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Man on Wire

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  • #32
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,078 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    The planning and amount of preparation and passion put in was the real
    brilliance of the whole stunt. The actual walk, though amazing, was simply
    the final part of the amazing plan


  • #33
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,078 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Bandit12 wrote: »
    Yeah the missus was watching it so i was stuck with it. Looked like a load of rubbish to me. Childish thing to do anyway's.

    I can't see how any part of the plot and event could be childish. Highly skillful and courageous and intelligent.


  • #34
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    emeraldstar wrote: »
    I watched Miss Congeniality 2 on TV3 instead.

    Wow! You have some guts to admit that in public.

    Kudos to you Emeraldstar.


  • #35
    deisedude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭deisedude


    walshb wrote: »
    I can't see how any part of the plot and event could be childish. Highly skillful and courageous and intelligent.

    Great and all as the documentary was i wouldnt classify walking on a wire between the twin towers as intelligent:eek:


  • #36
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    brilliant documentary

    but, its just a pity they didn't film it...the actual tightrope walk that is


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  • #37
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,078 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    deisedude wrote: »
    Great and all as the documentary was i wouldnt classify walking on a wire between the twin towers as intelligent:eek:

    No, that is pretty "dumb." but this guy is simply born with this passion and dare devil streak, like many people. The intelligence was the whole operation, the deception and the palnning. The "walk" was pure courage and courage from the passion the guy has for the act. All this was wasted and undervalued by the bully boy antics of those in authority. This guy wasn't Jack the Ripper


  • #38
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    The guy was obviously fuccking mental, but the documentary was great.


  • #39
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Great documentary and fully deserved the oscar, I have it on dvd somewhere, gonna root it out and watch it tonight


  • #40
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,078 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    brummytom wrote: »
    The guy was obviously fuccking mental, but the documentary was great.

    How?

    I would say he was far from mental; just seriously passionate about wire walking and pulling off the impossible. That doesn't make him mental, or drunk, as those nob psychiatrists were asking if he was?:rolleyes:


  • #41
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    and he got seriously laid, lucky devil ;)


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  • #42
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Wow! You have some guts to admit that in public.

    Kudos to you Emeraldstar.
    Aye, I may have bad taste in movies but at least I am a truly gutsy lass.


  • #43
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    best thing i've seen in ages.
    and it was the guys enthusiasm telling the story which partly went to making it so entertaining.
    quelle joie de vivre.
    obviously nuts though.


  • #44
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Found it quite boring between the tightrope walks tbh


  • #45
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    Wonderful watch. He was some c*nt though...


  • #46
    Expresso Bongo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Expresso Bongo


    Pffft. So he walked across the twin towers on a tightrope once upon a time? I'd like to seem him do it again!


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    [Deleted User]
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  • #48
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Great documentary. Pity he's French! :pac:


  • #49
    WillieCocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭WillieCocker


    Yes, have it on Blu-Ray.
    PQ is fantastic.
    Great Documentary.


  • #50
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    beans wrote: »
    Wonderful watch. He was some c*nt though...

    I agree with this


  • #51
    Jammyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    I remember speaking with an elderly man last September and he was saying he was the actual security guard at the top who yer man managed to get by.


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  • #52
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Jammyc wrote: »
    I remember speaking with an elderly man last September and he was saying he was the actual security guard at the top who yer man managed to get by.
    Was he fired?


  • #53
    Jammyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    Was he fired?
    Reckon so. Met him working as an extra on the Tudors.:pac:


  • #54
    zGeek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭zGeek


    Coincidence dealt with.
    I watched that documentary as well


  • #55
    laoisforliam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭laoisforliam


    Ah i thought it was a bit far fetched myself


  • #56
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    walshb wrote: »
    Indeed, and the highlight/lowlight was how those complete ignorant and classless cops could see nothing fantastic about it. They hadn't an ounce of appreciation for what had transpired. Mugs!

    Sure the guard was saying how you couldn't have called it a walk, how it was more like he was dancing across the wire. Surely that shows that he was appreciative of the act?

    laoisforliam wrote:
    Ah i thought it was a bit far fetched myself

    Far fetched? It actually happened, though? Like, it wasn't fiction...


  • #57
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Saw this doc a few months ago. was literally on the edge of my seat sweating just watching it. Un freakin believable the balls that guy has.

    Highly recommended


  • #58
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    A beautiful film, no tacky model of the World Trade Center on sale in Lower Manhattan will ever come near capturing the beauty of it all like that film does. I like how they don't really go near that day either, but its tragic to think the site of such a moment is gone.

    A slightly mad Frenchman no doubt, but aren't the best ones like that? 68 comes to mind.


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