Geocaching movie

[Just hike]

I didn't see "Find Me" but this one looks good.

[simpjkee]

Wow "Find Me" looks ridiculous. I wouldn't watch it.

Splinterheads looks kinda cool. I'd rent it if I see it. It looks pretty good and I like Christopher McDonald.

[radDad1]

Probably just my bad luck but I have never seen a girl like that out geocaching. Unless my wife happens to be with me . . .

[Flag_Mtn_Hkrs]

Unless my wife happens to be with me . . .

Now if that wasn't a good save

[Trizumi]

The first video speaks perfectly to the adventure of the hunt! I had to tweet that video.

[simpjkee]

I got Splinterheads!

First things first. Unlike just about everything geocaching related, this movie is NOT family friendly. Lots of foul/vulgar language. Lots of adult themes (alcohol/tobacco/drugs/sex). Lots of jokes referencing sex organs. Some racist jokes. Even some nudity. No female nudity, but there is a guy mooning everyone in one scene and some 'fuzzy' frontal male nudity believe it or not. Honestly, I'm not sure the DVD would even be considered 'acceptable family friendly' swag.

If you can get passed that sort of humor, some jokes are pretty funny and there is actually much more geocaching stuff in it than I though there would be. The lead actress works at a traveling carnival and is portrayed as a 'bad girl' with a deadbeat boyfriend who works at the carnival too and abuses her. The carnival side is like the dark side of her life and the geocaching scenes are the way the director showed that the girl has a fun loving, innocent side to her and she just wants to go have fun. The lead actor (protagonist) meets her, falls for her, and begins to like geocaching with her, while the deadbeat boyfriend (antagonist) shuns it and calls it a 'stupid treasure hunt'. Seeing as though the 'good guys' geocache, its portrayed very positively and favorably. Here's some general observations:

There is some goofy stuff like one scene where the lead actress is holding her GPS and walking around like she's at GZ only to find out she's apparently a quarter of a mile away.

At first when she tells the lead actor about it, he of course has no idea what it is and then accuses the girl of being a nerd and stuff. She says something like "it's not nerdy. it's popular and to do it you have to be smart and good at puzzles". Apparently she's done some puzzle caches

She uses a yellow Garmin eTrex. Maybe a Venture like I use

She doesn't use the term muggle. She calls a group of muggles: 'hashers'.

She doesn't CITO even though she walks passed a couple of beer bottles while caching in the woods.

The lead actor calls the swag in the cache junk and she gets all defensive. She does carry a cache bag full of swag and always takes something while leaving a bracelet similar to Wonder Woman's. She doesn't call the bracelet her 'sig item' but mentions that "if you find a cache with a bracelet in it, it means I've been there". No trackables were mentioned in the film.

The cache they find at the waterfalls actually looked kinda cool if you could get it to stay dry. The girl reads some of the log entries, but they never show her signing the log.

In one scene they find a dreaded 'playground equipment' cache. The cache was actually the ever popular electric outlet cover, but it was magneted to a wooden playground swing set not a utility box or playground ramada. After its found the lead actor says something like "wow it's really small" and she proclaims "it's a micro cache!"








In one really interesting scene that kinda surprised me, she actually logs on to the geocaching website and looks up a cache. It was totally authentic:







She's signed on as "Galaxy 11". I looked it up and I'm guessing that is the account of the person who worked on the movie. Check it out:

Galaxy 11

The cache she looks up is a real cache too though it looks like the name has changed since the movie filmed:

GCXQ5C: Down the Rabbit Hole - NYC Turns out "Galaxy 11" found it on 08/08/08......and wouldnt ya know our very own Peasinapod DNF'd it on 04/07/09 (it was gone). Is there any cache he hasn't been to? Check out the gallery on it. That looks like an awesome cache to visit!



The best scene in my opinion is when he lead actor and the lead actress go to this field of yellow flowers to go search for a cache she owns. Apparently her coords are about 100 feet off or something and they have to search this field for a rusted barrel on it's side with her cache in it. Her cache is this 2 or 3 gallon sized jug painted yellow. When they find it, the dialogue goes like this:

girl: Looks like a lot of people found it!
guy: Yeah, well you didn't hide it very well. I mean, I woulda stuck it up in one of those trees. (points at the barrel) This is very obvious.
girl: Well thats not the point. I want it to be obvious, because I want people to find it.

She wants people to find her caches?? What a novel idea!
Maybe the real "Galaxy 11" hates hard to find micros and they're trying to use the movie to influence cachers not to place hard caches.

Later in the scene, while she's maintaining her cache like a good cacher the guy asks her:

guy: So, uh....How did you get in to geocaching?
girl: I don't know..I guess....I guess I was bored, ya know. I mean, everyone (at the carnival) just spends all their time sitting around and drinking beer and doing laundry. At least, you know, I'm getting off the lot and....I'm seeing stuff.


Overall, the movie as a whole isn't great, but the geocaching scenes are pretty cool and they represent the game well. You won't want to watch it with kids, but if you can get passed the raunchiness of it, it's worth watching.

[radDad1]

Thanks for the review on that movie. I was wondering what happened to it since it came out and if it was any good. I think I'll pass . . .