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Jimbo
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 Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:14 pm |
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Seen it ? Great movie.
Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians
Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians
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Chico
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Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:34 pm |
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No plans to. Doubt I could take it. I'd be out of my mind watching her make all the stupid moves not having a clue what she was doing or getting into.
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kbatku
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kbatku
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Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:22 am |
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I didn't read the book, so the alleged topography drove me nuts. She started hiking like 60 miles south of Kennedy Meadows, walked through about 59 miles of desert then *wham* she was at Kennedy Meadows.
Then she took a bus ride and bypassed the Sierras, walked through what could have been Oregon I suppose, then ended in a rainforest, which I assume was the area around Mt. Hood.
Nice shot of The Bridge of the Gods though.
MY wife said afterward that she didn't think it would inspire many people to walk the trail, especially as it is positively chockablock with drunken redneck rapists and she only ran into like 6 other thru-hikers the whole trip.
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tigermn
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tigermn
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Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:58 pm |
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As a hiking/outdoors movie.. Lame...
If maybe you can relate to the kind of mental issues she went through, then maybe worthwhile.
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AR
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Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:20 pm |
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I can't even relate to my own metal issues.
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
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tigermn
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tigermn
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Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:51 pm |
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| arohwed wrote: | | I can't even relate to my own metal issues. |
Yea I hear that. Probably why I didn't really relate to it....
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Gil
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Gil
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Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:41 am |
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We saw that and I thought it was well done. If you went to watch someone hike the PCT, well that movie would have been at least 52 days long. If you went to watch someone go through a mental journey, then it was pretty good cinema.
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Klahini
Friends help the miles go easier.
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tmatlack
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coldrain108
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| tigermn wrote: | | arohwed wrote: | | I can't even relate to my own metal issues. |
Yea I hear that. Probably why I didn't really relate to it.... |
Oh, hello Mr. Soul,
I dropped by
to pick up a reason
For the thought that I caught
that my head
is the event of the season
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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Toni
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Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:55 pm |
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| Gil wrote: | | We saw that and I thought it was well done. If you went to watch someone hike the PCT, well that movie would have been at least 52 days long. If you went to watch someone go through a mental journey, then it was pretty good cinema. |
Agree, I've seen it twice now. I don't think this movie will inspire hoards of wanna-be 'thru hikers'. This was a personal journey for Cheryl tho I think some scenes could have been less explicit to get the point across..  The drug use and toenail removal were harder for me to watch....
It's been mentioned on one of the threads here, if you want a true hiking adventure movie, try "Mile....Mile and a half" about hikers on the John Muir Trail. I have it Netflixed, anxious to see it...
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tigermn
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tigermn
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Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:51 pm |
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| Toni wrote: | | It's been mentioned on one of the threads here, if you want a true hiking adventure movie, try "Mile....Mile and a half" about hikers on the John Muir Trail. I have it Netflixed, anxious to see it... |
Yea I enjoyed this a lot more. If you have Comcast you can watch it free on demand too.
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Magellan
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Magellan
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GrnXnham
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Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:43 pm |
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| kbatku wrote: | | especially as it is positively chockablock with drunken redneck rapists |
So you'd say it was a movie meant to discourage females from ever going hiking, again?
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kbatku
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kbatku
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Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:48 pm |
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The majority of the men in the movie were kind of scary, in one way or another, but I guess that's just the nature of men, right?
Some of them she misjudged, the others were perhaps trying to legitimately get in her pants (a guy's got to try, right?) but maybe it was all her imagination. Or maybe it was because she was such a wanton hussy prior to the hike, and she was establishing a new understanding of herself and her place in the world and mens part in it, I don't know.
Like others have said, it's not really a hiking movie, but it has stuck with me long enough and given me enough to ponder that I'd say it succeeded at being a good movie - if you can get past her hiking stupidity, which was good
for a lot of laughs from the apparently outdoors savvy audience.
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Dean
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Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:49 am |
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I read the book and then saw the movie. I'd give the movie 5 out of 10. At least by reading the book I kinda knew what was going on. If you want to see a movie about hiking the PCT, this isn't it.
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