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Smitten the movie 29-Aug-2011 At 9:57:07 AM spicelab

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On 28/08/2011 Cool Hand Lock wrote:
>It's Wank! like most climbing films. It's not a film about the cutting
>edge climbers. It's a film about people who like to be filmed, there's
>plenty of people out there climbing harder and more interesting stuff,
>who just dont wank on about it.
>
>One step up from the tools who post their 'extreeme' exploits on youtube.
>
>Bunch of narcissistic WANKERS

This is nothing but sheer blind prejudice and projection.

Zac, Lee, James, Thomas - media tarts? Narcissistic?

I'm with cogsy, I really enjoyed the film on the whole. The quality of the filming was definitely a notch or two below the slick footage in recent international climbing films - in particular not being able to see what the holds were a fair bit of the time is rubbish.

But I appreciated the obvious effort in differentiating the film from the rest of the international market, and thought the interviews did a great job of making the climbers personable, rather than lobotomised climbing machines (try watchng a Paul Robinson bouldering video - the guy has the charisma of a cardboard box).
The Zac and Jarmilla interview was a highlight of the film in my view.

Not sure what my position is on the BASE stuff though..