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oh dear, climbing in the movies... 21-Jan-2009 At 8:24:51 PM richardo

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On 21/01/2009 hero wrote:
>Another strange film I saw recently (on a plane) was Journey to the Centre
>of the Earth.
>
>It has the great line: "Do we have enough rope?" to which the reply is
>"A mountain guide always has enough rope."
>
>Which is just as well because the three of them start to descend simultaneously,
>two being lowered and the other abseiling. The boy manages to take a fall
>whilst being lowered. Not surprisingly as it is the abseiling mountain
>guide who is meant to be controlling his rope and she appears to be paying
>little attention.
>
>And after that the film goes downhill (pun intended).
>

I liked Journey to Cenrtre of the earth. My grandfather "Ivan" had a bit part in that as a scientist or
something.