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of course the book would be better because its your internal visualization, but the movie was awesome. and to compliment/enhance it was mr eddie vedder, if youve not heard the soundtrack to the movie you should. its fucking emotional and i have to say that eddie vedder is a DAMN good musician. he wrote the whole soundtrack to that movie and it is sensational.

Definitely a very cool movie, though not for everyone.

I didn't know Vedder was involved with the soundtrack - thanks for that info.

 
I haven't read the book but I cought the movie when it came out in Moab. In some ways he reminded me a lot of my self. It also made the guy look like a goof ball. I haven't gotten around to reading the book yet but I doubt it's any more sympathetic. Krackour or what ever his name is tends to be a selfriteous judgemental bastard. I'd say that it's a perfect case study of what happens when you let a young impresenable boy read a lot of dangerous books too early in life and at the same time shelter him from the harshness of reality. I'm not critisizing the things he did. I could in fact draw a lot of parillels to my own life. I'm talking about the way he went about them. It's a prime example of some one lost in their little idealistic fantisy world till they run head on into reality. Like some one walking blindfolded down the railroad tracks with a walkman blaring till he's run over by the train. What was that? Where'd that train come from?

Lee

i couldn't disagree more.

the book was FUCKING AWESOME!

the movie made him out to be a complete fucking retard. also the sappy bullshit they put in there to hollywood-ize it made me sick. the music was ok, but overall, i'd like to burn that film.

I first heard about this story on NPR.
Teri Gross interviewed some of the
peeps who made it and they explained
how they worked with the family so to
make the movie while respecting their
feelings and I think not disturbing the
real bus that exists.

So I then saw the movie and like it!!

As for the age old battle of the movie
versus the book, well of course the latter
is almost always better but I remind you
reading a good book takes a whole lot
more time than 2 hours.

I read the book in middle school and hated the story but loved the book, the movie I love because it is the version that coul dbe made into a movie. glorifying it.

both good, just very different. the movie is BASED on a true story, the book IS a true story.

I don't want to die of starvation living in a school bus in Alaska lost but unknowingly close to civilization.

I hate to read books, but I did read "Into the Wild" almost a decade ago and loved it. I think that Alexander Supertramp, his journey, and even the author (a climber) relate to BASE jumpers in more ways than we realize. If you liked this book, read "Into Thin Air" by the same author. There are also YouTube videos out there showing the bus, if you're interested.

If Alexander Supertramp were a BASE jumper, he would have died very early in his career....

Another cool Jon Krakauer book is "Eiger Dreams".