Running on the Sun
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Movie Reviews of Running on the Sun
Movie Review: Super Tough
Summary: 5 Stars
These people are all men. I can only dream I was as tough.Movie Review: At once heart breaking as well as heart lifting...
Summary: 4 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this running documentary. The viewer followers a select group of runners as they traverse 135 miles of the most grueling weather and terrain. Most of us can't even imagine what it would take to not only qualify and train for an event such as this, but to also run in and finish (or not in many cases) something this serious and possibly life threatening. I love to run and usually stick to the marathon and the 50k distance. Those are difficult at times for me, now imagine running 5+ marathons in 120 degree heat in the beginning. Unbelievable.
The runners themselves are captured beautifully. You see them in the beginning as they are excited and pumped, then to them running and they are eager and happy to keep on keeping on. Then you slowly see their attitude change in the slightest of ways. Refusing to do some stuff their crew is asking, or talking less, smiling less. Eventually they begin to alternate between moaning and complaining with smiles and hope. The gruesome part is seeing their feet. Their toenails falling off or turning a putrid brown. One runner had huge marble size blisters that she proceeded to pop on camera as they squirted seemingly forever, over and over again. Another runner was throwing up on camera.
Throughout it all you capture the essence of each runner as they go through the ups and downs of this grueling 135 mile race. You begin to see their true colors and the determination that they have to make it to the finish line, even if all they can do is stumble across the finish line. At times heart breaking, but most often heart lifting, I would recommend this to the running enthusiast.
4 stars.
Movie Review: Well done documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
If you love running, you'll love these videos. These people are fanatics. It's a well-done documentary. It moves well, asks the right questions, and it shows the suffering and achievement involved in such a race. Very, very well done. It's pretty much never boring, even for non-runners, who get to sit around and marvel that anyone would do such a thing.
It's about the 1999 Badwater 135, the 135 mile run through Death Valley that happens every summer. It's not real long, but it's long enough to be interesting.
If moral things are an issue to you, like to me, then there's one old guy (the delivery guy who runs 20 miles plus three times a week) whose talking I always fast forward out because of cussing and crude comments. Other than that, it's pretty clean.
There's also no chapters, which is pretty irritating for a DVD. You have to fast forward or rewind to get anywhere you want to go like it's a video cassette.
Movie Review: only one thing better--running on the sun redux!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'll be honest--my wife bought me this video for father's day in 2001. Two years later I had my size 10 New Balance's on the starting line in Badwater, and ran the race of my life (with the help of my super support crew). One of my crew members had a video made of OUR adventure through Death Valley, and as good as Running on the Sun is, the video of our adventure is just as intriguing. Unfortunately you won't find it on Amazon.
Not yet, anyway.
Movie Review: Impressive
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie shows many, if not all, aspects of running an extreme ultra race as Badwater. I found it both inspiring and frightning as the runners experienced different stages of physical and mental endurance. Although I never(?) intend to participate in Badwater, it inspired me tremendously to see "normal people" being able to finish this extreme race.