just saw the promo for it, looks really stupid

He is one of the must talented, intelligent celebrities out there at the moment. I hope it does well for him. He has got balls of brass to do what he does.

ebert an roper gave it 2 thumbs up

Scott-

That fact occasionally means the film will put a whole new meaning of 'sucks'

I miss Siskel.

I haven't seen the previews, but I have seen his show and I enjoy it. Animal Planet is one of the few channels I usually watch.

I used to love that show... then it got real popular, so I kinda stopped watching.


I will prob see the movie, my wife will enjoy it

Crikey! Look at the size of that thing.
Now watch! As I stick me fingers up its butthole.

-AE (I can't stand the moron)

Somebody would have to PAY me to go see it.

he's a moron I hate him, too.

'Crikey! Now here’s a critter with poison so deadly, it can kill a full grown rhinoceros in three seconds. So naturally, I’m gonna pick ‘im up and smack him square in the face just to ¤¤¤¤ him off.'


He does seem to take absurd risks. Still, I think the show can be entertaining and informative sometimes.

His wife's a pip for being a good sport about it all.

Originally posted by TheFrog

His wife's a pip for being a good sport about it all.

His wife's gonna be widow before too long if he keeps poking, prodding, swinging, and otherwise antagonizing those poisonous critters.

That's my thought on the whole thing: would you want to die on national television? Cause he's probably gonna!

I figure his wife has a backpack full of small-to-medium arms weapons, tranqs, and every conceivable anti-venom.

Starts hitting head and muttering "Not the hunter" Rainman style.

I think everyone knows my views on Jerky McJerk the croc hunter, so yay! to all those who dont plan to see it.

"Ohhhhhh watch me poke this Brown Snake with a stick.....ohhhh Ive never seen a snake so angry....I wonder why hes so mad...ohhh hed love to get me" - while poking a previously uninterested Brown Snake with a stick. Classy stuff.

Steve Irwin = entertaining to watch. Anyone who tempts fate that often for our enjoyment and education gets two thumbs up in my book.

Croc hunter movie looks horrid. It takes the whole tempting fate thing, replaces it with bad acting and a controlled environment, tacks on an unnecessary plot intended for a third grade audience and generally does a great disservice to the series.

And I haven't even seen the movie yet.

Justin

Originally posted by Raynewitch

I think everyone knows my views on Jerky McJerk the croc hunter, so yay! to all those who dont plan to see it.



Crikey!!! Ever been to his Zoo north of Brisbane?

Originally posted by DngrMse


His wife's gonna be widow before too long if he keeps poking, prodding, swinging, and otherwise antagonizing those poisonous critters.



why is that? he has been doing this for YEARS.. since he was little

after so many bites, people can build up an immunity to venom, right?

Originally posted by Kraw




why is that? he has been doing this for YEARS.. since he was little

after so many bites, people can build up an immunity to venom, right?

I believe so....my Grandmother had two dogs which had built up immunities to cotton mouth venom.

But, how many times has he been bitten? Also, venom differs from species to species, so an immunity to one snake does not confer immunity to a different snake. I've also heard that anti-venom can only be administered once, after that, your body responds with an allergic reaction to it, as severe as the venom itself.

I know that rattlesnake venom is actually edible.

at least his money goes to a good cause, how many other celebrities put ALL their money from a project towards a cause?


'Croc Hunter' Feels Hollywood's Bite
Thu Jul 11,12:19 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whether he's talking about falling in love with his wife or wrangling nature's toothiest beasts, the Crocodile Hunter has the wild-eyed glee of a little boy showing off squirming critters beneath a backyard rock.


A crooked, earnest smile reveals the goofy good nature at the heart of Steve Irwin, the excitable Australian naturalist known around the world for his offbeat nature documentaries.

"The Crocodile Hunter" series shown in 130 countries has charmed millions with Irwin's cries of "Crikey!" as various snakes, crocodiles, spiders, lizards and sharks have tried to snatch bites of him.

Now the 40-year-old zookeeper is taking his conservation message to moviegoers with the part-fiction, part-documentary comedy "The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course."

"Shooting some of those swamp scenes for the movie, I was wet for 10 days, 16 hours a day," he says. "I got a rash under me arm and lots of other places you can get a rash and, crikey, things biting me, salt-water lice and jellyfish ..."

But the challenges of the wild weren't bad for a man raised in the bush. Show business bothered him more.

"Learning lines, that was — are you kidding me? — that's pressure," Irwin groaned. "I have neither the patience nor the stamina for learning scripts."

