The Players DVD Review

I agree that The Players had a lot of good camera work showcasing excellent climbers on excellent rock, but I have to disagree with the pace. Barely a split second would elapse between some of the problems, and there was hardly a transition between each climber’s segment of the film. I thought that made the film seem incredibly cramped and rushed.

I felt like the film was in a hurry to cram in some problems/routes, give the climbers a chance to say a few words, and get out. Besides the very obvious direction of telling the viewer what “a player” is, I felt like the film lacked the strong storytelling feel that I really enjoy in many climbing films.

The filler shots annoyed me too, particularly because using the space in between the climbing can be so effective at portraying a climbing area and the climbing personalities that are there. I hate seeing Dave talking in an oddly lit room about the problems that have made the final cut, rather than hearing his amusing and insightful stream-of-consciousness at the crag that we often get in Big Up films.

I also think using some footage (and not just clips, but entire climbs) that many people had seen already on Momentum diminished the freshness…

For sure a quality climbing flick, and definitely a good glimpse at a current collection of many top American climbers (but where was P Rob?), but not as strong of a film as I had hoped.

narc, send me your copy. all my budget r belong to horses.

If I didnt enjoy the song I probably could not have sat thru that. It is proven that your homosexuality rises 217% for watching the 3 dudes dancing around eachother. Really super gay.

Im in the middle of a hangboard work-out so I’ll try to make this as short as possible…
Frankly, seeing other Brian Solano films such as: Spray and The Life and Im not impressed. I have seen both of the mentioned films multiple times when hang around in home gyms and couple other places. The filming is not complex and sometimes seems sort of lazy. There appears to be no effort put into the complex rigging needed most of the time to achieve the best shot. along with the lack of tenacity for excellent cinematography the editing is also not up to par. The editing consist of horribly framed shots strung together depicting a cool climb in a bad way. Its not that the film making is absolutely terrible, it gets the job done, but thats the terrible it just gets the job done…
Other production companies spend countless hours, extreme planning, and equally extreme rigging to achieve the memorable shots that get us really psyched to go out and push ourselves hard and one production company that comes to mind is BIGUP. When these guys set out to film a new movie they dont just half ass it, they create art and they do this with precise rigging of booms and careful since of composition and they don’t just stop there the editing of those well composed shots is also well thought out. One example of careful editing is the scenes of Paul robinson doing “further in to the forest” in N.E. section of Dosage 5. the fluid editing shows the problem chronlogically and displays many different angles that mesh perfectly together, unlike the shots that are BS…(productions)
So what im really getting to is that BS needs to lower there prices or step up the filming to something worth 30 dollars…because BIGUP as set the bar for the 30 dollar movie and BS has a along way to go before any of there films are actually worth 30 dollars…im better of saving the movie and renewing by gym membership or buying 2 high quality Big budget studio films that were just released

David
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Anyone got Players or Pure and can upload them on Demonoid or some torrent site…

After reading what most have posted and watching the trailer, I’ll just Torrent it.

Here are my beefs with the video:

1) When did tagging (aka throwing up graffiti) become synonymous with climbing?

2) I’ve never met the guy but the way Joe Kinder portrays himself in videos, interviews, and internet posts and blogs tells me I never want to meet such a tool.

Again, I’ll get it via Torrent.

wow.

hop the fence, yous a climba!

I would totally buy this if they would put a download-able version up on their site, like how Big-Up did for Progression. Companies need to adapt to change rather then fight it. Just look at all the money lost by the record industry by their unwillingness to just supply cheap convenient downloads of their music. If they had started off by adapting, instead of suing people for downloading music, they wouldn’t have a problem. People are willing to pay money to have a high quality copy that was convenient to get. As it is right now though, it’s easier to get the torrent rather then pay the $30 to wait a week or more for their DVD to arrive…