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I had to raise an eyebrow at this puff piece, given that Vertical Limit which it mocks did have Barry Blanchard as the main consultant and an Ed Viesturs cameo, and the writer/directors of A Lonely Place to Die hyped up their film (also via mocking Vertical Limit) as being accurate and then it has only 7 minutes of climbing and 80% of THAT is totally wrong! Chinny reckon….

https://www.climbing.com/culture/finally-the-sound-a-mainstream-film-that-d...

In reply to Blue Straggler:

What does 'chinny reckon' mean?

In reply to aln:

It's a sarcastic expression of disbelief. A bit like 'aye right'.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Despite the article stating it's released on Amazon Prime and Apple TV from the 27th of June, it's not available on either. Has it been dropped by both? Bear in mind there's some proper full fat shite out there, especially on Prime.

Add in a rotten tomato review of 10% (10%? I don't think I've ever seen a 10% before), well, looks like a proper stinker.

In reply to Stichtplate:

I think that may be a region thing: Apple TV US seems to have it ( https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-sound/umc.cmc.gt9v49wwsjaus115916o6kac ).  I guess EMEA (or whatever Apple call this side of the Atlantic) rights are being argued about / being scheduled.
(Licencing: it's a horrible thing to negotiate) 

In reply to Stichtplate:

Wow, 10% on RT! That is actually quite impressive.

Perhaps this is why we don't get realistic climbing in films - for the most part it's actully pretty dull. Cliffhanger wouldn't have much fun with Stallone spending 30 minutes trying to work out where he was on the topo before getting his bolt gun tangled in his chalk bag.

In reply to DaveHK:

Ah OK. Ta

In reply to aln:

Wow. I got a dislike for thanking someone for their reply to me. WTF is wrong with some people on this site? 😄

In reply to ebdon:

100% this. People say it’s never done right. It has been, they just didn’t see those films because they flopped and got buried due to being dull or, if not dull, SLOW. Storm and Sorrow. Scream of Stone (which actually has a stunning 15 minute finale filmed on location on Cerro Torre but takes a lifetime to get there). Martin Campbell and one of the producers on the Vertical Limit DVD commentary address this, saying “people complained and blah blah, well this isn’t for climbers. This is Hollywood”

In reply to aln:

you've really opened the floodgates now

In reply to aln:

Entitled angry older white men. One day the site will be brave and dump the most obvious disincentive to increasing forums welcoming nature and improving forum diversity: single click anonymous negativity. Most forum users say they want to keep the button... yes because that's a small and samey sample who like to spar, rather than the much larger number who enjoy the rest of UKC but won't be using the forums because they look so unfriendly.

In reply to Offwidth:

I ditched the button long ago. it is so freeing.

Like/dislike i have no idea and I don't care.

I think an interesting climbing film could be done, you just need a decent script. I mean if you can make films about crossing the barren wastes of antartica interesting then it should be possible to make a good climbing film. Didn't they do one on Touching the Void?

In reply to Stichtplate:

Thanks, I don't often go on the Rotten Tomatoes site but I am glad I did this time; reviews are typical of this sort of thing - totally out-of-their-depth inept film-maker with a few connections, gets fixated on a single idea (in this case, showing "real" climbing) then utterly fails to execute it, and also fails to tack it onto anything else engaging. 
Awareness of common pitfalls like this, helps one to appreciate that films like "Fall" (2022) are actually good, because they DO work, thanks to competent film making. 

In reply to Duncan Bourne:

That was a documentary feature, with some "dramatic" recreations on location. I liked it because the book didn't very well describe Siula Grande itself. There was a stage play adaptation but I don't know much about it. 

There was a lot of excitement on here about North Face / Nordwand (2008) about Kurz and Hinterstoisser's 1938 attempt on the north face of the Eiger but I thought it over "cheesified" some of the drama and whilst climbing was pretty well portrayed, it was pretty obvious that in some close shots that they were standing amongst fibreglass in a studio with a snow machine  

I saw this whilst killing a bit a time at the BFI's free viewing booths earlier this year and it was pretty good.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029982/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_15

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Ah thought of another film that i thought was good both from plot and climbing perspective whilst not essentially being a film about climbing. The Eiger Sanction

Also I remember the White Tower (1950) can't remember if it was any good though

In reply to ebdon:

Have you seen this?

The Mountain (1956)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0049523/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm

It was on tv a year or so back and the climbing scenes were excellent! Subtle details about getting a first winter ascent of a line,  placing pegs,  fear of being run out.  

Well worth a watch if you ever stumble across it on the TV guide. 

In reply to Sandstone Stickman:

I give you: Three Secrets (1950)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043045/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

Not a climbing film and you don't see any climbing but there is a mountain rescue team scaling a mountain to rescue a boy from a plane crash, and a television crew on the ground to speak to a team member by radio and a very accurate description of how lead climbing works, is given. Just a 2 minute dialogue scene within what is otherwise a quality melodrama (the boy had been adopted, his parents have died in the crash, and there are three possible birth mothers due to anonymised records) but it really struck me as great attention to detail. 

In reply to Blue Straggler:

That was an enjoyable romp. I can’t remember if I’d seen it before or not so had a watch. Not a completely accurate retelling of the Matterhorn story but fun never the less…

https://youtu.be/s_5y0jX-8-c?si=5TE6YS0ChbLQQYx-

In reply to JLS:

Thanks for taking the time to watch it! Most of my posted links just attract dust 😃