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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 10, 2009 - 01:03am PT
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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.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 10, 2009 - 01:08am PT
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The only thing missing was Jean Claude Van Damme.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 10, 2009 - 08:47am PT
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A horrible movie that demonstrates how bad Hollywood doesn't get it.
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Oct 10, 2009 - 09:03am PT
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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
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Oct 10, 2009 - 10:09am PT
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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.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Oct 10, 2009 - 11:47am PT
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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.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 10, 2009 - 12:06pm PT
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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.
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Buju
Trad climber
the range of light
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Oct 10, 2009 - 01:19pm PT
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"welcome to base camp....THE HIGHEST PARTY ON EARTH!!!!"
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Big Piton
Trad climber
Ventura
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Oct 10, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
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You want a bad climbing movie.
Thin Ice
I like the end with the flying frozen corpse.
MMM
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WanderlustMD
Trad climber
New England
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Oct 10, 2009 - 02:36pm PT
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"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.
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apogee
climber
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Oct 10, 2009 - 04:42pm PT
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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.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 10, 2009 - 05:47pm PT
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Freddie Got Fingered is waayyyy worse than Vertical Limit - Gobee is correct.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Oct 10, 2009 - 05:58pm PT
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I have to agree with Ghost - Vertical Limit was root beer-through-the-nose funny.
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Oct 10, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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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
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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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.
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Dodo
Trad climber
Spain/UK
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Oct 11, 2009 - 04:20am PT
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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.
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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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.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
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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.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Oct 11, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
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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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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 01:28pm PT
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We need to petition Werner Herzog to do a climbing film.
He could call it "Grizzly Man II" and he could cast Donini.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 11, 2009 - 01:41pm PT
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I wouldn't honor "Vertical Limits" with the title of worst movie ever. That honor should go to "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" which is bad enough to be fun movie to watch.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Oct 11, 2009 - 01:54pm PT
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I knew the stuntmen were Wolfgang Gullich and Ron Kauk because it was in Gullich's picture-book biography (with photos of Kauk and Gullich posing with Stallone). I'm pretty sure that was Gullich free-soloing in the opening sequence.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
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So, Tami, when are you and Pixar gonna hook up to do "Revenge of the Dirtbags"?
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Jim Wilcox
Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
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Oct 11, 2009 - 02:02pm PT
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I don't think Hollywood is too preoccupied with accuracy-whether it's climbing, racing, or Pearl Harbor.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Oct 12, 2009 - 02:24pm PT
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Regarding "Freddie Got Fingered"...
Just add mushrooms and you've got an academy award contender.
VL, Cliffhanger, K2....
I can think of worse ways to waste a few hours, like maybe a Keanu, or Sandra Bullok flick.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
not very much, recently.
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May 12, 2010 - 02:49am PT
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I tool would like to see a Werner Herzog climbing film. He apparently considers Scream of Stone not to be his film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_of_Stone
Though I believe there is some pretty good cinematography in that film based on what others have said elsewhere on the Taco.
Eric
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Iron Mtn.
Trad climber
Corona, Ca.
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May 12, 2010 - 03:22am PT
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Vertical Lemon?
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 12, 2010 - 10:12am PT
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is surely the worst movie ever made, but the only one I ever walked out on was The Firm.
A bunch of us watched the opening scene of Vertical Limit twice and still never managed to figure out WTF was going on there.
After watching that and Touching the Void I feel the need to remind my partners that cutting the rope is NOT the solution to every problem.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 12, 2010 - 11:03am PT
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Problem is that the "worst movies" are so bad they become almost good in a campy sort of way- "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" comes to mind.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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May 12, 2010 - 11:14am PT
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The Postman
Scarier yet, a few years after having to sit through that movie I saw some dude with a jeans jacket with a really, really terrible version of the postman grabbing the mail out of the kids hand as he rode by stitched into the back with thread. It looked like it had been done by (a really unskilled) hand.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 12, 2010 - 11:55am PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfm3_BMinhg
The producer J. Stephen Peace did not rest on his laurels after making the worst movie of all time!
He continued his string of failures as a Democrat politician writing the energy deregulation bill that led to the energy crisis in California and the near bankruptcy of several utilities and later as Director of Finance for Grey Davis.
