Strong and Moving!

good back-story, and good acting

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

I'm 31 years old and started with snowboarding when I was 15. Terje Haakonsen was the big name and the sport was young, punky and cool. I've seen a lot of films and some of them is better then this when it comes to "sick tricks" and high airs. Some of the older films is much more raw and punky in style. This film is very relaxed, beautiful and almost dreaming. It also focus on what I see is the true heart of snowboard: free riding! There is short clips from big jumps and halfpipe but no rails, crazy roof drops or wacked out clips from the hotel. This is only a group of nice people who loves to ride and do it well. The scenery is magical. New Zeeland and Alaska is the most extreme places on earth to do helicopter tours in and just sit back and enjoy the beauty of earth is mind blowing. Soundtrack is well chosen and not a single weak minute or boring episode, you just want it to go on forever. That's it, that's all. This is snowboarding!

Disregard the comment posted by another user about how this film is the same as all other films because this video definitely stands out, not just for its production value but for it's ability to do more than cut sick tricks with a decent soundtrack. This is the perfect blend between Planet Earth and a fresh snowboarding video. This film will be remembered for pushing the snowboarding industry and raising the bar for all future snowboard videos although it doesn't end there. That's it, That's all, will also have a profound impact on sister industries like skateboarding, surfing and other extreme sports as they too will now be expected to produce more aesthetically pleasing films with content above and beyond straight up shredding.

This is the most solid snowboard movie I've seen. These guys are basically flown to the sickest places on the planet (New Zealand, Jackson Hole, Canada, Alaska) to create fresh lines after being dropped from helicopters. The aerial camera-work is solid, and the film includes beautiful shots of the mountains and the wildlife in these areas. The sponsors definitely paid up for this one; the guys are hitting massive kickers on otherwise untouched slopes.No wasted time on rails and jibs. Just big mountain riding and big air. There is a short segments which shows the guys at different big air competitions as well - those could be left out.The soundtrack is excellent.It gets a 9 instead of a 10 because of the shameless blatant product placement for Lib Tech.

It's very sad when we see movies like this - expensive (and the money have obviously not been just "spent") but ruined by amateurish people in the crew.In this particular case photography is top class: the movie is filled with action, there are a lot of interesting shots from helicopters and filming takes place in several locations, sometimes abroad. Some scenery is so beautiful that it is actually worth to watch this because of it just once.The problem is that, well, storytelling is almost non-existent as if the purpose was just to show the locations, insert some fancy scenes here and there and cut everything so that it has an unobtrusive rhythm. Scenes follow with little drama and I checked how much time has passed several times. I mean, editing really seems to be done by someone who never did this before in projects more serious than cheap erotics. Music choice is also unsatisfactory - it is primitive and aggressive. The rock guitars just don't go well with high-altitude mountain scenery.Compared to other movies: "MDP Picture this (Snowboarding)" is made from inferior footage shot sometimes in much less interesting locations but good editing and direction make it a higher class movie leaving a very good impression.