I hope they are paying you at least 20 grand a video cause Raid Shadow Legend sucks and it feels terrible to see my fav youtuber promote it but at least I hope you get paid well, that will help you make better content and support you
@nerdexplains the movie rouge, about a autralian tour boat being attacked by a large crocodile had so many F ups it made me mad. Think you could fix their mistakes?
Hiding inside of a hollow rotting log is also a bad idea because snakes and spiders love to make their homes in and around stuff like that...you crawl on top of a venomous critter and you got more immediate problems than a nocturnal merman.
Just a smallish correction: Jenn isn't giving offerings to the Sea Beast, she's trying to figure out what it looks like. She only sees it shadowy figure from a super far distance with the flare, she hides in the log later to protect herself but never actually sees it. Hence she goes to the beach and sets the shark as bait to try see what she's dealing with, which is why she watches from close by. First night she falls asleep and misses it, so she has to try again.
What's also very important is the fact that the creature can watch you from under the water without you being able to easily see it, because of the water. You should act under the assumption that it's always watching and dip into the forest occasionally to break line of sight. No sense in making a trap or hiding if the creature watches you do it.
But it is also stupid, as previously established, so it probably would chalk it to silly prey digging, and move on. Also it probably sleeps during the day.
It was probably asserting dominance when it was scratching the log and scaring her, letting her know that if she ever fucks up or stops feeding it she’s next on the menu. I could be wrong though
In a book i read several years back, there was a passage about grinding glass to a powder and throwing it like pocket sand, and if it get’s into eyes, ears, nose or gills it would be hellishly painful. Not to mention if an animal was hit by it they would probably scratch or agitate it, embedding the glass deeper.
@retsaM innavoiG Glass basically acts like sand after it has lost all the sharp edges, for example being in water for years. But throwing sand would be irritating at most, while newly grinded glass shards actually can hurt and be more than a mild inconvenience. So go with the coke bottles, not the beach sand!
@@Moldylocks So glass is made of sand! But also a kind of ash I can't remember and sometimes limestone? I wonder if the process of melting down the materials into glass makes the ground down particles that much more sharp.
Love how she has this whole island and just stays in the same spot the whole time, right in front of where the creature comes out of the water at night, every single night. Genius character.
I remember seeing that when I watched this. He took the music/sounds and didn’t show the full scene, but it’s fucking TERRIFYING. That thing wasn’t watching her it was just coming to the surface so if she hadn’t done that at that EXACT moment she’d be dead.
@@masonrawls6436 is that the case? i didnt watch the movie but i got the impression from NE that it also saw the flare and realized something was on the island again.
@@bestibulizar6141 she blasted the flare at the perfect moment to see it before it really noticed her. If she had turned away a fraction of a second later it would have gone on the beach and torn her apart.
Jenn could of told her friends that large caimans hunt the shoreline at night. Tell that they need to leave out food as a deterrence. They would of heeded her warning with a more believable story. That way they would have seen the sea creature with their own eyes. Then once everyone is on the same page. They could of planned to take down the creature with greater numbers.
@@Its_Me_Romano I'll have to take your word. As I don't know personally. But after a quick google search. They say some Caimans can grow to 16ft+. But regardless. The point I was making was that a Large Caiman would be more believeable than a sea creature.
@@matthewsmith2298 caimans are fresh water crocodilians from south america, they’re in the south pacific, she should be saying there’s saltwater crocodiles
@@chewy99. That or while being amphibious it isn't necessarily made for hunting on land and only does so when it sees an opportunity to do so. Probably why while attacking Jen on the second night it dived back in the water to lunge back out like an alligator.
I really hate the people who always use plot armor as a conclusion. Like it's pretty lazy assumption as compared to the real world most extreme stuff that happened you would consider to be plot armor.
When she was hanging up the shark and body, I actually hadn't connected that it was her making a sacrifice. I thought she was using them to try and get more information on the creature. Since she was watching it the whole night, I figured she was trying to get a better idea of exactly what she was up against. Thinking about it though, I think it was a mixture of both. Satisfy its hunger for a night and, as a bonus, learn more about it.
@@grindyussy_9326 Yeah, everyone interprets things differently, though I'm pretty sure the intent of the scene was to show us her trying to learn. I think Nerd just interpreted it differently, but it is an interesting interpretation. It's interesting to see how different minds work and perceive a situation. Two people can be given the exact same information and experience, yet view it from two completely different mindsets. I just like to keep an open mind and view other ideas and thoughts because it helps me personally learn and grow as a person and become (I hope) better.
@@grindyussy_9326 I agree with you. Honestly it's been a while since I watched the movie so I can't remember the exact scene or the lead up, I'm just trying to be nice and see Nerds perspective and trying to figure out how he came to his conclusion.
So anyone who’s allergic to seafood is basically just screwed the first day they’re on this island. At least I learned how to properly gut a fish from this, there’s a lot of free valuable life saving information from Nerd Explains.
