Not the worst climbing movie, the worst movie, ever

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Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 10, 2009 - 01:03am PT
My bro sent me a copy of "Vertical Limit" and said there was some nice scenery in it. After the opening scene we were going to turn it off but decided to check out the scenery shots. Then we were laughing so hard we kept watching to see what lame calamity would happen next. Then my wife said,
"Kind of like some of your climbs?"
"No, dear, I never used nitroglycerine to blow open crevasses, only C4."

There were some stupendous wide shots...

What is weird is that a UH-1 Huey is used extensively in the film and I drove alongside a flatbead truck on the freeway today which had an old one on it. There is a scene where they are swinging from the skids of the Huey and I was actually on a rescue once where I did that although not exactly like in the movie. Kind of a weird coinkidink. But then life is weird.
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
Oct 10, 2009 - 01:08am PT
The only thing missing was Jean Claude Van Damme.
philo

Trad climber
boulder, co.
Oct 10, 2009 - 08:47am PT
A horrible movie that demonstrates how bad Hollywood doesn't get it.

Gobee

Trad climber
Los Angeles
Oct 10, 2009 - 09:03am PT
It wasn't that bad, not realistic for sure! Who can sprint at 8000m? But look at the Huber's 13a at 19000ft?

The worst movie ever is,

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Tom Green

"Horrible isn't strong enough!" from Amazon
AP

Trad climber
Calgary
Oct 10, 2009 - 10:09am PT
I thought the Bench brothers were funny, without them this would have been the worst movie of all time. Definitely one of the worst ever made.
hossjulia

Trad climber
Eastside
Oct 10, 2009 - 11:47am PT
For some reason, the scene in that movie where the guy runs and jumps with his ice tools (yeah right) reminds me of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL2CNCSvUnA


I enjoyed Vertical Limit anyway, not near as bad as that Stallone movie in my book.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Oct 10, 2009 - 12:06pm PT
I enjoyed Vertical Limit anyway, not near as bad as that Stallone movie in my book.

What Julia said! Vertical Limit was bad, no getting around that, but it was bad in a really funny way. There's probably not one minute in it that isn't completely lame in some way, but it is hilarious.

"that Stallone movie" on the other hand, was -- to me at least -- sickeningly sadistic trash. From a climbing perspective, they were pretty much equally bad, but "that Stallone movie" was disgusting, whereas Vertical Limit was so goofy I laughed all the way through.

D
Buju

Trad climber
the range of light
Oct 10, 2009 - 01:19pm PT
"welcome to base camp....THE HIGHEST PARTY ON EARTH!!!!"
Big Piton

Trad climber
Ventura
Oct 10, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
You want a bad climbing movie.

Thin Ice

I like the end with the flying frozen corpse.

MMM
WanderlustMD

Trad climber
New England
Oct 10, 2009 - 02:36pm PT
"A horrible movie that demonstrates how bad Hollywood doesn't get it."

Riddle me this: when it came out, were you really expecting something different.

Hollywood portrayals of anything are almost always way off - because they don't care about accuracy; they care about entertainment.

Guess what? There's nothing wrong with that.

I, for one, enjoyed every second of VL, from the basecamp beer fest to the 100+ foot jump across the...whatever the hell it was...

Was it a good movie? No. Did it make me laugh and entertain my feeble brain for two hours on a rainy day? You betcha.
apogee

climber
Oct 10, 2009 - 04:42pm PT
Dex! Where's the Dex, man! Gotta....have.... the DEX!

VL is one of the very few movies I have ever got up and walked out on, in the middle of the flick and didn't even bother fighting to get my $8 back (or whatever it was way back then).

Gawd that movie sucked.
MisterE

Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
Oct 10, 2009 - 05:47pm PT
Freddie Got Fingered is waayyyy worse than Vertical Limit - Gobee is correct.

mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Oct 10, 2009 - 05:58pm PT
I have to agree with Ghost - Vertical Limit was root beer-through-the-nose funny.
Festus

Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
Oct 10, 2009 - 11:34pm PT
Sorry, but Stallone wins this one hands down.

And I had to suffer through it in two languages, the first time on a bus from Madrid to Grenada. Its Spanish title is a classic!:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GeqBXu0wGrc/R6blnz_jP8I/AAAAAAAAB-s/4d_U3eA80wE/s400/M%C3%A1ximo+riesgo.jpg
Karen

Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
Oct 10, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
Watched a really bad movie the other night-one my daughter recommended-"Dude, Where's my Car"....yuck



Climbing related silly movie was/is "K2" , any of you ever seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVUnNc_K9Co
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Oct 11, 2009 - 12:39am PT
Festus...next thing you're gonna tell me is that bolt guns aren't real. Don't go there, man! I already put in my order.
Dodo

Trad climber
Spain/UK
Oct 11, 2009 - 04:20am PT
Agreed, unless its supposed to be a comedy, we were in stitches, so bad I had to watch it again. Makes Ed Wood look like Antonioni.
Festus

Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
Oct 11, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
Mooser, hope you ponied up for the Gatling instead of the single shot. It's a little pricey, but from my front lawn I put a bolt ladder up the side of my neighbor's house in about four seconds so my kids could get a kite off the roof. Beat hell out of getting off my a$$ and dragging a wooden ladder out of the garage.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Oct 11, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
Climbing related silly movie was is "K2" , any of you ever seen this?

While K2 was hardly a great film, it wasn't entirely trash like Vertical Limit (good trash) or Cliffhanger (trash with no redeeming value). K2 was actually about something -- it may not be the best film ever about the three-way tug-of-war between friendship, love, and the need for esteem, but it did try. And the climbing in it was, how to say this... less silly?

I wish I'd seen it in its original incarnation, as a stage play.
Hardman Knott

Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
Oct 11, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
I actually thought K2 was pretty good - at least when it first came out. Although I knew nothing about
climbing at the time, a friend mentioned that the climbing sequences were pretty realistic, and the story
was good. No bolt guns, spontaneously self-desctructiing harness buckles, or nitro.

My favorite scene: The two main characters, Taylor and Harold, are climbing some sweet looking granite wall
when they come upon a group of climbers sitting in a portaledge, including the billionaire adventurer Phillip Claiborne.
As Taylor belays Harold up to the ledge, a phone rings, and Claiborne answers his cell phone. (this was 1991, and VERY FEW
people had cell phones back then). Taylor rolls his eyes and chuckles. Claiborne's partner Dallas looks down at Harold
coming up on belay. He asks: "Who is that?" "That's Harold", replies Taylor. "Never heard of him", exclaims Dallas dismissively.
Taylor leans in and retorts with equal attitude: "Well, when he gets up here, we'll ask him if he's ever heard of you"...

LOL!!

Moments later, Harold slips from a hold and swings off the wall. Dallas looks at Taylor and sneers: "Harold, huh?"
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