wassup with that?
it was snowing and people were freezing their asses off...wake up the next day, pierce doesn't even need a coat, can't see his own breath etc etc.
I guess they shot a part of it in the winter and the rest of it in the summer?
This was a big glaring oversight to me.
It's more than one day difference in the film, the temperature change is gradual (and I assumed in some cases a lapse of days we didn't always see) as he descends. They filmed it all except the waterfall scene (Oregon) in New Mexico from October to December. The geography varies from the mountains to valleys to the desert, along with extreme temperature differences around the same time of year.
shareare you sure it's mroe than a one day difference?
pierce goes to the cabin where the people are...takes a nap and leaves at dawn. Then neeson comes in and starts questioning them.
But Gideon is still wearing a coat when he leaves the house. I mean it probably took longer than a day to get down to the cabin. I'm not sure, I'd have to watch again. And then there are days after before it actually gets warm and he takes off his coat. All along they're all going down, and as the altitude decreases the temperatures usually go up. Which is why they were able to film on top of snowy mountains one day and the next week go down about 10,000 feet and film where it was warm (or even hot).
shareNot too weird when you think about. For example, I was in Las Vegas in February where it was quite warm in the desert, but than not that far away, the mountains were capped and lined with snow. It all has to do with altitude.
New Mexico offers the same sort of landscape scenario. You can have two extreme weather factions depending on mountain location or desert/valley.
My friends live next to the beach in New Zealand but a few hours drive into the mountains they can be Skiing! The movie starts high up - Heaven and descend down to the desert - Hell. and a few nights pass as they journey.
shareWe have driven from Mammoth Mountain to Las Vegas, through Death Valley. We started with snow in the morning and by afternoon were in 120 degree heat in the desert. This was a trek over a period of days on horseback mostly.
shareI refuse to believe that somebody can be this stupid. Thus, I am forced to assume that this thread is a failed attempt at humour.
shareI'm inclined to agree. How could one possibly be so sheltered and ignorant as to be unaware that temperature changes with altitude?
The alternative is that the viewer is about 12, in which case he has no business thinking he is capable of discovering "oversights" for him to proudly proclaim on IMDB.
Life is tough out West man! This is not unusual. Where I live, in the spring people have gone snow skiing in the morning, and water skiing in the afternoon, and never traveled more than 20 miles from home.
shareHere in Phoenix, it can be 80 degrees, but can be about 30 degrees cooler in the Four Peaks wilderness north east of town due to an extra 6000 feet of altitude
L: I'm talking about a little place called Aspen
H: I don't know Lloyd, the french are a ssholes
The movie started out near the 12000 foot level near Taos, New Mexico. They took ski lifts as high as they go and climbed the rest of the way to start the movie. Gideon kept heading down out of the mountains. They ended up on the salt flats near Lordsburg, N.M.
As to the time frame, after the death of the youngest man who was impaled by the beartrap, the two remaining men tell Carver they need to talk. One says we are 12 days into a 30 day contract and two of us are dead already. This was in the lower hills before they even got to running into people. They went through several temperature zones as they kept going down hill.
Ski lifts????? I missed that scene. Is there a director's cut? Or an unrated version? I would love to see that scene with Liam on skis on the heels of Bronson Pinchot, on snowboard, going down a triple diamond, just like the K12 race betweeen Joan Cusack and David Ogden Stiers in "Better Off Dead". Dude, I miss all the good versions of movies.
shareIf there was a significant drop in elevation between the two scenes, the rise in temperature would be completely correct. So if the first (snow and ice) scene is high in the mountains and the next (warmer) scene is in a nearby valley, there is no goof. In central California you could have snow on the ground and temps in the low 30s up in the Sierra, and sunny, clear weather in the high 60s 40 miles away in the San Joaquin Valley.
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