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far_east_climber
May 15, 2004, 3:03 PM
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Was watching a film with eddie murphy and owen wilson in and noticed they had a strange ascender/descender... it was a sort of tiny mechanical winch with a lever you squeeze and you fly up or down and you can shoot an anchor from it like a gun... one anchor point... so much for redundency. Also they were rapping off in a scene and appeared to have a magical technique of descending with nothing but pushing the rope away from them and flying down. Anybody seen other climbing devices/techniques in movies?
Ahh yes, i remember another one... some guy jumping off a building and slamming strange camming device into a railing and flying away. Also seeing some idiot slam one single angle into a loose flake in The Climb (HBO trash) and running/flying off the top of a pinaccle to rescue a stranded climber under a small overhang.
What about Batman? I know he's had a couple descending devices. I seem to remember a figure of 8 rappel device being sold with the 12.5" Batman figurine - 1989 Edition - Season 2 - Episode 4C where he battles Joker and Poison Ivy in the underground warehouse owned by the Penguin Man
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badass
May 15, 2004, 3:12 PM
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Try out the movie Bushwacked. Daniel Stern aids and pendelums all without a belayer. Ever heard of the bolt gun used in cliffhanger. Neither has anyone else. Let me know if you ever see one of those it would come in handy. How about the scene in Cliffhanger when they are placing bolts on free solo with about 30 pounds worth of gear strapped to them on an overhang! It is always nice to free solo a mixed climb with no tools and just a tee-shirt. If you want to see some pretty good oddball climbing scenes try out For Your Eyes Only (a james bond movie), The Air Up Their, and Whitewater Summer.
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chossmonkey
May 16, 2004, 10:56 PM
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One of my favorites is the "bolt gun" in Cliff Hanger. Soloing with piles of gear, in the same movie, is a close second.
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mrtristan
May 17, 2004, 1:10 AM
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some james bond movie with roger moore... he plugs a cam into a hole in the rock and like bungees off of it or something. i think it was filmed in meteora, greece.
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Jul 21, 2004, 5:27 AM
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In reply to: some james bond movie with roger moore... he plugs a cam into a hole in the rock and like bungees off of it or something. i think it was filmed in meteora, greece.
Yeah, it was "For Your Eyes Only" and you must not forget the best piton placement EVER..... in a guys chest... oh yeah and the infamous shoe lace prussiks.
I just saw "The Mountain", 1956 climbing movie and it was both hilarious and had some cool "old school" stuff. For anyone that has seen it... if I had that wimpy little complaining s.o.b. Robert Wagner as a belayer I personally would have thrown him off the mountain. To see Spencer Tracy aid up an inverted frozen face was spectacular. You have to love hip belays, silk rope, and pitons baby!!!!!!
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wanderinfree
Jul 21, 2004, 11:54 AM
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My favorite is still Tom Cruise's move in MI2 in the opening scenes. The whole 'reverse' iron cross. Cause I'm sure when you soloing, sketched out and pumped, this move MUST give you a needed break.
--K
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overlord
Jul 21, 2004, 12:11 PM
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In reply to: My favorite is still Tom Cruise's move in MI2 in the opening scenes. The whole 'reverse' iron cross. Cause I'm sure when you soloing, sketched out and pumped, this move MUST give you a needed break. --K
what, you mean the famous free falling no hands rest???
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mackavus
Jul 21, 2004, 12:56 PM
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In "Entrapment" the scene in the very beginning where Zeta-Jones is stealing the painting, she uses a really nifty decending device. Its almost like an auto belay unit or something. Id love to know where I can get one of those.
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nostalgia
Jul 21, 2004, 1:40 PM
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To go the other way around, I was watching "Good Eats" on the Food Network. The cook, Alton Brown, was talking about how to get into an oyster, so they had a whole bank robbing theme going on. Alton rappels in on a figure 8! And he was actually rappelling, not being lowered. I was impressed :)
-Joe
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far_east_climber
Jul 21, 2004, 2:18 PM
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I forget the name of the movie, it's with sylvester stallone helping people in a collapsed car tunnel. Watched it recently and there was a character in the movie who was a climber... he gets out of his car, saying to all the survivors 'I have a way out'... he is strapped up with all this gear (including big BD cams), crawls through the hole and gets to this vertical shaft where he proceeds to somehow set a rope up very high in the centre of the shaft... he has one aider and is still laden down with his big cams using 1 ascender... when stallone comes in and says 'hey what do you think you are doing? this tunnel will collapse'.. and the climber looks ups at his task and replies 'I've seen worse...'.. steps up to place a cam into a cement wall, steps back down to rest.... then theatrically jiggles and fumbles about with his ascender... touches gear... looks up... ascends... goes 'oh shit' as the broken material above falls through the shaft... he goes onto rappell, reaches the bottom and cannot escape his rappel... dead.
