"The Grey" - Survival Movie 2012

OK- Finally saw it thanks to Redbox :) 1.27 so I am not disappointed. Some good/some bad/ lots of glitches but entertaining and another "What if" Opportunity for me to try to decide what I might do differently.

One thing that anoyyed me to no end was his Remingtion 700 rifle and the shotgun shells...... The parka I figure could have been lost in the crash? Failing to scavenge the plane or improvise effective weapons was unforgiveable. Faced with a known threat(however ridiculous the wolves were made out to be) they knew they needed protection.

Leaving the plane was a toss up for me- protection from the wind but nothing left to burn nearby. Protection from the wolves abd visibility should have counted for something.

Bill
 
Watching the movie right now. Kinda neat.
 
I think it's the best movie of 2012. Look beyond the actual survival-geek stuff, and it's a philosophical masterpiece. I'd almost surmise that he died in the plane crash, and the whole story has a "stuck in Purgatory" type of meaning, but that's for another thread...
 
I thought the packaging, the delivery system, was silly. The core story was simple enough though, directly equivalent to: Melancholia boy sits there feeling all sorry for himself and suicidal. Random bloke comes along and says, “well if you think like that about it you wouldn't mind me popping this in your neck and cutting you into edible portions then will you?”. To which he replies, “now you come to mention it actually I would, very much”.
 
I walked out of this one. Waaaay too predictable and that's without the demon-spawn wolves who didn't look, sound or behave like any wolves I've ever seen. I think The Edge that came out some years back (Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin) was a far better treatment of this subject. I was disappointed, had some hopes they wouldn't dumb it down but in the end it was as dumb as a bag of hammers.
 
I loved this movie even though I found it a bit unrealistic in the wa the humans and wolves behaved. I never took it for more than a movie though.

I am a meter reader and am around dogs all day every day. Big dogs, small dogs, happy dogs, angry dogs etc. Once you learn to read their body language and remain calm 95% will let you in and even follow you around the yard. The other 5% are usually made that way by humans wanting them to guard the property (and some are just crazy, which again is human influence). But first and foremost they are dogs.

One thing you should never do is run from a dog and the other is to stay calm no matter what. If you run or lose it it turns on their natural instinct and you can just see it in their eyes. So yeah they did all the wrong stuff in this movie but I thought it a great movie. Cesar Milan is the best at learnng Dog Psychology, helped my strike rate go from acceptable to good.
 
Got this from Netflix yesterday and muddled through it. As much as one needs to suspend disbelief in many films,you really have to abandon it in this one.

And wtf kind of ending was that? Mini liquor bottles taped to his hand and smashed on a rock seconds before "going into the fray"? When did they start making

those out of glass again? Liam has been putting out some real crap lately imho and this is by no means a "Survival" movie;just a dumb one.
 
dano said:
I think it's the best movie of 2012. Look beyond the actual survival-geek stuff, and it's a philosophical masterpiece. I'd almost surmise that he died in the plane crash, and the whole story has a "stuck in Purgatory" type of meaning, but that's for another thread...
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A philosophical masterpiece? I don't think so. A suicidal, depressed guy avoids killing himself in order to get chased by wolves, watch his companions die, and then die in the middle of nowhere. He would've been better off just killing himself instead of having to endure all that. To me the movie advocates suicide. That's what I got out of it.

They should have gathered as much as they could from the wreck. Someone should've been able to tell what time it was when the wreck happened and figure out roughly where they were at. If the plane stopped communicating and never arrived it should be pretty obvious within a few hours to the destination airport that something happened and that they needed to go over the flight path to look for the crash site. I'm also surprised no one had a satellite phone. I'd figure if you work in the middle of nowhere at least one person would have one for emergencies.

The movie had too many goofy things going on. I didn't care for it.
 
Fanglekai said:
A philosophical masterpiece? I don't think so. A suicidal, depressed guy avoids killing himself in order to get chased by wolves, watch his companions die, and then die in the middle of nowhere. He would've been better off just killing himself instead of having to endure all that. To me the movie advocates suicide. That's what I got out of it.

They should have gathered as much as they could from the wreck. Someone should've been able to tell what time it was when the wreck happened and figure out roughly where they were at. If the plane stopped communicating and never arrived it should be pretty obvious within a few hours to the destination airport that something happened and that they needed to go over the flight path to look for the crash site. I'm also surprised no one had a satellite phone. I'd figure if you work in the middle of nowhere at least one person would have one for emergencies.

The movie had too many goofy things going on. I didn't care for it.
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Did you watch the movie past the end credits? The last scene (just a few seconds long) after the credits contradicts or to say the least undermines your conclusion about the ending :)
 
"A philosophical masterpiece? I don't think so. A suicidal, depressed guy avoids killing himself in order to get chased by wolves, watch his companions die, and then die in the middle of nowhere."------ OR a depressed suicidal man suddenly finds a reason to fight for survival and to try to help others do same..... depends on how you look at it. Depression and suicidal thoughts hit many people during life, how they handle it and find a reason to fight through it can be a lesson to others. Life has a way of beating on you, either forging a person who will survive as long as they can or breaking a person early.

I have had friends and family take both routes.

The rest of the post I agree with. The survival situation was interesting...but the survival choices made were not advocated just something to watch and decide what the individual might do differently.

Bill
 
Movies are created for entertainment value. I highly doubt the directors expect you to believe any of what happen was a realistic reaction. I enjoyed everything except that poorly written, pretentious, page-centered mockery of a poem. You don't center poems on a page unless it has something to do with the poem in terms of context-i.e. a poem perhaps titled "Center", or something along those lines. To do otherwise is just pretentious and illustrates a lack of creativity. To remain on topic: the movie was great for entertainment purposes. Disliking the film because of a lack of realistic content is just laughable. How much of any movie-beyond non fiction films-is realistic. I doubt anyone walked out of Star Wars because Jabba the Hutt was just too "unrealistic". The movie isn't billed that way and it shouldn't be taken that way.
 
Ultraman said:
Did you watch the movie past the end credits? The last scene (just a few seconds long) after the credits contradicts or to say the least undermines your conclusion about the ending :)
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Sounds like they both quit breathing at the same time, meaning they both die. So, he still died for nothing in the middle of nowhere after watching his friends die.
 
Fanglekai said:
Sounds like they both quit breathing at the same time, meaning they both die. So, he still died for nothing in the middle of nowhere after watching his friends die.
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I think they made that ending ambiguous; even if he did die he did not go quietly into the night. Not only that, he died knowing something about himself, for lack of better words an epiphany that despite guaranteed hardship and uncertainty about an afterlife, the fact that he was alive was reason to take it as far as he could. Not saying your interpretation is wrong, but assigning worth to the character's story and ending is all relative and definitely subjective.

EDITED TO ADD: lots of other interpretations on the net. This guy says the Liam Neeson character was already dead - he was in purgatory (thus the title "The Grey")
 
Interesting movie. Somewhat weak in some areas but entertaining. Face your fears, go out choking your adversary.
 
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