The Art of Flight

[Teddye4687]

All I can say is that this is, by far, the best snowboarding film I've seen.

The soundtrack is great and the camera work quite honestly trumps BBC's Frozen Planet.

Disappointed it only lasted 1:15, and it isn't cheap at £25 (blu-ray), but sure as hell worth it.

Trailer

Edited by Teddye4687 on Friday 13th January 09:26

[Oakey]

Nope, this is still the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AriyZwF4Oks

The Art of Flight merely felt like a 'making of' of the above

[Raify]

I just watched it this weekend, it is excellent. Some really amazing camera work and lunatic riding.

I still have a soft spot for First Descent, because of the way it mixed in some documentary stuff, and of course for that descent by Terje.

[Teddye4687]

Oakey said:

Nope, this is still the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AriyZwF4Oks

The Art of Flight merely felt like a 'making of' of the above

Aye it's the same guys, but personally, I preferred Art of Flight!

Found myself just grinning at the TV, which was a little weird.

[Oakey]

The Art of Flight was a massive disappointment I felt. There was too much downtime and not enough actual snowboarding. The trailer was awesome. Better than the film even. It had that amazing M83 song that was made especially for it (and then didn't even appear in the film) plus a lot of other stuff in the trailer didn't even end up in the final edit of the film (Scotty Lago dropping in from the chair lift for example, the snowmobile getting flipped).

That's It That's All had everything The Art of Flight had but the better soundtrack and was much better paced. As I say, Art of Flight just felt like 'the making of' That's It That's All.

Everything just felt so right with That's It That's All with regards to the music they chose for each scene, eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEPKWkb-OcA

[Teddye4687]

Oakey said:

The Art of Flight was a massive disappointment I felt. There was too much downtime and not enough actual snowboarding. The trailer was awesome. Better than the film even. It had that amazing M83 song that was made especially for it (and then didn't even appear in the film) plus a lot of other stuff in the trailer didn't even end up in the final edit of the film (Scotty Lago dropping in from the chair lift for example, the snowmobile getting flipped).

That's It That's All had everything The Art of Flight had but the better soundtrack and was much better paced. As I say, Art of Flight just felt like 'the making of' That's It That's All.

Everything just felt so right with That's It That's All with regards to the music they chose for each scene, eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEPKWkb-OcA

fk it, I'll watch them both tonight with a few beers and pass another judgement tomorrow

[Chris77]

Me and the missus watched this on saturday night after I read this thread, first thing we have watched in HD on our new plasma. Fantastic

Only thing now is I just wanna go boardin and cant afford it

[KemP]

Great film and some brilliant riding. I preferred That's It That's All. If you haven't seem it check out Jeremy Jones's deeper.

[P-Jay]

I enjoyed it, and I've never so much as strapped a board or skis to my feet.

If you like the sort of great camera angles and look of this sort of thing have a look at some of the Mountain Bike films like Life Cycles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJgaSTuwp7I

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZlNQ8VD65o

[Matt..]

KemP said:

Great film and some brilliant riding. I preferred That's It That's All. If you haven't seem it check out Jeremy Jones's deeper.

Deeper was good, but i was hoping it would be better.

Are there any other similar films anyone can recommend?

[Fabric]

Oakey said:

It had that amazing M83 song that was made especially for it (and then didn't even appear in the film)

Which song?

[Oakey]

The one that was created specifically for Art of Flight then didn't even appear in the film. It's in this trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh29_SERH0Y

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fire-shall-devour...

[Fabric]

Oakey said:

The one that was created specifically for Art of Flight then didn't even appear in the film. It's in this trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh29_SERH0Y

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fire-shall-devour...

Ah nice one, I didn't realise that hadn't made it's way into the film. Cheers for the download link though.

[KemP]

Matt.. said:

Deeper was good, but i was hoping it would be better.

Are there any other similar films anyone can recommend?

if you like big mountain riding then Lines is well worth checking out. It covers some of the history of big mountain riding and has some interviews which is cool