Originally Posted by
PedalingWalrus
I can't stand these movies. Sorry. I can't even watch past the opening titles after the monologue. Activities and more importantly hyping up of these activities is completely uninteresting to me. People on 'vacations' or without jobs and choose to do some ridiculous feat where they rush rush rush, hurry hurry hurry, do not sleep, suffer for the purpose of being somewhere the fastest is nothing I would ever aspire to and nothing that brings peace into my soul if I chose to watch it. I'm weird that way. I don't support any of the current activities on Mt.Everest either (these foolish industries are connected by a common thread of people wanting to go on ego trips), they climb, watch others die, leave thousands of pounds of trash behind on the climb ... I have no interest of supporting, admiring, promoting or participating in these industries... same with pretty much any wild video Red Bull puts out ... I could ramble on but I think if You have read this far your eyes are probably already watering :-)
hi there PW, it's funny as this is pretty much how I feel about the extreme things folks do--like I said, I'm pretty much the opposite in my approach to life and especially with enjoying bike touring after all these years doing it. I tend to agree that with most of these type of videos, or interviews or whatever, there seems to be a big part of ego thing and outdoing others--but oddly enough, I also can look at it like "yes, these folks are nuts, and I don't get it" but if the ego thing isn't too much, I can appreciate the doggedness of some of these clearly type A folks.
What I found with this film was that I liked how it was filmed, and the ego thing wasn't to me a big thing like it is in others.
I guess I can just accept that some folks are different (nuts!?) and especially if the ego thing isn't overt, I can watch it with an amount of respect, even with a big percentage of disbelief (and not really getting the why thing).
anyway, so there you go, I'm glad you wrote what your wrote, too many of these sort of activities tend to scream out " look at me, look at me"
I seem to remember us talking about when finding out about the death of Iohan Gueorguiev, that one of the reasons I liked his videos from the start of them was that he was very humble, and never did the whole ego thing about his travels. Yes, I still couldn't imagine doing what he did, but I respected his understated and humble approach to his videos.
cheers