Man v Wild or Survivor Man?

[Tyrant222]

Originally posted by: Apex

Originally posted by: patentman
Survivor man caught a freaking rabbit with wire from a plane hull, ate the entire inside and made gloves out of the hide, all with a simulated broken arm. No question, survivor man rules.

But Bear rubbed a stick against a rock, threw it at a rabbit and killed it.

Actually, I got to say, that stick throwing thing was one of the most impressive things I've seen. Funny as heck too.

You beat me to it. To me, survivor man was more interesting. I kinda like both though, not just because of the survival aspect.

is surivorman still on the air? havent followed it, I thought man vs wild was the replacement for it.

 

[Cheesemoo]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
Man v Wild >>> Survivorman

you guys are whacked

 

[49erinnc]

Originally posted by: Apex


But Bear rubbed a stick against a rock, threw it at a rabbit and killed it.

Actually, I got to say, that stick throwing thing was one of the most impressive things I've seen. Funny as heck too.

That was incredible. You could eve hear it popping the rabbit's neck/head. It was also crazy, the episode where he pulls a huge salmon out of the river. I thought "cool...he's going to build a fire, gut it and roast that baby over the flames!" No, he pulls it out of the water and instantly takes a huge bite out of the fish's back while it's still squirming. :Q Another impressive stunt was free climbing about 120' up that tree into the canopy of a rain forest.

Both guys are nuts but and I love both shows. I think Man vs Wild is more entertaining to watch but I'm more impressed with what Survivorman does, considering he's completely alone. It was pretty cool when he camped by the wrecked plane and started a fire by running wire from the plane's battery to a pool of gasoline.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Elephant dung cocktail anyone?

 

[xanis]

Man vs. Wild all the way. Bear Grylls is just a total badass.

 

[moshquerade]

Man vs Wild. Bear makes it much more interesting.

 

[SpongeBob]

Man v. Wild is way more entertaining.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: 49erinnc
Another impressive stunt was free climbing about 120' up that tree into the canopy of a rain forest.

I'm not convinced bear actually completes all of these tasks... note how everything difficult that he does is always presented in cut-shots.... swimming across icy waters, climbing up a tall tree for food, climbing down a ravine, etc.

i know that there are time limitations, but they could do playback in FF, etc... its just adds skepticism everytime theres something tough btu you dont get to see it

 

[Descartes]

I really enjoy Survivorman. The authenticity really adds to the enjoyment for me.

 

[Zedtom]

I enjoy both shows.

I'd like to see either of these guys in a wilderness area with fallen timber for twenty miles in every direction. You can't walk more than six feet without crawling over or under a tree trunk. Your progress would be slow, and you'd be scratched and bruised from all the bushwhacking.

 

[purbeast0]

wow funny thread, cause this past Sunday I caught my first episodes of Survivorman, and yesterday night I saw man vs. wild for the first time.

I definitely think that Survivorman is a better show. You learn a lot more from it, and it just is so much more "real" than man. vs wild.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Man vs. Wild seems like a scripted version of Survivorman.

Man vs. Wild: I'm going to make a raft and go down this icy river.
Survivorman: I fall in that water, I can get wet and die. So I'm going to find a way around it.

Man vs. Wild: The only way down here is to jump. *camera shows him from an angle jumping*
Survivorman: I see a way around this, the last thing you want to do is get yourself injured while lost out here.

Man vs. Wild: Well, this bicycle doesn't have a chain, it won't do me any good.
Survivorman: I can make a canteen with the inner tubes, a frog gig with the spokes, and smoke signals with the tires.

Man vs. Wild: It's just me and the camera crew out here.
Survivorman: I have 45LBs of camera gear I need to take with me.

Edit:
Survivorman is a real life McGuyver.

 

[amish]

i'd love to see a competition between the two. with three trials or something. a 200 mile trek to see who gets to a specific point first. a two week survivial challenge in mongolia. and the last challenge would be to take a fan with them and ensure that they survive for one week.

a tiebreaker would be to do the final test over again and have rosie o'donnell be the "fan." bonus points for having her fall to some unfortunate mishap.

 

[LS20]

also, how is it that on the "difficult" stunts, the camera is next to him the whole time? ie when hes haulllling ass down a slope? when hes going down a steep waterfall?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: amish
i'd love to see a competition between the two. with three trials or something. a 200 mile trek to see who gets to a specific point first. a two week survivial challenge in mongolia. and the last challenge would be to take a fan with them and ensure that they survive for one week.

a tiebreaker would be to do the final test over again and have rosie o'donnell be the "fan." bonus points for having her fall to some unfortunate mishap.

