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It's Men Vs. Bear In RED MACHINE!
Nordling here.
If you want to see men vs. wolves and the elements, you should definitely check out Joe Carnahan's THE GREY when it opens next weekend, but it looks like we're not done with man vs. nature films quite yet. According to Variety, James Marsden, Thomas Jane, and Billy Bob Thornton will face off against a giant grizzly bear in the wilderness in RED MACHINE, to be directed by David Hackl (SAW V).
Marsden and Jane will play brothers who haven't gotten along and decide to try to bury the hatchet on a camping trip with their girlfriends, and are brutally attacked by the bear known around those parts as the "Red Machine." Thornton will play a bear expert (shades of JAWS' Quint?) as the bear stalks the two brothers.
Hackl told Variety, "In RED MACHINE I want to examine the thrill of very real fear. An audience is more easily drawn in by a story that they consider plausible and relatable." Hopefully Hackl will make a genuinely frightening film. I love man against nature movies, and this one sounds intriguing enough to work.
Nordling, out.
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Or is that just his career?
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And no Damon Packard, for that matter. Anyone ever see Packard's GRIZZLY REDUX? Hilarious.
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Joe Morgan?
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Jan 19, 2012 7:13:36 PM CST
An audience is more easily drawn in by a story that they consider plausible and relatable.
by supermarch
I wake up nightly in cold sweats thinking Darth Vader and Freddy Kruger are in my closet for that very reason, genius. Good luck directing the bear.
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David Mamet trumps David Hackl any day of the week.
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Jan 19, 2012 7:20:20 PM CST
Is a normal bear, or is mutated from radioactive fallout or alien DNA or witch's curse some shit?
by rtambree
Sure it can't just be a normal mofo bear?
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Jan 19, 2012 7:23:35 PM CST
As someone who has visited William Girdler's grace, I approve.
by the reluctant austinite
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Jan 19, 2012 7:24:51 PM CST
I meant to say I've visited William Gridler's GRAVE, but grace kind of works too! RIP, Bill Girdler.
by the reluctant austinite
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Even after all these years, he's still being hunted by bears.
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The Grey has me intrigued, and that one captured my interest first.
I don't know why, but a single bear chasing some fools in the woods doesn't really have that same level of fear as that of being stalked by wolves.
Maybe it is the whole pack mentality of wolves that makes them more frightening compared to a bear. Also, could be that bears seem a little less threatening due to the fact that they don't hunt as much as wolves do. Bears will often snatch fish out of a stream and will eat a bunch of berries and grass to fill themselves up. Wolves on the other hand, are always on the hunt it seems. They also seem to be a bit sneakier about it too. Take for instance that shot in the trailer for The Grey, where the stranded dudes see all the wolf eyes staring back from the darkness. That stuff really freaks me out. -
Didn't we already see this when Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin were in it? And where's the black guy to get eaten first? Isn't that a rule in man vs. nature movies - dark meat is always the first course, vanilla for dessert?
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I just want my cubs back.
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Jan 19, 2012 8:56:30 PM CST
If both of these are successful, ten years from now, we'll have to inevitably suffer through "Grey Vs. Red: Wild Requiem"
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
Don't deny it! At one time, Alien Vs. Predator was considered "a good idea that'll NEVER happen"!!! Don't say you were never warned, is all I'm saying.
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Jan 19, 2012 8:58:07 PM CST
MUST have a cameo by Stephen Colbert as a crazed bear investigator who becomes a victim!
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
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John Travolta
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I'd rather see him wrestle Rebecca Creskill again.
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This should happen.
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According to Harry's sources...
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I love a good Man vs. Nature movie. But as many pointed out, The Edge pretty much already did this. Can Cyclops and Punisher 2.0 pull it off? Maybe the twist is that Sling Blade is in league with Red Machine and them being chased is all an elaborate ruse because the bear has cancer and before he wanted to die blah blah blah... you know the rest.
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In every respect.
What's with this trend, anyway? Hundreds of thousands of people have died in wars over the last several years, corporations and banks have wrecked the financial system and fleeced everyone, the media has turned into a soulless machine with profit as the only motive...
...and bears, wolves, and nature are the enemy?
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If only to hear Sir Anthony say "I'm gonna kill the motherfucker".
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Perfectly trained and the fucker was huge!
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hoping red machine, like chaw, at least admits its paying homage to Jaws.
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Great scene with the hunter's epiphany after the ledge.
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Made me cry.
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How many of us HAVEN'T been stalked by a giant grizzly bear? Let's be honest.
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Jan 20, 2012 9:06:28 AM CST
Not to be confused with the documentary about American casinos in 2008
by tigger_tales
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And the movie is 10 minutes long. The bear attacks and one of the brothers shoots it, they skin it, and eat the mother fucker. Red Machine is now lunch machine.
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You're lost, stranded on an iceberg, and seals just won't stop fucking with you.
Time to start clubbing. -
Small art house flick that was on the festival circuit last year; effective little romantic espionage period thriller...
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I liked The Edge. It was one of those movies that I came across on video one day and when I watched it was completely taken back by how good it was. I think that's what was in the back of my mind when I seen previews to The Grey. It was probably in back of my mind that made me go meh at first. But I'm sure it's entertaining in it's own right if not original. But now Red Machine just seems lazy. Why don't we think of other movie gems that we can try to pass off as new original ideas.
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....Rambo 5. And the bear isn't really a bear, but Sly running around the woods wearing a bearskin after going insane.
However, this film will be PG-13, beacuse of Chuck Norris's cameo as a park ranger martial artist. -
It will be a trick ending and we find out that the bear is a genetically altered Polar Bear with Ted Bundy persona and healing factor Nano- Tech...just saying, its possible
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Jan 20, 2012 11:10:46 AM CST
PETA will support the Bear and probably protest at theaters.
by c-monster
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. . . it's that grizzly bears travel and attack in herds.
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C'mon MAN . . .
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Wolves have killed and eaten thousands of people throughout recorded history. Bears? Not so much.
This isn't to say I'd want to run into a grizzly in the forest. I've "run into" big black bears twice while hiking, and, though everything turned out ok (the first one, a mama bear with cubs, luckily never saw my friend and I, and the second time the bear saw me moving and took off in the opposite direction ... and so did I), it was at the same time thrilling and harrowing and made for a good tale. However, if I had run into wolves I would've shit my pants ... before they ate me, of course.
As mentioned, The Edge has done this, already. The scene where the bear attacks and eats the black guy (while he's still alive!) was about as freaky as it gets for Man vs Animal flicks. I had nightmares after that. ... ok, one nightmare ... ok, the nightmare involved picturing Anthony Hopkins and Elle McPherson banging each other, but still ... -
I'm guessing a lot of dipshit hunters will want to kill bears after this movie seeing themselves as their hunter fantasies on the screen.
Same thing happened with '76 Jaws- people went out and slaughtered sharks as some sort of what, idiot fear coping mechanism?
Ok, ok...I'm overreacting a bit in fun...but, if you wish to hunt a bear...either take a shotgun (keep your running shoes on though, no hiking boots! haha!) or hunt them like that idiot-lunatic Ted Nugent did - that fucking maniac killed a Grizzly (I believe anyway) with a bow & arrow. Grizzly or not, its a huge ass bear (stuffed in his house) and he killed it with his BOW & ARROW. I don't believe he even had a gun on him.
That takes balls. Crazy balls, maybe. But balls none the less.
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Lost my interest when I lost track of what was going on. Multiplex, it's a brand new day and a new day yesterday?
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