Ok, I’ll get the ball rolling. How about a review of movies which contain some sort of buildering scene. There’s gotta be at least a dozen out there, especially in the Action/Adventure genre. I’ll start, with a rating based on the quality of the buildering scene:

Spiderman (the movie) (1 out of 4 stars)
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You remember the scene where he climbs the brick wall (and discovers the little hooks in his hands)? Even though he climbs about an Ard12, the climb is so short and unaesthetic, that it is a total letdown. He’s Spiderman for crying out loud!!

-ardarvin

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  1. Dru Reply

    Jackie Chan climbs a chimney on some building by dyno-stemming.  :O

    Not that all Jackie Chan movies are good though.

  2. Dan P Reply

    Doesn't Lawrence Fishbourne or Keanu Reeves or somebody dyno from the building to the helicopter?  If so, then I guess that could kinda be considered buildering.

    I guess it could be considered builldering when Michael Myers is hiding on the ceiling and then he does the negative pullup thing when that person has their back turned and then he dices em up, in Halloween H2O (worst movie evAr!).  Its doesn't really show the buildering aspect, but you gotta wonder how he got up there. :)

  3. ardarvin Reply

    Ok, I was waiting for someone else to post this one, cause I thought it was a giveaway….

    The Bourne Identity :star:   :star:  :star:  :nostar:
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    Probably this movie's best scene is a buildering one. It stars Matt Damon, who play a special agent with amnesia, agent "Bourne". All and all not a bad movie, but on to the buildering scene. This is from some movie press release:

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    …for the thrilling climax to this sequence, Bourne scales down the 70-foot-high walls of the building, which alternately saw Damon himself dangling from the lofty precipice by nothing more than a safety belt, and world-class free-climber Neil Bentley – who conquered the nose of El Capitan in Yosemite without safety harnesses – doubling him for the more dangerous moves.

    "Climbing down the face of the building is probably the most grueling thing I had to do," confessed Damon. "I'm not an experienced rock climber, but I've done other movies, like Courage Under Fire and Saving Private Ryan, where I had to do a lot of running, diving, falling and shooting."

    "The challenge of the sequence was to make it look completely natural for Bourne to climb down the sheer wall of this building like a mosquito," noted Nick Powell. "Matt was extraordinary, and climbed down the last 30 feet of the building on his own. But we brought in a climbing double rather than a stuntman, because none of the stunt guys I know are in Neil's class."

    An exact replica of the building's exterior was also designed and built by Dan Weil and his crew on a soundstage at Barrandov Studios for close-ups of Damon scaling the walls.

    Well that explains how Matt Damon looked so smooth doing those traversing moves.. because it wasn't Matt, it was Neil Bentley.  However, Neil Bentley climbed The Nose without a safety harness? BS. It's funny how non-climber types get their facts misconstrued. They make it sound like Neil free-soloed the Nose, which I assure you no one has done, or will do anytime soon. Even Dean Potter brings a rope and harness along, which yes he does use.

    Anyways, the buildering scene is cool and, unlike Tom Cruise in MI2, the moves actually seem to make sense.

    -ArdArvin

  4. Universatile Reply

    Jacki chan has buildering scenes in so many movies. But he more like sprints up the sides of buildings.
    I saw mel gibson builder a little bit in Tequila Sunrise. And how about Greystoke? Didnt Tarzan do some buildering in that?
    Anyways nice to meet you all.
    Im having trouble finding good routes around town and am paranoid of getting trespassed as Ive already been to jail once for squatting.

  5. suppa chris Reply

    There is a good buildering scene in the movie K2.  Yup.  The cool guy speed builders up to a 4th or 5th story of a apartment building to meet a couple of girls for a slumber party or something.  He makes it look easy… like an ard7 maybe  :p

  6. trailmix Reply

    in Mr Deeds Adam Sandler (so doubt its really him, shah right.), does a Jackie Chan style climb up to save some people from a fire. 'hi-ya! i kung-fu you!!' sometimes i wish i was jackie. but maybe i should just study computers ???

  7. Klymer Reply

    Although you should get free nachos when watching K2, because it's so cheesey, I have to agree the buildering scene was the first to come to my mind.  When the old guy pulls a gun on the builderer it is representative of the attitude towards builderers in society, if not a metaphor of the intrinsic strife boiling within modern builderers :D

  8. trailmix Reply

    i gotta say, whenever i builder i always manage to think of Quazi moto in the cartoon version of Notre Dame.  he has the agility we all wish we had.  but i'd say its more of a parkour scene, now that we know about that sport. :D

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