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Warren Miller "Playground"

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Keenan
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This evening some friends and I attended the premier of Playground. Luckily we had some free passes and only had to pay the 21.50 door price for a third ticket.  The coupon door package with several weekday day ticket deals for whistler/crystal/etc was quite nice.

Of course, going into the theatre we know Warren Miller for his over-the-top cheesy ski films and expect nothing more, however this film gave us plenty more --plenty more to bitch about.  To summarize, the movie was so awful we walked out before intermission.



From the start it was pretty clear that they had nothing more in mind then representing their corporate sponsors and fluffing up skiing to make all the yuppies in the audience woo. 
Showing every skier with a corona (with your label facing the camera) or a jeep to the over-editing of the skiing (seriously i just want to see the entire shot of a skier hitting the jump and landing, stop giving me seizures) made us want to vomit.  How much did whistler pay them to do the lifestyle section? are uae developers sponsoring? johnny mosely? really? he still skis?

this was the biggest corporate marketing campaign in skiing i have ever seen. have his videos always been like this? 

We figured the sun valley condo/estate ski section was after the intermission .



Nov 18 2007 3:06AM
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iFlip
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Where did you get the free entry passes? There's a premiere near me soon, and I am planning on going. Getting the free lift tickets and stuff is reason enough. I enjoyed the one last year.
Nov 18 2007 3:20AM
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tjski
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man thats bad to hear, cuz warren miller and greg stumph made skiing noticeable to the world...well the type of skiing that wasnt really being done..i will still support a premire if it comes to my town.
Nov 18 2007 3:27AM
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Keenan
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yes it's good to support skiing. at 21.50 a ticket for 6showings, nearly sold out, in a theater with a capacity of 2900, that's a lot of support.  at least in comparison to the single msp showing at a smaller theater last month.  hopefully the ski companies are the ones benefiting from this one and not jeep/chrysler and anheuser-busch. tic vouchers were from friends at k2.
Nov 18 2007 3:51AM
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tjski
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ya word^
Nov 18 2007 3:53AM
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*rkp*
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at least it'll do a really good job on exposing newschool skiing to the general public (whoever sees this movie). i actually quite enjoyed the movie.   some cool scenes. ie: Dubai
Nov 18 2007 5:51AM
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Pippin
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yah thats one thing in the warren miller films i always liked, how theyd go to the craziest places in teh middle east that none had ever heard of in N.A. and ski them ^
Nov 18 2007 11:08AM
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Hannah.
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dubai was the good part
the part with the little kids was kinda retarded...cept they had gnarly goggle tans
Nov 18 2007 1:47PM
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artfullydodged
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yeah dubai and JOI were pretty redbull segments

the biking in utah has pathetic
Nov 18 2007 2:03PM
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Keenan
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his new movies take advantage of freesking and marketing corporations using the 'extreme/young' sport as a commodity


dont pay them the 21.50!
Nov 18 2007 6:30PM
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Piste.Off
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i liked playground.
 dubai and utah were my favorite se-gments.

annoying on every crash and every backflip the crowd was screaming ooooooooooooohs and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs
Nov 18 2007 6:43PM
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C-burckley
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part two was 1000000000% better than part 1 you should have stayed. i wanted to leave after part 1 as well
Nov 18 2007 6:48PM
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finnafuckyobitch
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it was the best warren miller film to date in my opinion. i do agree about the over editing though
Nov 18 2007 7:09PM
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Machete23
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If that was the best Warren Miller movie, I'm not going to bother watching any others.
That was crap.
Nov 18 2007 7:13PM
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[NoT.LoW]=TMerC
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I would say Dubai was also the best part,
the Youngs was impressive but made you realize how much you hate them because all they do is ride at such a young age.
Besides all that I liked the guy jumping out of the helicopter and just soaring for a bit...
Dec 10 2007 10:26AM
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bobs
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the only good part was the last seggy and the majority of that wasn't even their footage.  wall ride to down was really sick though. best shot in the movie
Dec 10 2007 11:26AM
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Pirate.
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treadway and pehote segment was sooo sick

Dec 10 2007 10:42PM
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poiuytrewq
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I thought it was a good movie overall, funny commentary, and reading the magazine that it comes with makes it better.

Definitely loaded with sponsors and at some times pathetic kid scenes. Not sure if its worth the 20 bucks, but i had a load of fun.
Dec 10 2007 11:19PM
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LittleRaisin
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i enjoyed it, in my town the door charge was 10$ and that magazine kept me entertained in a few classes. the finally at the end with that dope house was sick
Dec 10 2007 11:56PM
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Sir_SkrillALot
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lol i love how people are amazed when they see someone do a backflip.  they act like its this amazing unknown thing.
Dec 11 2007 12:13AM
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