Also, watch 'The Climb' made by HBO... it's more realistic yet still far fetched.
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keinangst
Jul 21, 2004, 2:28 PM
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In reply to: In "Entrapment" the scene in the very beginning where Zeta-Jones is stealing the painting, she uses a really nifty decending device. Id love to know where I can get one of those.
I, too, would like a Catherine Zeta Jones.
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mackavus
Jul 21, 2004, 2:42 PM
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That Stallone flick is "Daylight" I think.
In reply to: I, too, would like a Catherine Zeta Jones.
Superb. Totally superb. 8^)
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Jul 21, 2004, 2:54 PM
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What about Vertical limit?? If I'm ever trapped in a cravasse, DO NOT come to my rescue with four vials of nitro glycerin!! WTF? I guess they needed to get their explosions in there somehow. Not to mention the scene where the guy jumps like 300 linear feet to a cliff and slams in his ice axes on impact. That guy is my hero.
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web_slave
Jul 21, 2004, 3:34 PM
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In reply to: What about Vertical limit?? If I'm ever trapped in a cravasse, DO NOT come to my rescue with four vials of nitro glycerin!! WTF? I guess they needed to get their explosions in there somehow. Not to mention the scene where the guy jumps like 300 linear feet to a cliff and slams in his ice axes on impact. That guy is my hero.
What about the opening scene; leader on the party above pitches, he zippers, his partners anchors blow and they fall - and become entangled with the followers from the party on the pitch below. I love how it's all up to the daughter to save everyone by placing 1 cam - wtf? If she got that cam in, was she supposed to grab a bite of rope and clip it in with 4 adult climbers hanging off the end of it? :roll:
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squeakyclimber
Jul 21, 2004, 4:07 PM
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Hands down the best climbing movie ever is the Eiger Sanction.
You get spys and climbing.
And the best quote, goes something like:
-Do you think we will make it?
-No but we shall continue in style.
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climbersoze
Jul 21, 2004, 5:09 PM
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In reply to: Hands down the best climbing movie ever is the Eiger Sanction. You get spys and climbing. And the best quote, goes something like: -Do you think we will make it? -No but we shall continue in style.
Next time I go climbing I am gonna have Clint Eastwood fix lines for me so I can just jug to the top. Oh.. and of course he will be carrying the beer.
I think the best movie climbing tricks/gadgets/goofs I can think of would be...
1) Bolt gun in Cliffhanger (the BEST, hands down)
2) Vetical Limit - two favorites
a) "Robin" not ripping his arms out when he jumped and stuck his axes
b) The helicopter drop off on the side of the mtn.
3) any movie that has a "cat burglar" free falling through an elevator shaft, attached to a cable, and stopping immediately before hitting the bottom - and NOT becoming a unich
4) First Blood - Stallone bailing off the cliff and landing in a pine tree - I gotta try that!!!
5) Tom Cruise's famous iron cross
Jeez, this list could grow more and more - I could be here for days....
I think the only mainstream movie that was truly about climbing that I ever saw that was not complete horse sh*t was K2.
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leaverbiner
Jul 21, 2004, 5:59 PM
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Ocean's 11 had a similar descending device, only this one was even better - nt onlydid they have about a 2 mil. cable, descend at an insane speed and stop just inches from the ground without snapping their spines or losing their tackle . . . the device was magnetic so it could attach without effort to the steel girder above the elevator shaft!
CLASSIC!!!
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gymstud001
Jul 21, 2004, 6:20 PM
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That scene in Ocean's 11 is crazy!
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lv2climb7
Jul 21, 2004, 6:24 PM
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verticalclimb
Jul 21, 2004, 6:38 PM
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Sure because your legs would be so sore. Let your arms take it for a while.lol
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fadeux
Jul 21, 2004, 6:44 PM
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I've always loved the fact that in the opening scence of Vertical Limit Chris O'donell kills his own father as a precautionary measure...
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soccer_fan
Jul 21, 2004, 6:44 PM
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You beat me to the post on the Ocean's 11 device - they didn't so much as gasp when they came to a stop - more than the device I'd like to see a harness like that!
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michhiker
Jul 21, 2004, 7:31 PM
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[quote="skinnyjim"]Vertical Limit is HORSE MANURE. Such an unrealistic climbing movie.. stupid Hollywood people.
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The best is all the clothing was made specially out of cotton for the movie......cause they didn't like the noise all that nylon made...lol!
--MH
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