Raising The Ghost
See the angler cast his trout fly. See the trout fly drift downstream. See the giant rainbow trout - on his way home from a long trip to the North Pacific - stick his nose out of the water and suck the tiny fly into his maw. See Johny’s backing knot disappear downstream.
See one of the filmmakers speaking into the camera. See him tell the viewer what just happened or what will happen or what he just wishes would happen. See any one of these pilgrims speak thusly into the camera every other scene. See your thumb press the fast advance button on your remote.
See the angling legend types - the likes of Jerry Kustich, Bob Clay, and Russ Chatham - share their views on steelhead, steelhead fishing and steelhead conservation. See footatge of the scenic Skeena River Watershed. See the anglers depostited into the wilderness via helicopter.
See the features menu. Select the “chapters” option. Re-watch the scenes where the big steelhead come to the surface and take dry flies, presumably like they did all up and down the west coast way back when.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The pilot always wears the helmet.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
“I was just waiting my turn” prolly shitting himself at the same time…
December 4th, 2008 at 1:40 am
I’m so glad they told me over and over again how incredible catching steelhead on dry flies is, much better than just watching fishing, how else would I know?
December 4th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Listen to the broken record play the same portion of music over….andover….andover…
Listen to yet another guy yell “YAH…WOHOOHOOHOOHOO” FOR THE UM-TEEN-BILLIONTH” time.
Let’s watch as they waste valuable footage on some one with tangled line!….OH BOY!
OK folks…nothing to see here….lets move along now
December 4th, 2008 at 7:28 am
….and did I mention the poor bastard gasping for breath on the bank of the river???
….yeeeaaah, right
December 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
These guys again?
Fuck man, they have the opportunity to show all this great footage - because steelhead on dries is fucking cool - and they choose to have a fucking confession booth in a tent? What. The. Fuck.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
“You know, this kind of stuff’s not supposed to happen.” (but we knew it would so we brought the film crew.)
December 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Dopey me, I thought the whole idea of a trailer was to make me want to buy the vid, not gouge out my eardrums with a Bic pen.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Tom Cruise has put a little weight on.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Boy, Quinton sure got all the talent in that family, huh?
December 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Under Armour…. Fly Fishing…… Together? Bad idea, real bad idea.
December 5th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
So what’s the story on these guys and all the derision directed at them from BWTF?
December 5th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
“So what’s the story on these guys and all the derision directed at them from BWTF?”
Jealousy, mostly. Mostly.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
“So what’s the story on these guys and all the derision directed at them from BWTF?”
BUSTER gave an honest review. Buster’s READERS supplied the comments.
Buster is fair and balanced. FAIR and BALANCED, Snap. Remember that.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I guess it has to do with the “value” of a particular product….or the lack there of. With the fact of “substance”.
I am very much into Dry Fly Fishing of all kinds, for all species, in all locations. If a product is presented as having that type of content, ie, “substance” then I hope that the producer of said product would be presenting me with such….
NOT frames of tangled line
NOT frames of YAHOHOHOHOHOHO
NOT dashboard views, guys sitting around drinking beer, endless boring interviews…etc…etc
If you take out all the non-related BS….you would end up with a 2 min u-tube short….not what some might hope to be “full length” in movie jargon.
As a photographer, I would not present this product as such
AND YES…I know it’s not about me….but IT IS NOT about jealousy in even the most remote sense.
sorry.
It was a full 2 mins. in a 3+ min. trailer before I saw someone fishing…should have been the other way around
December 6th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I have watched the trailer for eastern rises about 15 times. This one I have watched once and will only be once.
Thanks for sharing Fail.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Well okay, may be not mostly. Just a little bit.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
This movie was worse than the time when Sarah got all worked up about how much beer was in Todd’s stomach. I cant say I disagreed with her seeing as it was -5 outside and he forgot to put a glove on me, and I was holding can after can of Keystone light (Sarah doesn’t let Todd’s wallet buy Alaskan amber). Jesus I just about lost one of my digits that night. Unfortunately, Todd’s brain commanded me to bitch slap her, and seeing as I am a simple hand, I had to obey. I got word that Todd’s ears were happy after that.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
In my best crocodile dundee impersonation-
That’s not a movie trailer, THIS is a movie trailer http://www.feltsoulmedia.com/EASTERN_RISES_TRAILER.mov
December 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am
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