Help, let’s talk about movies with snow and cold weather

[The Lone Liberal]

It is hovering near 100 at the moment. My mind keeps replaying Dr. Zhivago. What other movies have great scenes of people freezing to death? Help!

[bicentennial_baby]

The Shining

Jack Nicholson in the hedges

[jonnyblitz]

1. Fargo !! n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. A real blockbuster!

It was entitled "greatauntoftriplets slogs it through miles of waist-deep snow to high school after the Big Snow of 1967." A docudrama, with lots of pathos, bathos, wathos and thathos.

Followed by the less successful but nevertheless action-packed "greatauntoftriplets hitchhikes to work after the big snow of 1979 -- and manages to get picked up by a plain-clothes cop".

How about "Grumpy Old Men"?

On edit: Second "GOM" movie had Sophia Loren in it.

[ForrestGump]

3. "Groundhog Day"!

[JanMichael]

4. Smilla's Sense of Snow.

I win.

[nuxvomica]

16. Yup

[dweller]

5. Iceman

esp. the final scene when he's falling.
<shiver and shudder>

dp

edit: Think cool thoughts

[SOteric]

Does it have to be a movie?

How 'bout if we just visualise a ski-holiday in the Alps...? A little shopping in Gstad?

[The Lone Liberal]

12. Last time I was on the slopes was 1993

Could not make it to Arapaho Basin, so spend the day at Winter Park, it was like a sheet ice. Caught a basic turn wrong carried to far and tore a groin muscle. Made it to the bottom in pain. It was my second run. Spent the rest of the day in the lodge standing because it hurt too much. Later that night went to a Moroccan restaurant spent three hours cross-legged on the floor, could not get up. The docs recommended surgery, I went for therapy, have not been on the slopes since.

[SOteric]

17. So...that's a no on the slopes...

How about the shopping in Gstad?

[sugarcookie]

6. The Thing...

John Carpenter version. Scarey and Cold!

[mitchum]

7. McCabe & Mrs Miller

[MrPrax]

8. Die Another Day

It's hot here and I would love to check into that Ice Hotel they had in the movie.
Call Room Service for a Slurpee
:7

[madrchsod]

9. ice station zebra

rock hudson and a cast of rejects ,something about those bad russians and brave rock..don`t know if anyone froze but it was cold...

[DFLforever]

11. Reds - 1981

Warren Beatty played John Reed. I recall a scene where Reed and his wife walk from Finland to Russia through fields of waist-high snow. After the movie I walked a 1/2 mile to a bus stop through waist-high snow along a roadside in MN.

[clar]

10. The Claim

a little known, but very good Indy film.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I can think of lots

A Simple Plan--Three friends find a fortune in drug money in the ruins of a crashed plane while out in the woods in the winter

The New Land--Swedish immigrants in the Midwest--you'll never forget the scene with the ox

Gorky Park It's Russia, What can I say?

A Time for Drunken Horses Kurdish orphans survive by smuggling stuff over the mountains

The Fast Runner It's about the Inuit. Snow is a given.

There's also a Chinese movie about about a young man who accuses his mother of the long-ago murder of his father. It takes place mostly in snow.

Dersu Uzala Directed by Akira Kurosawa, it's about a Siberian nomad who acts as guide for a Russian explorer.

The Caveman's Valentine A mentally ill homeless man with an educated background solves the murder of one of his fellow homeless.

[oneighty]

14. Alive, the book, the movie

Lots of cold..

Barf

180

[solinvictus]

15. The Thing

By John Carpenter. Lots of cold, lots of death, and an alien that inhabits the crew one by one.

[TheZoo]

18. I started watching Christmas Specials

Marie made me tape as many as I can - I have at least 25 VHS tapes of Specials, staring with Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.

BTW, greatauntoftriplets has offered a thread for us Heat Misers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=18198&mesg_id=18198&page=

[burr]

19. Don't forget Batman and Robin.

Almost all of Gotham City gets it in that movie. But batman, batgirl, and robin win once the heat is on.

[HEyHEY]

20. RUNAWAY TRAIN!!!!

As well as, Slapshot, A christmas story, Black Robe, and where the buffalo roam.

[chefgirl]

21. How about.......

Two of my son's favorites. 'Snow Day' and 'Jack Frost'. Both kind of cute and mildly funny if you are forced to sit through them.

-chef-

[SOteric]

22. Frosty joke...?

It's winter, way way up in the subarctic tundra of Canada's Northwest Territories. There's this trapper, see. Real rough-and-tumble, oldschool, grizzlyass-type dude. It's minus -50ºF, which is cold enough to freeze your eyelids shut. He's on his snowmobile, checking his traplines. As the sun reaches its lowest point on the horizon, he notices something disturbing. There's smoke coming from under ski-doo's motor, and it's making a strange clattery noise. Not good, when you're thirty miles from the nearest building. He turns around, hoping for the best, and heads back the way he came.


Luckily, he makes it back to town, and just as he reaches the repair shop, the thing sputters and dies. He pushes it into the repair shop's garage and asks the mechanic to have a look at it.


He describes what happened. The mechanic nods and opens the engine's access panel. He reaches in tinkers around inside for a minute.


"So?" asks the trapper, a bit anxiously. "What's the problem?"


The mechanic wipes his hands off on an oily rag, turns to look at the trapper, scratches some ecxema on his elbow, and says "Well, offhand I'd say it looks like you blew a seal."


"No, no," replies the trapper, hastily. "That's just ice on my moustache!"