Aspen Extreme

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Summary: Amazing Movie! ALL-Time Favourite!
Review: This movie is one of my FAVOURITE movies, its got SKIING and very beautiful women in it (Terri Polo). This movie has it all for me, Romance, Comedy, Action, Skiing!! GOOD MOVIE

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Summary: Nothing like a good drama!
Review: This movie was a good drama with a lot of heart. The acting was really good and the skiing sequences were absolutely amazing. Don't pass this movie up!! It is definitely worth seeing!!! :)

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Summary: For skiing and due South fans, and everyone else!
Review: This movie was awesome! The stunt men are terrific, and I really enjoyed watching the skiing segments. I admit that I rented it primarily because of Paul Gross, but I have grown to adore this movie!

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Summary: Aspen Extreme
Review: This production is among the most heart felt movies that has been produced in the history of movie making. It is about the evils of ambition, friends falling apart, plus a romantic side. The scenery, plot, and music are wonderful. This movie has more heart than Gattaca (if you haven't seen Gattaca you should watch it). If you are a true movie collector you should definately have this in you library.

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Summary: Aspen Extreme
Review: This production is among the most heart felt movies that has been produced in the history of movie making. It is about the evils of ambition, friends falling apart, plus a romantic side. The scenery, plot, and music are wonderful. This movie has more heart than Gattaca (if you haven't seen Gattaca you should watch it). If you are a true movie collector you should definately have this in you library.

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Summary: Imagine "Top Gun" on skiis
Review: TJ and Dex love nothing more than skiing, so they've escaped their working class origins and have come to the winter wonderland for the rich - Aspen. Having nothing more to do than ski and instruct others (rich guys who, for the most part, can barely stand in their skiis) and pass the spring months wondering at the natural beauty that most of the mountain's winter denizens never stick around for. Their love of skiing has Dex and TJ repeatedly throw themselves down dangerous slopes. Dex, the more reckless of the two, gets in trouble with dope peddlers when, unwisely becoming part of the area's pipeline, he panics and dumps his stash. TJ, the more stable of the two, romances both a wealthy Aspenite and a local reporter (Teri Polo who was much better in "Meet the In-laws"). At first, the flick is content to make itself a parody - these two gusy are oblivious to how out of place they are among the wealthy in-season. Then the spring comes and they stick around - and the flick gets serious. TJ, it's no surprise, has dreams of being a writer. (In every lame movie, the protagonist is always a writer, a thin alter-ego for the guy who perpetrated the script) The flick takes itself incredibly seriously, even as it shamelessly riffs on the far superior "Top Gun" (we get the wiser and older instructor who becomes TJ's conscience; the slick ace who points out TJ's flaws; tragedy forces TJ to reexamine himself; then there's the climactic race in which TJ will conquer his demons. We get everything but the great music, the purple skies and the beautiful F-14's that made TG an absurd treat. AE gives us two pieces of wood, a lot of snow, and a bunch of rich brats who probably saw a few more steep slopes during the dot.com bust) The worst thing about "Aspen" - besides how unoriginal and arch it is, is how boring it is. There's never any sense that the flick is working towards anything - the guys get to Aspen, establish themselves as hot dogs and then....spring comes. Then winter returns, and it's back to work. There's no plot, nothing is happening. The script gets itself worked up about skiing as if these guys were protecting the free world or something, and not just making fools of the rich tourists who spend top dollar every winter learning how to fall down snow covered mountains. It's incredible that they convinced some Hollywood types to so completely buy into this flick's dim homilies, although the studio execs have probably done some skiing themselves, thinking that everybody would flock to a film about two guys whose life boils down to going downhill, every day. Almost everybody who reads this review is probably some kind of ski enthusiast. For those few who consider getting this flick despite having a minimal interest, if any, in skiing, I recommend you climb a different mountain.