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<p>Krakauaer is not happy about Everest <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/72532387/journalist-jon-krakauer-furious-at-his-depiction-in-everest'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/72532387/journalist-jon-krakauer-furious-at-his-depiction-in-everest</a></p>
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<p>Although it is pretty much what he wrote apart from giving the russian guy more credit for what he did which Krakauaer himself said he was due anyway.</p> -
Silly headline. What Krakauer is saying is simply not to think you know the story just by watching the movie and is promoting his book at the same time. The movie had to leave a lot out so that it didn't confuse viewers and focus on the main characters. They leave out completely the amazing attempt at rescue by Ang Dorje and other Sherpas which is a pity. <br>
Interesting aside, Ang Dorje now lives in the US as a wind turbine engineer but returns each year to the Himalaya as a guide during climbing season. -
To be fair I haven't seen the movie yet but was going by the interview with Jan Arnold when she said that playing down their part was unfortunate but she understood the film makers reasons. <br>
IIRC Ang Dorjee gets within 250m of Hall during the night and had to turn back. It's still something he won't talk about. Mrs. C spent a bit of time with him on the way to EBC last year and says 1996 was a subject you just avoided. -
The movie shows him and two other guys trying to bash their way through the storm as they try to climb to Hall while the others at base camp follow their progress on the radio . It's quite a powerful scene because you know once they fail Halls only hope is to climb down himself .
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<p>The movie shows him and two other guys trying to bash their way through the storm as they try to climb to Hall while the others at base camp follow their progress on the radio . It's quite a powerful scene because you know once they fail Halls only hope is to climb down himself .</p>
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<p>I remember that scene, but I guess the issue was that it wasn't specific enough in highlighting it was the Sherpas and that they had been tirelessly trying to reach him. I think a couple of different cuts to the footage might have highlighted it better.</p>
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<p>I think the one scene that Krakauer has an issue with (likely legitimately) - the one where he's asked to help and says he wont - might cloud his judgement of the movie. I've been flicking through his book a bit in the last few days, and although it's not credited as one of the movie sources the filmakers clearly referred to it when they made the movie.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="521463" data-time="1443516298"><p>I remember that scene, but I guess the issue was that it wasn't specific enough in highlighting it was the Sherpas and that they had been tirelessly trying to reach him. I think a couple of different cuts to the footage might have highlighted it better.<br>
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I think the one scene that Krakauer has an issue with (likely legitimately) - the one where he's asked to help and says he wont - might cloud his judgement of the movie. I've been flicking through his book a bit in the last few days, and although it's not credited as one of the movie sources the filmakers clearly referred to it when they made the movie.</p></blockquote>
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Well it looked like what they were trying to do was incredibly hard given the conditions and having to turn back must have been an incredibly tough call. In the book Krakauaer said he was too spent to help so I don't think there's an issue there other than he didn't really have a good take on what the badass Russian did and he since admitted he regrets that . Didn't he say in the article he hasn't even seen the movie?<br><br>
To summarise this appeared in stuff the same day they referred to Brendon Pongia as a former all black . -
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<p>I see Marvel are looking at remaking Blade. I loved that movie as a kid, Wesley Snipes was bad ass.</p>
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<p>Saw the movie, don't remember much. Never read the comic. But this past year I read the entire Marv Wolfman/Gene Colan "Tomb of Dracula" series published by Marvel in the early 1970s, where Blade was born and quite a few issues ran with him. Made me curious if they'd do an "origin-pic" that included Dracula, but then maybe they already did? As I said, I don't remember the movies very well at all. </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="522227" data-time="1443769037"><p>Blade is pretty much the only comic book movie franchise I like. I generally loathe marvel movies though.</p></blockquote>
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Saw the final Hobbit film. Liked this one best by far even if the dude playing Thoran made Eric Roberts proud with his overacting.<br><br>
Entourage. Quite liked the show, but the film was pretty crap. Apart from one rather impressive sex scene that is. Fark Hayley Joel Osmend is a fat fooker these days. Still a good actor though. -
<p>For the Aussie-based Ferners, we took the kids to see Oddball today, based (loosely) on a true story about the Maremma dogs trained to protect Fairy Penguins from the local foxes in coastal Victoria.</p>
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<p>Bit of license taken of course, and typical "family" film with a few loose moments and timeline continuity that had me scratching my head. But heaps of laughs for the kids, some for the adults when one of the minor players gets shot with a tranquiliser gun, and generally not a bad use of 90 minutes. Unless, on the last day of school holidays, you'd like to just watch your kids murder each other.</p>
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<p>The factual account of the Maremma dogs in Middle Island (Warrnambool, Victoria) is here:</p>
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<p>Nick thats been getting quite a bit of coverage over here too, not sure its going to come out at the movies but the docos and making of have already been on tv.</p>
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<p>Talking of saving penguins ,theres a good comedy to made about the idiocy of saving the Emperor penguin that was stupidly named happy feet . I vote the ending involves a great white breaching as he smashes the highly unendangered waste of resources out of the southern ocean.</p> -
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<p>No, it was more convoluted than that, no Dracula. Marvel seems to be leaning more on the comic origins these days, so the reboot might revisit that.</p>
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<p>In that original Tomb of Dracula comicbook, the title role was "played" by Jack Palance.</p>
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<p><img src="https://comiclists.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/likeness-dracula.jpg" alt="likeness-dracula.jpg"></p>
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<p>Gene Colan would go into cinemas to watch movies with Jack Palance starring and take snapshots right off the movie screen for photo reference.</p>
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<p>A year-or-so after that comic began, Palance was actually cast in the same role playing Dracula...</p>
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<p>In Tomb of Dracula, Draucula would travel through time, back to the age of, say, pirates, then to the present. The Blade series ran for quite a few issues. He was a sort of cliche jive-yalkin' funky early-1970s black street hipster wearing big shades, and did kinda resemble Wesley Snipes. I have no idea how the character was developed when he got his own line of comic books.</p> -
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<p>The Martian: I thought this was great. Of space movies starring <strong>Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain</strong> I thought this one was better than Interstellar. Kind of like Castaway on Mars with Damon playing Hanks and a webcam playing Wilson.</p>
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<p>Have they been in other space movies together?</p>
