The -new- Man vs. Wild

[GettnHuge 2]

I don't think this has been brought up since the newest season of Man vs. Wild started a few weeks ago.

Obviously the whole reality of of it all has been argued about. Some older episodes have been edited and

they all have a disclaimer which explains that it's...and this is shocking...a tv show that is meant to show

survival tactics and also some situations are presented to Bear to demonstrate what to do.

 

One example in a recent episode, he was in the desert and said that the crew found a cobra and brought it to

where he was to show what it was like to stumble across one of those. I got no problem with that.

 

When this all became an issue, you had the believers, the haters, and those(my position) who realize it's a tv show

and the 'truth' is somewhere in the middle.

 

are the haters satorfied?

[The Moz 72]

survivorman > Man vs. Wild

 

The survivorman guy does everything himself and deserves props and it's a better show. Man vs. Wild was decent until found out the guy spends his nights in a hotel !

[CantTouchThis 23]

I guess i like it, i know Les had a show were he pointed out things like that. For example, when he was in Alaska, a boat came by his spot and he showed it in the reveal type show. I would like Bear to do this, and take a closer look at what the camera crew does, i am very curious as to what like perks the camera crew has, and how they say climb mountains with all that gear with Bear.

 

Anyways, it is an awesome show and i have to get caught up because i am home for the weekend...

[GettnHuge 2]

survivorman > Man vs. Wild

 

The survivorman guy does everything himself and deserves props and it's a better show. Man vs. Wild was decent until found out the guy spends his nights in a hotel !

 

ahh see kids, here we have an example of a hater who goes over the edge the other way. The shows have been picked apart,

but the whole hotel accusation hasn't been specific at all. That stuff first came from someone saying: he stayed in our hotel! Well

duh. I somehow doubt the crew shows up one day, goes into the wilderness, then leaves. My guess is that...of course...the truth

is somewhere in the middle. After they find their location and get everything set up and scheduled, they come to town and...this

part is shocking, stay in a hotel! Including Bear. They are probably in and out of the hotel for days scouting, researching, setup, etc.

The next 2 or 3 days, they spend most of the time out filming. Then Bear is back, in the hotel. Then if necessary they go out and

add in a thing or two that didn't occur during the original filming. Then Bear is back in the hotel.

 

To the typical moron, let's say hotel valet Moz, it looks like he spent all his nights at the hotel.

[Mephisto 15]

If you're going to run around claiming to do this stuff on the up-and-up... you shouldn't be lying about it.

 

Don't hate on the haters. The haters hate because he is a fraud, just like the Cheatriots. No one likes cheaters.

 

Bindi Irwin > Bear

[Rattlesnake 0]

Most of the people who hate on Bear couldn't do 10% of the shit he's done on that show.

 

I watched 5 minutes of Survivorman once.....then I almost fell asleep. What a borefest.

[shovelheadt 72]

I don't dig it much because his 'survival' techniques are not something your normal joe could pull off. He's doing sh*t that he either learned in special forces training or was taught by some locals for the purpose of the show. Same reason I don't dig Flip That House, or whatever it's called. Some of the episodes deal with upscale, million dollar condos or apartment complexes. Fock that, I want to see episodes where you buy a 50K sh*t box, toss about 10K into it, then roll it for 100K or so.

[GettnHuge 2]

special forces training

 

don't you know that's all fake

[CantTouchThis 23]

I watched the Sahara and the first Panama episode, i like the new format a lot. I think every episode will be 2 parts, the first part the regular surviving, and the second part incorperating some native tribe to give some tips on survival, very interesting. LOL, the goat testicle thing was hilarious, he musta felt like the biggest douche in the world when he puked it up. It also seems like he can't find anything that taste non-horrible this season, it seems everything he has eaten he has almost or has puked up.

[wiffleball 4,799]

Yeah, the whole 'drama' is pretty stupid. There isn't a nature documentary out there that isn't staged & edited to one degree or another. You think they just happened to be shooting with the world's most sophisticated high speed camera & just happened to be facing in the direction of the Great White Shark center frame for the 2 seconds it breached the water?

 

I don't need to watch 8 hours of footage to 'get' what it's like to sleep outside for 8 hours. Even on Survivorman, if you watch it, there are shots that have obviously been pre-arranged. - Like every time he's walking on to the beach (he's never been to) from the water - directly into the CAMERA. Or the shots where he's finally headed down river on his canoe/log/raft? What do you think? He just leaves the camera there? He somehow manages to stay exactly center frame even when he's 40 yards away in the rapids?

 

None of that really matters to me. If you use a little common sense and critical reasoning, you'd realize some level of staging and editing occurs in virtually every nature documentary. Just happens that this was pointed out for MVW and the mouth-breathers act like this is the greatest fraud in the history of frauds.

 

But, the part where Bear talks about how it's been "3 days and I haven't talked to a soul and the loneliness if really the hardest part"? That cracks me up. I'm like: "Why don't you just talk to the boom mike operator or the camera guy? or the sound guy? or the director?"