Corduroy Ski DVD, Skiing Film
Corduroy Ski DVD, Skiing Film
This new ski video features Sammy Carlson, Tim Durtschi, Mike Wilson, Kent Kreitler, Reggie Crist, Zach Crist, Tom Wayes, John Spriggs, Julian Carr, Tommy Ellingson, Cody Townsend, Jamie Pierre, Derek Spong, Taylor Felton, Patrick Ledistedt, Dylan Natale, Wiley Miller, Seth Warner, Ian Cosco and Dan Marion.
Scenes:
1. Extended Footage
2. Powder Cowboy
3. Jackson Powder
4. Greenland w/ Mammut
5. Mt. Bachelor
6. Skjersaa’s Rail Jam
7. Bruce’s Baghdad
8. Fontanella Cribs
9. Jagerstubel Cribs
10. Sobe Bombs
11. Wiley Knockout
12. Bails
13. Hestra
14. Girls of Vegas
15. Corduroy Teaser
16. Canadian Locals
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The Alps (IMAX) In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned fathers life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, The Alps is a true-life story of extrodinary courage. It’s the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must.
Featuring some of the most spectacular giantscreen imagery yet seen, the film celebrates the unsurpassed beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.
Customer Review: A Beautiful Film
I saw “The Alps” at the IMAX theater at the Cincinnati Museum Center back in the fall, and I was very impressed with the film and the overall experience of seeing it in the IMAX format. The photography is beautiful, the setting is quite breathtaking, the music is excellent, and the story is involving, moving and ultimately very inspiring. “The Alps” contrasts the grandeur and majesty of nature with a meditation on the relationships between parents and their children, and does both very well. The film certainly made an impression on me.
Customer Review: The Dumbing Down Of IMAX Films!
This is the worst IMAX film I have seen in my entire life! Sure it has some great pictures of the Alps. It also very briefly covers Global Warming, which is wrecking the glaciers, and the very important subject of avalanche science. Unfortunately 90% of this film is about one man and his obsession to climb the most dangerous mountain in the Alps - The Eiger, by taking the most dangerous route possible - all because his father did the same, and died doing so!
Like father, like son! Never mind both men have or had families with children to support and nurture! Go ahead and make your wife and children watch you foolishly risk your life, so you can prove you’re “A Man.” If you’re single - or have children who are grown adults - do what ever you want! But to have your young child watch your every agonizing step through the end of a telescope, for days, especially after knowing your child’s grandfather fell to his death climbing the exact same route is just beyond belief! Talk about being selfish!
But then to see a rather graphic reenactment of the climber’s father’s fall to his death was nothing short of sick! What’s next, showing a view of the broken body? I could not believe IMAX would stoop so low! Do you really think this it is going to help you sell tickets by reducing IMAX to a second-rate Reality television program?
At the end of this rather disturbing film our “hero” says, “he finally got something out of his system, by following in his father’s footsteps and succeeding this time.” As we were walking out of the theater I turned around to my friend and said, ” it would have been a lot cheaper and easier on his wife and child if he had seen a psychiatrist instead!”
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