There it goes

😀

It gets MUCH nastier before it gets nice…

Glad you said that. I thought there was something wrong with me not caring if he gets out or not.

Just chatting to a guy at the wall who was actually trapped by a dislodged rock on a climb in Yorkshire last weekend. Fire brigade were called and had to jack the rock away. He was pretty lucky not to be more hurt than he is …. Just scrapes and bruises.

wilderness needs trees and other green stuff, not sand.

Thought the book was good. Pretty accomplished climber which they don’t touch on in the film really. Just unlucky with that boulder… Daft not to leave a route with some one though..

I agree takisawa2. It’s not enough of an idea/storyline to make for a decent film I think, although it’s a nice try, but left me a bit meh. You just don’t care for the guy. Into The Wild on the other hand – pretty good!

My trouble was I kept on thinking that if only he had told someone where he was going it would have been a much shorter film, and I agree I felt no empathy as a character

I haven’t seen it since it came out. Dude drank his own wee, didn’t he? Then there’s an hour of hallucinations, choppage, roll end credits.

Point Break was better.

In the book he came across as a real risk taker. Nowt wrong with that but he’d put himself and others in danger more than once through his badly thought out approach to the risk. Not that he deserves to lose his arm for it but something like this was bound to happen at some point.

Rusty and DezB, you’re on dangerous grounds there!

You’ve obviously missed the majesty of Bigelow’s masterpiece. So [dons schoolmaster hat] here comes your lesson…

Point Break is a classic of its era, featuring career defining performances from Swayze, Reeves, Petty and Busey. The plot is original, emotionally moving and über intelligent, the pacing is just the right blend of cop-ethics-pathos and seat-of-pants-flying. Plus, it’s got bank robbers dressed like former presidents… were you watching the same film?

Compared to Point Break, 127 Hours is just a wee-drinking dude who chops his arm off. Nuff said. 😉

[de-dons schoolmaster hat]

I wouldn’t say “just unlucky with that boulder“…Samurai is right: He takes so many risks and does so many stupid things in the book (fighting a bear for his food, jumping into a frozen river, leading his friends into an avalanche) it’s actually a miracle he survived long enough to get his hand trapped.

I did enjoy both the book and film though 🙂

Having read the book I thought the guy was a doosh, If I was one of his friends there is now way i would go any ware with him he’s a liability to him self and anyone around him. I swore i wouldn’t watch the film, but one damp evening i found myself stuck between A rack and a hard place (my Missis and her mother) one with the remote the other insisting i spend time with them. they put it on, i cried a little then contemplated drinking my own wee to see if it would make me hallucinate.

Anything to report ?
I surfed my first tube today ……

Classic