DVD Review: Into The Wild

This is a horrible dvd review, but since we haven't put anything new up on the Boredom Watch site lately, I thought I'd cut and paste it in here for any hardcore fans. We get your e-mails and though we often don't respond, its because we don't want to alienate you. Please understand.

Anyway, as for the film which stars the kid from Lords of Dogtown and has gotten mad media hype as being the best film of the decade and what not, I must admit that it left this BWZ reviewer disappointed and rankled to the core. This is mostly due to the fact that I actually read the book when it came out, and don't have a really fresh memory of it, but know enough to remember it was absolutely nothing like the movie.
Having said that, there also is the obvious problem with the way they've bounced all over the place in the timing of how everything happened, it makes it kind of difficult to understand how this kid got so off track. The film version almost glorifies his idiocy in a weird Hollywood way. One minute he’s skinning big game animals and swatting off flies in the process, and the next he’s hanging fireside with hot brunette who I don't even remember being in the book. Or he's hooking up with whacky hippie travelling couples. What’s the deal with this movie anyway. It’s cool when a salty old dog takes you under his wing and teaches you the roundabout, but get real people. This humpty dance ended when the first dose of Geritol was introduced!
Anyway, this kid was cool in Lords of Dogtown, but in this flick he is forever known now as the lord of dumbasscoldwildernesskidtown! And the real dude who died doing this stupid shit is spinning in his grave right now because this movie mocks his very existence for whatever it was worth. I hated this movie because I read the book, and I’m not trying to be a pretentious literary dick because I’m hardly the literary guy. Seriously this movie should have been called something else because its not into the wild. Rock on anyway, it was worth the $1 Redbox fee!