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Chris Benchetler Fire on The Mountain

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lilvg22
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Anyone know anything about this, visually this looks amazing

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/943063/Official-Trailer--Grateful-Dead-presents-Fire-On-The-Mountain-By-Chris-Benchetler
Nov 2 2019 9:00AM
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conchetler
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I love the Dead and I love Chris's skiing so this looks super dope. Reminds me a bit of something Sweetgrass did a couple years ago-

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/943142/AFTERGLOW---Full-Film-by-Sweetgrass-Productions
Nov 2 2019 9:16PM
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madcult
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Just watched it yesterday. Don't get the point of the project. First half fillers and reused footage, 2nd half pretty much what Sweetgrass already did but editor on more shrooms... Dreamy, Almost fall a sleep. The surfing part was dope though.

**This post was edited on Dec 14th 2019 at 7:12:18am
Dec 14 2019 7:06AM
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ASSholebomber22
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God damn I fucking hate the grateful dead
Dec 14 2019 1:05PM
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snowmosexual
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When is it going to be online?
Dec 14 2019 7:13PM
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thizzizwhatitiz
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snowmosexualWhen is it going to be online?


its on youtube
Dec 14 2019 10:11PM
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SkiHillShiter
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BiffbarfGod damn I fucking hate the grateful dead


ok boomer
Dec 15 2019 12:07AM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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BiffbarfGod damn I fucking hate the grateful dead


Lmfao
Dec 15 2019 6:45AM
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conchetler
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madcultJust watched it yesterday. Don't get the point of the project. First half fillers and reused footage, 2nd half pretty much what Sweetgrass already did but editor on more shrooms... Dreamy, Almost fall a sleep. The surfing part was dope though.

**This post was edited on Dec 14th 2019 at 7:12:18am


Yeah I agree with you, I'm not sure what I was expecting. The whole Dead theme seemed really hokey to me, and then I remembered TGR produced it. Cool idea but the movie could've been made without the theme and it probably would've been better in my opinion.
Dec 15 2019 11:22AM
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cyphers
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No_Gorby_Gapok boomer


this would make sense if boomers weren't 80% of the grateful dead's fanbase
Dec 15 2019 6:21PM
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SuckleBrick
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It was kinda every wher skiing, snowboarding and surfing with some local music everywhere. visuals were nice it was cool but no real big lines or jumps mostly just visual FX's. personally not what I wanted but it was still cool
Dec 15 2019 7:20PM
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GreezyBastard
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This movie made absolutely no sense, the Grateful Dead had really nothing to do with it other than the music and maybe the lights on mammoth. The clips all seemed like they were 5 seconds or less and literally all the same thing just pow turns. Music choice was good obviously but I just don’t get why this was advertised so much as some crazy skiingXdead film
Dec 15 2019 11:33PM
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SavageBiff
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conchetlerYeah I agree with you, I'm not sure what I was expecting. The whole Dead theme seemed really hokey to me, and then I remembered TGR produced it. Cool idea but the movie could've been made without the theme and it probably would've been better in my opinion.


GreezyBastardThis movie made absolutely no sense, the Grateful Dead had really nothing to do with it other than the music and maybe the lights on mammoth. The clips all seemed like they were 5 seconds or less and literally all the same thing just pow turns. Music choice was good obviously but I just don’t get why this was advertised so much as some crazy skiingXdead film


The new Chet skis art are Grateful Dead too , disliked them so much I didn’t buy a pair
Dec 16 2019 8:40AM
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freeskibum82
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dude got to ski at night and light up the hill how he wanted. seemed more fitting for a small segment of a warren miller movie than anything. Im sure Chris liked the experience and Atomic will market the hell out of it just to regain the cost.
Dec 16 2019 8:59AM
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GreezyBastard
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SavageBiffThe new Chet skis art are Grateful Dead too , disliked them so much I didn’t buy a pair


Only like 100 of those were made
Dec 16 2019 1:31PM
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CalumSKI
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lights were cool, even though most of the shots were reused
i do like the deads music though, so i liked the music aspect
Dec 16 2019 1:49PM
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a_burger
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I think soundtrack is a huge part of ski videos, and I totally get having the soundtrack be a huge inspiration for the project itself but ski videos that market themselves as such seem to have a hard time pulling it off in a way I like.

The whole "Official" part of it rubs me the wrong way and makes it feel like a corporate marketing scheme rather then a project that came from a passion for the music (which it undoubtedly was on Chris's part but tl;dr TGR handled marketing it the wrong way imo)
Dec 16 2019 7:31PM
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snomaster
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I can't believe they got Bill Walton to narrate this
https://www.change.org/p/espn-ban-bill-walton-from-announcing-arizona-basketball-games













Dec 17 2019 8:21PM
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SuckleBrick
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CalumSKIlights were cool, even though most of the shots were reused
i do like the deads music though, so i liked the music aspect


music was the best part of the edit that and the lights
Dec 17 2019 10:36PM
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Bushdid9_11
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BiffbarfGod damn I fucking hate the grateful dead


conchetlerYeah I agree with you, I'm not sure what I was expecting. The whole Dead theme seemed really hokey to me, and then I remembered TGR produced it. Cool idea but the movie could've been made without the theme and it probably would've been better in my opinion.


GreezyBastardThis movie made absolutely no sense, the Grateful Dead had really nothing to do with it other than the music and maybe the lights on mammoth. The clips all seemed like they were 5 seconds or less and literally all the same thing just pow turns. Music choice was good obviously but I just don’t get why this was advertised so much as some crazy skiingXdead film


you guys oughta eat more mushrooms
Dec 17 2019 10:44PM
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ASSholebomber22
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Bushdid9_11you guys oughta eat more mushrooms

Shrooms make me wanna hurl, much like the grateful dead.
Dec 17 2019 11:00PM
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GreezyBastard
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Bushdid9_11you guys oughta eat more mushrooms


Hahahah that might be it, I’ll take a nice slab of L today and then watch it, I’ll lyk my opinion then.
Dec 18 2019 9:35AM
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Price_Police
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I thought the Chill Walton narration was cheesy as fuck. I skipped over the first segment and went straight to the lit up mountain part. Overall, I thought this part was well done and they chose a good Dead song for it. If you compare it to a traditional ski flick, obviously it’s not going to stand up. If you look at it as a close collection of friends enjoying a unique experience on their “home” mountain it makes more sense to me.
Dec 18 2019 6:56PM
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Maximumsushi
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10/10 ski flick
Best enjoyed as the Dead would have watched it.
The editing was superb, great job Cody!
Dec 19 2019 3:00AM
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