Adam Green’s Frozen is one of the finest pieces of survival horror I’ve ever seen. The set-up is simple, the logistics are plausible, the characters dynamic, and the threat is terrifyingly real. The result is a picture that authenticates those feelings of helplessness, mounting dread and blood-chilling desperation that come with similar real-life scenarios. Following the unfortunate situation of 3 skiers stranded on a chairlift over a long holiday weekend, Frozen generates the same kind of tension and primal disquiet that Jack London captured in his piece of short fiction ‘To Build a Fire’. By the third act Green is even paying full homage to London; introducing a couple of starving wolves into the already dire scenario.
What it all adds up to is honestly scary. These aren’t jump-scares or even gathering fear, but a pervasive anxiety that begins creeping in, like the winter chill on that ski lift, just as things start going wrong. By the end, I dare you not to look away. Frostbite, unexpected falls, and the aforementioned animal scavengers are presented in a gruesome, matter-of-fact way that only cements the dark reality that Frozen presents us with. Essentially, it’s giving us that reminder that the universe isn’t always working in our favor, and sometimes the unpredictable spice of life can be pure poison. Put another way; some days you eat the wolf, some days the wolf eats you.
Frozen marks Green’s third directorial picture and he proves to be a genre artist constantly in the act of improving as a filmmaker. Hatchet, his trite and dopey debut film was a over-earnest homage to 80’s slashers, but his follow-up Spiral was a compelling and effective psychological thriller that was more than a little reminiscent of Hitchcock.
In Frozen, he’s graduated even further, dropping all notions of genre frosting or horror convention and doing what the Master of Suspense did best, finding the biting teeth of the mundane and sinking them deeply into the viewer’s psyche. You start by scoffing at the potential for thrills, questioning the plausibility of the scenario, but by the end you are holding on for dear life with the rest of those poor souls and most of the credit can go entirely to Green and his trio of actors. They make the microcosm of the chair lift a breeding ground for frustration, sick terror and even selfless sacrifice, and they do it without ever showing their hand or making the outcome predictable.
Shawn Ashmore (ironically, he was Iceman in the X-Men films) is the most recognizable face in this small cast, but he’s doing good and believable work here and he is matched in his efforts by his co-stars, Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers. All of them deliver performances that feel real and take into consideration not just the physical taxation on a body exposed to the elements, but what kinds of mental and emotional assault occur when placed in situations like this. Green’s script sets them up with a healthy dose of tension right from the get-go, as Ashmore’s character is the best friend to Zegers, who is none to happy to find he’s been more or less replaced by the cute and forthright Bell.
These buried nuances actually grow into towering obstacles once they find that the ski-lift operator has left them up in the air, suspended over the slope, for an extended period of days that won’t allow for their survival. When grief and loss enter in, I was honestly amazed at how effecting it is. When Bell begins to agonize over the fact she forgot to feed her puppy at home, and starts fearing that it will starve to death when she never returns, I found myself fully immersed into the reality of film.
I imagine there will be two camps with Frozen; those that can buy the premise, and let Green take them on a dark-side tour of ‘worst case scenario,’ and those that will fight what the film is doing tooth and nail. Personally, I was thoroughly riveted and for my money Green explained away most of the lingering plot inconsistencies that come with making sure the three friends stay up there all weekend without rescue. What works though is the attention to details both physical and psychological and the daring on the part of the entire team to go looking for fear in an unlikely place. What they get for their troubles is a stand-alone tale of survival that will cause skiers to rethink that last trip down the slope for years to come.
loved this movie. If you enjoy realistic, suspenseful thriller go see this it will not be a dissappointment.
Hi i want to see Frozen but i cant find it on dvd it should have come out by now
do you know whats going on
As far as i can tell it will be on DVD , Sept 28/10 Not sure why the delay
very scare and realistic. aftermath i got bad feeling about winter and skie resorts. (jk)
mate, this movie was THE WORST movie i have ever seen so far. It was very uneventful indeed, and though seemed suspenseful at times, it never went through with it. to sum it all up I HATED IT. When my friend and I began watching it (i am a thriller wimp) i said, ‘aah this is going to be scary, something going to happen!” and she said ”DUHH, they arent just going to sit on bench the whole movie”…BUT THEY DID. so do NOT watch it, its a waste of peoples lives. vomit.
