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Summary: If you haven't seen Everst, you haven't experienced life.
Review: I first saw this movie with my class, but had to see it again. Even my 5-year-old brother came the second time. He loved it! I'm planning to order it right after it comes out, but it won't be the same as seeing it on an IMAX screen, but my family does have a 35 inch t.v; so it will be almost as breath-taking. If you haven't seen it, you've got a lot of catching up to do.
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Summary: Breathtaking! A must have for your video collection!
Review: I have seen this IMAX movie 4 times, it gets better each time. It won't be the same on your TV, but it is truly one of the best movies I have ever seen. It may change your life, you seem to loose yourself for about 45 min. or so, I did. After viewing this IMAX movie I have made a promise to myself - before I die, I will see Mt.Everest, I will not climb it, but I will, at one point in my life stand in front of it!
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Summary: Made me want to be up there even more!! I cried!!!!!
Review: Next best thing to having an IMAX screen in your home. Made you feel like you were really there..I shivered right along with them and when they reached the summit, I cried!!! For someone who dreams of climbing Mt. Everest this was incredible. Avalanches coming at the camera, footage of the storm, and even a small clip of Rob Hall's transmissions while stuck on the summit make this a must see. If you've read Into Thin Air and The Climb, or any other accounts of the 1996 Everest disaster, you MUST see this film!!! Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
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Summary: why I would never climb Mt. Everest
Review: This is one of the best IMAX movies that I have ever seen. The footage is so incredible (how did they get the camera up there?) that you feel like you are actually there. This movie confirms the fact that I would never climb the moutain!
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Summary: next best to seeing it on the IMAX screen
Review: A little dissapointing after seeing the movie on the IMAX screen, but still has the spectacular scenery and beautiful music. Since I can't bring IMAX into my home, this is the next best thing.
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Summary: The Harsh realities of Everest
Review: This quote from: mkirkland5@email.msn.com from Champaign, IL "totally portrays Everest as your basic summer vacation". A viewer from Santa Barbara, CA. , May 21, 1999 called Everest a "Fantasy flick" IMAX has only extended the far-fetched dream of Everest to the masses of unexperienced people who might be led to think that climbing Everest is not an exceptional feat. I read these reviews before watching the movie and I can honestly say: The only fantasy in the film is the life the viewer from Santa Barbara is living in. Oh my god, where do I begin? This flick is filled with nothing but harsh atrocities and unbelievable camera angles. Camera crews managed to capture portions of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest. This includes the last conversation between Rob Hall and his wife (7 months pregnant) as they named their unborn baby before Hall's untimely death. If that didn't pull at your heart then you don't have a pulse. The team was forced to cross icy crevices over 25 feet in length over a makeshift aluminum ladder pulled together with some blue rope. Beck (part of Hall's party), nearly lost his life. Instead he wound up losing both hands to frostbite, half of his nose, and two of his toes. And they even had the gruesome before and after closeup photos to punctuate. The loss of life of half of Hall's party. The use of oxygen canisters due to the lack of oxygen. The grueling bike training over the desert. You call this your "basic summer vacation"?!? I'd like to know what do during your summer vacations mkirkland! Then again, maybe not. This film is harsh, period. Anyone who says otherwise like the boneheads above are full of it. I really do not appreciate irresponsible reviews. I, like many others, actually read these reviews and use them to judge whether or not to see a flick.
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Summary: How do they....DO that?
Review: Since reading "Into Thin Air", I have become a virtual Everest '96 hound, and this is my first quarry. The IMAX team's goal on Everest was to film David Breashear's expedition in that fateful year, focusing primarily on Ed Viesturs, a seasoned climber from the States, and Araceli Segarra, in her quest to be the first Spanish woman to reach the summit. A lot of attention, deservedly so, is paid as well to Jangbu Sherpa, son of Tenzing Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary in his premier trip to the summit. And watching these climbers was riveting--ascending sheer sheets of ice, yards high, that look as though they are leaning in towards the climber; crossing bottomless chasms by placing an aluminum work ladder from one side to the other, and using it as a bridge; and feeling (in part through the excellent cinematography) the pull the mountain exerts on them to continue on. But I was floored, completely, by the thought of the cinematic team following along, all the way to the top, regardless of the weight and awkwardness of the equipment. For example, in the aforementioned aluminum ladder scene, shots seem to be taken from each side of the chasm. Had they carried that heavy equipment accross that ladder? And, once they came down from such a difficult and draining climb, they still managed to piece together a marvelous film. The cinematography, once again, is gorgeous. Shots of the mountain convey not only its beauty, but its terrifying danger, as ice and whirling snow tower over the climbers, as a rescue helicopter wavers, uncertainly, as Liam Nelson explains the scientific impossibility of a helicopter to work in such thin air (it does). Seeing the Icefall alone, I think, was worth the price I paid for the video. Warning: If you get this movie expecting it to be a documentary covering the Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness Expeditions, chronicled in "Into Thin Air", you will be disappointed. The IMAX expedition was unrelated to the others, and of course the crew could not predict that those expeditions might yield more interesting, if tragic, results. But the teams do interact with each other when it becomes clear that members are facing unexpected danger. I enjoyed "meeting" many of the folks I had read about. Finally, "Everest", the film, stands on its own. With a terrific story in Araceli Segarra, wonderful images from Utah and Spain as well as Nepal, and a score assisted by George Harrison melodies, it provides a great armchair journey to the top of the world.
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Summary: Definatly Worth It
Review: I have read both "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, and "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev, and I must say this film was made very well. Although it didn't portray all the details of the 1996 tradgedy, it portrayed enough to give the general public a good sense of what happened. If you like this DVD, then be sure to read the two books mentioned earlier, they are very well written. As for the rest of the film, the footage is breathtaking. From Kathmandu, to the southeast ridge, the IMAX film crew did a great job of getting everything in with the small amount of footage they had. The film is just the beginning too. The Special Features are many, and include deleted footage, "The Making of Everest" and my favorite, the interactive map. Finally, the film has an EXCELLENT soundtrack by George Harrison, one of the overlooked features of the film. Overall, if you would like to get to know about Everest, this is a mandatory piece for your collection.
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Summary: Stunning Visual Landscape Of Mt Everest
Review: I viewed this film on a 13" TV and the visual landscape was fantastic. For those fortunate to see the IMAX version of this same film I can only imagine how wonderful the views of the top of the world must be. "Everest" is a dramatic story - a daring adventure of triumph over tragedy surrounding the events of the storm that claimed eight lives at the top of Mt Everest in 1996.
The film is narrated by Liam Neeson who does an excellent job of narration. "Everest" will take you over creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs until you are standing on the summit of Mt Everest along with the climbers.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was in Nepal in 1996, the year of the disaster on Everest. I met David Brashears and Aracelli Segarra. They are impressive people and what they did in the service of the hapless climbers (putting their expedition on hold to help the rescue efforts, lending their oxygen tanks, etc.) should all by itself have made an incredible story. Beck Weathers' incredible against-all-odds survival and the heroism of the Nepali Air Force chopper pilot who rescued him are in the movie but could have figured larger. In fact, there was so much more that could have been done with this movie that it was almost anticlimactic to watch. Very disappointing, considering the subject. Also, the visuals were by-and-large not as impressive as previous IMAX movies I have seen. If you want to experience a real nail-biting version of the Everest disaster of 1996 you must read Jon Krakauer's excellent and definitive book "Into Thin Air." So far, nothing exceeds it.
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