in between are chronicled and put together in a very nice documentary style way. B+

Rage Film's 'Such is Life'. A bit too much park jibbery for my liking and a little too many riders kind of blur out the pic. The jib stickers are liking it up on Newschoolers though, so there opinion of jibberish is much more valued than mine. B- from me.

Osteness' '44 Days'. A insanely creatively edited short flick available for free download. Highlights include Jossi Well's park slaughtering and Tim Durtchi's super creative jibbery. The cost being $0.00 is an added bonus. B+

Anyways, more reviews to come (really looking forward to TGR's Under the Influence and Travis Rice's That's it That's All) and in the mean time, check out skimoviemusic.com to get all the soundtracks to all your favorite shred flicks so you can really imagine your Seth while listening to Dramamine on you iPod.