Kendo - "whata the fucka is Chinese downhill" is the best line in the movie

I always keep a crumpled up pile of bills that is exactly $40, just in case.

@phishfearme2

3 жыл бұрын

actuallY $40 goes into $2300, 57 1/2 times - squirrel was probably a bit short

@jillsmcfarland2001

2 жыл бұрын

In his down hill ski leathers

@bellagabbysophia5818

2 жыл бұрын

HHAHAHA. That is funny! I'm going to do the same! HAHAHAHA

@thomascastro8791

2 жыл бұрын

Ha. Perfect

@thomascastro8791

2 жыл бұрын

@@phishfearme2 Yup. Math doesn't work at all.

I remember seeing this in the theater back on a Friday night in 8th grade then going skiing the next day with my friends and breaking my leg playing Chinese Downhill. Outside of Warren Millers flix, Hot Dog is one of the best ski flix to date.

@MrSuicidal69

Жыл бұрын

Saw this in the theatres in Sydney, Australia. I remember there was a teacher's strike, so many students had the day off and headed to the cinema to see Hot Dog. I remember lots of lollies/sweets/candies being hurled about during the film. Great memories.

@clintonstonge8605

Жыл бұрын

I also got the pleasure of seeing this in the theater back then. I'm gonna take a guess that you're 53 years old. You might be 52 cause I'm around the same age.

@kevindukes3012

Жыл бұрын

Warren Miller movies are still the best. Visiting Sugarbush as a kid in the 80s, they would always be playing at one of his movies at local spots.

@bvpvandit2429

Жыл бұрын

I blew out a knee doing this. Great movie though. My mom took me also in 8th grade with some friends. I think she regretted that decision after the BJ Squirrel received in the gondola.

@kirkrasmussen9629

Жыл бұрын

@DaveAngelescu - I was at Squaw Valley skiing for spring break when they filmed this. The shot of him going through the cafeteria and jumping out the windows was getting set up when we went skiing by. Most of those folks sitting at the tables were people who were there to ski. The ones whose tables were crashed were stunt men. There were signs everywhere that a movie was being filmed. The Chinese Downhill was filmed off Granite Chief on the backside of the ski area. One of our favorite runs - so we were bummed that it was off limits for a few days. We couldn’t figure out what they were doing when we were on the chair lift and saw all these guys start skiing down the hill and clobbering each other. They were up there for hours, it must have taken them about 12 takes to get all those shots in. We also saw one of the takes on the trophy finale. It was cool to see.

"What the f*cker is a Chinese downhill?" Legend status movie line.

Great 80s flick. Had everything a 15 year old could want in a movie.

@ynot0714

Жыл бұрын

Hell, same for a 21 year old. Lol.

@CharlieUnderwood-fx5vz

10 ай бұрын

Who you shitting u watched it 4 Shannon tweed like me at 8 you

i'll never forget watching this with my pops for the first time. "We used to get loaded and watch this the night before hitting Mammoth" fookin legend

@patrickglaser1560

Жыл бұрын

Roids and cocaine... the 80s were wild

Sunny side up, Sunny side down, Und Sunny zide all ZEE WAY around!😂 Nice coat Rudy...Rat?😂😂

Winter ski movies from the 80’s makes my heart and soul feel good. Nothing like a good old smoke screen solves all problems in the 80’s

This movie alone made me the ski bum I am today!

Good clean fun and sportsmanship! We cared back in the 1980s❤👍

One of my all time favourite movies, 'Hotdog, The Movie' from 1983, and it still rocks!

@williamkirkpatrick8314

Жыл бұрын

Where can I watch it?

@clintonstonge8605

Жыл бұрын

1984

Almost as good as the Better off Dead race with the "I want my $2" paperboy going over the cliff. Almost.

@Branner1968

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!!

@skesno309

Жыл бұрын

Another great movie. Lol. I’m 51 and this brings back tons of good memories.

@dougbrowne9890

Жыл бұрын

That is what got me here Marty! From Better Off Dead to Hot Dog: The Movie! Can't be bettered by any crap made today!

@normturner4849

5 ай бұрын

The BMX bike with skis attacked to the tyres while he hollered for his $2 was unparalleled! Talk about fixated. Cusack's mom was a savagely awful cook, wasn't she? 😄🤮

classic. I love how in the 80's a skier can blow through your lunch table and you still have a piece of chicken on your fork and it's like "ok".

Ahhhhhh the 80's movies of skiing. We called this the kamikaze run. My trick was to use my pole to push the tab on the back of the ski binding so their boot would pop out! 🤣 What a wonderful time to be alive! Peppermint schnapps, skiing and women! ❤️😘🤣

My wife gave me the dvd for christmas a few years ago. Best wife ever!

