good film tonight-9pm film4 (into the wild)

[Dan Curtis]

Troll hunter is quality! Saw it on the big screen when it came out, does it still work on small screen?

[Ben Ballard]

i liked the film ,me and the mrs went on a tour bus round denali national park and the tour guide said the bus he stayed in was only a few miles from the road and was a wire cable across the river not far from wear he was if only he found it:thumbdown

[Mark Bolam]

Did for me mate.

 

Watched it on my own, like, as the wife and her family didn't want to know!

 

Good old fashioned entertainment!

[Hodge]

Loved the book, but he was a strange one alright.

 

Thanks for the heads up.

 

BTW Hodge I watched Troll Hunter last night (in Norge with subtitles) and thought it was great!

 

I thought you were sound mark I hated troll hunter, nearly as bad as the third kind!!

[Rupe]

i liked the film ,me and the mrs went on a tour bus round denali national park and the tour guide said the bus he stayed in was only a few miles from the road and was a wire cable across the river not far from wear he was if only he found it:thumbdown

 

I spent three months in Wrangell St elias national park which is close to denali (close for alaska anyway) lovely place but quite harsh!! We had 3 months of dried food etc though. common sense its called!!

[born2trot]

Sucks compared to the book, I read it once and was moved, read it twice and thought chris mccandless was a tool! The film isn't entirely accurate to the book, but how many are?

 

Agreed , havent read the book but i felt he was a bit of a waster. A much better film could be made about Susan Butcher... like Chris arrived in Alaska with nothing but became a legend in her lifetime by winning the Iditarod sled dog race 3 times in a row , a tragic tale for those interested but a TRUE heroine..

[Rupe]

Agreed , havent read the book but i felt he was a bit of a waster. A much better film could be made about Susan Butcher... like Chris arrived in Alaska with nothing but became a legend in her lifetime by winning the Iditarod sled dog race 3 times in a row , a tragic tale for those interested but a TRUE heroine..

 

Intersting you say that! When I was there I met a girl called jenny who was Susan Butchers assisstant/dog trainer/feeder etc. This was in 1991, so Susan had just won the Iditarod for the fourth time the year before and was a national hero.

 

Jenny had a husky called Coon with her at the time, he was a pet not a full on sled dog but he could pull. Coon was short for Racoon but I remember thinking that only in alaska could you go out the back yard and call "coon" without being in some trouble!

 

Jenny stayed in the mountain where we were for a few weeks and was a good freind. She gave me some iditarod t-shirts, which have long since persihed. Good times!!

[born2trot]

Intersting you say that! When I was there I met a girl called jenny who was Susan Butchers assisstant/dog trainer/feeder etc. This was in 1991, so Susan had just won the Iditarod for the fourth time the year before and was a national hero.

 

Jenny had a husky called Coon with her at the time, he was a pet not a full on sled dog but he could pull. Coon was short for Racoon but I remember thinking that only in alaska could you go out the back yard and call "coon" without being in some trouble!

 

Jenny stayed in the mountain where we were for a few weeks and was a good freind. She gave me some iditarod t-shirts, which have long since persihed. Good times!!

 

Thats a great little story rupe , What did you make of Alaska ? Its definetely on my must do list .. ( sorry for derail )

[gibbon]

Me and my wife wife watched that at Eddie vedders house with his mum

[sussexlad]

I think he was a tool! Enjoyed the film, but felt no empathy for him wahtsoever.

 

but couldnt really get into the film either as i dont particularly like the actor who plays him! i love the idea of what he did though!