Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:59 am
Damn I need to find K2 on DVD.
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Chewbacca wrote:"E'Lollipop" - a kids movie from South Africa. It's filmed in Lesotho (Drakensberg range). Not a climbing movie, more an outdoors movie taking place in the mountains of my childhood. I guess it contributed to my interest in travelling to "mystical" mountain ranges far off the tourist track and also interacting on equal terms with the locals. Haven't seen it since I was 8-9 years old.
Cy Kaicener wrote:The one I enjoyed the most was THE MOUNTAIN with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner
SpiderSavage wrote:My fav: The Eiger Sanction, Clint Eastwood, 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/
When I was a kid I was impressed by the climbing scene in James Bond: For Your Eyes Only. For years I thought prussicking should be done with shoe-lace sized cords.
HandjamMasterC wrote:The Mountain is a real classic. No producer has been able to match quality of the story line or technical accuracy of The Mountain.
You are kidding, right? I love the scene where Spencer Tracy pulls Robert Wagner right up to him while Wagner is hanging on a rope. The only thing more " technically accurate " is Andre The Giant pulling himself and 3 other people straight up on a rope ( in Princess Bride )!!
HandjamMasterC wrote:The Mountain is a real classic. No producer has been able to match quality of the story line or technical accuracy of The Mountain.
You are kidding, right? I love the scene where Spencer Tracy pulls Robert Wagner right up to him while Wagner is hanging on a rope. The only thing more " technically accurate " is Andre The Giant pulling himself and 3 other people straight up on a rope ( in Princess Bride )!!
Vizzini: He didn't fall!? Inconceivable!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
neoday wrote:if you haven't seen Higher Ambitions yet- you need to. No Hollywood antics but a great story and almost all climbing. One of my top if not top favorite movies.
mvs wrote:There were no explosions or jumps across cliffs with ice tools. The accident scene was pretty realistic and believable.
K2 is actually a darn good movie, and I don't like seeing it lumped in with "Vertical Limit," a truly horrible film. Yes, it has a 1980s "cheese" factor, but the Eiger Sanction has a similar dollop of 1970s cheese.
jspeigl wrote:A while back there was this thread about a German movie Nordwand. Has anybody seen it yet in the US?