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This movie was absolute crap. I could not bear to watch the entire thing. The characters have no substance whatsoever – and nary a brain cell between the three of them. The two guys are douchebags, and the female is a typical whiny, crying moron.
Honestly, what idiot would jump straight down in to hardpacked snow from that high up? And the pain of those horribly fx´d compound fractures and trying to slide down the hill like that would be far preferable than being eaten by wolves, wouldn´t you say?
If you are a typical airhead/jock type who likes to ski,then perhaps this movie would be for you. For the rest of us who actually have IQ´s above 130, this movie is complete and utter rotting tripe.
O silly you. Why don’t you just suspend your disbelief. The movie was fun and the characters were great. That’s what movies are all about.
i thought this movie was watchable but why oh why wouldn’t they just do up their jackets? is it realistic that you would get frostbite on your face and not think to pull up your scarf or zip up your jacket so that only your eyes are exposed? my face is falling off, but hmm, the audience wont be able to see what i am saying if i cover my face. this ruined the movie for me. and wouldn’t you hang down off the chair and then let go ( and really, wouldn’t you lower yourself down a ski or tie together some clothing or use that long scarf ) instead of standing and leaping off the chair. realistic, it wasn’t.
I was hoping the scrnario of skiiers trapped would be realistic but it disappointed with unplausable scenes. #1 zip up your damn coat. #2 jumping… seriously??? Even if someone would jump it wouldnot happen the first night. Jumping is a last resort,.when all other hope is lost. The attempt to climb should have come first. #3 compound fractures like the falling character had would be so painful and the blood loss so great that he would go into immediate shock but instead he was calm and talked normal until eaten alive. #4 wolves do not attack humans, even when they are injured. Sure, 1 in 10000000 it could happen so maybe maybe maybe but they would never stick around to stalk able bodied people, especially in the day. The wolf scenes.just contributrd to the idiotic thinking that wolves are a threat to humans.
I thought open water 2 was plausible and was hoping this movie would have the same type of feeling to it but instead I lost interest the moment the guy jumped.
OK baby girl. I would like to see how you would feel out in the wilderness with hungry wolves howling around you. Perhaps American wolves don’t have that type of reputation, but the wolves in this movie were tame compared with the wolves that terrorized Europe a few centuries ago.
You suck man, this movie is the worst movie that i have ever seen
Heh… so you lived a century or two ago? The chances of wolves doing that are slim to none. Around here, wolves have a bad enough reputation. There is no prey for a wolf in a ski resort and therefore, I dare you to find a wolf there! I ski in a resort surrounded by wolf packs and have never seen any evidence of one.
This was a sad movie.
I for one loved the movie, BUT as for the wolves…. VERY UNLIKELY, this seems to be a Highly occupied Ski Resort, therefor, lots of humans, MEANING that they would typically scare off ANY wildlife. and seriously??? i’ve NEVER heard of a ski resort only being open on the weekends… Where i come from, Utah, ALL the ski resorts are open, 7 days a week. Movie, Great, Storyline, Not Plausible
This movie was pathetic at best, pihranna 3d was better thought out…
1. Zip up your jackets…
2. Dont jump without a plan
3. Put your fucking legs over the “Sharpened Wires”
4. Why are chairlift wires “razor sharp”?
5. Wolves stalking human Prey?
6. Not Throwing shit at the grooming machine when it was under them… only to watch it drive away….
gosh i just cant even think of the plentiful things that just made me rage at the screen!
this is somthing i would expect a 14 year old kid to write in his notebook…
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.
the did throw stuff at the grooming machine. The one guy threw his skis and one of his poles at it plus all of their goggles.
