Vertical Limit Guide to Climbing

by **jordansahls** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:46 pm

Good stuff. seeing that reminds me of just how awful that movie was. Seriously, what a piece of sh*t.

by **climbncookie** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:53 pm

That is AWESOME! Props to the maker

by **RayMondo** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:36 pm

Yup. All hyped-up Holywood designed to get our $s and make them rich. I hated it, especially the villian. Vote -10

by **McCannster** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:59 pm

Last week a large group of that consisted of me and my climbing buddies watched this movie and we made a game where we had to drink every time they did something ridiculous.

"WTF, why is he placing cams on top rope? DRINK!"

"Full on sprint at 22,000 feet with a pack on! DRINK!"

"Here is comes, the jump scene! Get Ready! SHOTGUN!"

We killed a 30 rack. T'was a fun night. :lol:

by **rpc** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:26 pm

Weird thing is that in those first few milliseconds of watching a person above us begin to fall last summer, my mind flashed back to those few frames from vertical limit where the haulbag first goes airborne...remember that distinctly now. The mind can do the strangest things at the strangest moments. One thing for sure, the movie was a piece of shit.

by **John Duffield** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:34 am

That was awesome!!!

by **mconnell** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:29 am

I thought that the 2 English brothers (who were modelled after the Burgess brothers) were a great inspiration!

by **MScholes** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:44 pm

Not to long ago, a friend asked me to borrow my copy of Vertical Limit and the next day was like, "Wow, have you ever had to take 2 axes and jump across to another wall before? That was awesome!"

My response was something along the lines of "Nope, in the movie, I would definetly have been the girl, I let the other guy jump with my Ice axe then I just magically cross the gap while no one watches."

by **psycobill** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:08 pm

"USE YOUR AAAXXE!!!
My 3 favorite parts
1. The dad's wistle that he blows to alert the other two that the 2 guys are falling
2. The loud "sching" noice that the cam makes (sounds like sword sound effects) as it continues to slide down the crack
3. The villian flying into base camp, magically acclimated, plus the route on K2 looking like a relatively flat glacier
Maybe thats four things...

Since watching that movie, I always wear a wistle to alert my partners that the party above us anchors have catastrophicly failed...

by **MoapaPk** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:37 pm

You guys have spoiled "Avatar" for me. Now I'll be watching the movie for unrealistic effects.

by **dan2see** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:20 pm

My wife refuses to look at this stuff.

Maybe that's just as well.

by **bird** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:17 pm

mconnell wrote:I thought that the 2 English brothers (who were modelled after the Burgess brothers) were a great inspiration!

I thought they were modeled after the McKenzie Brothers.

by **MoapaPk** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:03 am

grammys11 wrote:
Cyril Bench: "One hundred thousand sperm and you were the fastest?"

That sounds about 1000 times low.

by **Brad F** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:27 am

Wow, that was awesome. I hope there's a sequel

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