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Forum Forever is one of the year's better snowboard videos. It's a bit heavy on the urban jibbing and light on everything else, but is still creative and entertaining, and there are some mind-blowing shots.

Forum Forever starts out with a B&W intro montage that pops into bright color. Pat Moore takes the opener, it's a pretty metal part with some really creative wallrides and ricochet drops. Jake Welch rocks a sweet street section, followed up by the Youngbloods doing more of the same. Jake Blauvelt has a super fun part that shows off his ability to ride just about anything. Joni Malmi, Peter Line, and Stevie Bell share a song with some great shots. Eddie Wall and Nic Sauve follow with two solid parts full of street jib bangers. John Jackson rips some sick powder lines and throws some ridiculous double-corks and rodeos. The credit roll is a fun little mix of footage, and wraps up the film nicely.

The cinematography and editing are great, with creative camera angles that result in great looking footage. There are some really well done slow-motion shots where the footage slows almost to a stop, and then speeds back up. Overall it definitely has the feel of a Forum video, and does justice to The Resistance, and True Life.

Music is so-so, most of the songs are pretty good, but mixed together they don't work as well. Pretty packed extras, including a wreck section, fun ads for the Tweaker boot, Chilly Dog rocker, and Shaka binding, and a behind-the-scenes feature.