They waited until it was to far away to hit the windshield and threw little things… they could have tried to hit it with the boards or skis tossing one to het the guys attention and the second so he would see it….. that being said id have probably missed too. But when it was stopped was their best chance I think….. i cant remember how close it was when it stopped.
I HAVE TO AGREE THIS WAS THE WORST MOVIE I EVER SAW..WHAT A WASTE OF MY TIME.. THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS ON THE SKI LIFT, VERY CHEAP I WONDER HOW MUCH IT WAS TO MAKE THIS MOVIE..ALSO I HATE THE ENDING..THIS MOVIE IS NOT WORTH SEEING
I really enjoyed the movie personally. Although not all senerios are very likely- they could happen- and I believe Green was trying to make every worst case happen so you have to be open to thinking the worst will happen again and again.
And yeah they should have zipped up their jacket, but for a cinema production it’s best to show the actors mouth- we can assume irl the girl woulda zipped her coat.
And yeah the man shouldn’t have jumped straight off- but you have to try to put yourself in his place: he’s no survival expert and he’s under extreme pressure. During times like that people make rash decisions and not all of them are correct.
Mostly what this movie left me thinking is- What Would Bear Grylls Do?
I really enjoyed the movie personally. Although not all senerios are very likely- they could happen- and I believe Green was trying to make every worst case will happen so you have to be open to thinking the worst wiill happen again and again. And yeah they should have zipped up their jackets, but for a cinema production it’s best to show the actors mouth- we can assume irl the girl woulda zipped her coat.
And yeah the man shouldn’t have jumped straight off- but you have to try to put yourself in his place: he’s no survival expert and he’s under extreme pressure. During times like that people make rash decisions and not all of them are correct.
Mostly what this movie left me thinking is- What Would Bear Grylls Do?
This movie was very terrible to say the least for many reasons
1. What ski resort is only open on the weekends? I’ve never heard of anything like this, out west students who have no morning classes take a few hours to get some runs in before their night classes.
2. Wolves near a ski resort?? What? So shouldn’t those wolves be around when 100′s of 1000′s of skiers/snowboarders are on the runs?
3. I’m not sure how long hypothermia and eventually death takes to set in but I assume it’s less than 36 hours, which is how long the girl had her one glove off for, she took it off before he jumped and had it off the whole next day. Plus the whole day she was on the chair lift she would have been frozen solid, literally.
4. Somebody commented on this earlier throwing items (ski’s, snowboards, etc.) at the grooming machine, if you noticed they were throwing them 30 yards in front of it just hit the damn windshield and signal the guy running it.
5. You say this movie is realistic? You’re poorly mistaken, in the 21st century do you know the precautionary measures that ski resorts, carnivals, amusement parks, etc. take to ensure something like this never ever happens? Do you realize the lawsuit that would be on the hands of the resort for the death of 2 college students and one student in critical condition? Not realistic- to say the least they do a lot to ensure something like that doesn’t happen
I could go on all day about how bad this movie was there’s a lot more, I’m sure others will point out the many flaws of this repulsively terrible movie
Ok where do I begin… well first off I cant believe that anyone is dumb enough to call this the worst movie ever made, have you ever seen a sci fy original movie ?? Hello. Secondly I worked at ski areas through several years in my early twenties and yes we did have times when people ended up on chairs after shutting down, its called they snuck on when the ( underpaid, unhappy ) lift op turned his back for a minute after the gates are closed, fortunately ski patrol noticed them on their closing patrol. And yes the lift cables are sharp, I ve worked on them and they get tiny little frays over the years that could easily cut gloves. And to the poster above me I live out west as well and I can think of several resorts in my area that are only open fri – sun, its not unheard of. Now as far as the kids desicions they where definitely poor at best, I can think of a dozen different solutions that would have been better than theirs, but then who hasnt made bad judgements in a stressful situation ? I do have to say the wolves where quite a stretch of the imagination though, but hey its a just movie. And thats what I say to all these people dissecting every detail….get a life, its a movie its not real life and it probably would never happen this way, but it delivers a good suspensful thrill and is real enough to not feel over the top cheesy. 4 stars here
Let me say thank you for your good feedback on the movie,, you are 100% right as its was just a movie and it was good, if every movie was like real life, then all movies would be boring. Lets see these people that made bad comments come up with a better of an idea of a movie. Thanks you made sense on this.
