Scrapple

I've never written a review before now. This movie struck a chord in me. I lived this life in Colorado in the 70s! It's so indicative of all things Telluride at the time. The characters are true to life and the incidences that happened were very real for the period. Thanks for the memories, Hanson brothers. I have to tell you that we ordered the Dharma Pig t-shirt... So cool. Then 2 weeks later we got another one with a note that said they couldn't engender if they sent it, so here's another one! Lol Loved it and loved the movie!

Absolutely unlike ANY film I've ever seen before! The music, scenery, story and characters leave you wishing you could return to this simpler, care-free time. If only places like "Ajax" (Telluride) still existed today with it's good friends, good tunes, and good times. I've watched this video over and over and still find myself singing along, reciting my favorite lines, and discovering more of it's charm each time. All I can say, is if you lived through the 60's and/or 70's, (regardless of how much you actually REMEMBER...) you've got to give this film a look. It's appeal is so unusual it's hard to quantify. The search for one's self, trust and love, a renegade but loveable pig, "temple balls", Taj Mahal's music, outstanding film backdrops, good friends, all combine for a very charming and creative film. Give it a try if you can track it down...it'll be more than worth the effort!

While Scrapple is set in the fictional ski town of Ajax, Colorado (well named as both Telluide and Aspen have an Ajax), Scrapple has almost no skiing in it. It is set in the summer time and captures the slow grooving life that existed in the '70s in ski towns. The script is quite brilliant as it moves from that slow groovy pace into a vey focused story for the second half of the film. The music is as good as you will ever get in a film. The scenery is gorgeous and the acting is just good enough to make it all work. The movie is aging beautifully as the 70s move farther away into the rearview mirror.

of all the times that i've watched scrapple (some 100) in all kinds of venues (at 3 in the morning on a couch with other bar stragglers, at new york film festivals), nothing compared to seeing it in its hometown at mountain film festival, with a hometown crowd as they whooped and yelped at all the local references, ski town tributes and cameo performances (all of which still has appeal to broader less tuned-in audiences). it was like a screening of rocky horror picture show with the same level of participation and more; singing, line-readings, cat calls, wolf whistles, salutes (to Charlie Fowler and Bill Fandel). ten years down the road -- and still going strong -- scrapple has endured as a classic, and judging from last week's screening, it continues to mark a time, not only in skitown history, but as a way of life still worth celebrating.

Though Scrapple is an excellent debut for the Hanson brothers, the average person may have a difficult time relating to the 'scene' represented in the film.

Scrapple is an excellent flick for drug culture fanatics and anyone who has ever been 'on tour'. Those people will recognise themselves and their hipster friends in this movie. I'm sorry to say, they will be the only ones who truly appreciate the various drug references characterised in Scrapple. You're average movie-goer either won't care or just won't 'get it'.

There's some nice cinematography--with the Colorado mountains as your backdrop, how bad could it be? The story doesn't move as quickly as I would like, I would rather the Hanson brothers left out the 'dead girlfriend' sequences and focused more on the comedy. Nonetheless, I was entertained and I really did not come away feeling the movie completely sucked.