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saltamonte
Jan 3, 2006, 2:22 PM
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i have always been partial to how the Lead character is such a jerk to the millionaire and insulting them about the summit plan before anything has even gone wrong. Of course later in the script when the weather goes unexpectedly bad and the millionaire turns out to be a murderer I guess we are to assume that he is not a jerk but a cool guy in a psychic way.
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clayman
Jan 3, 2006, 3:37 PM
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Here four people are dangling on the rope, Chris O'Donnell's character, Peter, holds his unconscious sister, Annie, by one hand (and they both survive! Yeah!).
http://www.imdb.com/...ery&path_key=0190865
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md3
Jan 3, 2006, 3:51 PM
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As mentioned above, the shot with the old guy thumping the ground is hilarious. It’s a fixed shot of the bottom of the rock and then wham!! – he falls into the frame and smack horizontal onto the ground like a bag of concrete mix and then there is a little silence and a some shot of birds wheeling around in the sky. It’s the funniest thing I have ever seen in any movie. Few things make me laugh out loud, but this really got me going. I didn’t understand why no one else was laughing.
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reg
Jan 3, 2006, 3:52 PM
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whoa: read overlords entry. that (shoulder dislocate) was my first though when you said you were going to try it.
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dynosore
Jan 3, 2006, 4:04 PM
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They fall into the crevice, and poke the bag o' guts out through a hole, but to get out requires removal by the use of nitro. Makes sense. Also, the fact that every single anchor built in the movie fails. Ice axes pull out straight up with a side load, the dad is clipped into bolts but is pulled off the wall, etc. Oh, and of course the cams at the beginning that held all 5 climbers *falling* onto them slowly pull out under body weight, even after the 2 unidentified climbers fall and reduce the weight on the anchor. My wife just rolled her eyes as I laughed hysterically.
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plund
Jan 3, 2006, 4:10 PM
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Funniest part...hhmmm...how about Ed Viesturs' spectacularly wooden performance.....my theory is he did it that way on purpose so no one could accuse him of taking anything in the movie seriously...
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jabtocrag
Jan 3, 2006, 4:19 PM
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In reply to: "Vertical Limit" is to climbers what "Independence Day" is to fighter pilots.
I'm sure Hollywood gives a shit that their films have no place in reality!! :wink:
Vertical Limit:
Production Budget $75,000,000
Worldwide Gross $213,500,000
Independence Day:
Production Budget $75,000,000
Worldwide Gross $816,969,255
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northerndrawl
Jan 3, 2006, 4:59 PM
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Don't mind at all the double ice axe leap. Looks so cool. It's the kind of thing we all wish we could do. Has actually become a bit of an iconic shot, the odds are good the Simpson's will soon parody it.
What drives me bonkers is that every time someone puts on a pack they toss it on their back like it's full of bubble wrap. And then walk around without the belt done up. Grrr.
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keith_b00ne
Jan 3, 2006, 5:35 PM
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I love the performance gear.
COTTON knit hats and lanterns as big as their backpacks
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keith_b00ne
Jan 3, 2006, 5:38 PM
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Oh..... something else....
How about those 2 way radio's that won't work in a line of sight, but can still talk to his sister when she is sitting in the bottom of a glacier.
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acacongua
Jan 3, 2006, 5:44 PM
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how about the scene where they open a van to see the hot woman smoking a cig with the nitro next to her?
what i love is when they get these hard core characters played by women who are under nourished and don't have a muscle anywhere (e.g. angelina in tombraider).
nonetheless, the scenery of the K2 or rather, the mountains in New Zealand where it was filmed was killer.
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shakylegs
Jan 3, 2006, 5:53 PM
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I was flying to Red Rocks from New Jersey back in 2002, just a few months after 9/11. I had my rack in my carry-on, and naturally got stopped and searched by security. I was being questioned about all the gear, until I finally said, "Have you seen Vertical Limit? Where the woman jumps sideways and puts a piece of metal into the wall? You have? Good, that's what this is." This, ahem, rotund security woman looks at me and in pure New Jersey-ese, cries, "Youse crazy!"
Still had to check my gear, unfortunately.
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edge
Jan 3, 2006, 6:02 PM
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Yeah, I was similarly accosted in 1985 by a butch/Dutch woman with a semi-automatic sub-machine gun after an x-ray tard spotted a rack of ice screws in my carry on bag.
I knew the metal gear would put my checked bag over the limit; I just never realized how much a Chouinard screw looked like a gun barrell and trigger. There is no ice to speak of in the Netherlands, and no Dutch to speak of ice in English, so I had a few tense moments with my arms northbound, thanking my antiperspirant.
