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Would have liked it a lot more if...


The boyfriend wasn't such a complete idiot.

Who goes camping out in the deep wilderness without:

- a compass
- a weapon (or two) you can use to defend yourself from wild animals
- a few flares you can shoot into the sky. You know, the ones that come with your survival kit?

This would have worked a LOT better if the couple did everything you would expect one to do when preparing such a trip for such a long time and simply have the bear attack them in the middle of the night. She uses the compass, but the bear is tracking her.

Instead, this guy essentially gets himself killed and possibly his girlfriend. He sees the tracks, hangs a bloody sock from a wound I would assume he had before the movie started (either that or his shoes suck for hiking), THEN ignores broken brancjes of what is obviously an animal foraging for food AND THEN completely ignores the gutted deer that has been killed in less than a day.

By the hour mark I just gave up on both of them and fast-forwarded through the rest just to see how it would end.

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Important lesson not to tolerate chumps. Would Obama be of any use against a bear? If the answer is no, then he is of no use at all.

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Movie is pointless and lacking in any of the tropes that might have it fun and/or frightening. It's not even worth discussion.

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Jenn had a flare

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Uh, the wound on his toe is from when the canoe fell on his foot when he was trying to overturn it on the riverbank. It's shown with some importance.

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