Apocalypse Snow?

[dredman]

Does any one know where to find DVD copies of the "Apocalypse Snow" Series?
Here is a link to a little of the footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtyXn7B4Y4).

[Dan]

Awesome!!!!

Thank you for linking to that clip, dredman! I'd love to see the whole movie.

[bobdea]

I have never seen anything quite that french

[nils]

available online on a french website that reissued the trilogy..will try to find the link asap!
Sequel ( 4 ) to be released autumn 2008 ( they still shoot a few scenes this winter, its going to be huge, really, but will lack monoskies and alpine set ups... lots of big Swallowtails thu, but also lots ( too much..? of skiers..sponsors might have pushed a bit i guess)

Nils

[LeeW]

Da-yum-! This makes me appreciate snowboarding and alpine skiing and all those fun stuffs they did. though, the football scene -- i thoguht of JFK jr. either him or his peers must have seen this footage and went "hey man, lets play!"

im throughly amused with this flick.

[queequeg]

How the hell did they get that catamaran on the lift? I thought the boat stuff was pretty funny .. the whitewater raft actually looks fun as hell!

[dingbat]

Absolute Riot! Thanks.:lol:

[dredman]

Nils, any luck finding the link to the french site re-releasing the movies?

Thanks,

[eaglez]

Look at the youtube link at around 3:40. The guy hits the roof of the train upside down with the tips of his skis. WTF!!! That was awesome!!

D. :biggthump

[big canuck]

That's crazy s**t!!

[BadBrad]

Does any one know where to find DVD copies of the "Apocalypse Snow" Series?
Here is a link to a little of the footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtyXn7B4Y4).

They didn't have DVDs in the 80's. You're out of luck. You could probably find it in Beta format, though. :rolleyes:

[nils]

sorry forgot :)

http://www.advd.tv/index.php?display=prod&pid=27&lang=en
you can only get the three movies in one box..explains the price i guess..



To be noticed on this website too, the cult climbing movie (life at the tip of fingers) from the early 80's with Patrick Edlinger...I'm gonna get this one soon

Nils

[nils]

yes its DVD that was burned from the VHS masters i think... the trilogy was shot in 35mm but not sure they used the films that might have vanished...

N

[Randy T.]

So it looks like the price for the movies would convert to $76 US dollars. Is that correct?

[nils]

unfortunately euro is very expensive... and they also ask a lot for that too damn..
N

[kumimajava]

extremecarving on a catamaran - priceless :D

[John Gilmour]

Funny, today looking at all the powder we have in Aspen, I was thinking about how it was back in the days with Sims 1500, 1600, 1700 FE snowboards with fins- and I thought of this very movie.


I used to have a copy of that film which was bootlegged onto VHS from the Boston Ski and Sports show in 1984 where it was projected from film on the wall... it was plagued by the popcorn popping machine and ski simulator (an astro turf moving carpet) going in the background of the bootleg shot by Miles a guy who was running ski tours to Tignes.(So what.. it was all in French anyhow) I was running a sales for a snowboard camp I started in Tignes by tacking onto a ski tour company. Jeff Grell was to teach there and we were going to build the first snow cat halfpipe..I even still have the drawings from Jeff and a copy of International Snowboard magazine where I took out a 1/4 page ad for it. 8 people went..all skiers...lol it was sick bargain 15 days food lodging air lift tickets for $714. Snowboarders back then were too broke for a trip like that.

I hoped the movie would help board sales.. Of course we have no powder like that on the East Coast...so it did absolutely nothing to increase sales.. it was a very very long movie. Basically it was a road runner type plot where the monoski guys wanted to catch the snowboarder and they would come up with inane contraptions to try and catch him. He would bomb it at what looked like 50-70mph and the mono ski guys could not catch him. That is worth seeing the movie..amazing Les Arcs shot footage.

There was a sequel called Apocalypse Challenge which was not as good. and I never knew there was a 3rd one.
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[nils]

episode 1: chase of the nice snowboarder by monoskiers trying to steal from him the secret of glide ( secret de la glisse in french)
episode 2: challenges between the good and the bad monoskiers ( not so good)
episode 3: USA baby...the chase in the us mountains...was shot at the end of the season it seems from the snow...not so good movie but still old school as hell and fun
episode 4, next autumn: the chase is back..

[Fastskiguy]

Now that is a pretty cool movie trailer! Those guys seemed to have access to a lot of neat stuff and an unlimited amount of fresh powder. And the ability to jump a giant snowblower, train (almost...), and take a catamaran to the top of a steep hill. That's great!