Yeah, lots of stuff didnt make any sense at all. I can make the stretch for the wolves, I mean the cocksucker was bleeding all over the place for fuck sake. Of course that’s gonna attract predators. Reading what “espltd” said, I can even make the stretch that the cables were frayed and sharp. What I can’t fathom in 2010 is 3 obviously college age people together, at a ski resort and not one of them has a phone. Every 3rd 5 year old has a phone today but these dorks don’t have one phone between the 3 of them. Tell me the battery went dead, tell me it got broken when sucker punch sally over here fell on it numerous times. Hell, tell me Jimmie the jerk-off took it with him when he made himself into dog chow. But don’t try to feed me that b.s. that they just didn’t have one with them. She would have one coz girlz never stop yammering. Chuckles over there would have one coz he’s single and he’s got chicks swingin’ from his fuckin’ balls in every sorority and he’s gotta stay two steps ahead for damage control. Why does she have her hand out in the weather all night long when she’s wearing a winter coat chock full of pockets? This isn’t 1975, you can’t just overlook those details. It’s an insult to the movie-goers intelligence. 5 minutes after realizing they were stuck on the lift they started talking about frost bite, but she’s gonna leave her bare hand exposed all night long!? Blonde and dumb-as-a-brick or not, you ain’t gonna forget you’re outside, in freezing weather, stuck on a lift, dying from exposure. It seems people in that situation would take there arms out of their coats sleeves and wrap them around their bodies and tuck there hands under their armpits inside their coats specifically to prevent frost bitten fingers. But this asshole is oblivious. The movie had lots of potential, it could’ve been great, but it just fell too short, too many times.
THis was really… REALLY… a BAD MOVIE!!! OMG!!! Have any body went to a ski resort before! This movie makes no sence! That girl is a complete stupid, Dan has nothing in his head but suicidal thoughts, and Joe is so so not human! How come u rather jump to ur death instead of climbing down from the metal cord (pardon my english… im not english at all… lol) as Joe did in the last part of the movie??? The girl had a lighter! She did light a cigarette while going up. Why didnt they used it to get at least some heat? I do live in a city in argentina where we have a ski resort, and i know those lift chairs… and that metal cable does not CUT THROUGH GLOVES AND GET TO CUT UR FLESH!!! Im really sorry to say this but, im not sure if this movie wants to show how stupid noth americans are in such situations, or if its really a BAD… BBAAAAADDDD movie!
Calification: 1/10 (List of the worst movies)
Errors: Tooo many!
Logic: NON!!
If you’re not intelligent enough to spell “sense” right, then you shouldn’t be comment on a movie that was actually pretty original and well thought out
I do believe that if you actually paid attention to what they said, English isn’t their first language. How many languages do YOU know?! STFU. Talk about the movie……
LOL
Wow! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this was ridiculously stupid. I’ve snowboarded and skied for years. Much of rider etiquette was missing from this movie. For example, chair lifts stop all the time when beginners get on the lift and no one ever complains about it like these dudes. Also, chair seats are flipped up at the end of the night to prevent snow from accumulating on them. This is how they prevent this scenario from happening. I guess if I hadn’t grown up on a mountain, I might have believed this crap. I hope I never see a movie as dumb as this one ever again!!!
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I’d like a refund. What a waste of $13. And espltd, you’re about as stupid and worthless as this movie. I’m so pissed, what a waste of 93 minutes of my life. And the ending? Holy shit. WORST MOVIE EVER!!!
Is it really necessary to go on a site to review a movie and call people you don’t agree w/stupid and worthless? Grow up and grow a heart.
The movie first looked like it had some potential.
It was all ruined by the wolves attacks.
