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Things I learned from 'The Hunter'

posted 12 years ago by BadCash
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1. Semiextinct species which no one has ever seen, let alone made any scientific research on, are in such high demand by multinational biotech companies that they risk everything to get it.

2. It's better to kill, incarcerate, and spread the ashes of the last individual of an endangered species, than to kill it and hand it over for scientific research that could potentially save lives and cure diseases.

3. Anyone working in the forest industry is an evil, beer drinking, tree hating, environmentalist shooting hillbilly.

4. When illegally hunting for endangered animals, make sure to draw as much attention as possible to yourself from the locals.

[–] dj_liquid_x 12 years ago

Great post :) it made me laugh!

[–] driverforhire 12 years ago

5. When your captor gets caught in a bear trap, you should use your knife to cut off your restraints first and then no-scope him after, instead of simply stabbing the opponent to death before he has a chance to escape.

[–] taiaha 12 years ago

I did not realise this movie is, in fact, a very badly made documentary...

[–] mikeyflatley 12 years ago

5a. (corollary 2 #5) when captor is caught in bear trap, kick away his gun, but only far enuf so he has a chance 2 grab it again after he breakz free

I live, I love, I slay, and I'm content

[–] lguan73 12 years ago

6. It is perfectly ok for a stranger to take a bath with little kids for the sake of conserving hot water.
7. During an adrenaline-rushing pursuit of an animal in the woods, a twig that hit an experienced hunter's eyebrow will throw him off-balance.
8. Bruce Springsteen's music can wake a person who has been drugged with barbiturates.
9. Loggers hates ecologists.
10. The best way to make someone feel unwelcome is to write "GO HOME" on the windshield of his car with sh*t.

[–] eljeffe203 12 years ago

11. No matter how long you leave speakers hanging in a tree through rain and snow, they'll work perfectly fine as soon as you hook them up.

12. If you see someone trying to start a generator, only cover the necessary part after hours and hours of toil.

[–] jotafracchia 8 years ago

Lol!!! This made my day

[–] nick159 12 years ago

just saw the movie. I see your point, but that knife of Dafoe's was really short in length. That would mean Dafoe would have to get really up close and personal with his captor, a captor with both of his own hands free. Also, his captor's weight class, height, and younger age would have been a disadvantage for Dafoe. At least that is how I saw it.

[–] mortezahalimi 12 years ago

Just with your number 1:

Tasmanian Tiger is not a specie that "no one has ever seen"

[–] !!!deleted!!! (6732138) 12 years ago

"Things I learned" lists are for unimaginative, nitpicky wankers

[–] lmv92 12 years ago

Trolling is much more interesting, right?

[–] bigmyc04 9 years ago

-You might not be as clever as you'd maybe like to think that you are.
-You confuse "incinerate" with "incarcerate."
-You confuse a small, parochial detachment of loggers as "anyone working in the forest(ing) industry."
-You don't grasp the concept of 'going into the wild alone,' presumably to conceal a hidden agenda.
-Multi-national companies, bio-tech and otherwise, have risked "everything," as you put it quite often throughout their short histories on earth. Look no further than the American operations in Iraq of the last two decades.

So, my tagline will be as follows;

It helps to have a decent level of sophistication if one is resigned to be cynical.

[–] clickbait 9 years ago

BadCash...on your number 2 you didnt pay enough attention to the movie cause it was never about any research of saving lives and cure diseases, it was all about getting a venomous nerve posion from the tiger, and you dont use that to cure anything, more like to make it for warfare or weaponary of some kind. I like these "things I learned threads" cause they always state the obvious plot holes in the movies but before posting, make sure you have actually seen the movie and avoid making a fool out of yourself by stating wrong facts.

~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~

[–] Mayhem85 8 years ago

If you are taking multiple anti-depressants and a stranger thinks they are bad for you, just stop taking them cold turkey and rest for a day.

[–] Paynebyname 8 years ago

I learnt that I can see a very good film and then come onto IMDB to find some nitpicking tool.

Small moves Ellie, small moves

[–] tpardoen83 8 years ago

Nitpicking the nitpicker is nitpicking,

so just laugh people come on!