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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 11, 2018 - 07:04pm PT
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1. Caligula: I didn't do my research on a first date in college, and things went bad FAST. I thought it was a simple story of a crazy emperor! Needless to say, there wasn't a second date. Note to self: check the director (not that I would've necessarily recognized Bob as a porn guy).
2. Eraserhead: I know, it's all cool, vogue noir art, but I was alone and it was just fukking depressing and huge in front of me. Out.
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L
climber
Just livin' the dream
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Nov 11, 2018 - 07:30pm PT
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Night Of The Living Dead
I was seven. I was terrified. I was crying with my hands clenched over my eyes. So were my younger brothers and sisters. We left within the first 20 minutes. What could my mom have been thinking to take us to such a film?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 11, 2018 - 07:35pm PT
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Wild at Heart...Left after the first stabbing scene....
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:18pm PT
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The Devil in Miss Jones. Was the second movie in a double feature. Opening scene kinda killed the mood (ha ha).
Was underage, but, a friend worked the window.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:22pm PT
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repost:i arrived way too early for construction season in fairbanks one year. parked and proceeded to frost up a bivy van big time. trudged around all day in arctic gear on less of a budget than a self respecting street person would settle for. finally pawned something and treated myself to what i anticipated would be couple of hours of indoor heat across town watching whatever movie might be playing that night. half way through TOWERING INFERNO i bundled up and marched back to the van. other than flame, all i remember of that movie was loud stressed up music, screaming, shouting, hollering and more screaming, most of it in a stairwell with hoses and some more screaming
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:37pm PT
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I walked out on Caligula too! LOL. That was a long time ago. I can't remember if I have since seen the entire thing.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:45pm PT
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First Star Wars, and I never went back.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:52pm PT
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Cliffhanger.
I thought it would have a bunch of silly climbing scenes that I could laugh at (and it probably did), but it pretty soon became clear it was just a celebration of mindless violence set against a background of climbing, made for no other reason than to give people who enjoy watching mindless violence something to watch.
And a couple of others, for the same reason.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 11, 2018 - 09:03pm PT
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Vertical Limit.
No explanation needed as to why.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 09:21pm PT
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Blade Runner.
I actually walked out twice. So many respected close friends raved about it, and I gave it a second chance to no avail. I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep before seeing the movie. That's what I wanted and expected, with all its subtle nuance. Not!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Nov 11, 2018 - 09:30pm PT
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In this case I drove out of the "drive-in".
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 09:42pm PT
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A Boy And His Dog. After 5 or 10 minutes La Femme thought it was gonna turn out
badly for the girl. Dunno if it did or didn’t and don’t much care about post-apocalypse
films anyway as they are so ludicrous.
Watched Blade Runner at home - pretty banal but haven’t told my neighbor that.
He thinks it’s the greatest. Still trying to get him to watch El Topo. Told him its
like Like Water For Chocolate, but deeper and rougher, but he hasn’t seen that either.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Nov 11, 2018 - 09:49pm PT
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A few but I can't remember which ones. That's the point.
Arne
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:16pm PT
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Does having your mom and her friend kick you out of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Dolly Parton count?
asking for a friend
on the upside I got to see the Secret of Nimh
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2018 - 06:02am PT
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Does having your mom and her friend kick you out of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Dolly Parton count?
If you did't leave voluntarily, it doesn't count!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:09am PT
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The Firm. After what seemed hours it was still going no where. I was glancing at my date. Out of the corner of my eye I could see her glancing at me. "Want to leave?" Yes!"
Reilly, it didn't end well for the girl friend, but it ended OK for the dog. It's a good read, typical Harlan Ellison.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:13am PT
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We Were Soldiers about the battle of Ia Drang with Mel Gibson.
I don't mind war movies, and Gibson has done some good ones. But this one was very violent, and the sound in the theater was wayyyy loud. After about 20 minutes it was just overwhelming, so I left.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:37am PT
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Does falling asleep count?
