Survivorman
by Les Stroud
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Actor: Les Stroud, SurvivormanDirector: Les Stroud
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 404 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Discovery Channel
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- Imagine being stranded in the most extreme environments on earth for seven days - completely alone with virtually no supplies. How could you possibly survive? With no support crew and operating the camera himself, survival expert Les Stroud tackles that question as he tests himself in the toughest types of wilderness, ranging from the desert to the Arctic. Among his adventures, he battles life-or-
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Movie Review: Terrific show
Summary: 5 Stars
Terrific show, great DVD. This is a repackaging of the Season One DVD available on Les Stroud's website for $25. It contains the 9 episodes from Season One plus a behind-the-scenes episode.
Years ago when I heard about "Survivor" I thought it would be dumping modern Americans on an island and watching them try to feed themselves. I thought that would be a great show. Instead it was the series of challenges and voting people off the island - not about survival at all.
Les Stroud made my wish come true. He recreates accidents that would leave you stranded in the wilderness, and then uses the items at hand and his wits to survive for seven days. He actually falls out of his canoe and watches it drift away, then he swims to shore, gets out his backpack and sees what he has to survive - in one episode he smashes a video camera and uses the lens to start a fire. He survives the desert, artic, a shipwreck in a raft, the Georgia swamp (he catches and eats a rattlesnake).
He does all his own filming, talking as he goes. This leads to some of the humor in the show - he'll film himself making a slow trek up a steep ridge, and then point out he has to go back down to get his camera - then go up the ridge again.
Some of what he does works well - he catches a snow-shoe hare with a snare, something everyone has heard about but he actually shows you how it works (its not like in the cartoons) but some are flops. He eats plants which make him throw up, and it takes him a LONG time to start some of his fires, with multiple failed attempts. I find it all very interesting.
He has immense patience, and his super-power is to go for five days without eating more than two lizards without complaining.
One last comment - the show invites a comparison to man vs wild, which is much more dramatic and over-the-top and gross - the man vs wild guy drinks by squeezing elephant dung and brown liquid comes out and he swallows that. That guy goes out of his way to face drama - he chooses an escape path over a lava field so you can see his boots smoke, where Les Stroud would walk around it. Plus I can never forget that the man vs wild guy is standing there with a camera crew which has coolers and a truck right there. They are presumably drinking Coke and eating McDonald's while the guy drinks elephant dung juice. Its a stunt. Whereas when Les Stroud found the rattlesnake (he jumped a mile and they had to bleep what he said) if he had gotten bitten he would have had to face it alone.
Les Stroud is very low key and Canadian, and he plays his harmonica to keep his spirits up. He is very likable.
My whole family likes Survivorman. We bought the DVD on his website and were delighted. I recommend it heartily.
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