pretty decent

Hear hear. I thought almost every action concerning human interaction and safety precautions that he made, suggested him to be a complete a$$hole. But considering that he was also the one with wilderness experience, this worked wonders in establishing ominous mood for the encounter. By the time it happened my confidence in Alex was long gone with the wind.
I felt they were worse of with him leading than the girl running around all confused and scared wittless, on her own. Nice scripting for a horror story. :)

It wasn't bad.... I was hoping it ended with the city slickers both being hunted down and mauled to death by the bear but I guess I can't have everything. Also couldn't give it higher than a 6 because of Eric Balfour. Who intentionally casts that guy in a movie? He exudes douche. And why the hell was he Irish? I admit I was surprised that he could actually do an accent but that doesn't mean he should ever be hired to do anything other than third rate horror and sci-fi.

I enjoyed the movie a lot. Missy Peregrym was great in it. The other actors were too, but it was easy to latch on to Missy's character, especially after her boyfriend did so many unwise things. I thought the film built the suspense well, and the bear attack itself was gory but not unrealistic. I thought the scenario overall was plausible, and I'm glad I watched this interesting take on the bear attack horror genre.

Well, the movie is advertised as a true story. It's not hard to believe at all. As for men with to much pride to ask for directions, or get a map, or listen to the advice of an Irish guys with to many fish to eat. My father's that type of guy, at least when it comes to asking for directions. Fortunately, I've learned to swallow my pride for the sake of safety for loved ones, and people in general Also, if I am going into bear country, I'm going to be armed with a 12 pack of that bear repellent, a gun that will cause bear enough pain to find dinner elsewhere, and I'm not going to forget my axe, or in my case my Ginunting sword, the official sidearm of the Philippine Marines. That bear's going to eat a razor sharp steel sword before he takes a bite of me, and the woman that I'm about to propose to.

I thought it was a good movie

While I enjoyed the movie, I am surprised at the willingness of so many to buy the main conceit of the film. Black bears (Ursus Americanus) are VERY rarely violent. Grizzlies are another thing entirely, but since this movie focuses on the ubiquitous black bear I must mention to those that read this thread that they should not take the behavior of the bear in this movie as an indication of the way black bears behave in the wild.

There're always exceptions. A starving bear, a trapped bear, a mama bear protecting her young - those can all lead to very unfortunate and violent bear encounters. I've had a number of encounters with bears over the years, in backcountry circumstances as well as in populated mountain communities. In every single one of those circumstances the bears were always very frightened of humans. I won't go so far as to say the bear was more frightened of me than I of it, because each encounter left my heart pounding. But my fear, based upon all of my personal experience, has been largely unfounded. These black bears usually ran away just from seeing me, One bear, digging through my trash at night, was scared off by the light of my flashlight.

In certain locations (Yosemite being a classic example) bears have become so habituated to human interaction that they will be more aggressive than most other regions. That is really because they have learned that humans have food and tasty trash, not because they want to eat us.

I took the time to write this post because I think it's important that folks realize this movie is fun fiction, while it may be loosely based upon a real bear attack story, it has been heavily dramatized and does a great job of making the woods seem a lot scarier than they should.

There are risks to backcountry travel and anyone that wants to to enjoy going where very few people ever do should put forth the effort to develop skills and techniques for safety, but don't think that the woods are full of demon-bears, cougars and crazies waiting behind every rock. Bears are almost always terrified of you, cougars are rarely going to tangle with a human and I've met a lot of people on the trail that I would consider good folks and no one that made me fear for my life.

It was a good movie, but it was too grotesque and disturbing for me.

Reminded me somewhat on The Reef, recommended to anyone who enjoyed this one.