127 Hours

Every Second Counts.

Director: Danny Boyle
Release Date: November 12, 2010 (Limited)
Rated: R
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Genre: Adventure/Drama/Biographical

I have been waiting to do my top 10 films of 2010 because of one main movie and that one film was 127 Hours, I may have missed out on a few others that are sure to be on peoples lists(Kings Speech comes to mind right away) I must say Im glad i waited so that i could see this film before setting anything in stone.

127 Hours is the newest film from Danny Boyle who has been on the rise for several years now, Thanks to films like "28 Days Later" and "Slumdog millionaire" among others. He has a way of picking the right film to do, Never seems to repeat himself. His films have jumped from Genre to Genre like Sunshine and The Beach as well as trainspotting. But he always finds away to make the movies his way with his touch. 127 Hours has that Danny feel to it. Greatness?

The movie had insanely high expectations for me with several people listing it as their favorite film or the year or at least on their boards. The feedback from all the press screenings and everything was very good, the talk about "the scene" and how audiences would react was also a nice bit of hype. Along with it being A Boyle film, staring James Franco... I was expecting stunning.

I received Stunning.

Aaron Ralston(Played by James Franco) is one of them crazy outdoorsmen that love adventure and long walks in the canyons. Sadly he forgot to let anyone know he was heading off an one of his crazy journeys. He finds himself stuck in a hard situation to say the least.

This movie does something similar to another film thats among peoples top 10 called "Buried" that has one actor stuck in a situation that he cant seem to escape. This movie does do the flashbacks and what not to bring us out of the trapped situation but it doesn't take away from being in the canyon at all. It just shows the human emotions and what the mind can do to you in extreme situations. It makes us ask our selfs what would we do in this moment.

I never felt that this was just something a writer gave danny to try and turn into a masterpiece, the whole time I was in it. I didnt get taken out of the movie by saying to myself "oh why dont you just do this" the movie has a very real feel to it even with the visions he has during the duration of the film.
The movie needs to be seen. No doubt about that. It is one of the films that I feel needs to be known more than it is. It has plenty of hype in the movie realm of things and Oscar buzz will help it but i still feel like more people should give this movie a try.

I will be buying it once it is out on DVD & Blu ray.
I'll end my little rant here, I hope you can rant about it soon as well.

Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness

Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness

Director: Melody Gilbert
Release Date: 2007
Rated: NR
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Genre: Documentary

I'm not one to really adventure into dark area's or well bug infected places...But I still do find it amazing and i wish i could fight off my lil fear of bugs and such to find awesome locations. Maybe I will. I do like adventures.

After watching Urban Explorers, I would love to make my own attempt at something similar. Recording random adventures and taking stunning photos of things most people dont get to see.
Urban Explorers is a documentary about a group of people who like to spend their free time crawling and climbing to places most fear to venture.


The movie focuses some what on a group of people who have meet online to talk about the places they have found and the gear they have bought to make their adventures easier and to point out places that other may find beautiful.

The movie is very amateur in its camera work and even with the editing, the music and cuts just seem like friends putting a little something together, which in this form Im fine with.
The best part of the film and the reason people should watch is because of the still photography the team has taken on their exploration.  Its just creepy, dark and amazing.

They break up the scenes between groups of explorers to try and inform us of them and what they do different from some of the others but I didnt pay much attention to their stories of gear and life outside of exploring. I just cared about the places they found.

One place was an abandon rocket in the ever glades of Florida. It was the biggest rocket built by nasa and just to see that they left it without anyone protecting it or didnt even move it to a safer place.... But if they did that we wouldn't see it now would we?

They of course show us other locations from around the world including some caves under a city and some creepy old homes and other buildings. But Id rather leave the other places to your exploring.
Do you like to urban places? or do you stay home and enjoy movies about them?