Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Into The Wild
 
  • Locked thread
spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

 The movie seemed to completely miss the point of Krakauer's book.

* # ¿ Mar 28, 2017 16:26
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 4, 2024 01:39
  • Quote
spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

Ice Blue Mink posted:

What specifically should he have researched?
Virtually anything on wilderness survival. His research consisted of being a big Thoreau fan and that's about it.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Like Into the Wild really wants to make McCandless into someone meaningful despite all accounts indicating he was a dumb rebellious pseudo-intellectual rich kid who probably had an undiagnosed mental disorder and who died doing because of doing something profoundly, impulsively stupid in the woods.
See, I feel like the movie did this, but Krakauer didn't.

* # ¿ Mar 28, 2017 17:39
  • Quote
spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

Warm und Fuzzy posted:

Was the point of Krakauer's book what an awesome survivalist Krakauer is and how the rest of you weekend warriors deserve what's coming to you?

You should show that big stuck up know it all what a jerk he is by wandering into the Alaskan wilderness with nothing but a copy of Walden and an out of date book about seeds.

* # ¿ Mar 28, 2017 18:01
  • Quote
spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

Jesse Ventura posted:

lot of smug softies in this thread who woulda known better

he did some very cool poo poo and died young and happy. like most people i am programmed to enjoy the bullshit creature comforts of modernity (posting this while making GBS threads into perfectly clean water btw) but he clearly was not, and i find that rather admirable

He died starving, miserable, and terrified.

* # ¿ Mar 29, 2017 20:29
  • Quote
  • Locked thread
The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Into The Wild