Free things can be awesome, but simply being free doesn't make this movie better. Stance is an entertaining watch, and is worth seeing while you can download it for free, but I can't recommend it as a regular-priced movie.

The "all girl" snowboard videos can be a mixed bag. I love watching the ladies rip, but too often the videos follow the stereotypes about female riders, rather than letting them shine.

The video starts out with a well-edited high-def nature intro, leaving the impression that this is a big, high-budget film your about to watch. The riding kicks in with Gretchen Bleiler narrating footage from her X-Games wreck. Gretchen's part is strong, although the night session should have been cut, and is followed by Kimmy Fasani, who has one of the stand-out parts film. Jmills Ent picked a great cast, all of the ladies in this video are super high-caliber and I have no doubt any of them could have held a spot in any of the major videos this year.

This brings me to my biggest irritation with this film; they pulled together a cast of stand-out female riders, and then waste my time with posed beauty shots, repeat footage, and too many shots with flailing in the air or awkward landings. All of the girls have some great shots; drops, powder, rails, gaps, you name it, it's in here, but as a whole, the doesn't hold together with any kind of cohesiveness.

As for a video editing and style, this one is all over the place; it tries to do the high-def nature cinematography, it tries to be crazy or funny, other times it takes on the tone of a documentary. Showing a rad trick from two different camera angles is great. Showing the same trick from camera angles that are different by about 10 degrees tells me that JMills Ent didn't get enough footage and are repeating shots as filler. There is also a disturbing amount of off-hue color issues with the film. Either the camera guys screwed up the white-balance, or the editors thought they had a cool HDR (high dynamic range) effect and used it too often. Same goes for the fake snow effect; it was cool once, but it is way overused. And what was with the dual, back-to-back parts for Raewyn Reid?

The video starts out well, and while the girls at the end of the film are great riders, the film itself more sloppy and rushed as time rolled on. By the end of the film I was left wondering why I had spent the time to watch it.