@ynot0714

Жыл бұрын

I'll say, Nice! I tried to buy a vhs of it in the late 80's but it was stupid expensive, like 79.99, so my girl friend at the time, now my wife, rented it and made me a copy! But I gotta get a DVD now!

@philipbassist8255

Жыл бұрын

@Tony A it's a must have for ski movies. P-tex lies and duct tape and blizzard of ahs. Great stuff!

@ynot0714

Жыл бұрын

@@philipbassist8255 Yes it is! ⛷️

The best ski scene in the best ski movie ever

@geraldmcdevitt3996

4 жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for a sequel!

@Holden308

4 жыл бұрын

@@geraldmcdevitt3996 aren't we all lol

@durhrhrhrur

3 жыл бұрын

Ski patrol and out cold are both good too.

@KjetilBalstad

3 жыл бұрын

There are more than one? 🙈

@denislemieux7294

3 жыл бұрын

Ski School

The music sure sounds a lot like Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Fanfare For The Common Man"

Before there were snowboarders this is how skiers got out their angries lol! Awesome movie!

I think the real hero of this scene is that cornice supporting all of their weight while they were filming multiple takes. Yiiiikes!

This and "Up the Creek" another great 80's classic.

@caponeike

3 жыл бұрын

Also... Hamburger The Motion Picture

Jup. That's how we skied in the 80's.

@mojeimja

3 жыл бұрын

Much oldfashioned, very style!

@truantray

3 жыл бұрын

The hills were covered in cocaine.

What a classic film! 5 stars!

This movie has so deeply impacted my life!

Seems like every movie in the 80's had a great soundtrack...

This movie needed a sequel.

Such an epic movie. Those born in the 60's were the luckiest... :) I would love to be there in the 70's and 80's, but I was born in '93.

Back when movies were awesome! I want to go back to the 80’s

My fave scene from this movie. Man I wish I could live in 1984 again.

@area51r

3 жыл бұрын

when Van Halen ruled the world.

@Del-Canada

3 жыл бұрын

@@area51r Hell yeah. I owned all of their albums.

@vancouverthaimassage1

3 жыл бұрын

Now that it's 2021, It's 1984! Lol 😉

@Del-Canada

3 жыл бұрын

@@vancouverthaimassage1 I'm on my way out so I won't have to watch the planet plummet into total 1984, thankfully.

@vancouverthaimassage1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Del-Canada what do you mean by "way out"?

This is the first R rated movie I got in to see.

@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists

6 жыл бұрын

I gave you two thumbs up... one for your comment and a bigger one for your screen name!

@PumaPete

3 жыл бұрын

I was 13 years old. When Kendo said "whata isa fucka isa chinesea downhill" i pissed my pants Laughing. Classic movie ill never forget.

Best ski movie /miss the 80s , got shit faced on peppermint schnapps during the movie 😂

Wow! It deserved every Academy Award it received!

@terryblessing6388

6 ай бұрын

lofl

"Winner takes all: 2300 bucks!" So there were 57.5 skiers in the race lol

@rocketman7156

3 жыл бұрын

46 dumbass!

@rickroll9086

3 жыл бұрын

@@rocketman7156 I know it’s a deep movie with lots of dialogue, but try and keep up. It’s $40 each. Preferably in wadded $1 bills.

I copied this on a videotape back in the 80s. Recently, I sought the old tape from the closet and put it in a VHS video player that was not used for over ten years. It still worked like a dream and as currently 55 yo I still found that flick quite amusing. Now my daughter knows the Chinese Downhill as well. And she also knows what kind of drinks she should avoid.

a classic flick we incorporated it into our skiing, usually the last run creative chaos indeed

HOTDOG!!! best ski movie ever! so many muff shots

Rudy Garmisch....what a legend...Squirrel was the man.

I forgot how much I loved this movie!!! Lets not forget, not on this side, not on that side but right in the middle!! Now I must watch this in full

This was one of my favorite movies in the 80s when I was in my 20s so so funny Hotdog The Movie

My friends and I would drive up from the Bay Area and attempt to replicate this run several times at Squaw in the 80's. From Head wall, down Mt. Run to Search Light, going balls out and on freaking 210's! Too bad Shannon Tweed was never at the bottom to greet us though.... 😁

@keirfarnum6811

Жыл бұрын

Funny how there are never hot ski bunnies like in the movies. Just some crusty old pro patroller waiting to throw you off the mountain. 😂

@papamarban2185

Жыл бұрын

So funny how having longer skis made everyone think you were a pro. hahaha. So crazy....skis have come a long way.

Love the music classic skiing movie

One of the lost Favs of high school. Good,fun movie.

