Touching the void

Daz · February 2004

Anyone seen this yet? Any good?

have option of seeing tomorrow.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

I've not seen it, Daz

It's brilliant.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Excellent Film -
Very good 'translation' from the book

fat buddha · February 2004

wish I had a cinema locally that would show it. grrrrrr

WildWill · February 2004

wot is it?

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Wildwill,

Get your coat, leave the building, head straight to your nearest bookshop and buy a copy of this book NOW!

Read it, and post here again when you have finished it (which probably means tomorrow, as it is such a compulsive read).

WildWill · February 2004

Just look - about climbing - last time i climbed, i fell off and got injured

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Cracking film - went to see it in Sheffield on Boxing day.

I just keep trying to imagine what an awkward hard nosed so and so Joe Simpson must be. Just hope he never takes up fell running....

Jj · February 2004

I think it's a horrid title.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

JJ... eh...? Why...?

[Deleted User] · February 2004

emotive title maybe but 'horrid'?

Jj · February 2004

sounds rude

Daz · February 2004

touching the....boyd

Jj · February 2004

he's only 15, dear.

;o)

chris cooper 2 · February 2004

I saw it last night - thought it was superb like his books...much better than just a pure dramatisation would hae been...

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Anyone know where a cinema in surrey/middx. is showing it, all my locals are warners and they have no plans to screen it.

As for the book, one of the most gripping true life I have ever read!!!

Daz · February 2004

here are cinemas showing it in and around london this week:
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/films/touchingthevoid.html

Dr Nic Twinks · February 2004

Sounds rude Jj? What are you like? How does "touching" "the" "void" sound rude?

I would v like to see this, a friend of mine got "forced" to see it by her sporty boyf, (she is least sporty person in the world) and she loved it too, so I reckon it must be pretty good.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Nic,
if thats a hint fer something to do this w/e... count me in!!

[Twinkle..]

Daz · February 2004

bolox, i have to see lost in translation instead, ive got too many unsporty friends! :O(

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Many thanks Daz, theres one about 20 mins up the road & I am going tonite

[Deleted User] · February 2004

sorry twinkler, just read your post, its now or never

Daz · February 2004

cool nick. let me know tmrw what you think!
prob go next week

[Deleted User] · February 2004

sorry Nick... t'other Nic...!!!!

;oP

[Deleted User] · February 2004

I shall put my critics hat on tmrw & give you the lowdown

see ya'lll

Dr Nic Twinks · February 2004

OK MM, will see if it is on near me! (Daz L.I.T is also meant to be good so all is not lost, sure you will enjoy it!)

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Saw it last week - brilliant, esp much of it being filmed on location (except the actual fall/rope cut scene which was done in alps) and also having Joe Simpson/Simon Yates telling it in their way & Richard too (he's so funny) - you can see it still affects them. Very worthy of the book.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Agree with Erratic. I've read the book 4 or 5 times (it's brilliant) and the film was excellent. Interesting to me how the film made me realise (more than the book) what an enormous risk Joe took by going further into the crevass. The film is a 'must see'.

[Deleted User] · February 2004

For those of you not able to see it in the conema it is out on DVD in early April. Unfortunately I will have to wait until then. :-(

The (Original) Boy Wonder · February 2004

for those in the SouthWest it's on at Bath's Little Theatre from 20 Feb for a week - can't do more than echo the comments about the book, and have heard only excellent reviews of the film - shame it never got a general release, but then it doesn't have any stars in it, no computer - generated effects or commercial tie-in possibilities (Touching the Void ice-cubes perhaps) so it can't be any good can it?

Sorry - that turned into a mini-rant, didn't it!

[Deleted User] · February 2004

Rant on! Us out-of-townies always miss out on the more interesting movies and get lumbered with the kiddy crap!

Daz let us know what you though about LIT!

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