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Montgomery Wick

06/05/2012 at 03:51

Missing the point, surely - VL is so bad that it achieves greatness - and it is funny (sometimes even intentionally), unlike Cliffhanger, K2 and others, which were just dull.

The film 'Descent' beats even VL's backpack bombs for inexplicably contrived plot point - I never was sure why they felt the need to take ice axes on a caving trip.

Edited: 06/05/2012 at 03:57

Spiritburner

06/05/2012 at 09:20

& after falling to his death, the worlds best climber Montgemery Wick is reincarnated on OM!

Spiritburner

06/05/2012 at 09:20

OM playing up - duplicate deleted

Edited: 06/05/2012 at 09:21

Moonlight Shadow

06/05/2012 at 21:54

Try "Subzero" for seriously made for TV cheesy stuff with climbing scenes...

Mal Mawr

07/05/2012 at 01:04

I've never seen a good climbing film yet, if we are considering entertainment value.

Oh, I forgot, The Eiger Sanction.

Montgomery Wick

07/05/2012 at 01:04

There's an odd little film by Werner Herzog called 'Scream of Stone' that, while certainly flawed, was a cut above the average 'outdoors' movie. You can probably get it on DVD for a few quid. Did you see that one from last year, 'A Lonely Place to Die', set in the Highlands? Risible.

Spiritburner

07/05/2012 at 07:56

I enjoyed Touching the Void. Nordwand wasn't bad especially if you allow that it was based on a true story rather than being totally accurate.

Formosa man

07/05/2012 at 09:51

I enjoyed Nordwand too. I'm not a climber so don't know how accurate anything was, maybe that allows more enjoyment?

JustinM

07/05/2012 at 10:07

Cliffhanger is great for the terrible continuity. Anyone who has been to the Dolomites will recognise the mountains that they are running around on.
In one of Stallone's fight scenes Tofane di Rozes is behind them then 2 seconds later it is Pelmo or Civetta which is 20 miles away. Dire.

Parky Again

07/05/2012 at 11:44

(a very sharp intake of breath)
These documentaries are not real?

Please don't tell me a manchester street populated by cuddly, cosy characters isn't real!

By grabthar's hammer i shall have to write to my MP. Is he real?

(what!? No i don't know either)

Metric Kate

07/05/2012 at 19:16

Montgomery Wick wrote (see)

Did you see that one from last year, 'A Lonely Place to Die', set in the Highlands? Risible.

That's being nice about it, Monty. I couldn't work it out, perhaps the director couldn't either. At one point I thought it was going to be a Wicker Man knock-off. The plot (if one can call it that) really pissed me off.

Spiritburner

07/05/2012 at 19:31

I enjoyed Cliffhanger enough as entertainment - good to see Janine Turner outside of Northern Exposure, a prog I am a big fan off.

Peter Clinch

08/05/2012 at 09:44

The film 'Descent' beats even VL's backpack bombs for inexplicably contrived plot point - I never was sure why they felt the need to take ice axes on a caving trip.

Don't know, but maybe the extra heft of the axes helps explain the weight saving measures of cutting their wetsuits down innaa slightly more revealing stylee? No?

Nick P 10

08/05/2012 at 11:09

Eiger Sanction was actually a good movie (can't remember much of the climbing as I wasn't into climbing then).

K2 takes the cake for me! Good cheesy 80 movie, and its worht watching just for the fluorescent pink crampons and other funky coloured gear!

Kelvin

08/05/2012 at 11:24

Watched some made for tv movie the other week about a rescue on K2 - there was a tree a few hundred metres short of the summit. Ha.

Andinista

08/05/2012 at 11:24

K2 is really awful.

But Ed Vistuers' cameo in VL is cringeworthy.

Both are better than Frozen though.

North Face is a genuinely good movie though.

Scott

08/05/2012 at 12:27

Some of you lot are just weird. Cliffhanger is a fantastic film - by definition really, because Sylvester Stallone's in it. It's also got one of the best baddies ever:

"Qualen: Do you know what real love is, Kristel?
Kristel: No.
Qualen: [whispers in her ear] Sacrifice. [shoots her]"

The only downside, obviously, is when Pa Walton gets killed.

"It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw."

Montgomery Wick

14/06/2012 at 02:27

I watched Nordwand last night. Hadn't seen it before, thought it was very good.

Cliffhanger is a fantastic film - by definition really, because Sylvester Stallone's in it.

Stop or My Mum Will Shoot.

Big Kev

14/06/2012 at 08:06

Montgomery Wick wrote (see)

I watched Nordwand last night. Hadn't seen it before, thought it was very good. Cliffhanger is a fantastic film - by definition really, because Sylvester Stallone's in it. Stop or My Mum Will Shoot.

Cop Land. Great fillum

Nordwand (IIRC) made my Mrs cry

Trouble no one about their religion;

respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

~Chief Tecumseh~

Montgomery Wick

20/06/2012 at 05:20

I tried watching Cliffhanger again this morning, but I just couldn't get past the opening scene; Sly freeclimbing solo (with a rack of Friends just to weigh him down and make it more interesting), harnesses spontaneously undoing all their buckles in non-shockload conditions - nooooooo!

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