Everest

Good, but leaves one wanting more.
Beautifully filmed, but the music is almost enough to sink this ship. Cloying orchestral realizations of Beatles tunes, etc. really horrible to hear. Also adds to the tendency of this film to over-emotionalize.

Captures the Spirit of the Mountain
This wasn't my first time watching this IMAX film, and it probably won't be my last.

On this particular occasion, I rented the movie after watching the TV movie Death on Everest based on the work Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Although the movie was interesting, the acting and sets left something to be desired. I had a clearer picture of the sequence of events that night but little else. I didn't get a feel for what being on that mountain really was like. Well, as much as one can understand from the couch.

For that, I needed to watch Everest where the mountain comes to life. You get a true sense of the incredible scale and allure of the mountain, as well as the nature of the climb itself. You always hear about the exhaustion a climber feels in the Death Zone, but it doesn't really hit home until you see the climber take a single step in the snow and then breathe like they've just run a marathon. You can see into the depths of the bottomless crevasse and gaze up...



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