This from a man who didn't mind the scene where he tackled a real thrashing crocodile and was dragged beneath his boat in the struggle.

Irwin's spirited monologues about the animals he encounters have always been improvised, so director-writer John Stainton gave his star only a brief outline of each scene and let "Steve-o" make up his own lines.

The movie co-stars Irwin's real-life American wife, Terri, and his 14-year-old, ailing, "stone-deaf" dog Sui (pronounced Sooey) as they attempt to capture and relocate a rogue 12-foot crocodile.

Most of the footage of them capturing the ornery creature is real, but a fictional subplot involves a group of CIA ( news - web sites) agents attempting to retrieve part of a fallen spy satellite the crocodile swallowed.

The Irwins, who own and manage the Australia Zoo in Queensland that his parents founded, are among that nation's highest-paid entertainers, earning nearly $9 million last year. They said they use all the money they make from "The Crocodile Hunter" name to preserve natural wildlife habitats and encouraging conservation.

Terri Irwin, who turns 38 this month, is a contrast to her husband's theatrics, the calm and collected one who avoids danger until he needs her help. They have a daughter, Bindi Sue, turning 4 this month, whose name came from one of the zoo's crocodiles and her father's dog.

Although there's no shortage of people trying to preserve cute and cuddly endangered species, the Irwins are unusual for championing dangerous predators.

"They're not sinister," Irwin said. "In this movie, the croc is the hero — not me, not Terri."

The couple fell in love in 1991 amid the snapping of crocodile jaws and married after just a few months.

Steve Irwin, wearing his standard khaki shorts and shirt, hops eagerly up from the couch of a Los Angeles hotel and recounts the tale with animated ferocity.

"I was doing a crocodile demonstration at the zoo waving this chicken, going 'Here! Here! Here!' And this big croc, a 15-footer, goes 'Whaah!,' I went ... Whoa! Here's this woman in the crowd, mate, this drop-dead gorgeous Sheila, right here." ("Sheila" is Australian slang for "girl.")

He takes his wife's hand and speaks looking into her eyes.

"Our eyes locked and at 20 feet we fell in love. Just like that, just through an eye lock. ... It was just like this."

"Then Whoa-oh-oh! The croc come out and tried to kill me!" Irwin said, exploding again and clapping his arms together with fingers curled into imaginary teeth. "So I gave him the chicken, grabbed me bucket and jumped over the fence."

"Everyone moved off and my subconscious was going, 'Please stay back, please stay back, please stay back ...'" He pauses, then smiles. "And she did."

"Steve's an easy sell, he's a real life action hero," his wife said, cradling his arm.

Besides the movie, the Irwins are busy trying to have another child and they return to the Australian wild later this month to resume filming TV documentaries.

"Ten years of wedded bliss," Terri Irwin said of her relationship with the Crocodile Hunter. "Ten years of wondering if I'm going to die."

The movie looks stupid... (do aligators really belch? C'mon!).
I liked this episode where he was chasing after some wildebeasts and he was on the side of the jeep with his wife driving and she side swiped a tree on the side he was hanging on..LOL... then he got up and ran after the wildebeast anyway. Then the camera comes back to him and he's got a giant tear in his ear and the side of his face is all f***ed up.

No longer have cable, so I couldn't say if he's more or less entertaining now.

Originally posted by snacky



Crikey!!! Ever been to his Zoo north of Brisbane?

Id rather stab myself in the eye with a paintbrush

Originally posted by DotCom
I know that rattlesnake venom is actually edible.

How the heck do people figure this stuff out????

Well, I can understand where boredom is a problem, like SW Oklahoma, maybe.;)

Originally posted by DngrMse


How the heck do people figure this stuff out????

Well, I can understand where boredom is a problem, like SW Oklahoma, maybe.;)
I dunno...but here in good ol SW OK, we have a rattlesnake derby in Mangum every year and a whole lot of carnies and merchants come and sell stuff and everyone just mills around, and you can eat rattlesnake, and I'm supposing that some guy just ate rattlesnake one day before he realized it was a rattler, waited to die, and never did.

Originally posted by cyberpunk
just saw the promo for it, looks really stupid I hate that Steve Irwin!!!!

just finished watching it, and even though i usually enjoy his show and think he's funny, the movie was really really dumb. I don't recommend watching it.
The story is really thin and its only purpose is to have steve run around and do what he does on his show. It's just not worth watching in the cinema, if at all.