Most of the cave stuff was on man made sets. The rappels where on a 12 foot stage with much padding & air mattress at bottom. The rest was CG.........Nat'l Geo did a show called the Real Sanctum.... I thought it would be about Nullabore but was more of how they made the movie. Karen
--- On Sat, 2/5/11, Bill Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill Bentley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SWR] James Cameron's Sanctum in 3D To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 3:44 PM I paid $7.50 matinee price... I enjoyed it, but I was about to burst as my wife would not let me say a word to critique it at all... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lyles" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:00 PM Subject: [SWR] James Cameron's Sanctum in 3D > Saw it yesterday. I agree with Ray, its a lot better than I thought I might > be, more reasonable than The Cave, Descent, and .... > Journey into Amazing Caves (grin). > > Comments: > The "yahoo" part that offended me was the marine-style rappelling over the > edge of the big pit, face first, just jumping out and screaming. And the > callus disregard for the edge of that pit, one guy (the jerk, of course) > standing there using his cellphone - in the jungle. > Using multiple ropes side by side on such a descent was insane too. No > tangles for Hollywood though. when they reached the bottom, a tean was just > waiting right in the fall zone. This kind of stupidity could lead some > irresponsible copy-cats to win Darwin awards in the future. > > But the diving stuff was interesting, for this non-cave non-diver. I had to > count the # of dead bodies in this flick, and i got tired of the "put me out > of my misery" drownings. > > The 3D effects were great for cave diving. Good idea, Mr. Cameron. You might > win an award there. Also, one shot of rap'ping down a narrow pit in 3D was > awesome. And those shots looking up the deluge of waterfalls, awesome. > > Even for a squeeze pusher, the dives through the tight restriction had me > sweating and grinding my teeth. Then the awesome passage discoveries, well, i > felt like Frank was quite a man. > > I felt he was modeled a little bit after caver Bill Stone. And the National > Geographic sponsorship? > Nah, couldn't be... > > Could Josh be modeled after Aaron Stockton, Mr. SWR chairman? > > The booming passage they were following ("the biggest cave in the world") had > my adrenaline pumping, nice work Frank. He needed to be given more respect > for his drive to follow the cave - even if it was for survival. > > The credits say it was filmed in Australia, but I thought some of the scenes > were from Golandrinas, Yucatan, and even Devils' Sinkhole (Jacqui, take a > look). > > My overall opinion is thumbs up, go see it right away, its worth the $11 in > 3D. This one will be in a lot of caver video collections at some point, in 2D. > > jtml > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SWR mailing list > [email protected] > http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/swr_caver.net _______________________________________________ SWR mailing list [email protected] http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/swr_caver.net