Blade Runner
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 12, 2018 - 07:07am PT
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@ Steve- yeah I'm with you on too loud, too gratuitously " action packed" + absolutely no plot driving me to walk out of at least two movies. "Gremlins 2" & one of the latter "Bourne" movies ( can't remember which one)
I also walked out of " Dead Ringers" - boring evil gynecologist twins not being my thing.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 12, 2018 - 07:16am PT
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I don’t walk into theaters enough to set up the ocassion to walk out on a movie.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 12, 2018 - 08:30am PT
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A separate thread could probably be started just for bad Costner movies :)
Aerique (OP) just remembered he also walked out of "Waterworld". I turned off a video (yes VCR) of "The Postman" about 20 minutes in. Thankfully didn't pay to walk into a theater on that one..
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 12, 2018 - 08:44am PT
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There is a surefire way to avoid ever having to walk out of a Costner movie.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 12, 2018 - 09:18am PT
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A separate thread could probably be started just for bad Costner movies :)
Damn! That reminds me that Cliffhanger isn't the only movie I've walked out of. After about twenty minutes in the theater, my then wife, our two kids, and I all -- more or less simultaneously -- all realized that just about anything would be better than having our minds evaporated by any more of the stupidity of that film.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Nov 12, 2018 - 09:23am PT
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Vertical Limit...what a riot. I own a DVD copy that I had Ed Viesturs sign. Hilarious.
We use "amateurs at 12 o'clock, check your safety" at the crag quite often.
Strap on the nitro!
Such a classic...
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Nov 12, 2018 - 09:31am PT
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In the Realm of the Senses
This scene where the prostitute cuts off the hotel owner's member was a titch over the top.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Nov 12, 2018 - 09:41am PT
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Dead Ringers - the 1988 version - only movie in a theater I’ve ever walked out of.
I’ve turned off many rentals at home - Raging Bull the most recent - painfully bad.
I saw Vertical Limit 2x in theaters - so bad it’s good.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 12, 2018 - 09:51am PT
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I love Vertical Limit! But I mute the soundtrack and play
the soundtrack for The Life of Brian over it.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Nov 12, 2018 - 10:33am PT
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Another I fell asleep trying to watch was March of the Penguins.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Nov 12, 2018 - 10:33am PT
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I guess this doesn't count, but my mother was visiting and my wife and I took her to a local production of 'Hello Dolly'. The theater group had put on some good shows, but this one.... When intermission finally came I finally spoke up and suggested maybe this wasn't too good. Didn't want to offend my mother, who is a lovely lady, but fortunately we all had the same thoughts, so we walked out. The production was worse than a high school musical.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 12, 2018 - 10:45am PT
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Reilly wrote: A Boy And His Dog.
Years of inestimable esteem goes up in flames in an instant...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 12, 2018 - 11:05am PT
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Alien
Was enjoying it. Nice characters and biology up to shortly after the thing came out of the guy's gut. Next time we saw it it was about 10 feet tall? My suspension-of-disbelief needs work. Anyway, I later found out the rest was just haunted house in space.
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 12, 2018 - 12:08pm PT
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Leaving Las Vegas. It was clear that he was going to drink himself to death and she was going to be sexually brutalized. Good movie, but I just wasn't in the mood to watch those endings.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Laughably bad.
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 12, 2018 - 12:09pm PT
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A separate thread could probably be started just for bad Costner movies :)
How dare you. The man has tremendous depth and range.
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 12, 2018 - 12:11pm PT
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I swear to God, if I had known that f*#king Shirley McClaine had a scene in it, I would have never gone in.
Hah! Good one.
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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Nov 12, 2018 - 04:17pm PT
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The Thin Red Line.
I like a good war movie. That one was terrible.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 12, 2018 - 05:02pm PT
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Saving Private Ryan.
I went with my Father, a WWII vet who was first wave onto the beach twice in the Pacific theater. I could tell he was getting uncomfortable as the men boarded the landing raft. When the shooting started he grabbed me by the arm and said "I'm out of here."
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 12, 2018 - 05:13pm PT
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@ Kris^? I didn't walk out of Saving Private Ryan but I wanted to. ( I was the driver for a group who wanted to stay) The camera motion made me seasick shortly into the film. I had to keep my head between my knees the entire movie.