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JoeSimo
Trad climber
New York
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May 12, 2010 - 12:13pm PT
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You all have it wrong. Sadly Vertical Limit isn't the worst K2 related movie. Check out "Sub Zero" for something much, much, much, much, worse. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386060/
Basically russian terrorists steal the control device to some EMP satellite weapon but some how lose it on top of K2. Their plane explodes or something and it lands there. So, now they have 48 hours to climb to the top and find the box to stop this weapon from destroying the world. Words can't describe how bad this movie is. So, I will leave it at that. I mean BAD. there are shots while they are on top of the mountain where you see trees in the background. They jacked scenes from vertical limit and just inserted them. They climb the mountain in like jackets and small back packs. This could all be forgiven if it was a high school production, but this has been on the movie channels. Yikes gives me chills just thinking about it.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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May 12, 2010 - 12:40pm PT
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Ed: thanks for that YouTube dealio on VL! I sent it off to my little brother right after watching it, letting him know that there was no way we were going on a climbing trip again until he'd watched it.
I still maintain, though, that the absolute worst (and therefore funniest) movie centered on climbing was "Take It to the Limit" (2000). If you're a Donner area climber, you'll know the setting. Here's a trailer for a hint of its awesomeness:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi143130905/
Watch...and learn...
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Port
Trad climber
San Diego
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May 12, 2010 - 12:53pm PT
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Yes, this is a truly hideous movie. I would assume, for the protection of their careers, that no one who wrote, worked on or appeared in this film ever admits it.
Ed Viesturs actually makes a cameo in the film....when the crew is at base camp. I think he has a one liner.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0896853/
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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May 12, 2010 - 01:31pm PT
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Credit where credit is due in San Diego...
Gotta give Patrick Henry High School full credit for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Cracko's friend and classmate Steve Peace was indeed the, er, genius behind that classic. I almost got in it by accident. I was a bellman at the Westgate Hotel at the time, and there is a scene shot in the lobby there (we thought they were just shooting a home movie or something). Fellow bellman John Helfrick (Hoover High) ended up in the scene alone when I dove for cover as the camera panned our way. I didn't want any photo evidence of me in that gawd awful monkey suit, home movie or otherwise. The female lead was an assistant speech professor I had for a class at San Diego State.
I remember going to see the movie at the Roxy theater in P.B. and it was so incredibly bad and unfunny that for most of the run time those who actualy stayed in their seats just sat there in stunned disbelief that something that bad could actually find a theater. I started laughing at some joke a friend of mine made and most everyone in the theater turned around to see the idiot who could possibly find this film funny. When my friends realized (before me) why everyone was looking at me one of them whispered "they think you're laughing at the movie" and that made me laugh about as hard as I've ever laughed in my life. I remember that I could barely walk out (before the film ended) I was laughing so hard.
I also remember that it was a double-feature and the first film was an equally low-budget "comedy" called Don't Stop, You'll Go Blind or something like that.
The next stop had to be Tug's, so we could salvage something from the night.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 12, 2010 - 02:01pm PT
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The funniest movie I ever saw was The Exorcist. Maybe the purple microdot had something to do with that.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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May 12, 2010 - 02:02pm PT
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Festus: I had friends in that movie, too. I was on the debate team at Poway High at the time, and some of the people I knew from Poway, Patrick Henry, and State were in it. That was some stinker of a movie, but then, I can't imagine that wasn't its intent!
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Wack
climber
Dazevue
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May 12, 2010 - 03:24pm PT
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Lots of climbers made some good coin rigging for "Cliffhanger". One returned with a new Italian GF and put a down on a house. Eiger Sanction was the movie that got me interested in climbing with all of the great desert tower shots. Must admit I never met a George (Brenda Venus) while climbing.
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ochotona
Social climber
The Portal, CA
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May 12, 2010 - 03:53pm PT
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To stay on the topic of climbing movies, has anyone seen "Take it to the Limit"? It's about extreme toproping (seriously). F&$*ing rediculous. Don't buy it but if you have netflix, put it on your list!
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Mix a really bad horror flick with a really bad climbing flick, then throw in an English overdub on French speaking lips, and what do you get?
High Lane: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433562/
I tend to be particular about not taking the lord's name in vain, even though I'm not especially Christian. But I still like to be respectful just in case. Be that as it may, I don't know how many times I said to myself with disgust, "Oh My God" during this movie. I just couldn't help it. I was compelled to keep watching by how terrible it was.
You can stream it on Netflix.
Some nice mountain scenery, and the stupidest people on the planet doing a via ferrata with some free-soloing thrown in. They show free solo from below then from above with a pitch of bolts clipped and rope hanging from the person (and belaying hand-over-hand to bring up the followers). And weak dudes scared of heights that can't hang from their climbing harness on a bolt, but somehow they can hand-over-hand a 10mm rope hanging in free space.
