THE DUDE THAT CUT HIS ARM OFF
127 Hours is a fitting name for this movie. It felt that long.
This cocky climber dude that listens to Phish and doesnt answer his phone falls in a deep hole and gets his arm crushed by a rock. The same actor that played the drug dealer in Pineapple Express, and he has the same look on his face, kind of like hes mildly stoned, through the entire movie, even when his arm gets crushed. He seems mostly concerned that the batteries on his video camera wont run out.
Some of you will enjoy the fact that he even drinks piss, and out of a Camel Bak water delivery system, no less. High tech, for sure. He misses his mom and his ex-girlfriend a lot while he is in the hole, waiting to die. He does have a nice watch, but its much bigger than the kind I would wear.
The Climax. He cuts his arm off to save himself. With a cheap knock-off multi-tool. Pretty gnarly, especially when he realizes he cant cut through bone so he has to break his arm as well.
I was impressed more with the fact that he repelled, one armed, down a cliff face. Thats ballsy. The people that find him are more confused than him, and he has to tell them what to do.
At the end you get to see the real guy, sitting on a couch with his new wife. He still looks like hes in shock. That has to suck.
I was very impressed with this story when it came out. The guy wanted to live, and he did what he needed to. Most people wouldnt have lasted a day down there, and would have given up and died of fear. wallowing in self pity.
But I dont think they needed to make a movie out of it.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
127 Hours is a fitting name for this movie. It felt that long.
This cocky climber dude that listens to Phish and doesnt answer his phone falls in a deep hole and gets his arm crushed by a rock. The same actor that played the drug dealer in Pineapple Express, and he has the same look on his face, kind of like hes mildly stoned, through the entire movie, even when his arm gets crushed. He seems mostly concerned that the batteries on his video camera wont run out.
Some of you will enjoy the fact that he even drinks piss, and out of a Camel Bak water delivery system, no less. High tech, for sure. He misses his mom and his ex-girlfriend a lot while he is in the hole, waiting to die. He does have a nice watch, but its much bigger than the kind I would wear.
The Climax. He cuts his arm off to save himself. With a cheap knock-off multi-tool. Pretty gnarly, especially when he realizes he cant cut through bone so he has to break his arm as well.
I was impressed more with the fact that he repelled, one armed, down a cliff face. Thats ballsy. The people that find him are more confused than him, and he has to tell them what to do.
At the end you get to see the real guy, sitting on a couch with his new wife. He still looks like hes in shock. That has to suck.
I was very impressed with this story when it came out. The guy wanted to live, and he did what he needed to. Most people wouldnt have lasted a day down there, and would have given up and died of fear. wallowing in self pity.
But I dont think they needed to make a movie out of it.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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xenah:
The first problem he had was that he was listening to Phish hahaha 
olsen:
I was writing you this whole long thing about my editing, but it got embarassingly long for a comment, so I'm posting it as a blog and you'll have to find it 