@ Blinny- who the fvuck " recommends a movie like "Dead Ringers" ?
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Nov 12, 2018 - 05:15pm PT
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Not in the theater, but an online rental that a friend wanted to watch.
127 Hours, the story of Aron Ralston in Blue John canyon.
I knew from the beginning that I didn't need any reminders that this stuff can happen. After 15 minutes of watching I went for a bike ride instead.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 12, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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So that will feature the extended and enchanting farting scene?
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:03pm PT
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The English Patient.... I had no... patience
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:21pm PT
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The English Patient.... I had no... patience.
No kidding. Quite of few of the people in the audience were sniffling and crying, we were alternately bored and snickering.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:45pm PT
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If we’re into rentals, then hands down Pink Flamingos. My condolances if you saw this at a theater and had to exchange looks with another live human being.
So I’m telling a coworker about Something About Mary - the hair product scene - I can’t give it away, but I’m trying to warn him - he’s like “Is it worse than anything in Pink Flamingos?” I didn’t know so I rented it sometime later - never discussed it with him.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:59pm PT
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A Boy And His Dog. After 5 or 10 minutes La Femme thought it was gonna turn out
badly for the girl.
I think Harlan wanted to give the dog the last line, criticizing the meal: "you never did have good taste in women..."
I groaned, but I made it through the whole movie...
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 12, 2018 - 07:46pm PT
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I didn't think a Boy and his Dog was that Bad. Certainly no worse than a lot of other 70s sci fi.
And Dead Ringers is well-done horror. As is much of Cronenberg's other work. The subject of Dead Ringers is pretty horrible, as is the imagery, but it's well done.
As far as grueling films that I didn't walk out of...had to watch Shoah for a college class. 9 hours of interviews with Holocaust survivors, split over two nights. Rough going, and not sure I could/would do it again, but it was worth it.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2018 - 07:51pm PT
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Glengarry Glen Ross. Another walk-out I just remembered.
Horrible version of "Death of a Salesman" with a great cast.
The very first time I learned not to trust a movie because of it's "great cast".
It wasn't the last, but the tarnish was on.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 12, 2018 - 08:01pm PT
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Wizard of Oz-I was 7 years old and I didn't walk out, I ran as fast as I could to get away from those monkeys.........
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Nov 12, 2018 - 08:22pm PT
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Paddington. My daughter was 4?. She couldn't handle the ending suspense. LOL
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Nov 12, 2018 - 08:34pm PT
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Ksolem, I believe I remember quite a few vets walking out of that one. God bless and I can't imagine.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:17am PT
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hey there say, ... hmmmm... ohmy, i do not go to watch them... thus, never have to take that time to walk out on them...
:)
i read up and decided very careful, as to what i may want to see on dvd, though, and have only purchased older year, stuff, from way on back...
:)
well, perhaps a few new ones, but not many... :)
time is precious... quality, and teaching, is what i go for...
and, stories, that really do some good...
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Nov 13, 2018 - 05:13am PT
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Saving Private Ryan.
I went with my Father, a WWII vet who was first wave onto the beach twice in the Pacific theater. I could tell he was getting uncomfortable as the men boarded the landing raft. When the shooting started he grabbed me by the arm and said "I'm out of here."
I routinely show that movie to young people who might think war is cool.
Seems to work.
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 13, 2018 - 06:04am PT
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Glengarry Glen Ross.
David Mamet can be a bit . . .
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climbski2
Mountain climber
The Ocean
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Nov 13, 2018 - 06:14am PT
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Dumb and Dumber
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hacky47
Trad climber
goldhill
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Nov 13, 2018 - 06:14am PT
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the brady bunch
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:20am PT
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"Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" is a movie so bad and so disgusting it should be illegal. Walked out during the decapitations scene before the head hit the floor. Sick, sick stuff.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:23am PT
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The Big Lebowski.
