In 20 years climbing films have gone from my treasured worn out VHS copy of Stick It, to something that just won an Oscar. Quite the change. Off topic: I absolutely loved Stick It. Would be amazing if it made it onto the internet at some point. I'd buy it.
style overrode quality.
Finally getting to see this on Wednesday at the local indie. Have they got the usual trailers etc beforehand? just trying to figure out timings, to either squeeze in a climbing session either before or after.
Free Solo must be the first climbing movie I've seen since Jean-Paul Janssen's extraordinary films about Edlinger that has used Foley artists to recreate the sounds of climbing.
As it is well known that an iPhone-movie with high-quality sound looks better than anything captured with a real film camera but with cheap mikes, or – worse – sound from location
John Long was born to narrate this kind of thing.
Quote from: cheque on March 12, 2019, 10:08:30 amJohn Long was born to narrate this kind of thing. Yeah, one non-climber friend who watched (and loved) the film was hugely entertained by him.I had the great joy of springing this photo on her: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/18/obituaries/18bridwell-obit2/17bridwell-elcapitan-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale
I enjoyed it though. John Long was born to narrate this kind of thing.
I realise that I’m setting you up for a characteristically pompous confirmation of your highbrow standards here but you can’t have watched many recent major US climbing films.