This was just a movie right? Not a documentary? I thought it was just all about special effects in a story line that hasn't really been done (if there is such a thing..) before. I didn't go for the believability nor to critique bad caving techniques. If you hold the same standards true across all genres, Top Gun sucked, all of the Indy-Jones movies (okay, the last one really did suck..). I go to the movies for the purpose of getting lost in the story line, not holding it to my superior technical standards. Avatar? come on, does anyone outside of James T. Kirk actually fall in love with a green / blue female from another planet? If I wanted 100 percent technically correct, I would have signed up for a caving seminar!
Oh, I actually kind of enjoyed the movie as a whole. I was actually hoping for the blind-cave humanoids to wreak some havoc! Respectfully, Roger ------------------------------------------------------- I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other. "Treat everyone like a gentleman not because they are one but because you are." - Unknown --- On Mon, 2/7/11, Charles Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charles Goldsmith <[email protected]> Subject: [Cowtown] Fwd: [Texascavers] Saw Sanctum To: [email protected], [email protected], "DFW Grotto" <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 3:31 PM Nice review by Bill, and thanks for the heads up Bill, I will save my money. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:04 AM Subject: [Texascavers] Saw Sanctum To: [email protected] Producer James Cameron should be embarrassed to have his name attached to this movie. I'm embarrassed that I recommended people see it before I had seen it. Once I finally got out of theatre it didn't take me long to call my brother and tell him that I'd changed my mind and to please not take our elderly mother or his kids to see it Can I say anything good about it? There are some nice looking visuals. They recreated real caves nicely. But my overriding feeling is one of offended sensibilities. Mercy killing of fellow cavers? Who does that, even in war or anywhere? Now cavers are seen to be doing that because they're in a remote spot? I believe that such acts are called second degree murder. And I don't know about you, but profanity is rarely heard underground where I go, but then again, I haven't gone caving with Australians in many years. Maybe they're like that these days. I will be asked by both cavers and non-cavers if I recommend this film and I will say no to both. They show highly dangerous stunts such as standing backwards at the edge of a deep pit with rack engaged and just jumping backwards into it. And what about the guy struggling to free climb up a waterfall right next to a traverse line into which he does not clip his cowstail? Was their technical cave advisor not listened to, or did they not even have one? I give it one star out of a possible five. I'd rather have make-believe monsters than for my fellow cavers to be shown as monsters. Bill Steele