I love the Cohen brother's movies but this one just didn't do it for me. It became such a cult favorite that I eventually rented it and suffered through the whole thing. Felt like I was back in 7th grade or something. How this endures is beyond me. Watching someone peeing on the carpet is just not funny.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2018 - 08:13am PT
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Dumb and Dumber was worth watching in the company of an 8 and a 10 year old.
Yeah, a big meh for the Big Lebowski. It had a few good scenes.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 13, 2018 - 12:59pm PT
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Somebody needs to read The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:02pm PT
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Peter O'Toole as the T.E. Lawrence character was maybe the single worst "critically acclaimed" performance I've suffered through
HA! I said the same thing! My parents thought that was the best movie on Earth. Nice scenery though...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:17pm PT
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Number 5 on the 100 greatest films list (7 on the updated list).
You guys are way off. It made stars of O'Toole as well as an Egyptian B movie actor with a highly specialized skill. Omar Sharif knew how to ride camels.
Sharif had a little problem though; after working for over a year on his next Lean film he blew his paycheck in one night of gambling.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:23pm PT
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When it came out a coworker was saying Dumb and Dumber was so stupid, and I was like you think the title would have been a giveaway huh?
My dad took me to Videodrome when I was 15. Lots of sex and violence. He made us leave. I just looked it up and it’s surprisingly well rated. Maybe I’ll finish it some day.
About the same time a friend and I went to Fantasia. Too old to enjoy it as a kid. Too young to drop acid and watch it as a psychedelic experience.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:27pm PT
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El Topo on acid is ,.......... well, I've heard it is wild.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:32pm PT
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Lawrence of Arabia captures the essence of his endeavors quite well.
If one has read The Seven Pillars then one would know, as Toker said.
He is respected daily to a considerable degree,
particularly by serious badasses...
That would be an SAS team, if you must know.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 01:39pm PT
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You thought Dumb and Dumber was bad,
Dumb and Dumberer (the sequel) is absolutely unbearable - it makes the first one seem like a reasonable Bro comedy by comparison.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 13, 2018 - 03:35pm PT
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Somebody needs to read The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.
EVERYBODY needs to read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It sure would have done George W. Bush some good to have read it.
"It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable." -- Winston Churchill
About the only correct statement Sir Winston ever made.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 04:23pm PT
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Just remembered one more: "Dead Man"
I like Johnny Depp as an actor, and liked Neil Young - so it sounded like a great combo. Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Gabriel Byrne, too? I'm in!
The constant screeching Crazy Horse guitar finally got to me about an hour and a half in - long after the "retro" black and white had dulled my visual senses.
See ya!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Nov 13, 2018 - 05:17pm PT
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You guys have walked out on some good ones. Alien? Great sci-fi movie. I can understand vets walking out of SPR but that movie is a classic.
I walked out of The Way of the Gun, not from disgust, just wanted to go get stoned with the girls I was with.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 05:25pm PT
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I walked out of The Way of the Gun, not from disgust, just wanted to go get stoned with the girls I was with.
Damn it! This kind of bail never happens to me.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 13, 2018 - 05:26pm PT
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You guys have missed some greats by walking out. If you ever want to see any/most of them again, bring over a 12'er and we can watch my house copies.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:09pm PT
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Alien? Great sci-fi movie.
Good but not great. I was wrong to walk out but I had better things to do.
My idea of a great sci-fi movie is John McNaughton's The Borrower.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:30pm PT
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I have to vote with those who think reading Lawrence's book, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, leads to enjoying Lawrence of Arabia.
I watched it for the 3rd time this fall & must admit it moves a little slowly from time to time, but it captures the essence of his endeavors quite well. And besides that, I always enjoy watching trains getting blown off their tracks, & Arabs charging on camels.
Where would we be now, if Lawrence hadn't worked as a liason between the Saudi tribes & the English, & the Ottoman Turks still ruled from the Black Sea to the southern tip of Arabia.
Hmmmmmm!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Nov 14, 2018 - 12:27pm PT
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Moon was a great movie, Jim.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Nov 14, 2018 - 02:36pm PT
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I'm with Aeriq:
Glengarry Glen Ross.