There were only a handful of documented wolves attack on humans. Wolves are shy are most likely to go away when humans get close to them.
If you got 2 broken legs and blood all around, yes it is possible the wolves may see you as an eventual lunch.
But the whole pack going after the second guy riding down the slope is pure science fiction.
I was disgusted about how wolves are depicted in this movie….
Also this “Movie” is supposed to take place in New England, I believe Massachusetts. First of all there are no wolves anywhere in New England, except the zoos. Secondly, Massachusetts is home to the smartest people in the world. We have the best public schools, universities, hospitals, etc in the world, so the premise that such an absurdly moronic situation could possibly occur in such an intellectual place seems quite outlandish. Even our ski lift operators and stoner college students are smarter than your average bear. This situation would’ve been more believable in a less-apt state.
O, you’re from an intelligent part of the country? Are you so sure of you’re intelligence?
Clearly you’ve never been to Boston, because I’ve met some seriously under-educated people in that city… Other than that, you’re right…there hasn’t been a single sighting of a wolf in nature within 500 miles of Mass. for the last 100 years or so…
WOW people it is just a movie. dont act like nerds and just enjoy the dam movie. Yeah, wolves tring to eat people sounds fake but is was still a good movie
This movie was sooooo bad. Here’s my list of unrealistic obvious flaws:
There are lift operators at the top of every mountain and, as far as I know, they communicate with the operators at the bottom. The seats are also flipped up at night. Very unlikely someone would have been left on the lift.
People carry cell phones. I do not snowboard with my phone in my pocket, but I always have a friend who carries one. One of them should have had one and been able to call for help.
The guy who jumped threw his snowboard down first and it landed deep into POWDER. All the sudden he jumps and it’s between hard-packed and ice? He also didn’t think to roll into his fall at all. He just kinda fell back and let his legs break.
Razor sharp lift cables? Doubt it. At least not as bad as this movie made it seem. Definitely exaggerated.
I do not know of ANY ski resorts that are only open on weekends. When she said “We’re going to be up here all week!” the movie lost me even more. Resorts may sometimes close for holidays, but an entire week? Maybe it’s just me that thought that was strange… not sure.
As mentioned in other reviews, zip your jacket up! They could have easily prevented a lot of that frostbite… ESPECIALLY when her hand was stuck to the safety bar. Realistically, she would have slept with her hand in her pocket. They also could have stayed close for warmth.
How often do lift chairs break? Seriously? Those things are low maintenance and last like forever. The one they were on just happened to break though.
This movie just didn’t cut it for me. I was extremely disappointed =/
Horrible, drug on for way to long. A
Slow at times and to predictable
My man… Where to begin with your post…
I sincerely hope that english is your second language. Is it still too complicated for you to grasp the difference between the words “to” “too” and “two?” God help us.
This movie makes me mad. For several reasons:
1. Never jump feet first
2. If you have to jump why not jump into the pine tree to your right, conveniently you can climb down it then climb down the mountain
3. ZIP UP YOUR JACKET, which I might add has been made for freezing weather that you are currently in.
4. Stay in the lift; you can huddle up & stay warm
5. Wolves, do not attack humans, unless they are sickly and kicked out of the pack
6. Since you made it to the ladder stay up there a while till the supposedly man eating wolves get bored & leave then waltz/ ski down the mountain & turn on the lift.
7. Wearing a hard plastic ski boot that was designed to take the hit when you wipe out will not cause your ankle to break when a lift chair falls on it.
8. If you have a pointy ski pole you can fend off the “man eaters”
I could go on but then we’d be here all night reading. How this movie got above a 2/10 is beyond me
If everything on the mountain is freezing with icicles how come her pee didn’t freeze ! ! ? ?
WORST MOVIE EVER ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! WASTE OF TIME ! ! ! ! !
I rented it at the $1.00 Redbox and I want my money back !!!!!!!
This movie sucked. I just watched it with ten other people and all we were talking about is how bad this movie really was. How can this website review this movie 4 out of 5 stars? The comment above mine is absolutely true.
