Mt. San Jacinto Outdoor Recreation

We've all seen it. In some pop culture film in the middle of a drama/chase scene, they randomly bust out a clip of the Sierra, Joshua Tree NP, or even the north face of San Jacinto, wanting us to believe its somewhere in Sibera or Mars. If you got a interesting mountain movie scene, post it here!

Ill start off with my favorite. At the very end of this scene in The Matrix, Neo gets into a fight in a building in Los Angeles and opens the door a few minutes later to find himself on a floating castle over the Minarets. Impressive! I wonder what regulations Madera County has for building floating castles over the Sierra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puUo4OYViE

I labeled most of the peaks I can recognize. I know all the minarets have names, but I cant pinpoint them at the moment.

I posted this a while back in the General Chat forum. Its from about 1985, filmed in/around Cabazon:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNDAS6yCuE

IRon Man, opening scene with the Sierra Nevada mountains around Corcoran-Lone Pine Peak-Whitney in the background:

Liking the pillars framing the Sierra.

HJ

Great idea for a post. Most mountaineering movies are so ridiculously bad they're actually funny. My all time favorite is Cliffhanger with (of course!) Sylvester Stallone as t-shirt clad mountaineer (the better to feature his biceps). It's so nonsensical it's delightful. Please somebody post a pix from it!

cynthia23 wrote:Great idea for a post. Most mountaineering movies are so ridiculously bad they're actually funny. My all time favorite is Cliffhanger with (of course!) Sylvester Stallone as t-shirt clad mountaineer (the better to feature his biceps). It's so nonsensical it's delightful. Please somebody post a pix from it!

Ya mean this? With the 'big guns', too!:

Land of the Lost. The stark desert scens were filmed at the Tufa Monument between Ridgecrest and Death Valley.



Dinosaurs were CIG'd into the movie.

Not a movie, but this was one of John Wayne's last acting gigs. Filmed in the Alabama Hills:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAS0ButR2E

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