My kid had to watch this and write a paper for a college English class. I watched it also since we had it in our queue. By the end I was ALMOST routing for the weird spoiled rich kid to be eaten by the bears.

The utter disdain that locals have for McCandress is apparently amazing. It takes a guy thinking he can live safely among grizzlies to take the “what did you think was going to happen?” crown.

It’s worth watching for a couple reasons. Obviously seeing the guy get eaten by a bear is cathartic, but it’s also pretty great to hear Herzog say the word “peninsula” in his thick accent.

I think if you read the top line “Wacky guy lives with grizzlies during the summer” it can easily be a lazy Bill Murray comedy where he learns an important life lesson about family or something. This was all being talked about before Treadwell died of course.

Anyone else think that Into the Wild would have been much better if directed by Werner Herzog instead of Sean Penn?

Ah, thanks. I wanted to put in something positive to counter the big pile of negative.  I clearly oversold it.

This is the height of stupidity. 

How there hasn’t been endless documentaries, biopics, etc. about Roar blows my mind. Soooooo many people were regularly mauled and almost died it’s crazy. Not they to mention the aspect that Marshall and Hedren were subjecting their children to this the whole time and it basically broke them. It’s nuts. They collected…

Sage advice.

Yes, he does, but it’s pretty deep into the attack. First he implores her to help him and, again, I don’t blame him for that. I can’t believe anyone’s reaction would be any different. A good breakdown is here: http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/Tim_Treadwell.html

Yes, I’ve heard that explanation before, but I don’t buy it. Bears *always* consider us food sources. They aren’t rational beings; the food/nonfood distinction has to be in their DNA. The only reason they don’t normally eat humans is that other food is generally easier. So the real options are either to kill all bears…

The Murray version would involve him emerging, unscathed, from the bear’s anus and giving a thumbs up sign.

Indeed. I can’t remember who put out the story, but i read a very long piece about Treadwell when this movie came out. It detailed how the camp was discovered by a bush pilot and the rangers had to euthanize the bears as a matter of policy. They have to be destroyed if they attack people because once they feed on…

The film is such an example of nature’s utter hostility to people to prompt this review of the film Roar! Where Melanie Griffith’s father nearly gets his entire family eaten by lions during the production.

It was before it came out that he was eaten, I assume.

Ironically, he ended up getting a few bears killed because rangers couldn’t approach the camp without shooting them. At that point the bears were being protective of a food source.

“Treadwell spent 13 summers in the Alaskan wilderness, observing and interacting with grizzly bears as a self-described “kind warrior” and self-appointed environmental protector.”

Uh, it’s the opposite. During the start of the attack he screamed for her to get out of the tent and do something. Only after a period of her deploring him to play dead, which wasn’t working, then telling him to fight, did she then attack the bear with a frying pan. The bear departed for a very short time and it’s…

I hesitate to imagine how Disney at the time could’ve possibly thought this could work as a Bill Murray vehicle.

I have to admit that why I like this film includes probably the worst reason, the grim fascination of the stretching, stretching, streching of a karma rubber band that finally snaps back. These bears are not your little friends, the fact that there was such a dense supply of salmon was why they did not bother to eat…