Into The Wild movie coming out in Sept.

Any movie directed by Sean Penn, will have an extreme, left wing bias. It will be anti-capitalism, anti-logging, anti-mining, anti-hunting, anti-Republicans, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

McCandless was an absolute crystal gazing fool. He died because of his own New Age idiocy and total lack of understanding of the reality of Nature.

You couldn't pay me to watch any piece of left wing trash that that communist loving Sean Penn directs, much less pay money into his pocket.

L.W.
 
Crap, I just noticed Penn directed it, I can't stand him. Damn, oh well. I may rent it when it's out on DVD then.
 
Just read an article in Outside magazine about the movie. They're trying to make him out to be some kind of folk hero. From what I know of the story seems like he was just some idiot.
 
I read the book expecting to be totally unsympathetic to Alex? ( I think that was his first name). While I didn't finish it liking the kid, he was a whiny spoiled brat with his head in the clouds, I didn't think he was guilty of being completely foolhardy. My recollection was that he made some attempt at getting prepared/educated but a series of mishaps had an unfortunate outcome.


Now the grizzly bear huggers up there, that both got mauled, they arfe a different story....
 
kl101 said:
I read the book expecting to be totally unsympathetic to Alex? ( I think that was his first name). While I didn't finish it liking the kid, he was a whiny spoiled brat with his head in the clouds, I didn't think he was guilty of being completely foolhardy. My recollection was that he made some attempt at getting prepared/educated but a series of mishaps had an unfortunate outcome.


Now the grizzly bear huggers up there, that both got mauled, they arfe a different story....
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I disagree. He took chances but he wasn't looking for anyone to do anything for him. Everything he did, stupid or not, was done by himself and usually with some research first from what the book indicates. He may have been a little bit of an idealist but what young kid isn't?

His last mistake was a very serious one and it cost him his life. I do have some respect for him. He seems like he could have become something. He obviously was pretty sharp and more importantly resourceful.

I will definetly watch the movie on DVD not that I have any real use for Sean Penn either. I just hope it stays true to the book.

And I agree completely that idiot grizzly man is a different story.

KR
 
I'll wait for the DVD also.

You have more control over the movie that way.:D
 
Christopher McCandless and Timothy Treadwell had a great deal in common, including the logical ending to their antics.
 
I wouldn't want to be doing what either McCandless or Treadwell did. However, they died doing what they wanted. I wonder how many of us will be able to say the same.

Doc
 
DOC-CANADA said:
I wouldn't want to be doing what either McCandless or Treadwell did. However, they died doing what they wanted. I wonder how many of us will be able to say the same.

Doc
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DOC, I think you hit it right on the money

they may have been nuts, but they went with it anyway
(im not saying id do it, but if its what they wanted to do, then hey all the power to them)
 
DOC-CANADA said:
I wouldn't want to be doing what either McCandless or Treadwell did. However, they died doing what they wanted. I wonder how many of us will be able to say the same.

Doc
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I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not terrified and screaming like the passengers in his car.:D

Codger
 
DOC-CANADA said:
I wouldn't want to be doing what either McCandless or Treadwell did. However, they died doing what they wanted. I wonder how many of us will be able to say the same.

Doc
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Unfortunately, Treadwell took a naive young woman with him to a horrible death, and romanticizing either of them in movies only increases the likely hood that others may suffer the same fate.

McCandless died slowly starving to death while suffering from a painful injury and Treadwell died screaming and begging for his life as a Grizzly tore him apart and began eating him alive.

Both men had histories of mental illness and lying to everyone around them, they were not people that should be held up as examples of some "wilderness life" ideal. (Not saying you are Doc), but some media folks seem to think they should be, and I can't quite grasp what for???
 
The Last Confederate said:
Unfortunately, Treadwell took a naive young woman with him to a horrible death, and romanticizing either of them in movies only increases the likely hood that others may suffer the same fate.
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Read a quote somewhere that if you go out alone its not as bad as if you take someone with you. If you take someone out as you go, you're a real jerk - Treadwell was a real jerk.

Just my $.02.
 
The links to what I think have already been posted but I do have something new to add, I think this movie will be like Dumbass vs Wild, over sensationalized crap with very little basis in fact. People like we have on this forum are not the normal run of the mill John Q Citizen, for the most part we like to think for ourselves and aren't afraid to call bullshit, instead of turnig our brain off for a movie or show. If this movie shows the romantic idiot that chris mcCandless was and what happens to you if don't take the proper precautions then it will be a good movie, but what are the chances of that. Chris
 
This guys sums it up nicely.



Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote:

"I am exposed continually to what I will call the “McCandless Phenomenon.” People, nearly always young men, come to Alaska to challenge themselves against an unforgiving wilderness landscape where convenience of access and possibility of rescue are practically nonexistent ... When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament ... Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide."[4]
 
The Last Confederate said:
Both men had histories of mental illness and lying to everyone around them, they were not people that should be held up as examples of some "wilderness life" ideal. (Not saying you are Doc), but some media folks seem to think they should be, and I can't quite grasp what for???
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I think the media just wants a gripping story. I'm guessing that movies about someone going into the woods and coming out again in fine fettle aren't big draws, unless he kills lots of people or does something sensational along the way.

Gordon
 
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