Didn't walk out but did turn it off--one, long, tedious f-bomb filled soliloquy after another. Gah!
Some interesting hate going down here. Alien? Star Wars? Pretty classic stuff for most folks, unless, of course, you can't handle sci-fi at all. In general, I'm having little patience for the now so common over-the-top violence. Besides being gross, it's mostly pointless and a poor substitute for real dialogue and story telling. A perfect example is the second season of the Netflix lawyer series Goliath with BB Thornton. I loved the first season about the alcoholic lawyer who crawls far enough out of the bottle to win a big case, even if there was some pretty violent scenes here and there--at least it wasn't totally in your face. The second season? Stupid, stupid psychopath dismemberment BS--an absolute failure of creativity. Skip season two. Gah.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Nov 14, 2018 - 02:54pm PT
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I learned recently that "The Firm" is the prequel to "A Few Good Men".
I think we conceived a child after watching "Caligula". That was weird.
We were watching a double in a Drive In years ago. First up was "Mark of the Devil". Then "The Exorcist". It was too much and out we went.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Nov 14, 2018 - 06:35pm PT
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Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 14, 2018 - 07:37pm PT
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Alien? Star Wars? Pretty classic stuff for most folks, unless, of course, you can't handle sci-fi
What's your opinion on Forbidden Planet 1956? I read the book but it may have been a 'novelization' of the movie. The movies Alien and Star Wars are not classic sci-fi. More like Stalker (a good movie) versus Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky brothers.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 15, 2018 - 06:13am PT
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Forbidden Planet is good. Obviously looks a little dated by now.
Alien is a good movie by almost any standard. But it is more of a horror movie than sci-fi.
I'd argue that Star Wars is certainly a classic, as is Blade Runner. They both influenced the genre tremendously, and when folks think of sci-fi, it's probably those two that come to mind as much as any movies. That's pretty much the definition of "classic". It doesn't mean something is the best movie, more like most influential. Solaris and Stalker are good, and also influential. But not influential on the level of Star Wars.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 15, 2018 - 08:40am PT
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Fritz, I think Quinn actually stole the show as Ouda.
Too bad they didn't use the part of the book where, charging into battle, he accidentally shoots his camel in the back of the head.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 15, 2018 - 08:51am PT
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Star Wars is a based on ancient myth like Homers epics, (hero gets a wizard/mentor, magic sword, sidekick, refuses the call to action, etc) with western and space opera elements. People don’t realize Lucas wanted the rights to Flash Gordon and couldn’t get them. Star Wars was always meant as a serial for kids and people take it way too seriously IMO.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 15, 2018 - 10:13am PT
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The opening scene of the first Star Wars was cool.
It was downhill after that. Never saw another.
I prefer Doc Martin or Call The Midwife.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Nov 15, 2018 - 12:10pm PT
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Mulholland Drive.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Nov 15, 2018 - 12:12pm PT
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
Nov 13, 2018 - 07:23am PT
The Big Lebowski.
I love the Cohen brother's movies but this one just didn't do it for me. It became such a cult favorite that I eventually rented it and suffered through the whole thing. Felt like I was back in 7th grade or something. How this endures is beyond me. Watching someone peeing on the carpet is just not funny.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Oldfattradguy2
Trad climber
Here and there
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Nov 15, 2018 - 06:55pm PT
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Only a sport climber would not like the Big Lebowski.......
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 15, 2018 - 07:01pm PT
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Well...
The Big Lebowski does not compare well to Blood Simple or Raising Arizona, IMHO.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 16, 2018 - 04:14am PT
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Walked out of Borat with Isa. we went down the hall and went into some movie about Christ was also terrible and walked out of that one as well. Currently trying to watch Good Morning Vietnam on netflics and it kind of sucks. he is not that funny. the jokes are sexist crap and robin Williams is basicly a 3rd rate stalker….
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 16, 2018 - 09:47am PT
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Only a sport climber would not like the Big Lebowski.......
I think Mike refers to himself as a "sport weanie"
his trad cred is unassailable
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