Fall - Afraid of heights? Then prepare to sh*t your pants.

[FishyFish]

This turned up on Netflix yesterday. While I make no claims to it being a great movie (although its enjoyable enough), the subject matter and the way the movie uses it meant my heart was in my mouth pretty much the whole time - it was really stressing me out! Maybe not so much if you have no fear of heights, but if you do, oh boy!

 

 

[Spleen]

I've just started watching. Shiiiiiit! I don't mind heights though but jeeeeez. 

[tejinashi]

Nice. Added to watchlist. I don't do heights at all, but I like watching those youtube vids of insane people climbing impossibly high structures.

 

 

[Gabe]

I always think the getting up would be tough, but doable. It's the getting back down that I think is much, much scarier.

 

Not that I'd do either, mind.

[ZOK]

Man alive, my palms were sweating watching the trailer! No thanks.

[Fletch]

The sequel set on the Severn Bridge isn’t quite as good. 
 

 

[JohnC]

Reminds me of insane photos years back of Russians, IIRC, who were climbing transmission towers and walking out on arms for the lols.

[jonamok]

Enjoyed that. Good silly fun and a smart idea for a low-budget contained thriller.

[multi]

Shit scared of heights here, dunno why I tried to watch this really but I can at least say my balls crawled into my stomach as soon as the tower was revealed.

 

A definite NOPE from me 

[Monkeyboy]

Fred Dibnah wouldn’t have had any problems with this tower.

 

Joking aside, I saw this a while ago and enjoyed it.

 

From Wikipedia, quite interesting how they shot it…

 

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They decided to build the upper portion of the tower on top of a mountain so that the actors would really appear to be thousands of feet in the air, even though in real life they were never more than a hundred feet off the ground. Filming was difficult, because often weather such as lightning and strong winds would pose a challenge.

 

[ZOK]

I watched some of it last night, I’m just up to the bit where they lose the bag. It’s good fun - and a timely lesson in using both rucksack straps while climbing 2000ft, rather than one as if you are on a school bus.

[Ste Pickford]

Hell no. The trailer was too much for me. I remember the first time one of these head-cam videos of someone climbing one of these towers popped up on YouTube, probably 15 or 20 years ago.  It went around work, and as I was watching it, I realised my hands were tightly gripping the edges of my desk and wouldn't let go.

[El Spatula]

Why do they never get climbing right in these films. Using cams, fine, not having a belay or properly leading? Rubbish. Could easily do a realistic climbing accident but noooooo.

[ZOK]

39 minutes ago, El Spatula said:

Why do they never get climbing right in these films. Using cams, fine, not having a belay or properly leading? Rubbish. Could easily do a realistic climbing accident but noooooo.

Because it’s a film designed to make your palms sweat every three minutes. It’s basically a haunted house film - if they didn’t do it obviously wrong there would be no scares. If they clipped themselves in for safety or at least clung on to the mast at the top for dear life you wouldn’t be waiting for them to get blown off the top with every wind rustle.

 

Which reminds me, the most terrifying things for me on the ones like the Shanghai Tower above is where they just stand up on a platform so they are the highest point without anything to grab hold of…how come they never get blown off the top? My palms are sweating just typing that!

 

 

[Art Vandelay]

I can't remember where I saw it but I think as long as you do a roll at the bottom you'd probably be okay with a fall like that. Fortunately there's two of them so as long as your mate goes first you don't need to rely on your memory to find out if that's true.

[FishyFish]

23 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:

I can't remember where I saw it but I think as long as you do a roll at the bottom you'd probably be okay with a fall like that. Fortunately there's two of them so as long as your mate goes first you don't need to rely on your memory to find out if that's true.

 

Is that like the technique where, if you're in a lift plummeting down the shaft in freefall, you should jump in the air a split-second before it hits the bottom in order to be safe?

[Stifler]

I went to see this when it was out at the cinema and quite enjoyed it, in that sweaty palms, fidgeting around in your seat, making little 'eep!' noises every few minutes kind of way...

[Art Vandelay]

5 minutes ago, FishyFish said:

 

Is that like the technique where, if you're in a lift plummeting down the shaft in freefall, you should jump in the air a split-second before it hits the bottom in order to be safe?

 

Yep, absolutely. In the case of lift shaft related deaths it's really ignorance that's the killer.

