Everest

Pros: Beautiful camera work, very artistic
Cons: Story just brushed the surface

Of IMAX movies, this is the kind of thing to see. It's not 3-D, but it's still a great film to see on the big BIG screen, and they definitely picked a great story and place.

This is both eye-candy and a good story to get into. It begins with...

Pros: Quality of Everest shots
Cons: Relationship to the book I read

The IMAX film team was along (and helped rescue) with the disastrous 1996 Mt. Everest summit attempt. This attempt was described in Jon Krakauer's novel Into Thin Air.

The release of Everest brought many people to the theater,...

Pros: Absolutely spectacular photography
Cons: Absolutely none

While mountain climbing isn't exactly everyone's idea of a good time, most probably will admit to some serious curiosity about what it's like to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. While I never want to attempt such a feat, "Everest"...

Pros: very moving, very beautiful, very inspiring, incredible views
Cons: includes a heart-wrenching account of the 1996 tragic Rob Hall expedition

I did not expect this movie to have the impact on me that it did. I have wanted to see it for a long time, and had caught part of it when it was shown on television relatively recently. I was really not prepared to be so effected by this movie.
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Pros: Beautiful Application of the IMAX Format, A Must-see if You've Read 'Into Thin Air'
Cons: You'll Have to Find an IMAX Theater or Hope it Plays on Television Once Again

If you've read Krakauer's superb Into Thin Air then you must make an attempt to see Everest, a breathtaking film that takes full advantage-- as far as both content and execution are concerned--of the IMAX format. As has been well...

Pros: beauty and danger
Cons: wish it had been longer.

Does the thought of snow covered peaks make you drool? Does strapping on crampons and weilding an ice axe in each hand make you tingle? Does walking across bottomless crevasses across two aluminum ladders strapped together make you all hot and...

Pros: scenery, inspiring story
Cons: not long enough

Climbing a mountain, even the tallest mountain on Earth, is not an act to which I would normally assign the term “heroism”. Undoubtedly, that kind of endeavor requires courage, intelligence and a degree of physical stamina that most of us simply don’t...

Pros: spectacular!
Cons: None

The IMAX film Everest is beautiful and poignant. An IMAX film crew undertook a climb of Everest a few years ago, around the same time that the Everest tragedy occurred where several climbers lost their lives.

The imagery, as in most IMAX...

Pros: Emotional, Exciting, Educational--Magnified by IMAX visuals and sound
Cons: none

This is one of the best IMAX features I have seen. It is a true documentary, revealing the triumphs and heartaches of the actual climbers before and during the climb. Being able to experience the climb through the magic of IMAX magnifies the impact....

Pros: Hey, it's an Imax
Cons: Felt a little short

Attending school at the University of Pittsburgh I am only a few minutes away from the Carnegie Science Center and its Omnimax theater. I thoroughly love watching Imax movies and try to catch any new showing as it passes through. Everest was the first...

Pros: An equal balance of awe for the mountain and awareness for its danger.
Cons: Sitting in the IMAX theater for that long.

What other reason is there to climb Mount Everest than that it's there? While only experienced climbers are supposed to attack the slopes of the tallest mountain in the world, this IMAX film allows anyone to experience the mystery and the danger that is...

Pros: An amazing film and moving story
Cons: Death haunts the film and the mountain

This IMAX movie is as breathtaking as an ascent of the mountain without oxygen. Reading Jon Krakauer's bestselling book, "Into Thin Air," will make the experience even more profound. The phenomenal popularity of both shows us more than the...

Pros: Beautiful scenery and filming
Cons: not an interesting story

I saw the movie because it had received such rave reviews and I had read the book "Into thin Air" and was interested in all of the events that had happened the year that this film was produced. I may have had some unfair expectations that...

Pros: nice scenery, some scenes give you vertigo
Cons: expensive, doesn't use format to its advantage enough, some scenes give you vertigo

WHY I'M WRITING ABOUT THIS:
I saw the movie and have an epinion that will save you money.

MOVIE:
"Everest" - an IMAX film...meaning, it's shown in a special movie theater on a GIGANTIC movie screen (about 60 feet tall). I...

Pros: Beautiful scenery, entertaining as well as scenic.
Cons: None.

My husband is a huge climbing aficionado, and the language and names of climbers are common knowledge around our house. His particular passion is all things Everest, so of course we couldn't wait to see the IMAX -- and we weren't disappointed. The IMAX...