Does survivorman get a camera crew or does bear have to carry the camera gear and go alone? If it's the latter, survivorman can kill Rosie and make a tent out of her corpse and Rosie would eat Bear.

 

[kevman]

man vs wild all the way, survivorman is sitting there complaining half the time about having to lug the camera around like a big baby..WAH WAH WAH!!

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: kevman
man vs wild all the way, survivorman is sitting there complaining half the time about having to lug the camera around like a big baby..WAH WAH WAH!!

You try living out in the wild for several days with nothing but a pocket knife and needing to carry around 50lbs of camera gear... and not only that, but he often has to retrace his steps and do his actions several times to catch them on camera (ie set up a camera on the bottom of a hill to shoot him climbing up the hill... then he needs to go back down and retrieve the camera, and climb back up the hill).

MvW may be more interesting to watch, but you know the camera crew is feeding him food. There's no way he's burning that much calories doing all his athletic stunts without being feed food and water.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: msparish
I like Man vs Wild much better. However, it is practically useless as an actual survival show...99.99% of people have no prayer of being able to do what Bear does.

WTF? I'll have you know that I certainly can pee on my shirt and wrap it around my head to keep me cool, as well as squeeze elephant crap water into my mouth.

Please, I have teh hand-mouth-squeeze-penis-wrapping coordination of the highest level.

Seriously. And I can wrap parachute cord around my waist and then drop into a 50 foot glacial crevice and pull myself out...or I'd jump into a frozen lake without fear...

 

[gwrober]

I voted MvW, but only because I haven't seen Survivorman....I like MvW, he does some cool stuffs...I like the rabbit bit, and fishing with a spear, catching crawdads, etc etc...

I think I'll DVR the next survivorman tho....make sure I see that too...

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Balt
I like them both, but if I were stranded with one of them I'd prefer Les.

Bear uses his athleticism to get himself out of bad situations he's put himself into. He does stuff that would get the average person killed.

Les is more deliberate and careful.

Agreed. They're both good shows...but Les is the guy I'd want with me.

I really don't think Bear would do the crazy sh|t he does if he:
a) Didn't have a camera crew that would obviously rescue him if he was really screwed
b) Actually wanted to survive

Even if the camera crew doesn't give him any food or anything...they're still there. The group will help scare away bears and to some extent keep his moral up. And he knows if he really fvcks up the camera crew will immediately save him and toss the footage on a blooper reel.

Les not only has to survive, all on his own, while working "without a net"...but he has to lug all that damn camera equipment around himself. He doesn't do sh|t like scale a running waterfall because he knows if he breaks his leg he's probably fvcked. He's gotta be careful because there isn't a lot of room to screw up.

Both good shows though. That pacific island one with Bear was awesome though...he built a really awesome raft with just junk on the island.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: amish
i'd love to see a competition between the two. with three trials or something. a 200 mile trek to see who gets to a specific point first. a two week survivial challenge in mongolia. and the last challenge would be to take a fan with them and ensure that they survive for one week.

a tiebreaker would be to do the final test over again and have rosie o'donnell be the "fan." bonus points for having her fall to some unfortunate mishap.

Does survivorman get a camera crew or does bear have to carry the camera gear and go alone? If it's the latter, survivorman can kill Rosie and make a tent out of her corpse and Rosie would eat Bear.

carrying the cameras is a must. however i'd say 30 pounds of equipment instead of fifty. bear should be able to deal with that. battery and tape drops could be worked out somehow.

 

[jtvang125]

Any of these shows available on dvd through Netflix?

 

[Agentbolt]

Survivorman is by FAR better. The crap Bear does is more photogenic, but it'd be simply idiotic to try that fancy stuff in the wild. Les is smart enough to show how to survive without putting yourself in danger and breaking your damn leg 100 miles from nowhere.

The only thing I don't like about survivorman is that there's only like 11 episodes, and at least 4 of them are pretty boring. The one where he was stuck in the swamp in America, for example, was awful.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I personally like the Survivorman ones where he does an episode based off "I Shouldn't Be Alive"

Like where the people got lost in that National Park during a snow storm.

You see the I Shouldn't Be Alive version, then Les' version.

 

[2Dead]

Survivorman. He's there by himself so he's his own camera crew. He has to carry all that stuff wherever he goes which makes things harder on him.