[Monkeyboy]

 

[Timmo]

2 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

 

Yep, absolutely. In the case of lift shaft related deaths it's really ignorance that's the killer.

Similarly, if you are falling alongside someone else, simply jump off them (make sure it’s upwards) just before impact for a guaranteed soft landing. 

[CGB]

I watched this a while back and thought it was great fun. Hope it gets more exposure now that it's on Netflix. Anyone noping out of it because of the heights thing is missing out! It kind of reminded me of the film Frozen (the 2010 horror, not the Disney one!!), which I'd also recommend. 

[NexivRed]

Thought this was going to be lame. It’s actually terrifying. My palms were soaked the entire time through. That’s never happened to me during a film before.
 

Some of the camera angles are terrifying. I  feel like I’m falling. Casting my mind back to the swing chairs at Butlins and the huge falling sensation I had every time I looked behind me.  
 

Really impressive show of female strength though.
 

I’ve not finished it yet. But can’t help wondering why they didn’t 

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attach her phone to the drone and just fly it down to the ground to get signal. Why try and fly it to a fucking building you can’t see?

 

[NexivRed]

Also

 

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why can’t tv get death right. They really think there’d be anything to put in a body bag?? That thing was nearly twice the height of the twin towers. Mist. 

 

[thesnwmn]

6 hours ago, NexivRed said:

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why can’t tv get death right. They really think there’d be anything to put in a body bag?? That thing was nearly twice the height of the twin towers. Mist. 

 

 

I have now been reading about what does happen. I'm not sure it's so clear really.

 

But then I've not seen the film to say how they do depict that so not really a comment on their take.

 

[Mike1812]

That tower climb bit in the Tomb Raider reboot shit me up so I'm not sure about this one. 

[Anne Summers]

I am terrified of heights but managed to get through this ok. For some reason it's only when I myself am up high that the fear kicks in. Watching other high things doesn't seem to affect me. I guess that makes me a massive weirdo. Out of interest, do you guys shit yourselves when you see a plane fly overhead as well?

 

Anyway. I quite enjoyed it decent enough Netflix-era thriller, tapping into the previously-mentioned modern-day trend of people climbing up stupidly high and dangerous structures to get Youtube views. One thing that did upset me more than the heights, though ...

 

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Shoehorning in a pointless little plot-twist about the blonde girl sleeping with the brown-haired girl's husband before they were married. Just pointless and didn't add anything to the drama. Also as soon as that happened I knew the blonde girl was going to die, due to Movie Rules about infidelity

[FishyFish]

21 minutes ago, Anne Summers said:

I am terrified of heights but managed to get through this ok. For some reason it's only when I myself am up high that the fear kicks in. Watching other high things doesn't seem to affect me. I guess that makes me a massive weirdo. Out of interest, do you guys shit yourselves when you see a plane fly overhead as well?

 

I'm fine with heights if I feel secure, so no problems when in an aircraft, or inside a tall building (or on top if there are secure barriers - such as the Empire State Building as an example). It's where there's a possibility of falling that it gets me - even where falling would be les likely (such as perhaps there's a barrier, but it's only four feet high or something).

[Mogster]

1 hour ago, Anne Summers said:

I am terrified of heights but managed to get through this ok. For some reason it's only when I myself am up high that the fear kicks in. Watching other high things doesn't seem to affect me. I guess that makes me a massive weirdo. Out of interest, do you guys shit yourselves when you see a plane fly overhead as well?

I'm terrified of heights but have (almost) no issue flying. Once I felt a bit weird during takeoff, but that was it. I do get the fear when I see others in obviously precarious high places though.

 

I guess it's no different to what scares you in a horror movie. Different stuff affects people in different ways, and it often doesn't match up with what would scare you in real life. I imagine most horror stuff would freak you out in real life!

 

But yeah, the trailer for this Frakes me out, so the whole film will probably be quite an ordeal. I'll get it watched soon.

[ZOK]

I’m fine with heights, abseiling down a building for charidee is the closest I’ve ever come to that sort of danger I guess. Climbing up the Shanghai Tower I’d be fine with, but standing on top of it with nothing securing me?! No. Doing pull-ups off it?! Oh lord.

[James Lyon]

9 minutes ago, Mogster said:

But yeah, the trailer for this Frakes me out

 

Makes you do a number one?