I had a good laugh afterwards, and a quick healing M-16 barrel and sight mark to boot.
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dynosore
Jan 3, 2006, 6:07 PM
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I like how the radiator fluid errr nitro bubbles on the floor and is a thin liquid despite freezing temps. Also, the nitro spontaneously explodes in freezing temps. Per Merck index, nitro has a self ignition temp of 218ºC aka 424ºF. Musta been hotter than it looked on that glacier.
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shakylegs
Jan 3, 2006, 6:10 PM
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In reply to: Yeah, I was similarly accosted in 1985 by a butch/Dutch woman with a semi-automatic sub-machine gun after an x-ray tard spotted a rack of ice screws in my carry on bag.
Was Cliffhanger out in '85? You could have referenced that.
And where was the mark of the M-16?
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clmbr121
Jan 3, 2006, 6:17 PM
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All of the above moments were terrific, but my favorite recurring gag is that everytime someone clips a carbiner to something, it sounds like someone unsheathing a sword.
Man, no wonder I'm so tired all of the time...I gotta stop using steel biners!
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edge
Jan 3, 2006, 6:23 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Yeah, I was similarly accosted in 1985 by a butch/Dutch woman with a semi-automatic sub-machine gun after an x-ray tard spotted a rack of ice screws in my carry on bag. Was Cliffhanger out in '85? You could have referenced that.
Cliffhanger might have been out, I am not sure.
Actually, it must have been, because I left a friends party on November 16th of that year, in a blinding snowstorm, and after I had cut up a dufuss picture of him and paisted his head on a cheesy advertisement that had Stallone's body in that classic one armed lock-off on an overhang.
I remember the date specifically, 11/16/85, because I left my friends party to attend another party 60 miles away where I had been set up for a blind date.
That was my wife's birthday, the very day we met for the first time, and I have now celebrated 20+ years together with her.
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shakylegs
Jan 3, 2006, 6:29 PM
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In reply to: I remember the date specifically, 11/16/85, because I left my friends party to attend another party 60 miles away where I had been set up for a blind date. That was my wife's birthday, the very day we met for the first time, and I have now celebrated 20+ years together with her.
Jeez, dude, I'm at work. You've gotten me all misty eyed.
Warn me next time.
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edge
Jan 3, 2006, 6:38 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I remember the date specifically, 11/16/85, because I left my friends party to attend another party 60 miles away where I had been set up for a blind date. That was my wife's birthday, the very day we met for the first time, and I have now celebrated 20+ years together with her. Jeez, dude, I'm at work. You've gotten me all misty eyed. Warn me next time.
OK, I think I first talked to you on line in mid-summer of 2003.
2023 will be our 20 year anniversary; write it down now. http://www.norope.com/...l/emoticons/kiss.gif
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turfguy
Jan 3, 2006, 7:20 PM
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i too enjoyed the dynamic cam placement. but i also enjoyed the realistic clothing they were wearing.
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Jan 3, 2006, 7:35 PM
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106582/
cliffhanger came out in 93 according to this.
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edge
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In reply to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106582/ cliffhanger came out in 93 according to this.
Well, I know the date I met my wife and returned from the alps; I guess I got confused as to when I posted my friends head on the Cliffhanger promo pic.
Still, it was at one of his yearly parties that I vamoosed to find my eventual sweetie.
I guess it is a good thing I didn't marry Stallone, huh?
I also had my batchelor party there. Everyone was trying to make me do unspeakable things, until I slid my spectacles into my pocket and yelled, in a drunken slur, "my glasses, I lost my glasses!"
Everyone stopped and began tip toeing, while I slid out the back door and climbed a Bachar ladder up a large maple tree with a couple of beers stashed in my back pockets. They eventually emerged to look for the "man of honor" but I was hidden in a crook of the tree, and it was dark.
After about an hour I fell asleep and rolled out, decking from about 15 feet. Good times, good times.
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raymondjeffrey
Jan 3, 2006, 8:59 PM
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Keith Boone has the best photo of "The Jump". Chris O'Donnell looks so funny; I am still giggling at how he dramatically backed up, put on his helmut, and with all the determination that Hollywood could muster: ran and leaped approximately 57 feet across a death defying chasm.
God the sheer goofiness of that entire movie is sure to make it a classic.
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jason_martin
Jan 4, 2006, 2:57 AM
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Every time Chris O'Donnell looks at his sister it looks like he's trying to seduce her...
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