Replying to Warren Miller "Playground"

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 .