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-Video, 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: Yet another Everest film, but routine
Summary: 2 Stars
Filmed depictions of the ascent of Mt. Everest are beginning to pile up like firewood. This one's claim to fame is that it is in the IMAX format. However, I watched it at home on a regular screen, and that renders it very routine compared to some others I've seen. Moreover, this climb coincided with a far more fateful one in which several climbers perished. The people in this film seem to make it to the top like rabbits and then hurry back down with no drama whatsoever. Left unaddressed in this film, and in many Everest films, is the question is why these people risk their lives when this climb has become almost routine? It seems to be a personal goal for most, but the chances of dying are so high as to create questions of sanity.DVD Review: Everest DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
HI, was so grateful to get this DVD....loved it. Thanks for sending it so fast and I thought the movie was good as I had recently hiked to the base camp of Mt. Everest and what a blessing it was to see where I had just been. You are awesome. Thanks!!! xoDVD Review: Grab this one! The "45 minutes" doesn't consider the many bonus extras!
Summary: 5 Stars
Grab this DVD! If you're one of those who sees a run time of "45 minutes" and that tends to keep you moving on, don't, because there are various bonus extras on the DVD so that 'hours' of viewing is a more equitable consideration.
First of all and in addition to the 45 minute IMAX film there is the "Making of Everest" which goes into much detail and what happened during filming when the unrelated to the IMAX film 1996 Everest tragedy struck during filming and the effect of that tragedy therein. So too, there is an extended and fairly lengthy bonus interview with Dr. Beck Weathers who was part of the 1996 Everest tragedy and this extended interview is particularly moving. Then there are deleted scenes as well as climber video journals.
Speaking of Dr. Beck Weathers, I'll tell you, that extended interview was 'so' compelling and moving to watch that one would have to be made of stone not to be affected by it. He says, among other observations, when he gave up his place on the helicopter rescue [** there was only room for 'one' passenger besides the pilot due to altitude and weight considerations] to another critically injured man and not knowing whether the helo could even 'make' another return landing attempt at such high altitude [** it had never been done before [1996] at least at C1 [Camp 1] where others of the climbing community had gotten a partially frozen and almost fully blinded [by his injuries] Dr. Weathers down from Camp 4 which he managed to reach on his own] , "You have to have some sense that you behaved well ... that you did the right thing ..." and about the helo pilot [Col. Madan] who in fact came back a second time when another landing was precarious at best, "I think he did it because he 'does' have a brave heart ... ." These moments and others when Dr. Weathers recounts the horror where even his wife was informed that he was "confirmed dead" [sic] and then some hours later she gets another call saying, "It looks like he's not dead after all [!] ... but he's critically injured" and the part about being placed into the tent when he staggered into Camp 4 and administered to at least to the extent possible in an obviously isolated area but essentially, and ironically, since he had already been left for dead in the snow before getting up and staggering on to Camp IV, he's 'again' left for dead in the tent because the feeling was that no matter what medical aid had now been rendered to him, he was thought to be too far gone to survive his horrendous condition [** both his frozen hands were subsequently amputated as well as his nose, et al] and he underwent extensive reconstructive facial surgeries [plural]. It's a powerful and gripping interview and well extended from his comments in the IMAX film itself.
The film is spectacular and while you're not going to get what IMAX viewers experienced in those multiple 10-story high IMAX screens, it is nevertheless breathtaking in scope. Like various others, I follow the goings-on of both Everest and K2 climbing expeditions and endeavors .. and the often high 'cost' of those summits. It once again makes the 'fact' that accidents/disasters on places like Everest and K2 [et al] happen more on the 'descent' versus the 'ascent' where the weather or sudden serac fallings are always an often unpredictable factor to reckon with as the recent disaster on K2 [August 1, 2008], where 11 seasoned climbers were killed, tragically demonstrates.
Doc Tony
DVD Review: Bafflingly dull -- how was this possible?
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading "Into Thin Air" and "The Climb" and a dozen or more online articles, I remember having watched this film -- Brashears comes across as nothing short of a hero in "Into Thin Air" -- how, then, is it possible that this film is so dull? The score is intrusive, nearly comically so -- is there a plot?
I don't understand how this film could be as... dull as it is. Was it bad editing? I just don't comprehend how this film could be anything less than stellar, yet it is.
"Hey, guys, we hauled a big camera up Everest. Neat, huh?" And that's about it. Something of a disappointment.
DVD Review: how not to photograph climbing mt. everest
Summary: 1 Stars
this is a MUST NOT buy. the commentary sounds as if it were written by a teenager. the story -too short- spends too little time on the climb and too much on extraneous matters. climbing mt. everest is a horrendously difficult task but this movie makes it appear not too hard. there are a few scenes of climbing and though i accept the photos taken at the summit are real, all the others could have been taken anywhere there was snow and ice. if this is the best these movie makers could do, they should look for another day job.
unfortunately my copy, new, was bothered by a sound track with bad hum and noise, so loud that at times the commentary, thankfully, could not be heard.
this is not recommended for adding to anyone's collection.
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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