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Trees at 19,000 feet! Blood spurting out of a severed arm!

posted 15 years ago by SkiDooDad
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This may have been the worse movie I have ever seen. I sincerely hope that the movie's creators made such stupid, ghastly errors on purpose, in an effort to be funny. I mean in the VERY FIRST SCENE, where we see climbers hikng and a caption declares that they are in the "Himalayan Range, 19,900 ft", and the climbers are in the middle of trees! Not even the small, thickly branched trees one normally sees near a treeline, but tall, 20 - 30 foot pine trees! The highest treeline that I am aware of is in the Andes, and that tops out at 17,000 feet at most.

Also, after the jet crashes, and the two boys are in the cave, the Yeti grabs one of the boys before he can wedge himself through a crevasse in the wall, leaving his buddy holding his severed arm, which is still spurting blood! I'm no doctor, but I thought the only way blood can spurt is when the heart is still pumping while the blood vessels are open. Did this guy have his heart in his left hand?

All in all, an absolutely rediculous waste of time.

[–] zimbabwebob 15 years ago

When I first saw a preview for the movie on SciFi, the treeline thing pissed me off beyond belief. Just one of those nitpicky things that just takes over for you, except for the fact that it's a major plotpoint.

They could have so easily gotten around it though, there was no need for it to be set in the Himalayas. They could have set it in Colorado or Utah and still had a Yeti, and then the football team thing might have made sense.

[–] agent-33 15 years ago

in reality, the highest tree lines in the world are 15,000 - 17,000 feet. so the fact they exaggerated a bit for the movie simply clues you in on what kind of movie to expect -- an over-the-top (literally) fantasy/creature flick that you shouldn't take so seriously. goodness. it wasn't a documentary on trees...

[–] zimbabwebob 15 years ago

I can only take the conceit so far!!!!!

[–] capncrusty 15 years ago

Well, since we're picking nits, how about the most tidy plane crash scene ever? No deep gouges in the snow, let alone the underlying dirt...but a lot of footprints tracked around, particularly around the separate tail site, where no one survived (it seems) long enough to actually tromp up the area. Or maybe this was Bedrock Airlines, and Fred Flintstone was on board to use his feet as brakes.

And don't even get me started on the dubious efficacy of a severed human arm as a splint. I'm still laughing at that one.

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[–] Captain_Bob 14 years ago

The plane crash was simply craptastic. Clearly stolen from the movie "Alive" except done with cheesy CG animation. Tail section is ripped off and people tragically fly out the back. The dismembered fuelage then plops onto a snowbank and skids to a hault. The fatally-injured pilot, the "missing radio in the tail section" and the dying "trapped Coach" are also clearly borrowed from "Alive". The Yeti is laughably-pathetic and yes, the presence of tall pine trees in the high Himalaya is ridiculous. I've climbed Mt. Kinabalu in northern Borneo near the equator where the treeline is pretty high, and the trees petered-out around 3700M/12000ft. Watching the movie now in anticipation of the blood-spurting severed arm =)

[–] gthafis 14 years ago

Sounds like a movie i need to see :D

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[–] Samurai_Joe_Marshall 14 years ago

I just loved the beating heart the yeti held in his hand after ripping it out of Mr. IServeNoPurposeInThisMovieExceptAnExcuseToHaveSomebodyDieInIt.

"Know what I mean, know what I mean, nudge nudge, nudge nudge, say no more?"

[–] JJ-Noles 14 years ago

My girlfriend (ummm, you don't know her... she doesn't live here) made me turn it off after I tried to deal with the tree thing. But the Canadian Lodge as Nepalese Search&Rescue is what did it for me. I guess the set designers were busy.
It's Gwyneth's head in the box.

[–] emilio_bc85 12 years ago

no, no, my favorite by far in this was the fact that the people sent to rescue the group could see the survivors with binoculars, and there was still plenty of daylight and they made camp... and then, they saw the yeti attack (in the middle of the night) and it tooke them like, 6 hours to get there. ridiculous... but hilarious.