Deep Winter (2009)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Don't Believe the Hype

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I just saw this piece of crap on TV. I would recommend you watch Touching the Void instead. This movie has nothing to do with what it promises. There's no suspense. No danger. Nothing. It's just a fake straight-to-DVD waste of time. I cant even believe that I am commenting on it on IMDb, or that it got 4.3 points. It's really one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. Yesterday I saw the brilliant master-piece Hellraiser (1987). Now, there's a movie! This "movie", shall we say, is not even a movie at all. It didn't have any plot or anything. It really made me sick to watch all that stupid crap. Michael Madsen is quite good in the movie actually, and Alaska is a great place, but there is really nothing to work with because the sport-element in the movie is so poor and non-existent.

OK, this movie is not bad.There is nothing wrong with it.Yes the back story about the sister is exaggerated.Yes the acting is a bit pushed at times.However, the cinematography is awesome, the story is good but not great and the setting interesting about a mountain that cannot be tamed.I found it interesting, with an excellent soundtrack.It is a ski lover's popcorn flick and I do not think it pretends to be anything else.Snoboarder's too with get their share! MG

I read this review on DVD Verdict then rented the movie and loved it.You know, I wasn't expecting anything more than a cookie-cutter snowboard jock-movie starring annoying characters, but Deep Winter surprised me. It's an entertaining spectacle, sporting some jaw-dropping downhill footage, a serviceable human drama, and likable players to tie it all together.Deep Winter is sort of a meta-snowboard movie, quite possible the first of a genre. The story is about these guys making a ski and snowboard movie, but it's obvious from the crazy downhill shenanigans that human beings are actually strapping themselves to thin pieces of sculpted plastic and voluntarily sliding down a big-ass mountain. Really, I can't say enough about how awesome the skiing and snowboarding is in this movie. If I had to guess, the angles are sheer 90 degree drops of doom and somehow the nutjobs the filmmakers suckered into rocketing down the slopes negotiate this wintry peril with ease. Just fantastic.Buttressing all of this is the movie itself and it's decent. You'll be able to chart out the trajectory of the plot no problem: the twists, the relationships, the looming fatalities, the Final Momentous Choice our hero makes, all of it. You've seen this melodrama in countless other works. The clichés are tempered with some solid acting and a likable Alpha Male awesome skier guy who bangs his best friend's sister, sure, but that's a necessity in movies like this, so you can't fault him for that. Even Michael Madsen brings his game, likely relieved he's not hoisting around a fake sword and incomprehensible accent from a Uwe Boll movie or playing a gangster for the billionth time.Again, the centerpiece of Deep Winter is the ski action footage, so I wouldn't hold it against you if you skipped through some of the extended sentimentality to get to the good stuff.The film looks good in its 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen treatment, though the picture quality isn't as vibrant as it could be. In fact, Deep Winter is best-suited for a high-definition treatment. Audio is pushed by a 5.1 track, and it's rich, pounding bass and blasting out the nifty soundtrack. The total lack of extras is a major missed opportunity.

I joined IMDb just to say how bad this movie is. There is no plot, the acting is awful, and even the skiing is bad!!!It all starts after the main guy falls during a competition. Then he goes back home... Finds a old friend - she is obviously his best friends sister and of course he has sex with her. The brother gets really mad... However they still leave together to Alaska to make a movie. They leave to ski down one of the worst mountains ever.. The brother dies, the sister cries (but don t worry they get back together after the main character finishes what his best friend died doing, going down that big nasty mountain full of avalanches)Do not watch is my advice..