Comments on: Grizzly Man

By: B_Slider

B_Slider — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:53:00 +0000

I watched this last night. Amazing and tragic story.

Timothy Treadwell was a madman, but was passionate and fearless. I believe he knew he would die out there and I think that’s exactly how he wanted it. You get an idea as you watch that he slowly was becoming more and more wild over time.

I can understand his desire to live in the wilderness and protect the wildlife.. When I look around my city I see waste, waste, and more waste. We’ve lost the beauty of nature and we’ve taken nature out of man. I don’t think man can survive very long without allowing himself to be wild from time to time.

I think Timothy Treadwell lived and died better than most of us could ever hope to. This documentary does a good job of showing the good and the bad, and was very well done.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:15:00 +0000

How ironic that his stated intent was to protect the bears from people yet he could not protect himself from the bears. A sad tragic story. He must have known he was going to die

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:34:00 +0000

As said below, the guy was full on bonkers and stupid. There’s a reason why nearly every case of attempted domestication of bears ends in carnage riddled tragedy, they are WILD ANIMALS and completely unpredictable. It’s amazing he lasted as long as he did around them, they were probably too busy laughing at his silly antics to be their normal ass hole bear selves and take him out. One day he must have ran out of jokes…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000

maybe the “I’d have shot him” part but the rest was spot on.
If you disagree go hug a brown bear and get back to me… if you can.
Bears are ass holes. It really is that simple. They smell awful and will kill you simply because you exist and they feel like it. Treadwell is proof.

By: Solitare Macabre

Solitare Macabre — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000

He was nuts. When I watched this I could barely keep myself from turning the program off. It’s like the people who swim with sharks everyone knows what they are and what they can do just how close up do you want to see it happen. This is worst documentary I have ever watched. I think some doc s. that I have stopped watching in the first 5 minutes were better than this. Why did I stay to the end you might wonder. Me too? I guess I could not believe it and I had to see with my own eyes. He was NUTS.

By: Penny

Penny — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:02:00 +0000

i like your love for Tim’s love of his life and ambitions . you do see through people

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:45:00 +0000

What a myopic, cruel, ignorant, arrogant, *&!(#&@% comment.

Sorry.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:41:00 +0000

No way. Definitely Not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:40:00 +0000

I may criticize the details of a man’s life or even his fatal obsession. I may criticize his method, his thoughtlessness, or even his logic and morality. But when it comes down to it, I know that I can not help respecting him and would gladly sit down and share a meal with him so that I can get into his head and understand more. This is how I have felt toward some of my best friends in life, and this is how I feel about Timothy Treadwell. In the way that I have befriended the Autistic, the Bicycle Thief, The PTSD Soldier, the Bipolar Writer, the Heroin Addicted Film Editor, the Lesbian DJ and computer programmer, the Undocumented Worker, and the Single Mother of Three, I am drawn to all of them the way I felt connected with Timothy Treadwell and this documentary. He has lived the great adventure in convoluted, agonizing, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, and polarizing electricity.

Wagner is an excellent director of this kind of documentary, and this is the documentary that helped me appreciate him as a director. His dry, heavy, yet beautiful voice overs really ask the right questions.

My boyfriend and I watched this doc over and over, showed it to countless people, and lent our DVD of it to many roommates, friends, and family. The way they would react to the documentary would give us a LOT of information about them. It reveals a lot about the viewer. One friend of ours collapsed into a pile of nervous chuckles throughout the movie was genuine- ly moved. My parents couldn’t finish watching it because they thought Tim Treadwell was so stupid.

I don’t think Tim Treadwell was stupid. I don’t think his life was a waste. Because that’s not fair. Imagine if one mirrored perception of my life and death were spread out in an agonizing array of people I slept with, people I hung out with, and people I taught. ….. . . would that capture me? No, surely not. But I would sure as hell hope it was as interesting as Grizzly Man.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:23:00 +0000

Hey Vlatko, this is still unavailable in the US, do you think you can dig up a copy we can see over here? Just hoping :)

P.S. You rule so hardcore XD

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:44:00 +0000

Whether this man was psychologically having some problem is not the important point of dispute. We must atleast acknowledge the insanity of that man to believe in protection of wild life…which all the sane people & business houses always deliberately ignore. And when & where such ignorance exist such tragic ends are meant to be seen… :-(
I really don’t understand when Man will learn respecting the Wildlife freedom of life & start protecting & conserving them…

By: Regan

Regan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:38:00 +0000

this lunatic put his female partner in harms way when she clearly didn’t want to be there and she ended up paying the ultimate price for his out of control ego, the guy should be remembered for the moron he was not celebrated as some kind of hero,

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:44:00 +0000

I think this is whats called thinning the herd . I hope they had time to curl into a ball and play dead . Let this be a lesson to other would be bear people don’t mess with bears

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:51:00 +0000

Its a tragic story in which 2 people died and 2 bears died who didn’t need to. Although I think we should all be grateful that Timothy made this documentary. Even though it may have been a foolish thing to do, he had no intention of hurting anyone. But shit happens. it’s over. they’re dead.
The only thing left now is to be grateful for this footage because to date I have never seen such an amazing documentary and i don’t think i ever will again. There is a lot to learn from this, don’t get caught up in the controversy.

By: mahonhouse

mahonhouse — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:54:00 +0000

I have seen plenty of this video and the bear that killed him was not one of the bears that killed him.His bears were gone and the bear that got him was an absolute stranger.Though I think he is a moron who should have never entered the woods.I believe the statement that one of the bears that he cared for killed him is FALSE.