---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM Subject: Fwd: [Texascavers] Sanctum T Hello, fellow DFW Grotto members,
Would you like to go see the 3D caving thriller Santum together? We could go Sunday afternoon during the Super Bowl (do they have that every year?), sort of as an Anti-Super Bowl statement. Sanctum starts Friday night and is playing at the Cinemark Megaplex 17 theatre across the street from the Taco Cabana where we go after grotto meetings. I will get back to you with a proposed time once I can find the times on Sunday. It'll be the earliest showing in the afternoon, during their matinee time. I propose that we wear caving gear, like we did when we saw Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D a few years ago. Bill Steele In a message dated 2/2/2011 8:40:05 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected]: Several local cavers went to an advanced screening of Sanctum last night. It was much more like a real caving movie than the other caving related movies in the last 10 years. At least they didn’t have monsters chasing them around in the dark. It was of course over sensationalizing everything they did. Every decision was life or death because everyone knows “this cave can kill you in a heartbeat” and it was his/her choice to do whatever stupid thing that wound up killing them. It is not technically accurate in every detail. If it was it would be sufficiently boring such that no regular person would watch it. But for the most part they did use common caving lights, helmets, wetsuits, packs, etc. No ice axes, flare guns, machine guns, etc. It was entertaining and exciting. The cave passages above and below the water line were very nice. The 3D effects didn’t add all that much to the movie, I would have preferred just a good HD version. They didn’t have many 3D effects just for the oohs and aahs. The 3D did add a sense of really being there with the actors at times. I enjoyed it, will probably see it again, and will certainly buy the DVD when it comes out. Kurt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kurt L. Menking" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:39:53 +0000 Subject: [Texascavers] Sanctum Several local cavers went to an advanced screening of Sanctum last night. It was much more like a real caving movie than the other caving related movies in the last 10 years. At least they didn’t have monsters chasing them around in the dark. It was of course over sensationalizing everything they did. Every decision was life or death because everyone knows “this cave can kill you in a heartbeat” and it was his/her choice to do whatever stupid thing that wound up killing them. It is not technically accurate in every detail. If it was it would be sufficiently boring such that no regular person would watch it. But for the most part they did use common caving lights, helmets, wetsuits, packs, etc. No ice axes, flare guns, machine guns, etc. It was entertaining and exciting. The cave passages above and below the water line were very nice. The 3D effects didn’t add all that much to the movie, I would have preferred just a good HD version. They didn’t have many 3D effects just for the oohs and aahs. The 3D did add a sense of really being there with the actors at times. I enjoyed it, will probably see it again, and will certainly buy the DVD when it comes out. Kurt
