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The Hunted

It could have been much better, that's a given. I am just amazed at how much they ripped off First Blood. I never could get over that part of it all. The most interesting part of the DVD is the special features AND the Director's Commentary on it. I always try to listen to that with any good movie and you get a lot of behind the scenes ideas about moviemaking and all sorts of stuff. Listening to David Cronenberg's commentary on "A History of Violence" was excellent...just for example...
 
The Hunted is one of my favorites. We never get to see cool knife movies in a world where everybody just shoots each other. I think they did a great job showing the effectivness of a knife in the hands of a sentry stalker. Sure the Tom Brown Tracker is a very impractical survival knife weighing almost 2lbs,(1lb/12oz), but it's still a great story regardless of the chosen knife.
 
It might have been too much of a good thing. I have thought for years that Filipino, Indonesian and even some of the Western Blade Methodology would probably be better off in the shadows again, going underground. Most people that watch a movie like "The Hunted" are not going to come away with the idea that knives are cool, they're going to go away fearful and that's not really a good thing for knives or the martial arts that use them, either.
 
Don Rearic said:
It might have been too much of a good thing. I have thought for years that Filipino, Indonesian and even some of the Western Blade Methodology would probably be better off in the shadows again, going underground. Most people that watch a movie like "The Hunted" are not going to come away with the idea that knives are cool, they're going to go away fearful and that's not really a good thing for knives or the martial arts that use them, either.
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Hollywood should replace knives in movies with spoons! :D
 
I hate to poo on someone else's film love and I'm usually not one to pick apart a movie but I really wanted to like this film a lot !

I own this dvd , I have watched it all the way once , then tried two more times to watch it all the way thru without being overly annoyed.

The thing that bothers me most is the typical one sidedness of Hollywood showing the Balkan conflict , it is much more complicated than that ( a conflict several centuries older than our Country ) and to put the Serbs in a nutshell like that is pretty shitty.

Then....

A wild animal - caught in a trap and in pain mind you... - is just going to let someone free him , patch him up and so forth ?

It is hard enough to make a knife in a shop with correct tools and so forth and our homeboy just whips one out in the middle of the forest with little tools except the few that just happen to be there ? a little too convenient... I mean I often find tools when I go hiking... sigh.

Yea , if one can dismiss all the hollywood silliness of the film and the horrible writing that went into it , its not a half bad action flick if you compare it to such gems as Under Siege.

tostig :)
 
tholiver said:
Slightly off topic but i noticed the teraasekeskus.com logo in that pic.
Love that freakin site!
If anybody ever wants to see good pics of a particular knife thats a good place to looks.
I always think of Europe as having stricter knife laws but they have an insane variety of knives at that site.
Wish they were in my neighborhood,lol.
Every-time i do a google image search for a knife they are always on the first page.
Ok back on topic,lol!
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We can own pretty much any kind of knives.

That site is a pricey (like all finnish sites), and they could have more bushcrafty knives too. But indeed it's a good site to draw inspiration and check pics.
 
Tostig said:
The thing that bothers me most is the typical one sidedness of Hollywood showing the Balkan conflict , it is much more complicated than that ( a conflict several centuries older than our Country ) and to put the Serbs in a nutshell like that is pretty shitty.
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You're correct.

Then....

A wild animal - caught in a trap and in pain mind you... - is just going to let someone free him , patch him up and so forth ?
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How dare you question the skills of Tom Brown as portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones! Blasphemer! :D
 
Hehehe guys. :)

Dont take me too seriously , my girlfriend still makes fun of me when I wear my Leonidas costume while mowing the lawn. ( maybe it's the cape ? )

Tostig
 
The storyline couldve been done soooo much better. Benicio Del Toro is a great actor. Fantastic actor(one of my favorites...fear and loathing?). The story in its most basic form couldve been a good one. Student vs instructor, effects of a brutal conflict on a special ops soldier, goverments ability to cover up its mistakes, a teacher coming to terms with teaching many men how to kill etc etc....Then you have Tommy Lee Jones. WTF? Is it just me or is he ALWAYS some kind of indian spiritual, man hunting FBI bounty hunter spec ops soldier with a conscience???? gag me. Damn near every movie with the exception of no country for old men(thanks to the Cohn brothers) is the same with him in it. Not a fan...

The movie as it was is utter garbage IMO. The fact that their is some interesting knife fights in it makes it worth a watch, but other then that...What is the appeal? Unrealistic, unbelieveable, and a rip off of first blood(stalones finest work IMO).....I agree with the sentiment about the Serbs... Very tasteless.

Want a real movie? Watch The Deer Hunter.
 
kgd said:
Is that the scene where he has coffee with the police lady?
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Propably :D

For real, this is what he says in an interview:

Tom Brown, Jr:
"The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when you are tracking someone who knows your skills you start playing a deadly chess game."

There's also intresting stuff about the tracker knife. Apparently it took seven years and 30 prototypes to develop said knife.
 
You got totally out-geeked by Don Rearic
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::bows to the master::

I prostrate myself before his greatness and offer the vagina of my promiscuous sister.

I was thinking it was the Kabar, it's been a long time since I saw the movie. Apparently I'm not just wrong...I'm stupid.

It was a good movie. But I take anything Hollywood and TBJ does with a grain of salt.

As far as Tommy Lee Jones always playing the FBI/Way of the Samurai/Indian Guru/Watered down Steven Seagal/Smart Ass....ain't type-casting a bitch?


There's also intresting stuff about the tracker knife. Apparently it took seven years and 30 prototypes to develop said knife.
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Must have been because the first 6 and a half years were what it took to design, test and produce the WSK!!

Crap, now I'll have to keep a check on what the forest critters are saying...TBJ might be hiding in a bush the next time I go hunting!!
 
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