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Cliffhanger is a bloody awful film. I know this, sadly, not only because I'm watching it now, but because I've seen it twice already.

John Lithgow is awesome. But he's much more awesome when not playing some bizarrely nebulous Euro-baddie.
Janine Turner, who was Maggie in Northern Exposure and is the reason for watching this film, does not sell straight very well. Though I would be more willing to buy it if she weren't supposed to be in love with (are you fucking kidding me?) Sylvester Stallone. I'm willing to buy him as an action hero, but a romantic lead? Not remotely. And she's playing a pilot and mountain rescue worker but she's the squeeling-est bird imaginable. It's offensive and I'm also not buying it.
The women, elder types and persons of colour are all treated as canon fodder, in a remarkably offensive manner. I'd completely forgotten that in the ten years since I've seen this.
God. This really is awful.

And in MUCH better news, thanks to the ever fabulous vanillafluffy, Go watch this on youtube. Hilarious John Winchester vid.