Ski The East Movie Premere in Plymouth

This past Wedensday on October 17 in Bloyd Hall at Plymouth State University, "Ski the East" hosted a double movie premere of "No Matter What" by Meathead Films and "The Eighty Six" by Stept Productions. Both film companys were started in the East and both have athelets in them from New England.

The first film that was shown was "The Eighty Six"by Stept Productions. This movie was ranked "Top Jib Flick" of the year at the IF3 Film festival, and I would agree that it was the best of the two that played on Wedensday. The movie was started off by Cam Riley, a rider who went to the Holderness School, absolutly destroying massive urban features. In fact, that is him right on the cover there. The movie contained tons of handrails, but few jumps, you could tell that the focus was on street skiing. The movie ended with another skier, Clayton Vila, hitting a rail at the Denver Broncos Stadium. Clayton's segment, like Cam's, had no jumping footage in them at all. All and all, I loved the movie, and I was really happy to see where those guys had brought the level of their movie to.

 The second movie that played was "No Matter What" by Meathead Films. The movie started off the same way most of their movies do, by them telling the viewers how hard it is to be skiers on the east because of the lack of snow we get, but how much we live for those one or two storms that bring in a bunch of snow. I am a little tired of the intro by now because I have seen their last eight films, but im sure that somebody who only buys one of their movies every five years or so, loves this type of intro. Then the movie burst into an urban trip up to Qubec. This was my favorite segment in the movie because it had huge drops of off parking garages and big tricks on rails. It was also a cool segment because one of my friends, Lupe Hagearty was in this segment. Then there was a powder segment, then a park segment, and it followed this pattern throughout the movie. To see so many park and urban segments in a Meatheads movie was a pleasent supprise to me. Of course, i'm sure the Meathead guys had it that way because of the lack of powder days that we had. Again though it was a good movie, and I ended up buying myself a copy of it at the end of the showing