Frozen - the stranded on chairlift movie

[nashuaskibum]

I personally enjoy the fact that somewhere in the movie they say "We should gone to wachusett" or something like that. Apparently Wachusett is a better mountain then Snowbasin.

 

[Puck it]

They also made some joke about NH. I did not catch the whole thing though. It was worse then any original movie on Syfy channel.

 

[Edd]

This is way worse then Speed 2.

Worst possible insult

It was worse then any original movie on Syfy channel.

I was wrong.

 

[Johnskiismore]

They also made some joke about NH.

It was a joke insinuating that NH dad's have sex with their daughters. Needless to say my girlfriend who is from the north country, and others born and bred in the area had a big FU to the writers.

Useless movie

 

[Ridgeman]

Wached this on Dish Net (almost for free) and half way we were rootin' for the Wolves to climb the tower, walk the cable and an put end to this bad movie. Not sure if this is even Cult Classic material.

 

[Stache]

Broke down and bought it on eBay.
The "how the movie was made" part of the disc was really interesting.

The movie still sucked. Root for the wolves.

 

[jerryg]

I spent a buck renting it at Red Box last week, which is about what it's worth. It's draggy, like it's 40 minutes of material stretched into 90 minutes.

A few things grated on me as I watched it....

It's supposed to be in Massachusettes, but all the trees are western pines and the mountains are all rocky craggy (Shot in Utah)

When they stop the lift and strand our intrepid heroes, the lifty pulls back this giant amusment park clutch type lever like you have NEVER seen on a chairlift.

They don't sweep the mountain, let alone tell the liftie on the top there are 3 more coming up.

When the 2nd guy decided to try to escape by hand over hand on the lift cable, the "Sharp cable cuts his hands through the gloves" Uh, sharp cable????

And the best error was when he tries the second time and makes it to the lift tower (sorry if I'm spoiling a very slight part of the film) they have him hand over hand into a tower where the lift cable goes under the sheaves... many sheaves.... like you would have at the lower terminal. So they filmed this harrowing feat all of 3 feet off the ground. Then the camera switches to a real mid line lift tower with the cable going over the top of the sheaves for him to climb down the ladder.

Some of you might be saying "How can you even notice this while watching the movie?", and normally you'd be right. Sort of tells you how riveting the script was.

Several other lame errors, but I don't want to ruin it for someone who hasn't watched it yet so at least you get your dollars worth.

Oh, and apparently in Mass the going rate for 3 people to scam a day skiing by paying the liftie to look the other way is $100.

Don't forget how they show the bottom terminal from a distance and it's a HSQ terminal as opposed to a Hall triple, which was shown in the movie. Yep, I'm a lift dork.

 

[Cannonball]

I spent a buck renting it at Red Box last week, which is about what it's worth. It's draggy, like it's 40 minutes of material stretched into 90 minutes.

A few things grated on me as I watched it....

It's supposed to be in Massachusettes, but all the trees are western pines and the mountains are all rocky craggy (Shot in Utah)

When they stop the lift and strand our intrepid heroes, the lifty pulls back this giant amusment park clutch type lever like you have NEVER seen on a chairlift.

They don't sweep the mountain, let alone tell the liftie on the top there are 3 more coming up.

When the 2nd guy decided to try to escape by hand over hand on the lift cable, the "Sharp cable cuts his hands through the gloves" Uh, sharp cable????

And the best error was when he tries the second time and makes it to the lift tower (sorry if I'm spoiling a very slight part of the film) they have him hand over hand into a tower where the lift cable goes under the sheaves... many sheaves.... like you would have at the lower terminal. So they filmed this harrowing feat all of 3 feet off the ground. Then the camera switches to a real mid line lift tower with the cable going over the top of the sheaves for him to climb down the ladder.

Some of you might be saying "How can you even notice this while watching the movie?", and normally you'd be right. Sort of tells you how riveting the script was.

Several other lame errors, but I don't want to ruin it for someone who hasn't watched it yet so at least you get your dollars worth.

Oh, and apparently in Mass the going rate for 3 people to scam a day skiing by paying the liftie to look the other way is $100.

Wait a second, cable-sheave orientation is the best error? There's a pack of hungry wolves that might disagree with you on that one.

Honestly, as god-awful as this movie was...I really enjoyed it. "What would you do if you were trapped on the lift" has probably been my number one lift ride conversation for decades. There were so many stupid moments and errors, but it made for some good laughs and got more of the "what would you do" conversation going. For one thing, after watching the movie I tracked down a belt that can be unwoven to make a 75' line. Next season that'll be on me every ride.

****Spoiler Alert****** But for those who've seen it...

The most hilarious part to me was the way they filmed him with the broken legs by burying him waist deep then putting fake legs out. It reminded me of Tim Conway's 'Dorf on Golf".