From metal fatigue to bear traps to crazy grunting mountain men sharpening hatchets, this movie has it all. Well, shooting and explosions are missing. But there are safety flares, and that goes a long way.
High Lane.
Two bloody stumps up.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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I saw vertical limit at the theatre because someone who will remain nameless reccomended it. Because of that I still won't take any advice from him on movies.
When the father fell and died in the beginning, I was laughing in the theatre because it was SO lame. People were turning and looking at me, pissed, because it was supposed to be so dramatic. But I couldn't help it.
I liked how more people died on the 'rescue' mission than were saved, but they considered it a success.
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Chris2
Trad climber
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I was very entertained by Vertical Limits. The comedic value was classic.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
The great white north, eh?
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"Surf 2 - End of the Trilogy"
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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Makes Ed Wood look like Antonioni.
What an odd coincidence. John Fahey composed some of the music for Zabriskie Point, and I just read his essay about the experience.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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VL was for sure a clunker, but the Scott Glenn character was really cool.
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Bad Climber
climber
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NO! NO! NO! Vertical Limit was GREAT! Totally stupid, idiotic fun. I think the climbers ripping achors at the beginning is classic. Then the quiet shot at the base--then SPLAT!--old man meat sack hits the talus. Hooo man, that's art. Dex and C4, jumping fifty foot gaps to hang on with ice tools, and all the other classic scenes, I tell you it doesn't get much better. The problem I'm seeing here is that, for some reason, folks want to take is seriously. Seriously? Just goofy fun. Kick back a few cold ones and laugh. That's the whole point. To be honest, I was gripped against my will during a few scenes, especially that nightmare scenerio of the climber hanging off the lip of the icefall with one tool. Stupid? Unrealistic? Of course. Still a good fun ride.
BAd
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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I saw VL in the theater and you could tell the climbers in the crowd, they were the ones who'd laugh out loud at what was theoretically and inappropriate time.
I never saw K2 the movie, but saw the play way back in the day up in Seattle, and I recall it as quite good.
I only recently saw Touching the Void, and while I really appreciated the use of period appropriate gear, I can't really recommend watching Joe crawling down the moraine all beat up and parched while one is running a 104 degree fever, it made my eyeballs hurt.
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Brandon-
climber
Done With Tobacco
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Judge Dredd.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
The great white north, eh?
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Caught "Sub Zero" on cable a while back. What a waste of film. I kept thinking: "They got some sucker to pony up the cash to make this?"
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Captain...or Skully
climber
The Seas of Stone.
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Man! That's even worse than "The Hills Have Eyes".
Yarrr.
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Pcutler
climber
Iowa
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Vertical Limit is almost as kick-ass as XXX. Almost.
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The Mayor
Social climber
Billings, Montana USA
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Meet Joe Black
The Black Swan
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Barbarian
Trad climber
The great white north, eh?
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I saw some movie on late night cable..."story" evolve about some soldiers who went through a cave and went back in time to a land with amazon women and a dinosaur. The dinosaur was rubber and, I kid you not, was waved right in front of the camera to make it look large.
Truly the worst movie ever made...just wish I could remember the title.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Judge Dredd.
I kinda liked that one. But how about An Affair to Remember ?
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S.Leeper
Social climber
Ft. Useless, Virginia
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Mar 15, 2011 - 10:18pm PT
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Holy crap, you do!!
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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Mar 15, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
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I had been avoiding VT since it first came out. Had been doing a good job too until this thread. Watched it yesterday. My response? "Ha! Groan. What? Haha. I can't believe...Hey, she's good looking. Wait, put the camera back on her. No, not her, Her. Remind me not to give my partner a knife; he might cut the rope. Oh, come on, Kung Fu, you can kill the bad guy. Ah, esoteric religion: you can kill the bad guy as long as you kill die too. And they all (except kung Fu and the bad guy and the guide and the Pakistani) lived happily ever after."
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Mar 16, 2011 - 02:02am PT
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Vertical Limit is my favorite Three Stooges episode.
But, my vote for the worst movie is:
The Human Centipede
 A Mengle-like crazy German doctor captures tourists, and sews them together, mouth to anus, to create his masterpiece - a human centipede.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8fKLjC__c
You can see the entire film on Netflix.
