Andreas Wigg, Jeremy Jones, Eero Ettala, Heiki Sorsa, Josh Dirksen, DCP, Jussi Oksanen. It goes without saying they're the best in the businness right now. Hampus, S.C.O.T.T.y Arnold (no cracker rappin this year, see Forums that for the randumb rapping of TK from AK), Louie Fountain and Darrell Mathes got it on lock as well. When I see a lineup like this I'm usually sceptical. The last few years of Mack Dawg left me searching for the pooper scooper and I went into last nights premier with expectations of big name ridders and production letting me down again. THANK GOD I WAS WRONG!!!!! This film is a far cry from the jibbtastic bullshi*t I force myself to sit through these days just to see if it will get better, and there were even pipe shots. Thats right, top name pros still ride pipe for fun not cash. It was great to see even an air to fakie. The bar has been raised in this movie, the production is exatcly what you would expect but the riding of Andreas and Jeremy is enough to roll credits on. I won't spoil it for anyone here, but wait till you see Andreas' last shot, if you think some switch back lip or 270 on railtard bullshi*t is still dope and gnarly then I invite you to go F yourself in the A. Or what about the videos ender ender. That is also something you have to see to believe so i won't even try to put it into words, rest assured that the owner of said banger is not who you'ld expect and you never saw it coming.
Playing devils advocate, the films soundtrack tried its best to put you to sleep but was simply over powered by the eye opening manuevers being put down one after the other (to the credit of the soundtrack there were no fake gangsters doin fake gangster shi*t to wack gangster music). Everytime I thought to myself "man this music really sucks" some hammer would be dropped, and my attention completey averted from what was a headscratching choice of tunes. Not to say they were all bad, but not really my style. My main criticism is more a commentary on the state of snowboarding in general. Some jumps you should show 1080's, say 80+ foot backcountry pow booters. Some jumps you should not, say under 80 foot park booters. And no, I mean NO 1080's should be run at full speed. It just looks like some figureskating/wakeboarding crap. They are impressive, but whats the point if it doesn't look good, isn't that the general concencus in snowboarding?
I yelled, I whooped and occasionally jumped out of my seat in disbelief. All in all it's the best video I've seen since True Life or Lame and I feel like a better person for witnessing the unimagineable. This is the movie that will inspire and push the next generation of snowboarders to strive for what was once thought not possible or too risky, it will even fill the sails of a second wind in a beat up and ageing snowboarder.
