Anyone see this? What did you think?

I want to... bad. I did hear they really don't focus a lot on the mauling itself, but rather the guys life. Too bad.

I did see it and it was so-so. The footage that Treadwell took out there was amazing but Herzog did some interviews with some of Treadwell's friends and those interviews were so over the top theatrical it weakened the movie for me. But the actual bear footage was cool. Apparently Herzog didn't want to focus as much on the mauling but I heard there is audio of the attack somewhere online.

We hiked along without care.
Then we ran into a bear.
He was a hairy bear,
He was a scary bear,
We beat a hasty retreat from his lair.
And described him with adjectives.

"retard follows bears, then mauled by them"

I wanna see "Burden of Dreams" the documentary on the filming of "Fitzcarraldo"

just saw this. don't get what the big deal was, other than that it's fun to exploit apeshit nutbags.

probably something about the human spirit

Having grown up with the threat of "bear attacks", I'm a bit curious to see this, but at the same time I feel weird watching a documentary about a legitimate lunatic who spent his "life" pursuing the largest and most lethal predator in North America, who then met his demise at the very paws of his subject. Admirable in one respect, but it also makes every other strange pursuit including meth addiction almost as valid. At the end of your trip, you're likely going to die. You can't hang out with fucking bears for your life's pursuit and expect to come out of it alive.

If anyone hasn't seen Aguirre, the Wrath of God, I highly recommend it.

Lots of people are courageous but stupid and to me, that's not enough to warrant a movie about your life. Any park ranger who's had experience working in the wild outdoors could have told you how dumb this idea was.


GO BEARS!


(Chicago Bears, that is)

After seeing this last night for the first time, I'd have to say that Chase's synopsis is pretty spot-on. Treadwell was a wack job, but very little of his apeshit nuttiness had to do with his ill-advised decision to live with bears. It was more about how he hated the world for losing the bartender role on Cheers to Woody Harrelson.

If only Nicholas Colansanto had lived to maul him, instead...

I didn't enjoy it very much. It was pretty anti-climatic, and quite frankly not that well done in the story flow dept. It seemed to be spotty at best.

Herzog has been dissappointing me lately. This and the Loch Ness movie....sheesh.

Now that's funny.

I saw it and found it pretty depressing, really. Poor crazy dude goes nuts, gets loyal but messed up girlfriend (and self) horribly killed in pursuit of foolish, stupid goal.

Yeah but they was DIF'RNT bears what mauled him. Not the friend bears, For'n, interlopin' bears done the killin'.

By the by...isn't this supposed to be on Discovery or A&E coming up?

*edit* whoops it was on this weekend. Discovery channel.

I've only seen bits and pieces on Discovery (and interrupted w/ commercials). I love nature and all but I guess what I found fascinating was his passive-agressive/bi-polar/whatever mental state. I hated some of the interviews though, they seemed so canned and prepared. I had to blank out Werner Herzog's narration because, for some reason, it started to annoy me. I love documentaries though...if I didn't do what I do now (which I love), my dream job would be a documentary filmmaker.

Yea, it was on last night and is on tonight on Discovery which is weird because it was out at theatres not that long ago -- maybe they helped finance!?!?!

I'd like to see the movie bear go agains this bear (the sack man).

Resurrecting because I am almost done watching this.

I agree with the general consensus. I wanted more bears and less crazy, failed actor guy who pretended to be a bear to people in real life after he left Alaska.

I did think the best interview was the native curator of the museum out there that basically said, "yeah, he was completely wrong and damaged the bears and their lives more than doing anything positive for them".

This wasn't the URSA MACH IV guy was it?

That's the movie though. More bears & less Treadwell you pretty much have a PBS show.

Not to feel like I'm rehashing my first post in this thread but in "Burden of Dreams" (which takes place in the thick of the Amazon) at one point Herzog is fed up with the conditions. He goes on this long discussion about nature & how anarchic it is & how much disorder there is. In "Grizzly Man" he pretty much goes into it again at the end. You wonder if Werner has been waiting for 20+ years to make this type of film to put an exclamtion point on that.