Very Good Film, I'm Glad I Finally Watched It!

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2008)

I've been long procrastinating to watch Into The Wild as I work at BlockBuster video and everyday people ask for this movie. I work in the second smallest store in Western Canada and we only have 30 copies of this movie for customers. Now after watching the film I wish we had a lot more. This is a very nicely shot movie with beautiful scenic shots. I am not a big Sean Penn fan but I thought he played a good role. Vince Vaughn is also in this for a short time and was also was very good as I enjoy his acting. Being a musician myself and a huge fan of Pearl Jam I loved the Eddie Vedder acoustic tracks in the movie. Great music selection in this film with other folk driven music as well. Very sad story which apparently is true. I just thought the narration was a little cheese but at the end when it says that the sister took care of his remains that struck a chord with me. I also loved how this film had a total hippie vibe to it. I loved Rainy and Jan and the nudist hippie's at the end are funny when the old guy is like "How can you live beside those dope smokin' hippie's" and Sean Penn says "Well, they just keep to themselves". Very Good Film. I'm glad I finally watched it.