i have NEVER, EVER, EVER been as incredibly disappointed by any television show, film or documentary as i was by this contrived piece of trash. The footage that the subject shot in Alaska is absolutely gorgeous and i believe so much more could have been done with it and with his crazy story. It disappointed me terribly that all this documentary focuses on is his death when there was so much more to his life and times with these bears that would have made a better story had maybe a bit more research been done.
The people he chose to interview are ridiculous. All of the interviews are forced, blatantly acted out and terribly at that. I don't see how the guy who flew the helicopter to pick up his body has ANY right to make a formal statement about what the subject was doing with the bears, it is already obvious that he did not belong there and messed with the bears too much and we do not need ANOTHER person to say it. The scene where he asks the ex-girlfriend to never look at the footage of the attack was EXCRUCIATING to watch.
Not to mention the interview with the "curator" at the museum in Alaska who struggles so obviously to have something to say that might be interesting and applicable but instead he repeats what every other interviewee had already said 15 times before in each of their interviews and adds some comment about the Alaskan "way" of respecting bears that just sounds completely made up.
i could really go on for days about how horrible this documentary was, and what a total disappointment it was. i mean i honestly can't get over what a train wreck this was and i don't understand what people see in it. the bears and the personality of the subject are really interesting and great in and of itself but what the director does to this story is just disgusting, and a terrible waste of 2 or more hours of life.
but half the people i talk to absolutely loved this documentary, and the other half hated it so... go ahead i guess and take the time to see it and draw your own conclusions. but am i the only one who realizes what a SHAM this is?
The people he chose to interview are ridiculous. All of the interviews are forced, blatantly acted out and terribly at that. I don't see how the guy who flew the helicopter to pick up his body has ANY right to make a formal statement about what the subject was doing with the bears, it is already obvious that he did not belong there and messed with the bears too much and we do not need ANOTHER person to say it. The scene where he asks the ex-girlfriend to never look at the footage of the attack was EXCRUCIATING to watch.
Not to mention the interview with the "curator" at the museum in Alaska who struggles so obviously to have something to say that might be interesting and applicable but instead he repeats what every other interviewee had already said 15 times before in each of their interviews and adds some comment about the Alaskan "way" of respecting bears that just sounds completely made up.
i could really go on for days about how horrible this documentary was, and what a total disappointment it was. i mean i honestly can't get over what a train wreck this was and i don't understand what people see in it. the bears and the personality of the subject are really interesting and great in and of itself but what the director does to this story is just disgusting, and a terrible waste of 2 or more hours of life.
but half the people i talk to absolutely loved this documentary, and the other half hated it so... go ahead i guess and take the time to see it and draw your own conclusions. but am i the only one who realizes what a SHAM this is?
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