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xbow
Trad climber
TWENTYNIN PLM
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Mar 16, 2011 - 04:26am PT
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I've never seen a better set of belay anchors than that little gal had set up in the opening scenes of VL. I learned a lot from that great sequence, if she doesn't need to equalize her belay anchors then neither do I. And its more exciting to set the anchors up so that they can zipper out anyway.
Here is a compilation of the best instructional material VL has to offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtg7raPDYo
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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For the win...
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The Call Of K2 Lou
Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
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"Kindergarten Cop" was a low-point for Schwarzenegger
I'll see your Kindergarten Cop and raise you a s#!&%y Batman flick:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2015 - 07:28pm PT
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Wow, there are some real connoiseurs here! I've never seen a Steven Seagal
movie but I knew his personal chef who has also worked for some other heavy
Hollywood hitters. He said Steven was one of the best people he's worked for!
Go figure...
He also worked for one biggie who has a carefully crafted public persona of
being an Everyman but he said he is a total fraud and a giant butthole to
work for.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Name the names, Reilly...it's Chinatown. No one cares.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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I had to do a recording session with Segal. His assistants arrived early. This Asian fellow took me aside, and while making arts gestures explained to me that Mr. Segal has a very short temper and at some point I'll do something he doesn't like. "He won't be nice."
I looked this creep straight in the eyes. "I get to decide who works here and who doesn't."
Finally the man arrives. He appears very satisfied with the look of the place. I had the material for a few days previously to work on it, so I gave Segal the captains chair, center stage, and showed him how to play, stop, rewind, etc. I stood aside while he checked my work. After less than an hour he turned and smiled at me. "This sounds great. Keep doing what you're doing" and he left. Nicest guy.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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OK, Birdemic was super bad, but we were laughing...
Zombeavers was all about the FF button until it got too bad - not many laughs.
For a real rip-your-eyes-out, stuff your ears with cotton, this is Hell, try Monster In A Box.
Nothing like an 87 minute monologue of a writer describing writing a book:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102467/
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Hands down worst movie ever (and I'm talking serious efforts, not like Zombeavers, or Pork Lips Now stuff) was Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Hmm.. as far as Demi movies go... "Scarlet Letter" is pretty bad, but I think I'll go with "Strip Tease" as the "worst".
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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K2 was pretty cool. It had a lot of real climberisims in it. the married guy who is a solid partner, the wild, talented rope gun whoes life is a train wreck. Asshole elitiests etc. obviously they got some stuff wrong but they also got a lot of stuff right. the Stalone movie which shall not be named sucked to the power of 11!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2015 - 07:53am PT
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tradman, this is a haters' thread, take yer Kumbaya elsewhere, please.
Mouse, nice try, but it ain't gonna happen - I don't want ChrisMac to be sued.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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I'd have to give American Sniper a nod for the award. Worst I've seen lately anyway. I expected so much more I guess, big box office, clint Eastwood, modern times and technology, but yuk.
Arne
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2015 - 08:18am PT
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Arne, I saw the trailer and instantly knew it was a POS. The book is actually readable.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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I'd have to give American Sniper a nod for the award. Worst I've seen lately anyway. I expected so much more I guess, big box office, clint Eastwood, modern times and technology, but yuk.
Saw this a week ago. My experience was the opposite. I'd heard so much bile, expected the worst. Instead watched a sympathetic portrait of a soldier trying to do his best in a terrible situation and slowly losing his sanity. Tragic since he had a family and ended up unable to communicate with them at all. And, upon managing to regain some humanity by helping other traumatized vets, being killed by one who was, presumably, as far gone as he had been, or worse.
Eastwood's mistake was to set the movie in the Iraq War, a raw wound, still unhealed, and an emotional and political minefield.
EDIT: Worst movie ever, my nomination: Orgy of the Dead, directed by Ed Wood, mid-60s
Worst climbing movie ever: Bear Gryll's video of "climbing" the Tombstone, near Moab:
http://www.outsideonline.com/1863751/masters-movement-bear-grylls
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The Call Of K2 Lou
Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
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Not the worst movie I've seen, but Sandra Bullock winning an Oscar for The Blind Side makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
Confession: Anytime that Stallone film is on TV, I'm friggin' watching.
Everybody needs to laugh hard from time to time.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I laughed at the bird bombers, beavers are worth a chuckle, but this is just messed up:
The Human Centipede
A Mengle-like crazy German doctor captures tourists, and sews them together, mouth to anus, to create his masterpiece - a human centipede.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8fKLjC__c
You can see the entire film on Netflix.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Hmm.. as far as Demi movies go... "Scarlet Letter" is pretty bad, but I think I'll go with "Strip Tease" as the "worst".
