January 19, 2012
November 18, 2011
September 19, 2011
September 7, 2011
August 24, 2011
August 8, 2011
August 2, 2011
Angel Collinson joins the team from Backcountry.com on Vimeo.
Have some feedback? Have a story idea?
Copyright ©2010
BackcountryBeacon.com,
Backcountry.com All rights reserved.
Make fun of the outdoors, and we’ll make fun of you.
By: Adam Riser | June 15th, 2010 | Posted in Commentary | No Comments »Climbers, skiers, backpackers, mountain bikers, and just about everyone else who spends time in the outdoors generally can’t stand it when some Hollywood flick puts our sport up on the big screen or a television show pipes some terrible version of our lifestyle into homes all over the world and makes us look like a bunch of idiots. The only saving grace is that we know sooner or later someone will make a parody of the entertainment piece in question. Here are a few of my favorite variations on the five minutes of revenge.
Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit
The reality TV show Everest: Beyond the Limit may be one of the most painful programs for a climber to watch, but this extremely well done parody is so hilarious that it almost makes the existence of the television show worth it.
Frozen trailer vs. Sprint commercial:
Skiers can’t stand the movie Frozen, which focuses on three skiers trapped on a chairlift. Skiers can’t stand the terrible Sprint commercial where “three skiers are trapped on a chairlift.” Put the two together, however, and it makes for a pretty good clip.
Ace Ventura knocks off Cliffhanger:
The only thing better than a parody of a movie is when the parody is in another movie. The opening scene to the Ace Ventura sequel mirrors the opening of Cliffhanger but replaces the helpless girl with a raccoon.
Vertical Limit’s guide to climbing:
Throw Vertical Limit in the DVD player and put a bunch of actual climbers around the television, and you have an instant drinking game. If this “guide to climbing” actually covered all the technical mistakes, it would be nearly as long as the actual movie, but this one caught the main points pretty well.
Monty Python sends the gnar:
No catapults or holy hand grenades in this one, but the climbing is probably more difficult and more dangerous than most of the stuff you see on reality TV shows these days. Being run over by a car while in the middle of a pitch is the very definition of objective hazard.
Best international competition ever:
Now, we can’t say the O-word because the lawyers who work for the O-word committee will likely storm our office with an army of suits and sue us into the Stone Age. If the O-word competitions were handled like this, I bet their lawyers would have other stuff to worry about, and I wouldn’t have to beat around the bush.
Related Posts: