Go see: INTO THE WILD

Non-Phish General
#1

I just saw a advanced screening of this last night and it is really good.
This is based on the great Jon Krakauer book about the Emory University student Christopher McCandless.
A true story of how he abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and travels across the country to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
This is a unbelievable and tragic story.

Sean Penn adapted the book & directs this.
Really great job
Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown, Girl Next Door) plays Chris and does a fine job.
Vince Vaughn, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, & Catherine Keener all do great jobs in supporting roles.
But its the fantastic Hal Holbrook who almost steals the movie.
He will make you cry. So good.

This is such a great story and the themes and ideas touched on are really important and need to be discussed.

Emile was at the theater and I got to talk to him after.
Great young actor and very humble.
Everyone involved in this movie put the hearts and soul into it and you really sense that throughout the film.

Anyway, it comes out later this month.
It might be hard to find but please go out and see it.
And if you haven’t read this book by all means do.
It is fascinating, beautiful, and as I said before, ultimately tragic story.

#2

i read this book years ago.

i saw the trailer for the movie last week.

i’m incredibly excited to see it.

#3

wow, never even new they were thinking of making a movie, alexander supertramp all the way

this will be good, go see it, when does it come out

#4

sept 21st

http://imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

I first read this book when i graduated 8th grade, along with Into Thin Air, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, this was back when i was big into camping/hiking/mountain climbing and shit

Then upon graduation of college I re-read Into the Wild, making notes in the book and all, and felt very similar to the way Alex was feeling about life and all, I am really excited to see a movie about this.

#5

I think I got a free copy of this book at Coventry. Does that ring a bell for anyone else? Never read it though.

#6

Great book, can’t wait for the movie. I’m glad to hear that its good.

#7

Definitely want to see this movie (and hear the soundtrack):

#8

cool, eddie vedder did the soundtrack, didn’t notice that before

#9

that is cool.

just listened to “Ten” yesterday for the first time in…oh, probably seven years or so. it was sweet. fell off the PJ boat a long time ago. would love to hear what Eddie’s got going on these days.

#10

I’m not sure if Pearl Jam has written a new song in ten years. Basically every new album has the same songs but with different lyrics.

#11

The soundtrack is really good and fits the movie very well.

The flow of the songs really captures the mood, the lyrics to each song almost set the mood for where Chris (Or Alex Supertramp- ;D best AKA ever) is at in his life/trip.

Eddie wrote all the songs Kaki King.
Very good, Eddie definitely puts his stamp on the songs but they work great by themselves as well as with the movie IMO.

Anyway, good flick, great acting/script, and good tunes.

#12

SWEET! I just saw this thread. The trailer looks amazing. I love this book. Good stuff indeed!

#13

I think your thinking of “Wild Animus”
I got one too and I still have it. still never read it. but i’ll never forget those dressed up dudes handing them out. They came to Ithaca College too.

#14

well i finally just saw INTO THE WILD apporximately a year after Gamecat sent me the soundtrack (awesome- Vedder rules) and urged me to go see it.

for a while i just never got around to it and then i put no effort into it because my friends saw it and said it sucked. But they say everything sucks so i grabbed it at the library this week.

And it was pretty good. The kid was not THE best actor in the world but he did alright. There’s some pretty intense moments in there and some pretty sweet ones, and some far fetched ones and some over dramatic ones but that’s storytelling for you. If they made a movie about somebody that successfully makes it living in the Alaskan wilderness it would have been a boring movie. the whole point is that the kid has no idea what he’s doing and we(the audience) are learning with him.

It’s a weird concept to make a big movie about a guy like that but i think its a story worth telling to people that might not understand that kind of behavior and they did a good job with it.

and I would like to repeat for the record that Pearl Jam is still making better music than just about anyone around today and Eddie’s songs flow perfectly throughout this movie and probably boosted my opinion from one thumbs up to two alone.

#15

cool, glad somebody else checked it out

it is based off a true story, very idealistic

#16

Seen it. Good movie. I got my parents to rent it too. I don’t think they got it.

Stevo

#17

IMO… the movie is not even close to as good as the book

#18

^see and i held out on seeing it first because i wanted to read the book but when i skimmed through it it seemed a bit too much like journalism and not enough storytelling. Could be wrong though. At the time i felt like reading something else so i picked up One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest instead and i don’t regret it.