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01-07-2005, 12:57 PM
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top 5 moutain climbing movies
Just saw Touching the Void. Whoa. A must rent for anyone into natural disaster or mountain climbing movies.
1)Touching the Void.
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4)K2.
5)Vertical Limit.
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01-07-2005, 01:22 PM
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Third Man on the Mountain is *excellent*. A bit quaint in the f/x department as it was made in 1959, but it has a fantastic story, strong characters, and strong direction. I call it the "Karate Kid" of mountain climbing movies.
See also:
Everest (seeing it in IMAX was amazing - informative and heart-rending)
K2 (sensational photography, underrated film IMO)
Alive (just when you thought you were having a bad day - a movie like this will put it all into perspective)
Haven't seen Touching the Void or Vertical Limit, and I can't quite recommend Cliffhanger, even though I enjoyed it as a straight-up brainless popcorn thriller in the Die Hard mold.
There are probably scores of great German "mountain climbing" movies. From what I understand, it was a genre unto itself in the 30's.
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01-07-2005, 01:23 PM
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I would add:
The Eiger Sanction
And I believe "Into Thin Air" by Krakower was made into a film.
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01-07-2005, 01:29 PM
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Where Eagles Dare has sections with climbing but not really mountains.
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01-07-2005, 01:47 PM
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Here's my list:
1. Verticle Limit
2. Death on Everest
3. The Mountain (Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner)
4. Touching the Void
5. K2
Not necessarily in that order.  |
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01-07-2005, 09:22 PM
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I can recommend Cliffhanger, since it does exactly what it says on the tin. A silly action movie, that doesn't pretend to be anything else, and does what it must rather well. Some delicious photography, and well made.
Of course, like Where Eagles Dare, mountain climbing is purely coincidental to the thrust of the story. 
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01-07-2005, 11:45 PM
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Wanted to throw my 2 cents in for Touching the Void, a great great movie. The only other movies I can even think of that I've seen that have to do with mountain climbing are Alive (decent), K2 (also decent), Cliffhanger (what everyone else said), and Vertical Limit (one of the worst movies I've ever seen IMHO).
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01-08-2005, 04:13 PM
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Man, only one person mentioned The Eiger Sanction?
Really?
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01-10-2005, 08:47 AM
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Werner Herzog also did a mountain climbing movie: Scream of Stone. It's hardly his best work, but certainly worth seeing for Herzog buffs and climbing aficionados. It's available on R2 DVD.
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01-10-2005, 11:06 PM
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Into Thin Air was made into a TV movie starring Christopher McDonald and Peter Horton. still plays pretty often on the cable "true stories" channels.
bad, really bad. none of the drama, or emotional substance of the book.
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01-11-2005, 03:39 PM
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Everest (IMAX) and Eiger Sanction for me too.
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