That was amazing! He hit those 2x6's so hard they turned into 1/16 press board!

Dang they must have had so much fun doing these scenes

definitely shannon tweed's best role

Best skiing movie ever! A classic!

How I remember seeing this movie in 1984 at the theatre! Those were great times!

@IIISentorIII

3 жыл бұрын

me too i was 1 year old, aw those were the times bro

@JohnS-er7jh

Жыл бұрын

@@IIISentorIII LOL

Met John Bossi, a freestyle skier from the 70s and 80s,and an extra in this movie. He is still skiing 100 days a season at 75 and is surfing as well! Go Bossi, you rock!

Awesome movie! I remember the day it came out.

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

Ski school ruled ! Cool to watch this again thanks for the flashback

@lupowins

3 жыл бұрын

Ski School was great, but this is from Hot Dog.

I love these senseless fun loving ski movies!

@frankloewen9318

2 жыл бұрын

Know any more similar movies?

@sidvicous613

4 ай бұрын

Ski skool

this should be an Olympic event eh

@AndrewSmith-vr8kd

4 жыл бұрын

It is, it's called skier-cross.

Great duel between 2 awesome skiers of Harkin and Rudy. Harkin wins by about a foot.

LOVE IT!!!! Thanks for posting this up!!!

Love this movie one of my favorite 80's comedy a d the ski scenes are sick

Rudy: "You people... stay out of our way! You may ski on zat side or on zat side, but stay out of zee meedle!" Dan O'Callahan: "Hey, Rudy, you can kiss my ass. Not on zis side and not on zat side, but right in zee meedle!"

This film is pure 1980's

Loved this since i was a kid.. hungry like the wolf is still in my top 20

In about 1968 a group of “Canadian Crazies” wanderers landed in Squaw Valley, USA. As we sat sunning ourselves between the Chamois and “The Pub”; a “Ski Patrolmen’s Bar”, they mentioned that on Saint Patrick’s Day they would hold what was called an “ ☘️ Irish Downhill “; it is basically what you see pictured here ( only it takes 2 minutes and it’s very dangerous). Norm Simmons, a Pro Patrolmen at Squaw, describes the history of the event on line; it’s not hard to find. I was a young man at the time, just old enough to drink. I had been skiing for about three years at the time and was getting pretty good. Good enough to get on the AFRC Ski Patrol in Garmich in 1973; that’s a different story. Bev Johnson had lent me a pair of 215cm. “K2 Ladies Downhill Skis”. I had been practicing the “mountain run” for a week and had the thing “nutted-up”. The “Men’s Downhill” at Squaw was no longer an FIS Run. The section up in “Siberia Bowl” and “The Waterfall” ( below the Headwall) we’re still what you might call “world class”, but most Europeans would laugh at you if you tried to make a case. In those days I was pretty gullible and Norm got me a “good one”. He approached me with a pair of skies that I recollect to be 225cm Fisher Alu ( they had 3 groves in their bases). They were “jumping skis”. He told me that “I didn’t need those “girls skis” that these whole do the trick. If Norm was any kind of man, he might have told this whole story, to the Tahoe Tribune. He eluded to someone who got into a terrible “wipeout” in the Bowl and that was me. The skis were totally uncontrollable. I almost kill another Ski Patrolmen. Anyway, I was in Europe when someone finally did get killed (they were a spectator). It was in 1973 or ‘74. They never held it again. Not until they filmed this bit of trash for the movie. l’ll tell you this: The Irish Downhill deserves a setting like “The Kandahar” or “St. Moritz” or even “Kittsbuelle”. Norm Simmons: May he Rest In Peace. I heard he feel off a lift tower. I tell you something: I’m 73 years old now, it seems people who pulled those kind of stunts on me got what was coming to them.

@stiggmint6226

2 жыл бұрын

Great story!

@caruchan2367

Жыл бұрын

Best story ever!

@keirfarnum6811

Жыл бұрын

Giving you a pair of jumping skis to run a “downhill” does seem a bit insane. Did they even have edges? I would have stuck with the 215s myself.

@dereks7061

Жыл бұрын

The fact that I am not on a barstool at some old school ski resort listening to this story bums me out… because that’s a helluva story old timer! Much respect my man, I hope you are well and healthy - and still searching for adventure 🙌☘️

Ah. I remember when I was a kid and visited my sister I used to watch this on VHS. I was like, ski ballet looks interesting, then I saw Chinese Downhill, and my life took a different turn...

Hot Dog!!!!! My inspiration!!!

You ski the chinese downhill and you're gonna have a bad time

The movie that defines what living was back then

The action scenes are shot surprisingly good. I get the illusion of speed going downhill.

