Comments on: Ski Movie Review – Matchstick – Claim

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:08:57 +0000

Peter, for starters you’ve got to realize that most guys in the movies such as Matchstick’s are pretty much stuntmen now when it comes to doing things worth filming. They do some stuff you might do in a normal day of skiing, but the super fast descents with huge air are not the kind of thing most skiers fit into their normal day. Hence, the stuntmen are wearing all sorts of protective gear. Full face helmets, body armor, knee braces and pads, mouth guards, and so on. That’s not saying some of that gear doesn’t work for the rest of us, but just to answer your question, when you land big air at 60mph, sometimes you fall or just land hard and all sorts of things happen to your body, including knees in face, or face in hard snow. I just hope those guys get paid enough.

By: dave downing

dave downing — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:33:43 +0000

@Peter: I’ve been thinking of wearing a mouth guard this year simple to protect pricey dental work that I don’t want to have redone. Can you say knee-to-face contact? Or mouth-to-ski … or bark tasting? etc etc :)

By: Peter L

Peter L — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:55:36 +0000

I went to the premier in Park City and throughout the movie it looked like some of the guys were wearing mouth guards. What’s the safety reasoning behind that?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:05:56 +0000

Lou,

I saw it on the big screen last night in San Francisco (and got a poster autographed by Ms. Backstrom :-)), and, yes, it was awesome. Dav and McConkey’s segments were sweet. And yeah, those five seconds of red G3 skins were notable.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:58:11 +0000

It’s really great, worth getting into your collection. Final Countdown is over the top and fits super well with the hilarious over the top theme, but it seems to work in a “real” way as well. Simply super.

Probably would have even worked better with “This One Goes Out To the One I Love.” Now that would have had me dying of laughter, with the double pun of this being pretty much a flick with a bunch of guys doing guy stuff, though of course they managed to give Ingrid Backstrom her claim. Come to think of it, “This One Goes Out…” would have been really great as her theme song during her segment.

I’m thinking, is this the golden age of modern ski movies? Just before they get too mainstream, but they’ve got money to play with?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:10:07 +0000

The Final Countdown? Wow, that one brings me back to, oh, about 1986. Trailer was hilarious. Might have to buy Claim.