Friday Analogy: Going to see the new Warren Miller movie is like...

Ah, c'mon, Geoff.......

I showed (yes, showed) my first Warren Miller film when I was in the fourth grade. Strung up the 16 mm projector in class so my classmates knew wtf it was all about. And that's what it was about - then. I just won't get my tit in a wringer defending the films I couldn't sit through as of late, though. I have all the respect for the athletes in them.
Just not the overall finished product anymore.

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Originally Posted by Nanuq

"...mountain people" (which is a crap "lifestyle" term...You want "Mountain People"? Go live in the bush in Alaska. But living in Breck or Park City or Jackson or whatever other enclave of crackerdom is NOT Mountain living...it's suburbia with better scenery.)

Nanuq

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hahahahahahahahahahahah fkna nicely said

I have been enjoying Warren Miller movies since the 1970's.

Now there are more choises for ski porn, BUT!

I still like to go to Warren Miller screenings

The movies are fun! I like them and it says winter is here!

I am not going to let you guys somehow convince me that Warren Miller movies are (Unfun)

Just like apple Pie, Levi's and Christmas some traditions never go out of style.

Rather than go to a Ski Movie - why not ride a bike or run some stairs or do anything that gets you ready to do the Real Thing. What is it with us that we watch other people do things, rather than doing them ourselves? What's with watching Skiing? Baseball? Football? Golf? What's with Watching?

I'd rather "DO"

I'd rather not "WATCH"

(Now I'm in for it.)

IDC, what are you, twelve years old? Grow up.

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Originally Posted by alto

... is like getting to college your freshman year and finding out your roommate is a Mormon.

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That happened to me.
But he smoked pot daily.
And ate lots of acid.
And drank lots.
And snowboarded.

Fuck, he was gay wasn't he.
Not like there is anything wrong with that.

...is like part of the ritual. In my area the film is a benefit for a worthy charity, and the midweek tickets are well worth the price. I must have seen 30 or 40 of his shows since the 60s when my folks took us to the show to kick off thier ski season. I already got my tickets , but don't expect to be blown away by it....

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Originally Posted by extreeski

stupid, cause you can rent it for five bucks or less when it comes out on dvd. And Ptavv's correct too. Most of those free lift tickets have so many blackout parameters that they are useless. And you can't do bong hits during the movie when you go to the theater.

But,

FWIW, I know I will be seriously jonged, I think the Gulmarg and Doug Coombs stuff in Off the Grid, which I just caught, are quite good pieces of ski cinematography.

Next season, 2 weeks in kashmir.

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I agree with this. Nows the time to hit up Gulmarg because I've got a feeling that place is going to blow up soon (no pun intended). Did you see the "Seven Sunny Days" Gulmarg segment? Epic.

• Don't take life too seriously, because you can't get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
  
• On the other hand, you have different fingers.Stephen Wright
  
• If your parents didn't have children, odds are you won't either.Old joke, known as second theory of reletivity
  
• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.Yogi Berra

The Actual authors of these lines.

Going to see a Warren Miller flick is like...

...watching a lightning storm from a distance. A whole lot of flash but no thunder.

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Originally Posted by road trip

I agree with Odin.

just sayin'.

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Seconded.

*It's also like Playboy. Best thing ever when you're 12, not so much when you're 20. When you're 40 you look back very fondly on the same one you saw when you were 12.

*It's also like going to church on Christmas and Easter -- you go because you always go, it makes your mother happy and down deep maybe you too. Chances are you see some folk that you only see there once a year.