Anonymous wrote:I’m late to see this, but just finished and loved this film. So well done - the plane crash was one of the most realistic and horrifying scenes I’ve ever watched.

As another poster mentioned, the plot twist with the narrator really shocked me! Didn’t see that coming and it was interesting the way they handled that. So very sad.

What an utterly unimaginable ordeal. I wonder whether I would have survived.

I think the survivors were pretty much all 20 year old athletes. Makes sense considering you needed to have energy to scale multiple mountain ranges while starving to death and digging yourself out of multiple avalanches. I think that 2nd avalanche would have had anyone 40+ saying F it.

I’m late to see this, but just finished and loved this film. So well done - the plane crash was one of the most realistic and horrifying scenes I’ve ever watched.

As another poster mentioned, the plot twist with the narrator really shocked me! Didn’t see that coming and it was interesting the way they handled that. So very sad.

What an utterly unimaginable ordeal. I wonder whether I would have survived.

This movie scared me to death. It was done so well! I hope it wins that Oscar

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Anonymous wrote:Was it better or worse than Alive?

Worse

Well Alive was Hollywood-ized, if that's your jam. This one was far more realistic.

Great film. I really think it is a testament to their intelligence and resilience that anyone survived at all.

It’s a miracle anyone survived that ordeal.

I thought it was good. Sad but good story telling of what they went thru, physically and mentally.

Anonymous wrote:There is a great episode of the You're Wrong About podcast about this event.

+1 Came here to recommend this as well. I've had a hard time finishing the movie, even after listening to the podcast b/c they just kept getting beat down and it awful.

Anonymous wrote:A poster on DCUM actually "spent some time in the Andes." Who spends some time in the Andes?

I want to see Alive to compare it, but this movie was good. I was surprised by the plot twist about the narrator.

It was important to the story to show how young, strong, and healthy these young men were, to be able to survive the initial plane crash and the remaining days in the Andes.

Not pp but I have as well. They're beautiful when you are prepared and well supplied. And you've heard of Machu Picchu, I imagine?

Not everything in the Andes is mountain climbing, but this reminds me that the NYT recently did a big story about the camera found in 2020 from a mountain climbing expedition a half century ago, a cold case where a couple people died. Did anyone else read it? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/09/world/americas/aconcagua-mountain-expedition-photos.html

There was a good radio interview about it, too https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/18/new-york-times-investigation-revives-50-year-old-mountain-climbing-mystery-with-oregon-connections/

The cinematography was beautiful but I turned it off. Something uncomfortable for me seeing real people's horrific ordeal as a movie. It feels too real and not remote enough in time.

I started this at around midnight last night and was up till dawn watching, then crying like a baby, then reading everything I could find about this. That's got to be the worst situation to try to survive, wow. I wouldn't have lasted a day.