Ha ha ha ... maybe, but I give that one a little more elevated position based on the fact that someone tried to make a movie out of a Carl Hiaasen book. Tough translation...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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One thing's for sure. Now that I've seen Vertical Limit, I don't feel so bad anymore when I have to cut my partner loose.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Why do we have to share the nitro? I want my own bomb
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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Worst movie without contest is The Room.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Scary movie 5.
I'm still gagging.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Watching the video of "The Room", it seems to be loosely based on Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit".
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Worst movie ever: I Am Love with Tilda Swinton. I wished it were laughably bad but it was just plain bad.-lars
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DanaB
climber
CT
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One of the worst movies?
Fight Club.
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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I had to do a recording session with Segal. His assistants arrived early. This Asian fellow took me aside, and while making arts gestures explained to me that Mr. Segal has a very short temper and at some point I'll do something he doesn't like. "He won't be nice."
What is an arts gesture?
Content: The Big Blue.
Bonus: Roseanne Arquette brings her A game for worst actress of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvU_qqOnlAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGbV8h7ESc
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Eastwoods mistake with american sniper was to fabricate the enemy sniper rivalvy that never existed. they said they did it to add drama but that is a pathetic excuse. What! Killing hundreds of people is not enough drama for you? seriously that bogus sniper rivalry casts a huge shadow of suspicion of BS over the entire project..
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jun 15, 2015 - 09:26am PT
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^^^^^ HoLeY Sh#T!!11!!!!! That is awful, Gary. It's like a Reefer Madness version of race relations. I SUPPOSE it was cutting edge at the time.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2015 - 09:31am PT
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Well, Gary, without even looking at that I'm afraid I might have to declare this thread done,
if only based on the title.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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Jun 15, 2015 - 10:08am PT
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C'mon, guys, the first 10 seconds of that trailer is GOLD!
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jun 15, 2015 - 11:28am PT
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^^^ Actually, it was... friggen awful! But funnier than hell.
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jstan
climber
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Jun 20, 2015 - 07:56am PT
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Worst movie without contest is The Room.
We thought we would order "The Room" on netflix and see what it was about.
First of all it must have been made on no budget as there appeared to be no professional acting AND there was no script worthy of the name.
BUT
the theme, how greed can make humans inept at priority calls, was on the mark. Painful watching at times but it was worthwhile. The ending needs to be changed however. Instead of an absurd suicide only a shot of the protagonist shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Hey, you win some and lose some." would be more realistic
Edit:
Actually I thought Barbarella had a great line. As the evil witch was about to push the button destroying the whole universe, Barbarella says deadpan, Do you think that wise?"
Enough to crack you up.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Jun 20, 2015 - 04:17pm PT
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"Barbarella", with Jane Fonda. Perhaps the only movie I've ever walked out of!!! :-) I saw it when I was about 19 and was terribly insulted. Perhaps now at 55 I'd be able to grasp the campy-ness of it and appreciate it just for that!
Pam
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2015 - 07:21pm PT
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Well, I doubt any 19 yr old males walked out so "Barbarella" doesn't remotely qualify. Sorry.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jun 20, 2015 - 07:37pm PT
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A horror movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger "Seven Years a Governor".
Moose
I thought it was the "Gropenator I & II" and a R rated drama Moose. Equally as bad as "Billeo and Monicanette"
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 20, 2015 - 07:52pm PT
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Worst you say?
My wife got up and walked out, but I think I actually sat through the original Walking Tall. I paid to get in and I'm very frugal and that's why I am so rich despite doing no investing in the stock market.
Interestingly, the only person I knew on the Forbes list (and I knew him pretty well, since I worked for him) never did either.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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After having watched Inglourious Basterds last night, I'm going to nominate it for at least honorable mention. Too cutsey writing, as par for Tarantino, and it just doesn't get you to suspend belief. A real joke. It's just some adolescent violent fantasy of war.
Christoph Waltz was very good, though.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Since I have seemingly rejoined in the trash talk on Super Topo, by far the worst climbing movie was "Cliffhanger," that "Stallone movie." Only redeeming feature was being filmed in the Dolomites.
Worst movie ever: Freeway, with Kiefer Sutherland; an awful adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. Barf. Two thumbs down.
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