In some ways this is the best survival movie I have seen. Because even though he makes, mistake after mistake he learns from them and never keeps thinking and never quits trying. I especially like how they jump ahead 4 years and the opening shot of that segment shows a fish swimming getting positively zapped by an expertly and powerfully thrown spear and then they pan up an the protagonist is now leanly and well muscled with sun bleached hair to his shoulders and a full beard only barely dresssed and you see he make the spear throw from a good distance. Then you see him eat the fish raw, almost like an animal, definately like a primitive man. I highly recommend this film for a DVD library addition.
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Thu, January 31, 2008 - 4:48 PMyeah it is a good movie, i would watch it again and again
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Thu, February 7, 2008 - 12:44 PMNo I didn't but I did when he told his heartthrob they had to move on and she knew it too although they were true loves. Hey I can put a bullet in a man's head from a click away but that romantic stuff makes my eyes leak,
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Sat, February 2, 2008 - 1:38 PMI liked Gilligans Island too. Gilligan was a hell of a fisherman. And why did the Howell's bring all those clothes and money for a 3 hour tour. And how come the proffessor could make a radio out of coconuts but couldnt fix that damn boat. I liked Mary Ann better than Ginger. Mary Ann alway's made the coconut pie's. Ginger was kind of trashy, alway's trying to put it on Gilligan, making him knock his head on a tree. Gilligan might have turned her down but I think the skipper was hit'n it. And there is a possiblity that mary ann was having a discreet affair with the professor.
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Fri, February 8, 2008 - 1:03 PMI've never seen anyone get a coal so fast with the plow method. ;) -
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Sat, February 9, 2008 - 7:46 PMWell he actually had tried for days without success and then the bottom stick cracked and let air in. Most people that try a bow drill forget or do not know about the notch that needs to be in the board to allow the smoldering bits a place to go and breath. -
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Sat, February 9, 2008 - 7:58 PMSee, and I didn't even KNOW about the plow-method. I also didn't know that it was common knowledge among laypersons.... I think I would have had to rig up a bow-and-drill set, shaping driftwood with sharp or rough rocks. It's the only 'friction' method I was ever taught. Iether that, or dig into the B.O.B. that I definitely would have had with me. -
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Sat, February 9, 2008 - 8:00 PMThat plow method look's like alot more work that the drill bow. -
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Sat, February 9, 2008 - 8:15 PMI like the bamboo rubbing method on 'rescue dawn'.... Then again, you need bamboo for it.
I think bow method is definitely more efficient and easy... but the tools required can take a while to get together. The bow and string are easy enough, but the bearing block on top of the spindle, and the little fire cone for the pointed end of the spindle... Add it all up, and I bet you could plow-start a fire in less time than building the tools for a bow fire
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Sun, February 10, 2008 - 12:40 PMAnd how many days do you need to practice to go directly from friction to flame, with no coal stage in between? :)
Ah, Hollywood producers...
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Sat, February 9, 2008 - 8:25 PMI think what I liked best about the movie is when he knocked his tooth out with the ice skate and the rock. Now by God, that's when reality set's in, in a survival situation like that and let's you know your not just on a camping trip. It would also be good to know if there's any antibiotic you could chew out of some leave's out there. A tooth infection like that could probably kill a person without any anti-biotic. -
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Mon, February 25, 2008 - 2:38 PMIn the Corps at Survival Training they taught us how to extract a tooth with a nail or our KaBar and a rock and pliers if they are handy for just the reason of the seriousness of a infection like that. I've had one and I felt blessed that I wasn't in the field when in flared up. I didn't feel blessed about the root canal however.
The bamboo rubbing method is called "the bamboo saw technique" and it is very effective with dead bamboo. -
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Mon, February 25, 2008 - 6:24 PMBamboo is such an amazingly useful plant. I lived in Japan when I was a kid for a while, and it's just amazing to see all the many uses they come up with. From cooking utensils to rain gutters to fire pistons to all kinds of kid toys to scaffolding (even for constructing modern large corporate buildings) water guns, stilts, weapons, tools, railings, the stuff is just amazing. I wish it grew in north america the way it grows out there.
Airsoft gun fights were a whole different world in a bamboo forest, with the little bb's bouncing and ricocheting off of all the hard, slick bamboo stalks. It was more like a painful game of survival pinball.
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