Why leave the shelter of the plane? Go into the woods where you're completely exposed. Why take wallets when they will be found later by rescue teams?
It's a good point and the thought occurred to me as well, but the desolate area was very snowy and windy and it's likely that the entire wreckage would've been covered by snow in a short time. As far as rescue teams finding them, it depends on how far off course they were and how much the wreckage would've been covered by snow by the time search planes flew over. This is why they took the wallets, in case the wreckage was never found and they expected to survive
Evidently Ottway felt they had a better chance of walking out of there and finding signs of civilization, which turned out to be partially true since one area of the forest they were in showed signs of logging. Maybe he felt all the carcasses at the wreckage attracted the pack of wolves or that they were invading wolves' territory, which was brought up in one of the discussions.
Another thing about the wallets: The writers included that scene because the wallets were needed in a later scene (at the end) where Ottway goes over the pictures of the guys who died and their families. In other words, they took the wallets because the plot required them to take them.
there's been something like 1 documented wolf attack in N. America in the last 200 years, which proves that wolves aren't interested in humans at all, especially a group of humans
The key word is "documented." What about undocumented cases? If a pack of wolves or lone wolf is hungry enough, would it not go after a human?
Although some of the complaints about the believability of the story can be explained away others are more dubious. In addition to issue of the wolves, the jump from the cliff and the climb to the trees (on a very questionable "rope") seriously streches credibility. Yet movies (or certain things in them) aren't always meant to be taken literally and aren't necessarily supposed to be realistic as filmmakers are more concerned with aesthetics, psychology, metaphors and conveying ideas; and that's the case with "The Grey." The survival story is merely a stage.
Which brings up another common complaint, that the film's ultimately pointless, which simply isn't the case. Now you may not like the story or the points that it conveys, but it's not pointless. See my interpretation at this thread for details, if interested:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913/board/flat/235943604.
My 150 (or so) favorite movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122364/
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