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DVD : Everest (Large Format)

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starring: Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs, Muktu Lhakpa Sherpa directed by: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson See Larger Image List Price: $14.99 Amazon.com's Price: $10.49 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Everest EAN: 9780788814938 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 0788814931 Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: IMAX Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 07, 1999 Running Time: 44 minutes Sales Rank: 5102 Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1998 Accessories: Everest: Soundtrack From The IMAX Film Experience Related Items: National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone Into Thin Air: Death on Everest Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Touching the Void see more Editorial Review: Description: Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world's tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, 'the most hyperrealistic format yet invented,' says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, EVEREST is a rich, dramatic story -- a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy. Amazon.com essential video: Filmed in the IMAX format, this film had the luck (or lack thereof) to be shot during the same fateful and fatal climb of Mount Everest chronicled in Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, in which a group of rich hobby climbers found themselves trapped by a blizzard near the summit. The IMAX film contains footage of those people, but focuses on its own group, as they make their assault on the top of the world's highest peak. Some startling footage of the mountain and the approaches--and, as in Krakauer's book, the depiction of what is involved in this kind of adventure (particularly the pain and suffering)--makes you wonder exactly where the fun is. But documentary film is about showing you something you're not likely to see otherwise, and this movie certainly fills the bill. --Marshall Fine Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Grab this one! The "45 minutes" doesn't consider the many bonus extras! Grab this DVD! If you're one of those who sees a run time of "45 minutes" and that tends to keep you moving on, don't, because there are various bonus extras on the DVD so that 'hours' of viewing is a more equitable consideration. First of all and in addition to the 45 minute IMAX film there is the "Making of Everest" which goes into much detail and what happened during filming when the unrelated to the IMAX film 1996 Everest tragedy struck during filming and the effect of that tragedy ... Read More Rating: - Bafflingly dull -- how was this possible? After reading "Into Thin Air" and "The Climb" and a dozen or more online articles, I remember having watched this film -- Brashears comes across as nothing short of a hero in "Into Thin Air" -- how, then, is it possible that this film is so dull? The score is intrusive, nearly comically so -- is there a plot? I don't understand how this film could be as... dull as it is. Was it bad editing? I just don't comprehend how this film could be anything less than stellar, yet it is. Read More Rating: - how not to photograph climbing mt. everest this is a MUST NOT buy. the commentary sounds as if it were written by a teenager. the story -too short- spends too little time on the climb and too much on extraneous matters. climbing mt. everest is a horrendously difficult task but this movie makes it appear not too hard. there are a few scenes of climbing and though i accept the photos taken at the summit are real, all the others could have been taken anywhere there was snow and ice. if this is the best these movie makers could do, they should look ... Read More Rating: - Shortened by the 1996 Disaster The reason for three stars instead of five is because this DVD is only about 45 minutes in length. I wanted more. There is the possibility that it was cut short in order to assist in saving lives on Mt. Everest during the 1996 Disaster. If I knew that to be the case I would change my rating to 5 stars with no regrets. I would liked to have seen more filming at the different camps along the way to the summit. Excellent filming but way too short in length and information. Rating: - Great adjunct to Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" Would have loved to have seen this when it came out in I-Max. Great profile of David Breashears. see more

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