This movie makes you want to take out some wolves ! ! ! ! ! ! ‘
Why? Is it just because how they were portrayed in the film?
Before judging wolves, do some research, and learn what wonderful, intelligent, marvelous creatures they are.
It’s a sad shame people make them look so bad in the movies… Real Shame…
I agree with the majority of the comments on here. That was the worst movie ever. The lack of any semblance of a thought in the three kids brains made the movie infuriating. How about tie your jackets to your snowboards and skis and make a rope ladder you can climb down. You could probably reach all the way to the ground with the amount of clothing and equipment they had. And, no, those cables do not get razor sharp, capable of cutting through gloves after three feet of hanging. If they were that sharp, they would be replaced immediately. And if they did happen to be that sharp because the lift was located in some third world country where safety is a four letter word, then how about using a jacket over the cable to slide down. Or hook your legs over the top like any normal person would do that was sliding across a cable. And like everyone else said, why would you leave your hand outside of your jacket AND resting on a heat sucking metal bar. She didn’t notice that her hand was cold? Throw things and hit the grooming tractor. Bounce furiously on the chairs so the groomer will see the chairs bouncing even down below. Roll when you jump. Jump into a tree. Burn your snowboards. There are so many other dumb things that might have worked that they could have tried first but they didn’t even try the big things that are almost guaranteed to work: climbing down jackets instead of jumping and figuring out a way to shimmy down the cable.
The complete lack of logic in every single decision they made produced a movie that was unwatchable by me, and I will watch anything. I literally had to turn this movie off because their stupidity made me so made.
Look, if you’re facing death do you really think that you’re going to know all the answers, see all the options? Do you think you’d be totally calm and completely rational? Let me give you a hint, both of these have answers starting with N-O.
“Attention to details, both PHYSICAL and psychological” ?!?!?!?!?!?
Are you insane? The attention to physical details must have been handled by a 1st grader because there was no attention to any detail when it came to physics, logic, thought, human reaction to environment, any of that. The complete lack of attention to detail is what made me so mad watching this movie. So dumb I can’t believe people are stupid enough to fall for this inane plot. I thought people were smarter than that. I don’t think dumb people deserve to die, but Darwin might disagree with me.
They had to take a pee 15 minutes after being on the chairlift. but no one had to take a dump in 2 1/2 days. ! !
LOL all these reviews and then this…classic!
My brother in-law thought it was good, now I can’t even look at him.
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guys chill out! yea this movie was pretty bad, there was a million things they couldve done, we all know that. but just enjoy the movie and the suspensful scenes.
this movie SUCK, YOU ARE TRIPPING !!!!!!!
Why didn’t they call RAMBO!!!!
how do u give such a HORRIBLE movie 4 starts ? ? ? ?
This movie was fuckin retarded.
Fucking retarded film.
As if you would just jump of an extremely high chairlift legs first what did he expect to happen, he would land on his feet?
As if he would not be crying out in pain when he had just broken or should I say SNAPPED both his BONES in half. Instead he just sat there maybe crying but definately not screaming like a normal person.
I highly doubt wolves would just come up and eat him alive and all he would do was be like “don’t let her look.” Wouldn’t he start shouting “get away from me” instead of giving up straight away, and wouldn’t they throw stuff down at the wolves to scare them off.
She didn’t even seem to try to warm up her hand. When you have your gloves off up at the snow for longer than 5 minutes they start freezing and then you atleast TRY to warm them up by putting your breath on them or putting them under your jacket or under your armpits.
When the wolves were eating him he kept on shouting things even though they were eating him ALIVE he kept on saying stuff. Wouldn’t you be screaming in pain not saying “don’t let her look” I mean I get he cared about her but it might of been a time to be thinking about yourself. Nobody is that nice.
Who doesn’t zip up there jackets to cover there face, no wonder they got frost bite.
I mean at the start I was totally freaked out but then I thought of all this and how it’s not possible at all.
