Dear Level 1,
You might be confused by this letter. I mean, wasn’t it just a month ago that we were all oh my god Level 1 finally resisted the urge to stroke ski bro egos, followed by a helping of thank god they limited the repetitive drone of giant jump build segments? That happened, right? Right! So what might we have to say now?
Well, the thing is, you’ve made one of your better movies in years, BUT that doesn’t mean we’re actually happy over here at this fictional place we call BroBomb. Will Wesson’s stuff in the extras was still better than anything in that whole (still very good, seriously, we all did like it) damn movie! So, let’s just say this isn’t your opus, this isn’t your crowning achievement, but it’s a start down a road. But you damn well better keep walking that road because, well…progression, I guess.
I guess what I’m saying is that there’s still shit tons of room to improve. And since we’re 100% confident of our influence on all that happens within this strange little world of skiing, we’re going to make a few demands:
1. No more giant versions of things one might find in a regular park. Either your skiers can make normal stuff look cool or they are boring human beings. It’s as simple as that. Taking some sort of rainbowy box and doing nothing with it other than making it all huge and shit might make sense in a room full of ski jocks, but to everyone else it’s just gimmicky and regressive.
2. Dunfee already touched on this, but it bears repeating: If someone gave you the impression that we all wouldn’t watch a full segment of JP Auclair doing WHATEVER THE HELL HE WANTS…well, punch that person and never listen to him again. If JP says to you, “I want to spend two minutes of my segment recommending fine wines to pair with the choicest Quebecois cheeses,” just nod your head and go with it. The man’s a treasure, we will all love it.
3. You brought us Eric Pollard without the heavy hand of Nimbusery weighing everything down, and for that we are grateful. To improve on that you will need to follow my directions carefully. First, call him up and say that you’re planning a trip to whatever hippie soul skiing mecca all you brohemians are jazzed up about this year and you’ll be meeting up and leaving from SLC. Second, do not book that trip and instead threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn’t tag along with Will Wesson on whatever wacky urban/park extravaganza he has planned.
To get to the point, we want to see less gimmicks, more JP, and Pollard having fun on park and urban shit again. Sorry for all that filler.
That’s it really. Thanks.
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This is probably the stupidest article written in the history of man kind.
Gotta agree with Gary, Jon Hartley is a moron. Level 1 put such a variety of ski styles into Sunny its hard to imagine how anybody wouldn’t enjoy it. Everything in that video was wild, they are pushing the limits and progressing skiing more than most if all companies in the industry. And just for the record, Eric Pollard should not go back to park and urban and instead stick with shredding nasty pow lines because the pow parts in Sunny were just as amazing as the park and urban stuff.
I havent seen sunny yet, but a segment of JP and Eric just having fun on skis would be amazing no matter what theyre doing. Park, urban, pow, big lines, whatever…it would be amazing.
Dear first two,
when the fuck did you start reading this blog? It got most of its recognition for not sucking dicks.
I agree JP and Eric Pollard should get to do whatever they possibly want and it should be in the Movie, absolute legends .
WHAT! WHO WILL PROOF-READ THESE 5TH GRADE MATH BOOKS WHILE YOU’RE WATCHING SKI MOVIES? GET BACK TO WORK OR YOU’RE FIRED!
i completely agree with this entire article, all this stupid mega-park crap is awful, just go skiing and have fun, like EP does everyday
While I agree with all the above points, your failing to mention sparing no cost to give a full part to LSM (and bringing in Maxi Smith?) is almost unforgiveable. On recent evidence he appears to be the second coming of whoever the fuck you believe in and his appearing on our screens for 2-3 minutes at the end of this winter, is far more important than the damage the excessive airmiles will do to the planet. Based on this oversight, Jon you appear to be falling off due to a soft cushy life lacking in full time internet mockery.
The reason this article sucks is because the author is acting like his opinion matters, when it doesn’t. You like to watch JP, good for you. There are about 37000 ski videos with JP Auclair in them, why don’t you go watch those instead, m kay. Level 1 busted their asses putting out a sick movie, last thing they need is some dude on the interweb dissing their shit acting like his opinion matters. I understand that brobomb is ‘having fun at skiings expense’ and this article is not to be taken too literally. Still I’ve had enough of people whining about ski films. There are certain people who dedicate their life to this sport, who labour year round to try and bring the stoke with their films. Then there are people who sit back, watch and criticize, contributing nothing. There is no need for a whiny ass article like this.
The problem with your post is that the author is acting like his opinion matters, when it dosent.
long live crabby movie reviews!