By Sunny-D
From SLC, Utah
Dec 1, 2009
| I am looking for movies that are about climbing or have climbing scenes in them?
Alien vs. Predetor
Cliff Hanger
K2
Vertical Limit
Seven Years in Tibet
Eiger Sanction
Failure to Launch
For your Eyes Only (James Bond)
Third Man on the Mountain
I know there are a ton out there and I need MP'ers Help finding them. | 
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By Peter Franzen
Administrator
From Phoenix, AZ
Dec 1, 2009
| The Descent has some climbing in it. |
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By Erik W
From Bay Area, CA
Dec 1, 2009
| The Mountain. Cool movie to watch... much better than the standard crap about climbing. Although Eiger Sanction was cool too. |
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By Daniel Trugman
From Los Alamos, NM / Stanford, CA
Dec 1, 2009
| Mission Impossible 2 has a (free-solo) climbing scene at the beginning. |
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By Adam Block
From Tucson, AZ
Dec 1, 2009
| Jeremy Monahan wrote: Take It To The Limit. Possibly the worst movie I have watched, this cinematic excretion redefines cheesy, and takes toproping to new heights of ridiculous. www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi143130905/ Seriously, that's a real movie? WTF! "Up 5% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro." My guess would be because of your post! |
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By Will Butler
From Boulder, CO
Dec 1, 2009
| Scrapple has some great scenes of climbing on the Ophir Wall outside Telluride. One of the best mountain culture movies ever. |
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By Woodchuck ATC
Dec 1, 2009
| Double Jeopardy....several movies took that name, but this one has I think a Judd sister in it. Opening scenes with a dumbass climbing disaster again....and then they stole the same idea for Vertical Limit a couple years later. Must be hard to find original material when it comes to a hollywood climbing movie.
AND you can't forget the awesome episode of Seinfeld where George and Kramer go rock climbing. Kramer in lycra, that's worth it alone. |
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By John Bradbury
Dec 1, 2009
| Axe
The Descent
Wrong Turn
North by Northwest
The Princess Bride
The Good Son
Deliverance
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Touching the Void
The White Tower
High Conquest
The Challenge
Scream of Stone
Tristan und Isolde
The Golden Compass
Storm and Sorrow
Summer of Storms
The Bat
A breed Apart
Shoot to Kill
Saftey Last
The Mission
The Mountain
Guns of Navarone
Seven Years in Tibet |
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By Mark Cushman
From Cumming, GA
Dec 1, 2009
| Deliverance
Mr. and Mrs. Smith - Angelina Jolie shows how EXTREEM she is by rock climbing on her "vacation" |
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By Aimee Bates
Dec 1, 2009
| Pretty sweet climbing by Matthew Mcconaughey in Failure to Launch. Lol. |
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By James Beissel
From Boulder, CO
Dec 1, 2009
| nobody mentioned "Everest"
(not the documentary, the one with William Shatner and the guy from 90210) |
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By Jim Gloeckler
From Denver, Colo.
Dec 1, 2009
| One other bond movie when he is buildering in Vegas with a gun that shoots pitons. Forgot the title. |
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By Jerry W
From Rapid City, SD
Dec 1, 2009
| "Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein", by Herzog no less.
Strange movie; not great. If it hadn't been 11:00 pm in Nipigon in March I probably would have tried to find something better to do. Lots of great footage of Stefan Glowacz soloing though. www.imdb.com/title/tt0102855/plotsummary |
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By Chris Wenker
From Santa Fe
Dec 1, 2009
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl |
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By KevinCO
From Loveland, CO
Dec 1, 2009
| 'Five Days One Summer'
www.imdb.com/title/tt0083947/
The only one i could think of that hasn't been listed. (Which Bond movie has the climbing scenes on the conglomerate towers in Greece?)
...except for maybe 'Alive' and 'Seven Years in Tibet' and 'Nordwand'
'The Mountain' is a classic (and it teaches you to use gloves while hip belaying). |
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By cjdrover
From Somerville, MA
Dec 1, 2009
| The Cave - Trad leading underground, and I can't remember, but there might even be ice climbing, too. Oh, and mutated Spetznaz devil creatures. |
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By J mac
Dec 1, 2009
| 300
I saw an episode of MacGyver where he uses tent stakes for petons! Awesome. |
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By R. Moran
From Moab , UT
Dec 1, 2009
| Anything with Ron Jeremy. I have climbed sport routes shorter than that. |
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By Dave Cummings
From Grand Junction, CO
Dec 1, 2009
| K2 is the only movie I have seen where the climbing is really well done. If you haven't seen it go watch it now. It is about the first two americans to climb K2. |
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By Jim Sweeney
Dec 1, 2009
| Sunny,
Does it need to be humans? Cause Frodo and Gollum do some climbing in the Lord of the Rings. The second installment if I remember correctly.
It looked mostly like 4th class stuff, but I've heard that Gollum could pull down some numbers when he roped up.
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By Woodchuck ATC
Dec 1, 2009
| Dave Cummings wrote: K2 is the only movie I have seen where the climbing is really well done. If you haven't seen it go watch it now. It is about the first two americans to climb K2.
?? K2 the well known hollywood movie, or some climbing film/ documentary? The hollywood one is well known, and based on a 2 man one act play from about 3 years before the film. It mainly focused on the inner thoughts, lives of the 2 climbers in their struggle to survive afer a fall and injury. Even the on stage version had realism, where they created a 40 ft. high awesome styro 'ice wall to climb and the actors did real climbing with real gear. Often they called in local climbers to check for realism or gear loans to create the scene. I helped in such a way with a local Jr.college who presented K2 in their programs one year. |
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By Mike Lane
From Centennial, CO
Dec 1, 2009
| Chris Drover wrote: The Cave - Trad leading underground, and I can't remember, but there might even be ice climbing, too. Oh, and mutated Spetznaz devil creatures.
That was The Descent, already mentioned. The trad climb scene looks to me as an actual "pitch", albeit in a cave over an abyss. Best depiction of rock climbing in a commercial flick.
The cave demons are a metaphor for sport climbers, btw. |
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