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Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $4.00! Cast: |
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Breathtaking
People who give this film a low rating are probably a little confused. This is not, I repeat NOT, a film about the events that happened to Rob Hall's and Scott Fisher's commercial teams in 1996. IF you did actually read the book (which I doubt some of the reviewers have since they seem to be so confused) "Into Thin Air" you would have known that the IMAX team was a completely different team, made up of world class climbers, that was filming their OWN documentery about climbing Everest. They agreed to attempt the summit at a latter date than the two above mentioned teams so as to not get in the way. Get it? This is a flim about Everest and attempting to conquer it and NOT about those tragic events. Yes, it does touch upon these because the IMAX team was on the mountain when they happened and because they were instrumential in helping many of the stricken climbers. This team dropped its own summit asperations to help the other climbs by donating their equipment (batteries, oxygen, and such) to the other climbers and even helping some of the stricken climbers down. Now, having said all that, this is a breathtakingly beautifully shot film with impressive panaramic visuals and helps the other 99.9% of the rest of us who will never climb Everest to gain some sort of insight into what it takes to overcome this uncaring mountain. I am also fully impressed by that fact that someone had to carry the camera and film up the mountain! That is an amazing feat by itself. I highly recommend this film to anyone, however if you are looking for a film about the tragic events that occured in 1996 this is not it! But I would still recommend this to you because it is essential to helping with some of the visuals of the book and does go over the detials a bit. Before watching this I had a hard time visualizing some of the features of the mountain, mainly due to lack of experience and understanding of mountain climbing. Make no mistake, this is one film you NEED to see.
Mediocre, at best!
I have read "Into Thin Air" and watched the Discovery Channel series on Mt. Everest, so I received this DVD with great anticipation. However, my excitement dissolved quickly due to the cheesy music, awful special effects, lack of drama, and poor landscape visuals. I was completely bored. It was a waste of 45 minutes.
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