I thought this movie was so good the end was the only good part everything else was complete crap. Most people wouldn’t have wolves come and get a person in midday at a public ski resort. But i have never skied so i dont know but it was ok.
Without a doubt one of the stupidest movies ever. Anyone who’s skied or boarded will agree. Lame beyond belief and this review is a combination of butt-kissing and idiocy.
Frozen sucks big and bad.
Three people get stuck in a ski lift. One jumps, breaks both legs, gets eaten by wolves. One climbs down the cable tower, then gets eaten by wolves. One gets down off the lift, and gets a lift home. End.
That wasn’t just a synopsis – that was basically everything.
The first wolf-attack was exciting, dramatic and spectacular – probably. Unfortunately, budget constraints meant that most of the scene consisted of the two survivors telling eachother (and, presumably, the cameraman) not to look.
If you have nothing better to do with 90 minutes of your life, you might want to take a long hard look at yourself.
Pardon me. I have to go sharpen my ski-lift cables !
Badass movie
I live in Alaska, and we hear wolves howl all the time out here.
They have been known to hang around certain areas where they find food scraps.
They normally avoid human contact at all cost, but some things needed to be considered. The hardest time for a Wolf Pack is when the snow is not deep to slow down their prey (deer, moose, etc), When desperate for food, they will seek out anything edible, and they WILL eat it. It’s a fact. If it;s weak or injured, to them, it means an easy meal… Not to mention, they can smell blood from miles away!!!
That said…
My 10 year old sat with me for the first few minutes (Before I shooed him to bed because I just knew some ding-dong was going to jump and break their legs, and I don’t want him watching things like that). Before my little man walked away, he looked at me and said “Mama? Why don’t they take their coats and pants and stuff off and make a ladder out of the clothes to climb down on? Then they could leave one person up there, and that person could pull the clothes back up, get re-bundled, and throw the rest to the 2 people below. Then the 2 people below can get help for the one that stayed on the chair?”
The only thing I could think of was “They’re not as smart as you are baby”.
why the wolfs didnt eat the lady?
The reason the wolves would have gone after the two males, yet not the female is because the two men were bleeding, smell of blood in the air, freezing temperature & lack of food supply, yeah I can see wolves IN A PACK going after humans. Wolves hunt the weak & injured of prey & the men were weak & injured. Plus when the girl crawled by, the wolves were eating her friend so they are not going to stop eating to attack something else while they are getting full off of him, & leave their kill to go for something that seemed threatening because she wasn’t bleeding. But yes, there are incidents of wolves attacking people -unfortunately ;( here is a site that has the reports at the bottom : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans
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But that does not mean all wolves, all the time are out for the kill on humans. There are many ways they could have TRIED to get down with out jumping…tie clothes together, use skis,ski poles or snow board to slide down the razor sharp cable & no one would have been attacked by the hungry wolves because no one would have been bleeding….BUT if all of that happened, it wouldn’t be a movie now would it???
to me it seems that the director and his team never experienced once in their life going skiing or snow boarding in a very cold environment because there are so many lttle mistakes all along the movie that if only you have got your ass frozen once you never forgot what you have to do. Forget for a little the embarrassent tof the wolves (very sad, indeed) and think that no one decision is rational in that movie. But how is possible in making the movie no one has got any of the doubts all of us have raisen here? Unbelievable…
Well, it’s just a movie, guys. Movie is made to entertain us, not to make us debating about whether it is realistic or not, or whether the snowboarders made the smartest decisions or dumbest ones. Just be nice by not uttering bad words, what do you say?
One thing is for sure!!!! Everyone of you are helping to sell this movie because now matter how much you like it or hate it you all cant stop talking about it!!!!!!
I would like to add one note about the movie!
They said they were in New England! That’s on the East Coast!
At the end of the movie the driver tells the girl “We are 10 minutes from Aspen”
??????????WHAT?????????? Did I hear that right?????????? Did that girl drag herself 4/6th of the way across the USA just to get help?????? OMG you mean to tell me she had to drag herself all the way to Colorado just to get help???????