Stuck with 127 Hours

Today I felt adventurous and watched “127 Hours”. This movie was recommended by a few of the guys from work so I decided to check it out. I have heard about Aron Ralston and his manliness about a few years ago. When I found out that there was a movie about his accident, I had to watch it. I mean come on, this man sawed off his arm, with no painkillers or anaesthesia! If that isn’t badass, than I truly do not know what badass is. But I was scared that Hollywood was going to ruin his story by, well Hollywood-ising it. Read what I thought after the jump.

The basic breakdown is that, Aron was taking a trip to go hiking at Blue John Canyon in Wayne County, Utah. As he went down a narrow opening between two canyon walls, a bolder became dislodged and pinned his right arm to one of the walls. The bolder was wedged in there making it unable for Aron to move. Aron did not tell anyone where he was going and he did not have any methods of communications. Aron eventually needs to amputate his arm, and do so successfully and needs to travel back to safety, 8 miles from where he was pinned. Yeah, that is intense!

Aron's just climbing down the narrow opening with no care in the world.

Now to tell you about how this movie played out. Overall, I was quite happy with this movie, it wasn’t Hollywood-ised too much, and it played out more of a movie than a documentary so I was entertained throughout most of this movie. I found that there are some scenes that felt like filler and did distract me from the movie, but it was not all too bad. I thought that James Franco, who played Aron, was believable and I enjoyed watching him as he was pinned against a wall. I especially liked it when he had his monologues with this video camera; they were quite powerful and rather well played out. You felt his pain and desperation as well as feel the immense time he suffered through.

There is not much to say about this movie, the movie is fairly simple and does not have much depth to it, but still a good movie to watch. I had fun watching this movie and would recommend it to everyone. The movie is more drama than documentary, and the ride you take with Aron is something you do not want to miss.