The Grey. OMIGOD, when good actors make bad decisions. SPOILERS

[Baitball Blogger]

What was Liam Neesom thinking? And it got four stars! What? How?

Really? Four Stars? Did you see that movie? Their plane crashes and they get attacked by wolves and they decide to trek it across the icy mountains instead of create a fort with the metal wreckage. Neesom is one of the first to get bitten by a wolf, and yet he's the last to die.

They build an outer perimeter with fire and kill a wolf that attacks them. Then one of the men taunts the wolf pack by throwing the head of the wolf, and this really pisses of the pack. You see their hot breath emerge like some tribe of Yeti. So do the men build a bigger fire to keep the wolves away? No, they trek it some more as if they can outrun the pack.

Then they try to cross a gorge, hoping to get distance from the wolves. Most of the men make it across but one man, who falls. He's obviously dead, but the other men come down a tree to check up on him and someone else gets hurts in the process.

Then two of them get wet and don't die immediately of hypothermia.

And after all this running and treking and climbing and swimming where does Neesom end up? Well in the wolf "den" which isn't a den at all. Just a spot in the woods where there's a lot of bones. And that's where he finally faces his fate with the grey. And by the way, the grey isn't grey, he's black.

I mean really? Four stars?

[Swede]

1. . I watched it with some friends.

We all started yakking and joking during it and lost track of what the heck was going on. I guess it we lost interest in it. Kind of a mess.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. A mess. Yes.

I was laughing pretty hard though because it was so ludicrous. It was worth 3.99 for me.

[Swede]

3. I couldn't give you one character's name,not even Liam's.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. The most interesting part of the movie was that it was

adapted by a short story called The Ghost Walker. See, in that sense it might have made more sense because this was not a story of survival. It was a story of futility.

[Flaxbee]

5. Any movie that makes it easier for people to fear / hate wolves or any other animal angers me so

Even if the wolves aren't really wolves.

I mean, jeez, it isn't as if wolves aren't vilified enough, and their survival threatened by scaredy humans.

Liam Neeson -- I used to really like the guy, but with The Grey - no more.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. I haven't seen the movie

but my first reaction to your synopsis was that someone hasn't watched enough Survivorman (he had an episode in the snow with a wrecked small aircraft).

As a total non sequitur: I recently saw a Chinese movie that used computer generated wolves for one scene -- it was pretty dumb looking and didn't convey the threat to the characters they were aiming for. But then real wolves would have been feasible, either.