mtndonkey wrote:I came away with the same impression as Buz. I don't know Aaron personally and think he did an incredible job at surviving and rescuing himself from an accident, however the picture painted of him throughout the entire book was of someone with reckless tendencies waiting for an accident to happen. The accident when he got his arm stuck was just dumb luck compounded by people not knowing where he was. It doesn't seem like the accident was caused by him being reckless, but it seemed inevitable something would happen to him over his lifetime based on his pattern of decision making.

Dow Williams wrote:I always find it fascinating, almost surreal in a way, when the talking heads of SP bring about someone you know personally, bash or praise them about in forums as though they have any clue what they are talking about.

mtndonkey wrote:The accident when he got his arm stuck was just dumb luck compounded by people not knowing where he was.

1000Pks wrote:Well, lookee here:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/127hours/

Fletch wrote:his acting was absolutely incredible. Well done. Cinematography was good. Three stars from me.

Fletch wrote:I can't stand Franco (I think he is an ass)

drtbg wrote:Ralston was/is a self centered, egotistical, careless and yes even reckless, douche bag with more luck than a cat. I've read his book (or all of it that I could stomach). It bored me to death and I found it to be even more self aggrandizing than most adventure literature and much more poorly written. Good on him for chopping his arm off with a rusty leatherman. I once had a dog that chewed it's foot off just above the ankle because it got caught in a poachers trap. We just had the rest of the leg amputated rather than having her fitted with and ice axe since she was never much of a climber anyway and the rest of the bum leg just slowed her down. Lets all get on the bandwagon and show a little misplaced hero worship for someone who had the same stoic resolve as my dog, and just enough brains to capitalize on their completely avoidable epic by shoveling this shit down the general public's throat and calling it adventure. It's not adventure it's stupidity.

Couldn't agree with Dingus more. When I saw the ice axe arm I just about puked. What a douche bag. Story would have been much more interesting had he gone the way of McCandless http://f-ckingc-nts.com/people/10-true- ... ccandless/ or Treadwell http://www.katmaibears.com/timothytreadwell.htm

drtbg wrote:All I do is sit at home and eat oreo's and spray on teh interwebs?

Tonka wrote:He was there, doing it, out, active, exercising and you are calling him out. Post a pick of yourself cutting off a limb and I'll give you some respect.