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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Went back and watched the movie again.
More girlfriend stuff than I remember for the first viewing, but that's how you draw in a larger non-climbing audience. Great documentary that should be seen on the big screen.
Interesting takes on the Croft scene. I agree with what Kingtut posted.
Pretty much the only guy on earth that can challenge Alex like that is Croft and his input was invaluable to how Alex went back up and TR'd a better sequence. Even being up there with Sanni and falling was an essential part of the process and made him up his game.
Dang, toward the end of the movie I really had to pee bad. Alex is young, but if he had to, which pitch could Alex stop to pee on during that 4 hour free solo? ;-)
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Gene
climber
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Alex is young, but if he had to, which pitch could Alex stop to pee on during that 4 hour free solo?
The Sewer Pitch
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Bale
Mountain climber
UT
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Has the Rich Roll podcast been mentioned? Kinda long but I found it riveting.
For you Moabites, are they gonna have a showing down here? I only found northern UT stuff on Nat Geo.
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Dang, toward the end of the movie I really had to pee bad. Alex is young, but if he had to, which pitch could Alex stop to pee on during that 4 hour free solo? ;-)
Like everyone I'm sure, I hope he looks back at this in a few decades and laughs. Till then, maybe he'll stop sometimes, look at those around him, a bit more wobbly, or hunched over, and laugh. If anyone has peed further, it is because he stood...
edit: he's the man. he put in work, went up there and he got it. no mas eh?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Ah ha....Alex and I have something in common...I pee at about that rate every night.
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Nov 10, 2018 - 08:25pm PT
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I'm saying it grosses at least $50 Million world wide when its all said and done....
Has it aired overseas yet? My guess is it will go over better in Europe than in the states.
More on Alex peeing.
No wonder he doesn't post here.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2018 - 06:02am PT
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Alex, Jimmy, Chai, Clair, and Mikey Schaefer bring home the bacon!
"... NatGeo’s vertiginous climbing movie “Free Solo,” also took home three Critics’ Choice documentary awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA). Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Free Solo” won Best Sports Documentary, Best Innovative Documentary, and Best Cinematography."
"Host Bill Nye lead the celebration of this year’s honorees for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary — Scotty Bowers (“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“RBG”), Alex Honnold (“Free Solo”), Joan Jett (“Bad Reputation”), Quincy Jones (“Quincy”), David Kellman and Bobby Shafran (“Three Identical Strangers”), John McEnroe (“John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection”), and Leon Vitali (“Filmworker”)."
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-wins-best-documentary-critics-choice-award-1202019665/
(Note:Its hard for a climbing movie to beat Mr. Rogers.)
Full list here:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2018-critics-choice-documentary-awards-winners-full-list-1153639/item/2018-critics-choice-documentary-award-noms-best-documentary-1152229
Props to the team!
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:01am PT
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Wall of the Setting Sun. Great photo DMT.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2018 - 08:10am PT
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I'm saying it grosses at least $50 Million world wide when its all said and done....
Has it aired overseas yet? My guess is it will go over better in Europe than in the states.
"Free Solo" has not yet aired overseas to my knowledge, and may in fact do better in Europe. The British climbing docudrama "Touching the Void" only grossed $4.6m domestically (US), but more than twice as much, $10.8 m, internationally (with a production budget of $2m). Free Solo has already grossed $8.1m domestically and is still in its theatrical run. It would be easy to imagine $15m domestically and another $30m internationally. Time will tell.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Nov 13, 2018 - 11:40am PT
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I saw this over the weekend. I liked it much more than I thought I would... I was hesitant about the packaging, marketing and glamorization of something that seems pretty personal and is so dangerous. After seeing the movie it didn't come off that way to me; rather, it seemed more of a character study of a very unique person. I thought some of the middle parts could have been edited out but I think that about almost every documentary I watch.
I of course knew Honnold was successful but I still couldn't watch him do the final sequence of the boulder problem- I reacted by covering my eyes!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 13, 2018 - 03:50pm PT
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After watching Solo several times and reading dozens of reviews and evaluations from dozens of perspectives, I realized most all of them were "true" - from that perspective. Ultimately, Solo was about someone's experience, and attempting to translate that into objective terms reminds me of the old Oscar Hammerstein lyric from South Pacific:
Who can understand it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons;
Wise men never try ...
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Nov 14, 2018 - 10:47am PT
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Saw Free Solo last night at our local theater brewpub. Sold out, excellent story/film, even knowing the outcome, the excitement/relief for Alex when he completes the boulder problem was palpable in the theater.
Funniest part was Alex shopping for a refrigerator with his girlfriend.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 14, 2018 - 11:37am PT
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Saw it last night also. Don't think I could have sat through it if I hadn't known the outcome. Kept thinking of doing laps on the boulders at Stony Point, all moves that were totally wired, and then one day finding myself unexpectedly on the ground after falling about 12 or so feet and not having any sense at all of what happened. How easy it can be to not be fully there for just a second, and then? Monumental achievement beautifully filmed.
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