Everest (Large Format)
by David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson
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Actor: Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs, Lhakpa Dorji, Liam Neeson, Muktu Lhakpa SherpaDirector: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson
Brand: Everest
Producer: Greg MacGillivray
Producer: Stephen Judson
Writer: Stephen Judson
Producer: Alec Lorimore
Writer: Tim Cahill
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: IMAX, 1.33:1
Running Time: 44 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Miramax
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DVD Reviews of Everest (Large Format)
DVD Review: Famous Film, Bad Quality Media
Summary: 3 Stars
Short (45min.), quasi-plot-driven, and too brief for character development, it could have been better. That being said, it's IMAX film, so the fact they got one of those hulking cameras up to the summit *makes* this film.
Unfortunately, this DVD-quality 4:3 version doesn't do the cinematography and film quality justice. Wait for the blu-ray version.
DVD Review: Nice Video. Lacks Details
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall a nice video. I got this after reading the books "Into the Thin Air and The Climb" that details 2 versions of the 1996 tragedy in Mt.Everest, the worst in its history. While the cinematography is excellent the film lacks the details that I was looking for. Overall a nice collection to have.DVD Review: Very well done - and left me wanting more
Summary: 4 Stars
Having just a wee bit of climbing experience, it is absolutely unfathomable how they got the IMAX equipment up there to film this. Absolute beautiful cinematography, and an exciting story make this film a winner, and left me wanting for more. This is an IMAX film, so it's rather short (they all are) but I had wished that they could have made an additional film that delved more into the tragedies that they witnessed that day. That said, this is a definite *must see*, well done, informative movie with breathtaking scenes.DVD Review: Eye candy only
Summary: 2 Stars
If you're into eye candy, this will fit the bill. But given the context of the 1996 disaster on Everset and Krakauer's book about it, this is a strange film, made during a historic disaster on Everest and barely mentioning it even though the film crew was part of the attempt at the rescue. It's very odd that this whole thing is only about 45 minutes, given the scale and scope of what happened in May 1996. As for that, the best part of the DVD is the extended interview with Beck Weathers, in the bonus stuff, not in the film itself. Here in the obligatory thrown in stuff you have the real story of what really happened in May 1996 on Everest. Beck Is a movie unto himself, as is the whole May 10-12 effort of everyone who was up there then, including the Imax film project. Their efforts to help the stranded hikers way up above, including offering to give up oxygen tanks to potential rescue teams, gets barely a mention. Come on! Give yourselves some credit other than in the Bonus Material! In the main, this is a self-indulgent piece of cinematography, fun to look at, but edited in the wrong way for the conditions under which it was actually filmed and in which the film crew actually experienced the disaster. It had the potential to capitalize on its situation, adapt, adopt abd improvise, but it seems that the predetermined script held sway. Consider also most of what is in the bonus features--the suits, sitting on snow capped peaks (not Everest) much later talking about how the goal of the movie was to make a movie and bring some heavy camera equipment to the top of Everest. They missed a historic opportunity to grab what happened and instead stuck to just a mundane let's-get-the-camera-to-the-top visual spectacular.
Don't buy it, and if you really must, just rent it. Read Jon Krakauer instead.
DVD Review: Amazong footage
Summary: 4 Stars
The footage was absolutely beautiful on this video. However, I wish it were a little longer and had gone into more detail.
Description of Everest (Large Format)
Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world's tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, "the most hyperrealistic format yet invented," says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, EVEREST is a rich, dramatic story -- a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.Filmed in the IMAX format, this film had the luck (or lack thereof) to be shot during the same fateful and fatal climb of Mount Everest chronicled in Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, in which a group of rich hobby climbers found themselves trapped by a blizzard near the summit. The IMAX film contains footage of those people, but focuses on its own group, as they make their assault on the top of the world's highest peak. Some startling footage of the mountain and the approaches--and, as in Krakauer's book, the depiction of what is involved in this kind of adventure (particularly the pain and suffering)--makes you wonder exactly where the fun is. But documentary film is about showing you something you're not likely to see otherwise, and this movie certainly fills the bill. --Marshall Fine
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