Starring: Adele Harlin, John Harlin III, Michael Gambon, Bruno Messerli, Robert Jasper Directed By: Stephen Judson Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Label: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 08, 2008 Running Time: 45 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description: In the air above Switzerland on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned father's life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty The Alps is a true-life story of extrodinary courage. It's the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face yet climb it he must.Featuring some of the most spectacular giantscreen imagery yet seen the film celebrates the unsurpassed beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.System Requirements:Running Time: 45 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/IMAX Rating: NR UPC: 014381433821 Manufacturer No: ID4338MVDVD
Huge emotionnal seeing film I was on a High when I've received me DVD.. 5 months after waiting on another site., I just couldn't wait anymore..It's a huge trip in this mountain's journey! Couldn't speak and still I was crying... A very good film with in background some Queen's tunes., not too bad for a Huge fan of Queen... It's a product that I recommend deeply... Queenly Your's
Mrs. Nicole Hammond., Quebec CANADA.
Beautiful! It's an IMAX movie, so it's all about footage and great, soaring shots of the mountains. Includes a bit of history and a personal climbing quest. The Eiger is a challange that dates back forever. See Clint Eastwood's movie or Jon Krakauer's book.
A Beautiful Film I saw "The Alps" at the IMAX theater at the Cincinnati Museum Center back in the fall, and I was very impressed with the film and the overall experience of seeing it in the IMAX format. The photography is beautiful, the setting is quite breathtaking, the music is excellent, and the story is involving, moving and ultimately very inspiring. "The Alps" contrasts the grandeur and majesty of nature with a meditation on the relationships between parents and their children, and does both very well. The film certainly made an impression on me.
The Dumbing Down Of IMAX Films! This is the worst IMAX film I have seen in my entire life! Sure it has some great pictures of the Alps. It also very briefly covers Global Warming, which is wrecking the glaciers, and the very important subject of avalanche science. Unfortunately 90% of this film is about one man and his obsession to climb the most dangerous mountain in the Alps - The Eiger, by taking the most dangerous route possible - all because his father did the same, and died doing so!
Like father, like son! Never mind both men have or had families with children to support and nurture! Go ahead and make your wife and children watch you foolishly risk your life, so you can prove you're "A Man." If you're single - or have children who are grown adults - do what ever you want! But to have your young child watch your every agonizing step through the end of a telescope, for days, especially after knowing your child's grandfather fell to his death climbing the exact same route is just beyond belief! Talk about being selfish!
But then to see a rather graphic reenactment of the climber's father's fall to his death was nothing short of sick! What's next, showing a view of the broken body? I could not believe IMAX would stoop so low! Do you really think this it is going to help you sell tickets by reducing IMAX to a second-rate Reality television program?
At the end of this rather disturbing film our "hero" says, "he finally got something out of his system, by following in his father's footsteps and succeeding this time." As we were walking out of the theater I turned around to my friend and said, " it would have been a lot cheaper and easier on his wife and child if he had seen a psychiatrist instead!"
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