valerie tuftin

I knew right from the start this was going to be one of those “why can’t we just get in the running car” type movies, but that’s ok. I love me a cheesy, fun, sometimes cringeworthy movie once in a while. The premise is great. This could happen! Three somewhat entitled college friends at a ski resort. Two are dating each other, the third feels, understandably, like a third wheel. There are tense dynamics between them all. Through a set of predictable circumstances, they get stuck on a chair lift, in the dark, with a terrible storm raging, freezing temperatures, and no help coming for about a week. What will they do?? I live in Minnesota, and while I tried to buy into the story, the first thing that producers and directors need to know about movies set in cold weather is...your breath with have fog coming out! Your nose will constantly be running! I tried to suspend my disbelief, but geeez! They all had hoods with zippers on that none of them ever zipped up! They never ever really talked about an escape until Dan almost suddenly leaped from the chair. And of course, the wolves. Yes wolf packs are always at the ready at a greatly populated ski resort. And they immediately converge upon a wounded person. The funniest thing to me was how the remaining two talked endlessly about the reasons why one of them couldn’t find a girlfriend while they overlooked the carnage of their best friend/lover. It was a fun romp. I have so many other observations but you will see them yourselves!