Project Grizzly
Posted on April 08th, 2010 in Peter Lynch Books
Description
Meet Troy James Hurtubise, a self-styled “close-quarter bear researcher,” who’s obsessed with going face-to-face with Canada’s most deadly land mammal, the grizzly bear. Troy is the creator of what he hopes is a “grizzly-proof” suit of armour — an extraordinary fusion of high-tech materials and homespun ingenuity — and of his own hybrid mythology that is part Hollywood, part Canadian Shield. His quest takes audiences into a world both compelling and disturbing, full of … More >>
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April 8th, 2010
Grizzley man makes this guy look like the biggest self promoting idiot ever! This movie is terrible
Rating: 1 / 5
April 8th, 2010
In the light that all of the reviews of this bonehead’s performance come from south of the 49th, I felt honor bound to throw my two cents worth in. This video clearly demonstrates how foolish people can be. I find it terribly amusing that our hero really believes that he can build a suit of armor that will let him grapple with a grizzly, when we all know that Papa bear would make short work of the suit in the Project Grizzly video. In fact, the real danger would be if to the bear, who risks dying laughing, not whether the suit will work or not. The commentary about Canada and bears is about as ludicrous as can be. It is very obvious that Hurtubise has not researched his quarry, or come to the common sense conclusion that you avoid a more powerful enemy. Regardless of how protective the suit is, ten men aren’t as powerful as one middling grizzly. Armor doesn’t do any good when Papa bear peels it off like an orange rind. Were it not for these half-baked macho posturings (the comments about bowie knives are especially hilarious), Project Grizzly would be actual comedy, instead of the confused, rambling, John-Wayne home-movie that it is.
Rating: 2 / 5
April 8th, 2010
I’ve seen some insulting movies in my day, but this is the worst effort I have ever witnessed. The joke is on the viewer in this sleep inducing hillbilly romp. The real messege here is, what happens when a mentally retarded canadian is given a camera for Christmas and told to make a movie. Halfway though the movie I was sure that it was a spoof documentary like “The Last Broadcast”, but sadly it wasn’t. Toward the end of the flick when Troy was shaving with his bowie knife I was begging the knife to slit Troy’s throat so as to breathe life into this comatose film. Believe me, there isn’t a drinking game in the world that could make this movie any less boring. I took a camera and video taped a blade of grass growing for 5 1/2 days and audiences raved that it had far more action than Project Grizzly. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this doc.
Rating: 1 / 5
April 8th, 2010
Many a long year ago I saw some TV show about a man building a bear-proof suit. Scenes of a pickup ramming this guy wearing what looked like football armor on steroids was a hoot. Naturally I had to watch this DVD.
Turns out the inventor of the suit, Troy Hurtubise, didn’t know when to stop. Several of his earlier suits appeared to allow some mobility, but the final version (to date) is so heavy and clunky he can barely move in it and is turtle-helpless when he falls. His scary one-time encounter with a bear that swatted him must have overwhelmed his practicality.
It’s an intriguing idea, a suit that allows the wearer to survive a grizzly-mauling. It’d have pretty darn limited demand, I suppose, but bear watchers might feel more secure in one. Treadwell (in “Grizzly Man”) could have used one. But the suited-up Hurtubise cannot walk on any kind of slope or rough surface when he takes to the north woods to, he hopes, encounter a grizzly, and sets the suit aside. Thus there’s no climax, only scenes of various previous tests and Hurtubise’s own slightly goofy commentary. He should have paid a zoo to let him enter a grizzly cage.
Hurtubise’s robot-like suit is a failure, although it reminds me of my mind’s image of what Heinlein’s starship troopers’ exoskeletal armor looked like. Too bad the grizzly armor doesn’t have a similar power source. Like the suit, the documentary is mildly entertaining but ultimately incomplete.
Rating: 3 / 5
April 8th, 2010
this is at the top, right there with dancing outlaw… he needs a weekly show, this needs a sequel, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry., well you wont cry, but trust me you’ll laugh.
Rating: 5 / 5