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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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