Cutaway movie.....hey its a movie

First off... This is Ronjumps using a buddies email at work.

1. The movie was cut to pieces by the network....they do it all the time. 2. The skydiving in it was cool to look at...Not very REAL, but who would want to watch AFF 1-7, a transition to throwout, and a bunch of coach jumps. Also, yeah he got on a team with 20 jumps. The movie needed a meet to add excitment, and I didnt want to watch him jump for 4-5 years (I dont like watching 2 day movies). I think the use of the tunnel was good to make his advancment LOOK like we work at this. 3. About most skydiving movies having a drug theme....well been to a DZ after dark? And it is an action movie, most have drugs, murder, or green men trying to take over the world as the theme. 4. It is not a bad movie. It will not get any stars put on the walk of fame, but most action movies don't. 5. We as jumpers are picking this thing apart. I am in the Army, and we rip apart military movies. I bet Football players rip apart football movies. Cops, rip on cop movies......how many climbers thought Cliffhanger was REAL? 6. Overall I am glad to see the sport at least out there. I hope we support these more. It is not easy, and I think it is good for the sport.

Gripes. 1. Well I hate how EVERYONE has a nickname.....call me LowPull from now on. 2. They did say CUTAWAY to damn many times. 3. Where is the damn nudity I was told about? I want to see that pilot Nekid. HEHE 4. I find it hard to believe that the Golden Knights let themselves be thought of as assholes...they are not. And this movie went against what they are. 5. It was pretty gay how Redline bounced....on target, with no blood. THAT made us look real stupid. And then we just sat around and left him there and talked about next year. 6. Where was the damn Black Death thing?

My thoughts, Ron.....I mean LowPull

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Yeah, everyone but ... umm, the Baldwin guy.

How many jumps do you need to make before you're assigned a nickname?

I was given a nickname after a spectacular reserve ride on jump 34, but it didn't stick.

I agree with you here

REAL would be too much to ask for (and boring too). Even skydivers wouldn't be too entertained by a scene starting with 'Now I'm going to show you how to pack...' But a LITTLE realism wouldn't have been too hard to do. Maybe stick a scene in with his partner saying he's been undercover for 2 months, followed by one where they're celebrating his 2-300th jump before Redeye invited him to the team.

Personally, I think skydiving qualifies as action. Unlike the guns and bullets, skydiving is something almost anybody can go and do. Plop down $300 (where's that $90 DZ at anyway?) and they'll strap you to a tandem master and throw you out of an airplane. If you ever watch American Flyers, it's a movie about bike racing, period. The whole drug theme could have easily been dropped to make it a pure skydiving movie that was still entertaining to the general public.

Back to the American Flyers analogy, when bikers watch the movie, they tend to say things like 'No way dude. There is NO WAY that guy could win a pro event in his first meet.' Then they suspend disbelief a little bit and decide it was still a pretty good movie. I think Cutaway just asks for a little too much suspension of belief, and on top of that it doesn't have a decent plot to back it up. There wasn't much in the movie to make me say 'Ooh, they HAVE to win at nationals.' No dying comrade whose last request was that they win the meet. No real indication they'd have to close down the skydiving center and all live on the streets if they couldn't win at nationals.

I was glad to see a skydiving movie. Just disappointed with the outcome. Just out of curiosity, has anyone asked their non-jumping friends what they thought of it? I watched Dropzone again after I started skydiving, and it was a completely different movie than before.

I wonder if all the guys showing up to take the next AFF course will have nicknames picked out for themselves .

S'more good points, it was nice to see that Vic had to work a bit to learn how to do it.

At least there was no burn-in bell.

yeah - what kinda idiot would use a corny nick name in skydiving

'Brandon' wrote ...

Now THAT's funny. I'll check this weekend...

Is he your roommate Espen? Or would 'houseboy' be a more accurate term? Do you play tennis with him?

Blue Skies,

Marc

'Winsor is right. Skydiving can be reasonably safe as long as you don't try to convince yourself it's not dangerous as hell.'

- Skratch

The only tennis I play is on my homecourt :o) I've been thinking about donating him to Bruce, but I think his girlfriend would be upset about it :o)

Espen ALF#1

I am 28...I have no idea where it came from.

How old are you?

People picking apart other peoples work makes people look stupid.

'In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the stong man stumbled, or the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who was in the arena'.

Better Espen? Or still 'Lowbrow?'

I thinkits kinda funny HOW people get their nicknames... Like Tom in Houston.. his is 'Sonic' as well..Only I hope you dont have that nickname for the same reasons.. he, uh, had a close encounter with a uh, fastfood sign..

Or Cannonball (where r u?) or Luminous.. Or Dan the treeman.. or Pieboy or Marghartitaman or SuperDave or Rabbitt

and people think the nicknames in the movie is gay (oopss, do I look stupid) - - - Noshi T

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Espen ALF#1