Everest. Starring Josh Brolin as the unfortunate Beck Wethers and Jake Gyllenhaal as one of the climbing guides. Sticks as close as possible to the grim story of the disastrous spring 1996 season on the mountain and all credit to the cinematographers who've recreated the climbing scenes so well. A well earned 6/10 in the best possible sense of the rating.
What film did you watch last night?
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midlife
Guru
midlife
Guru
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
In the begining
hondated
Guru
- Location
- Eastbourne East Sussex
I watched The Program on Showbox last night which I had previously read was rubbish, so I must like rubbish then as I really enjoyed it.
I,m not one of those that condemn LA for taking drugs as it was clearly going on in many of the teams but what I do condemn in for is his bullying attitude and for stealing others dreams and this film is certainly not propaganda for him.
I,m not one of those that condemn LA for taking drugs as it was clearly going on in many of the teams but what I do condemn in for is his bullying attitude and for stealing others dreams and this film is certainly not propaganda for him.
Mark1978
Veteran
- Location
- Shouldham, West Norfolk
Beyond The Edge
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2468638/
The story of Ed Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay's successful summit of Everest. Sort of a filmumentary thing, a mixture of film of current climbers doing the ascent and footage from '53, was really interesting, but i into that kind of thing.
Meru
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Another climbing film, better than Beyond The Edge an well worth a watch. Seeing them hanging off the side of that mountain in a bit of canvas was scary as hell.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2468638/
The story of Ed Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay's successful summit of Everest. Sort of a filmumentary thing, a mixture of film of current climbers doing the ascent and footage from '53, was really interesting, but i into that kind of thing.
Meru
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Another climbing film, better than Beyond The Edge an well worth a watch. Seeing them hanging off the side of that mountain in a bit of canvas was scary as hell.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I watched chappie. It was a variation of district 9, only instead of aliens, it was robots. Even made in south Africa. If you have watched the one then there is no need to watch the other. 6/10
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
That's because it was also a Neil Blomkamp film, and he was born in South Africa!
I'd say it was more of a variant of a mash-up of Robocop, Short Circuit & Oliver Twist myself. (District 9 itself was a blunt apartheid analogy).
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Beasts of no nation. A bit meh really. Got bored and wandered off to do something before the end. No way is it Oscar material.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
with a good chunk of The Quatermas Xperiment thrown in.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
The Next Picture Show (a podcast from the former cast of "The Dissolve", which looks at a current film, and an older film that's either thematically linked, or inspirational to the newer) covered the Revenant and Aguirre: Wrath of God in episodes 7 & 8 (http://thenextpictureshow.tumblr.com/).
They had some interesting things to say about both, iirc, but particularly about The Revenant and (again, iirc) a seeming love of a particular type of suffering in the film.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Yebbut...Gary Cooper!
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
Thanks for that! I'll have a listen tonight.