I remember renting this on VHS mid 80's. Great flick!

@corneliusevazan1284

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't live it unless you watched it repeatedly on late night HBO while your parents were sleeping

Real nice of this Rudy guy to put his trophy up for grabs after he already won it, seems like a pretty swell guy

@peterenis8447

Жыл бұрын

If you ask me, it was the only way

How did this movie not win an Oscar?

@soylentteal

3 жыл бұрын

Or at least a Rudy.

@Manic_Drone_Idiom

2 жыл бұрын

No werewolf action

Maybe the greatest film ever created.

@finnmcginn9931

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

Chinese Downhill: it is zee only way

Loved him Crashing thru the building and kept on skiing :-)

Ski Patrol another classic ski movie

Skiing Squaw in the 80s was the good life!

This movie and Copper Mountain with Jim Carrey were epic!

We had a few of these at Vail back then. They were on the hush hush though. You would get in big trouble if caught. Ski Patrol always had a way of knowing what was going on.

I’ll be at Palisades Tahoe next which is the resort this was filled at. Used to be called Squaw Valley. I’ll be asking people which one is the Chinese Downhill”.

Ah the memories this movie brings back. Got to love them 80's B movies, at least I did. FYI, its called Hotdog the Movie

Yes. The good old Chinese Downhill at Squaw. Those were the days, the mid '70's to late 80's.

The ONLY part of ANY ski movie you ever NEED to watch...

😳My life will never be the same, having seen this. In what way the experience shall manifest itself is unknown at this time. But, I know I am changed.😳

Will this legendary piece of cinema receive a 4K restoration for its 40th anniversary this year?

HOLY CRAP, and it looks like real stuntmen actually did this stuff, too.

@RacerXGTO

2 жыл бұрын

They did. Skiing stunts for the 80's go like this; 1-For Your Eyes Only(James Bond) 2- Hot Dog (this movie) 3- Better Off Dead (John Cusack when he wasn't pissed off at everyone)

@eagledove9

2 жыл бұрын

​@@RacerXGTO I remember watching For Your Eyes Only, but I don't remember anything about it. Now that you mention it, yes, there was some skiing in that movie. I'll see what's on youtube. I never saw Better Off Dead, but I'm curious to look it up. I liked John Cusack.

@RacerXGTO

2 жыл бұрын

@@eagledove9 In all 3 of those movies, you're going to see some similar skiing style and even scenes performed. To the point that you may even say to yourself, 'hey, they copied that!'

Used to have all night VHS sessions, Hot Dog, Better of Dead, Soul Man. Good memories !

@daleburton1788

3 жыл бұрын

Are family had this on BETA.

I remember this T&A movie. It’s been a while. Lol.

Love this movie.

they're actually adding this to the olympics

There still hasn't been a stronger third act in any ski movie since this scene in Hot Dog! 🌭

I wanted to be an extra in the movie so badly when I was a kid - hope they do a remake, lol.

@geraldmcdevitt3996

4 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a sequel!

This is it!! Anyone that skies should watch and learn lol.

GREAT FRIGGIN MOVIE !!!

That mountain is freakin' huge! They must have skied like 5000m vertical!

@acedaytona1884

Жыл бұрын

Ya I love how they go back and forth from the alpine to the trees and back to the alpine..... haha

The 80's seem a lot more cooler now then when I was 10.

Saw it in the theatre with all my ski buddies and yep, like idiots, we forever did Chinese downhill at some point during our ski day

OMG great movie love it

Love the Japanese dude!!!!!!!

my uncle is the main character of this movie

@cycleoflife7331

3 жыл бұрын

How’s he doing. Still having fun on skis I hope!

I would watch this movie evertime i would go skiing. and have a fishing vest with mini bottles

@normedwards5305

3 жыл бұрын

My buddy and I did too.

Rudy: "I had Sonny side up, I had sonny side down, I had sonny, all around....." Everyone in the theater hated him for that line alone. Pure gold.

@GTAGGARTIST

Жыл бұрын

"und sonny side all ze vay around". I lived in Truckee when the movie was made and friends were in crowd scenes. Great fun then.

@treborheminway3814

Жыл бұрын

@@GTAGGARTIST I went to school at UCSD, and we would drive up and sleep in a Honda CVCC to ski at Squaw on weekends. Total classic and kudos to perfect written impression. 👍💯

@neilschroeder7854

Жыл бұрын

“Hey Rudy. You can kiss my ass. Not on zis side, and not on zat side, but right in ze middle.”

Cinematic gold.

Sick, gotta love the 80's. At least they knew how to make fun movies. Had more fun watching these 10 minutes than I do watching the shit that comes in theaters these days.

All future global conflicts must be solved by Chinese Downhill.