Saturday, April 4, 2009

Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger is considered a climbing classic, although it is reviled in climbing circles as being grossly inaccurate, and it's now available on Hulu. The only accurate-looking climbing in the movie is during the opening scene. The rest of the climbing basically consists of insane campus and dyno moves. In fact, I can't do a single move shown in the movie. The movie also features an insane bolt gun, that fires bolts (which, in real life, are a total pain in the ass to install) directly into rock. We wish! Even so, the movie's pretty fun. The bad guy sucks, but all the good guys are likable. I was impressed with the movie itself, which I watched spontaneously, but I'm becoming more and more critical the more I read about it...

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