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Liam Neeson travels to Alaska with Joe Carnahan's THE GREY!
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When wolves have never attacked men in recorded history. Would have been much more plausible to pit them against a Grizzly and the elements themselves. I hate it when screenwriters don't bother to do any research and create villains out of thin air and paranoia.
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Yes, someone will fact check me via Wikipedia and turn up the two or three dozen attacks in the last two hundred years, many (if not most) of which were from rabid wolves. /sigh
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It's one of the stupider plot descriptions Ive heard in awhile. Im sure it'll be intense and violent and it's got good actors, so I don't want to knock it too hard. If it really is true, about "rogue man eating wolves", fine. Great. But that doesn't change me laughing at the deception if a pack of rogue wolves who hunt man within a 300 mile radius. That sounds like something an 8th grader made up for a book report on White Fang. Best of luck to them. Love me some Neeson and Badge Dale, so I hope it turns out better. Just sounds ridiculous.
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Rob Huebel mentioned that he got turned down for this on the latest CDR podcast. Frankly, they're asking a lot for me to buy this behavior from non-rabid wolves, so maybe he's better off.
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I really liked ATEAM/Smoking Aces but this movie sounds like eh... maybe its because I thought this would involve aliens? either way, this guy should have an action movie out every year! just dont ever cast Common again...
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Not in winter, though. In August it feels like walking on a dried sponge.
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Jan. 5, 2011, 5:40 p.m. CST
I live in Saskatchewan and we play hockey outdoors in that weather every single winter.
by IceTitan
Is 30 below really that cold to you guys? That shit never ceases to amaze me.
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I guess Joe missed this one: "NEVER CRY WOLF" (Dir. Carroll Ballard, 1983). "In Northern Canada, a young government biologist named Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) is assigned to travel to the isolated Arctic wilderness to study the area's savage population of wolves. His orders are to gather proof of the wolves' ongoing destruction of caribou herds. Contact with his quarry comes quickly, as he discovers not a den of marauding killers, but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. As Tyler learns more and more about the wolf world, he comes to fear, along with them, the onslaught of hunters (Brian Dennehy) out to kill the wolves for their pelts and exploit the wilderness."
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I would kill to see that, since I thought A-team was one of the best films from this past summer
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There aren't enough fun guy movies like that anymore. A Team was my pleasant surprise movie of lat year and one of my most eagerly purchased Blu Rays. Ive watched it three times since it was released.
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Everyone still did everything, went to work, went out with friends, went to the mall... I didn't even have a pair of gloves. I'm not the toughtest guy in the world, either. Two different times my tire ruptured from the cold, but that was about it. Man up, Joe!
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it would take maybe 10 minutes minimum to get frostbite at -30, with a huge wind chill. 30 below is cold as shit, but as long as your bundled up, the difference between 10 below and 30 below doesn't amount to much.
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We fly chartered jets up here. And that is just the hundreds of people who work for BP and Conoco. Everyone else flies up on Alaska Airlines. No roughnecks fly their own small aircraft to Prudhoe Bay. Ever.
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Then they would be on a dozen or so passenger CASA or Otter. Even then, I have no idea where they would crash that wolves would be a problem. Depending on the time of year the crash and hypothermia would kill them LONG before they would have to worry about predators.
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Sounds exactly like the movie "Frozen" with some small changes. Someone should sue. "Frozen" was good by the way. Check it out.
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You're not suggesting the A-Team SHOULD have had an edge to it, are you? It was actually one of the only TV-to-film movies that was, at it's core, a faithful translation, while still updating the premise. It was great as is!
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I hear that.
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Jan. 5, 2011, 9:12 p.m. CST
I wonder if Liam will use his very particular set of skills...
by Doctor_Strangepork
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." I love you, "Taken."
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Think he'll go the Hitchcockian route with this flick in terms of the psychology of the men deteriorating and them turning on each other? Sort of like a really badass, edgy version of Lifeboat?
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Jan. 5, 2011, 10:53 p.m. CST
One wolf requires an organ transplant or blood transfusion.
by fustfick
I think Carnahan's movies are pretty terrific and extremely underrated. That said, this sounds kinda lame. I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping his Pablo Escobar flick or Ellroy adaptation get reanimated.
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But I'm glad The A-Team is getting some love. I thought I must be missing something when I saw it. All the reviews were kinda hard on it and I had so much fun while watching it. I was probably smiling through the whole thing. A sequel would be awesome.. But like I said, I'm probably speaking to soon... I'm sure in a day or two, this talkback will be littered with A-Team hate!
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Is there any originality left in hollywood?
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Contrary to popular belief, shark attacks are actually rare too. Someone still managed to make a decent flick out of that though. Not sure what Carnahan is capable of these days, just saying, there are worse crimes for a film to commit than not being wholly realistic.
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The Joe Carnahan of NARC proved with that movie to be an exceptional filmmaker. I'd like to see more NARC-like movies from Carnahan. That's where his real talent lies.
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Because you quoted from CONAN THE BARBARIAN i consider you a friend. I'm friend with anybody who has the love for that magnificient movie.
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..there are a few myths about them that should be addressed. Yes, they are not man-eating monsters, and historically they have fled from humans, but historically men have attached them where-ever and when-ever they encountered them. It is only now, in the modern era that we no longer attack wolves at first sight, and now we are seeing cases where wolves are no longer afraid of humans and I know people who have had the definite sensation that the wolves were scoping them as they cross country skiied while un-armed in wilderness, and of course we now have a number of reports of wolves threatening and taking humans. Yes, it's rare, and the movie that is being filmed is fiction, but the idea that wolves have never attached humans is as mythical as the idea that wolves always attack humans. As for the adaptation of Farley Mowatt's "Never Cry Wolf", which is a terrific film with a lot of truth in it, the facts are that wolves do eat caribou and other prey animals including little rodents. Nature; red in tooth and claw. The life expectency of a wild wolf in Alaska is only 3 years with mortality mostly caused by other wolves.
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If this is half as good as THE EDGE, that will be good enough for me. I haven't seen this NARC movie, so I'm pretty indifferent to Carnahan. SMOKIN ACES was an okay Guy Ritchie type thing and I think I would've liked the A-TEAM more if the action hadn't been all shakeycam.
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Oooooby ooooooby OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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....But not about Wolves. You just described the movie "The Edge". Planecrash, survuve the elements, grizzly bear.<P> I like the wolf angle, should be interesting. There are all kinds of analogies that could be made. It's a smarter concept than it sounds at first.
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About time. After being born and raised in North Dakota, I cant watch fake winter scenes without it wrecking the film for me...unless its an old Black and White (the Thing). As for the cold, I am in the ocean 3 x week in the Pacific NW in 45 degree water, not to mention the wind chill in the boat comming back. As a kid in ND, me and my neighborhood freinds made the cover of the Minot Daily News when we were photographed towing our sleds up 'Big Hill' (now the High School) in 60 below weather. That, my freinds, is C.O.L.D.
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Sounds either remarkable or not so much. It's a Grey area. Forgive me gods of pun.
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