Grizzlies TWO Eco-environmentalist wack jobs ZERO
THIS WAS HILARIOUS! I had tivo'ed this and watched half of it last night.
I expected to see in-depth great shots of these beautiful grizzlies in action but instead we got this dark comedy - from the start we thought this guy was an insane wack job.
When we heard the airport man describe him as insane and saying "he thinks he's playing with men in bear suits" we split our sides.
Then a museum guy described him as doing more harm than good living with grizzlies.
Then a fox started playing with his baseball hat and ran away with it. To cries of "where are you going with my hat", then "come back with my hat" to him chasing the fox trying to get his hat back and him swearing when the fox disappeared into his den. PRICELESS!
This guy showed that he was nothing but a pansy arse liberal. This guy makes environmental wackos look almost sane.
Yeah the guy died at the hands of grizzlies but you know, you live by it you die by it. He mentioned so many times how "dangerous" this was, how "he could be killed at any moment" and how he was "protecting these animals". He told a friend that his cause would be "more respected if he was to die at the hands of grizzlies". You have to wonder.
This guy was a failed actor who "came second to Woody Harrelson for the bar job in Cheers". My wife said he was manic depressive. He had his highs and his lows.
To top it off, one of the creatures that he was "protecting" mauled him and his girlfriend to death. Then that bear was shot to death. Then that bear was eaten by other bears. The wack jobs probably think this is reincarnation.
Summary: If this left wing liberal eco wack job came into (and lived was it 13 summers in) my domain, talked to me, sang to me and tried to pet me when I didn't want it - I would be pissed off too.
Grizzlies TWO Eco-environmentalist wack jobs ZERO
I've been meaning to watch this "documentary" in order to decide whether it's a dangerously irresponsible anthromorphization or snuff flick.
Or both.
Treadwell's folly was a tiny Jonestown Massacre-by-bear. His foolishness resulted not only in the deaths of him and his girlfriend, but also in that of the bear -- just for being a bear.
Well, then. Welcome to Werner Herzog's brilliant film repetoire. Tim Treadwell was Herzog's ideal character, and his story was right out of a Herzog film.
http://www.wernerherzog.com/main/index_html.htm
BELLS FROM THE DEEP
Film about faith and superstition in Russia, a look deep into the Russian soul.
EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL
Werner Herzog`s bleak vision of a rebellion and the resulting mayhem in an institution. The entire world is inhabited by midgets.
GOD'S ANGRY MAN
Dr. Gene Scott, an American TV preacher, manages to collect several hundred thousand dollars within 30 minutes. A film about a monomaniac and a nationwide malaise, a film about greed and currency.
LA SOUFRIÈRE
A report about an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place...
LESSONS OF DARKNESS
An apocalyptic vision featuring the oilwell fires in Kuwait after the Gulf-War, as a whole world burst into flames. This film is stylized as science fiction, as there is not a single shot in which you can recognize our planet.
WHEEL OF TIME
Documentary film about the largest Buddhist ritual to promote peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India and Graz, Austria in 2002, including exclusive interviews with the Dalai Lama, access to secret rituals for the first time on film as well as footage of a pilgrimage to the Holy Mount Kailash in Tibet.
FITZCARRALDO
Werner Herzog's gigantic jungle adventure ... Already a piece of German film history.
FATA MORGANA
Fata Morgana ("Mirage") is a science-fiction elegy of dead or demented colonialism in the Sahara. Much of the footage consists of filmed mirages.
WODAABE - HERDSMEN OF THE SUN
A fascinating portrait of the Wodaabe tribe of the Sahara, who consider themselves the world's most beautiful people.
I totally agree with your review. This guy was amazingly loony. He supposedly loves the animals so much, but his hatred for people was intense. This was clear when he made that video where he was ranting about the people in the park service...the organization that was making it possible for the bears to live unmolested!
What was scary was that this loon was being invited to speak at schools about grizzlies. Talk about letting a sick mind influence kids.