GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

brileyq Grizzly Man is a documentary in which a devoted bear advocate, Timothy Treadwell, lives among bears recurrently for 13 summers. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Amy Hugenard, Timothy went on several expeditions to study the nature and habitat of grizzly bears in Alaska. Timothy loved the bears as if they were close friends. He gave many of the bears and foxes he encountered names. The way he communicated and interacted with the bears seemed almost unrealistic. Treadwell took pride in his studies and felt that his work was important to protect the bears. After spending much of his life among the bears and foxes in the wilderness of Alaska, in his 13th year Treadwell and his girlfriend were both violently eaten by a bear. This tragic ending became the foundation for a documentary where we receive insight on Treadwell's work.The director of this film, Werner Herzog, is an award-winning director that is passionate about humans living in the wilderness. One of his other films, Happy People: Year in the Taiga, is filmed in the Siberian Taiga where hundreds of people lived together away from civilization. Grizzly Man is composed of film clips originally shot by Treadwell and film of people who personally knew him and also others who speak on his death. Clips from the film Treadwell captured of himself was poorly created. Treadwell took many takes of the same scene throughout the entire documentation. His acting was not very good. Treadwell often said and did erratic things on camera. In his film, we see Treadwell playing with foxes and challenging bears. Although the story line of Treadwell's expedition is very interesting, I struggled to pay attention the entire way through. I often lost interest in the film until a scene or commentary got my attention. Treadwell's former girlfriend and business partner was presented the tape on which Treadwell and Hugenward took their last breathes. We receive a melodramatic reaction from her but are unable to hear the actual recording. I was disappointed in this. I feel as though the tape would have been an important addition to the documentary.Of all the documentaries about human and animal relationships I have seen, Grizzly Man is one I do not strongly recommend. I have enjoyed the documentation of Blackfish and Zoo. Both films depict the extraordinary relationships between an animal and an animal lover who is later killed by the animal which they felt so passionately. In my opinion, Grizzly Man is missing components which potentially could have made the film more interesting. The story line is incredible but the poor portrayal of Treadwell's expedition takes away from the overall adventure. I feel as though some parts would have been better off not shown while there were also things I felt would be suitable additions to the documentary such as the tape recording of Treadwell's death. My interest in this subject lured me to want to watch Grizzly Man but its inability to grasp and keep my attention has caused me not to recommend this film.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."Grizzly Man" (2005) is such a simple documentary, yet such a warm and clearly made that you just want to give a hug to this movie. Superbly directed by Werner Herzog, it tells the story of Timothy Treadwell, legendary "grizzly man" about whom i to be honest haven't heard before. The story itself is presented very clearly, with very simple yet absolving and clear narration. Overall, shame that "Grizzly Man" wasn't at least nominated for best documentary Oscar. But don't let that stand in your way of seeing this movie, it is a superb one.

Red_Identity Much of this film is pretty standard, and it seems to follow basic conventions of documentary filmmaking. However, there's an added layer of depth and exploration, one that is entirely composed because of what Herzog is going for. You can sense his intrigue and fascination with his subject all throughout the film. What should be noted is that while Herzog makes it a point to actually tell us the ways in which his worldview is different from Timothy's, he still does so in a respectful, mannered way. He seems to respect Timothy and that comes shining through, he seems to even look up to him in a weird way for what he does. There's no judgement at all, and instead Herzog comes across as yet another viewer just interested in this story, lending the film its poetic nature.

turnsfire This is not a documentary, but a belittling of a man whom Herzog did not agree with, who can no longer defend himself, and a conscious effort to lead viewers to do the same. This is a movie about Timothy Treadwell's death. It is about Werner Herzog taking the life work of a man and twisting it completely away from what the man originally wanted, in order to paint his own narrow-minded viewpoint that nature is a cruel place where man does not belong.Sadly, this is the exact opposite of what Treadwell wanted to come from his tapes, and both Palovak and Herzog should feel deeply ashamed for the creation of this film. The best part of this movie is Treadwell himself (i.e. in the opening scene) and all of the footage he takes, though he is given no credit for it. Treadwell's 6 minute death constitutes only .0002% of the time he spent in the wilderness. And it is that 6 minutes of failure that Herzog so expertly leads the viewer to focus on, leaving the overwhelmingly vast majority of his successes untold.Herzog wants the viewer to think of Treadwell as a madman, someone who "crossed a line," and from the reviews, his obvious tactic worked. Herzog, a film director, spews his psychoanalysis of Treadwell throughout the entire film. He even features an interview with someone who goes as far as to wonder if Treadwell was "mentally retarded." If Treadwell was mentally retarded and crossed the line, you can be rest assured he would have died the first night, week, or month he was there. Instead, Treadwell produced the most documented evidence in the history of man that human and bear can coexist peacefully for long periods of time. 35,000 hours is a long time for a food item to be at the mercy of nature's apex land predator. Dare I say that two humans in each others presence for 35,000 hours might eventually kill each other for even less reason than a bear would? At least the bear was hungry.The scene with the coroner is flat out creepy and has no place in a movie about Tim's life. The scene of Herzog listening to the tape has no place in the movie either, is self-gratifying, and reminds me of someone gloating to other children that he got to see something they didn't. It is incredibly disrespectful to show himself listening to the tape of Treadwell's death, and then saying that nobody else should ever hear it. I cannot even fathom why that was included in the movie other than to shift the focus to the director, rather than subject, once again.Herzog claims in later interviews he didn't want to make a snuff film yet that is basically what he did anyway. He features a long winded description from the coroner of exactly what happens on the tape. Was it really necessary to include the details of what happens when a bear decides to eat a man alive? Is that what Treadwell would have wanted his documentary to be about? Herzog's slow speaking, condescending voice constantly interjecting is irritating at best, ruinous at worst. He interjects his viewpoint about nearly everything he shows Treadwell doing, and at that, he only picks the most unflattering scenes of Treadwell, such as when he gets vitriolic about the park rangers. The viewer can be rest assured that Herzog himself has never had an outburst of anger. The inclusion of Treadwell's most private video recordings are incredibly disrespectful. Do not for a second think Treadwell would have included them in his own movie, and it is akin to bullying a dead person that Herzog decides to expose them. And strangely, Herzog was in one of the most densely populated bear areas in the world, yet makes no attempt to film a bear himself. The most tragic thing to me is that it was Jewel Palovak who Treadwell left in possession of his life's work, and that she chose such a biased producer to make the video. Her decision to have Herzog make the movie shows that she was not a friend at all. Let me leave you with a quote from Treadwell to Palovak: "If I die, if something happens to me, make that movie. You make it. You show 'em." Way to go, Palovak. You really found someone to show 'em.