The Ascent (2010)

Has anyone seen this movie? Is it as amazing as it looks? I must know!

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The ice axe fight in the desert looks amazing!

I'm gong to make a movie trailer next time I go out, haha! I'm kind of clueless as to why I saw any ice axes at all in that clip. I didn't see anything but rock climbing but it does make a pretty easy way to kill someone so I guess I can see why it was included in the clip. Sick Movie!!

Owen Darrow wrote:I'm gong to make a movie trailer next time I go out, haha! I'm kind of clueless as to why I saw any ice axes at all in that clip. I didn't see anything but rock climbing but it does make a pretty easy way to kill someone so I guess I can see why it was included in the clip. Sick Movie!!

Lol without the ice axes, they can't make a fight scene in this movie! I guess the director may think, ok we just add the axes in to make the action scenes :)

Baahaha! wtf? The Requiem for a Dream score makes it seem sooo draaamatic......

Pinklebear wrote:Check out the heroic double-toprope sideways spot/fall-check at 1:34. Brilliant.

I was going to post on that, too. I thougt it was supposed to be the belayer catching her, though… what if we go with simul-toprope?

yeah I'd rely on that guy catching me a whole lot more than that skinny string I'm tied into....

Bang wrote: Lol without the ice axes, they can't make a fight scene in this movie! I guess the director may think, ok we just add the axes in to make the action scenes :)

What about carabiners as brass knuckles? That would be wicked. My only hope from preview is that they all die somehow....just a peaceful mountain sky in the credits.

Pinklebear wrote:Looks like a great film, except everyone knows that you don't bring a straight-shafted tool to an ice-axe fight—curved shaft only.

According to IMDb, this was a low-budget movie. No expensive ice tools. They were supposed to shoot in Alaska, but had to switch to Austin, TX. Adapting the script to the new locale would have taken time and money. On the positive side, they don't seem to be carrying nitroglycerin in their chalk bags. (Maybe it's on the negative side.)