Well not really, The average human can survive 3 weeks without food and in my opinion its way longer than that if you have a good amount of fat stores on you, You would just need to get water and you can get some calories from coconut , veggies on the island , ect
You could cook coconut meat which is somewhat sustainable as well as we can see on the island there is birds. Eating seagull and parrot for dinner isn’t too bad.
As someone living on an island, walking the perimeter threw me for a loop. I get the absolutely valid point about the sandals but unless you have a God's eye view of the place or know what island you're on, it can take anywhere between a day and months depending on the size and I was hoping you'd bring up that point. Walking around Grenada and walking around Jamaica are two totally different things... id say _after_ we get our bearings and work out a way to get food and water _then_ we take that gamble so that if we need to make camp, we're not panicking wondering what to do
@@1219nan That’s true, but even if it took 2 days it would be too much to do first things first after being stranded. Also there are islands that are basically just thin deposits of sand above sea levels and thus useless to beguiled any5hing permanent nowadays or! She could have landed on a protected island! The ones I know are relatively small but I don’t know much about Pacific islands so..
I would have gone with this fantastic strategy called "Don't set up your camp next to the big gaping doom-hole that the terrifying shark man comes out of to murder stuff." Seriously, why didn't she go all the way to the opposite side of the island after the first encounter? Or if it could pop up anywhere, go to like, the exact middle of the island with denser forests. Being safe from the murder-creature is more valuable than the energy you have to expend walking to the beach each morning.
that was my thoughts as well. why make it easier to hunt you when for all we know he can't stay on land that long 🤔 so being in the forest makes the most sense plus plenty of space for traps.
I mean, maybe build your camp a lil further away from the killer mermans habitat. Obviously gonna keep chancing it, coming and checking your camp every night if it only takes 30 seconds.
They shouldn't have shown how the monster cause it looks fucking goofy You can't beat the fear of unknown and showing it will just make it worse no matter how good the CGI is
@@gorkemaykut5230 while I understand the sentiment, I feel in the alternate universe where the movie was shot that way, you’d end up with everybody complaining that the entire movie was just nonsensical close-up reaction shots of the actors flailing at something off screen. For me, this story has too many moments of the character directly interacting with the creature to really pull full lovecraft style visual storytelling with not showing the beast. And I really don’t think this story is really aims to lean into lovecraft elements, more so just use them to heighten the human vs nature tale it’s telling
@@DoctorCVC yeah but you miss a very crucial part here Merman looks fucking goofy It's hard to take it seriously when the thing you must be afraid of is not scary
@@gorkemaykut5230 I actually thought it looked fine. Like not the most top tier monster design of all time, but I hardly thought it was terrible. Not every monster design is a 10/10, but something that’s not a 10/10 isn’t automatically a 0/10, it’s fine just to be a 7.
Personally, I would suggest never, ever saying that you're being hunted by a sea monster. Be nonspecific, but useful. Say that there's some predator on the island, that you've been hiding and stringing stuff up, but you've been too scared to actually look at it. Get them to hide, and then when THEY see it's a sea monster, you're not the crazy sea monster person, you gave them a useful tip. I mean, are they that unlikely to believe you that, like, there's a population of big cats or something?
Yes, I agree. Plus the friends had been stranded in the middle of the ocean without being bothered by any “sea” creature, so they would less likely to believe that there was a sea creature *on an island* Instead, they would blame loneliness, grief, and heavy stress for her nonsensical “hallucination”
Saying the monster was a Saltwater Crocodile would be a very good "explanation" because not only are you already telling your friends that the predator is aquatic but that it's notoriously dangerous and needs to be taken seriously.
Yeah, it'd be better to say there's a humongous fish, maybe a great white shark, was in the waters and that it isn't afraid to crawl onto land for food.
Step 1: Make makeshift spears, clubs and a huge ass fire Step 2: wait for the merman to come after dark Step 3: try to make friends with it (give it food, show it that you're not a threat) Step 4: fail Step 5: chose violence by already prepared makeshift weapons
Ngl, this is the first one of these videos that has made me actually want to watch the movie. I wasn’t even watching the movie but I was invested in Jen’s story and felt a genuine sense of pride in her when she killed the creature
You know what would be two GREAT movies to vids on?? 1. Bone Tomahawk: might be tough because the characters are (mostly) smart and make good decisions BUT... You could do how to survive as one of the main characters and how to survive as one of the cannibal Troglodytes! 2. From Dusk Til Dawn: would just be an incredibly fun vid to see
@@feathero3 if you're a fan of Westerns and Horror, I absolutely, 100%, without a shred of doubt recommend you watch Bone Tomahawk!! Stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, and Matthew Fox as the 4 main characters. Their little posse is after a small "tribe" of BIG-ass, hulking, scary-ass, cannibalistic Troglodytes who abducted some people from their town! It is a relatively long (at 2hr12min runtime) and slow-burning film but, I PROMISE, if you stick with it, you will NOT be disappointed! The classic "rescue mission" story obviously isn't a new concept but it's done in a very unique way! The characters are SMART and make good decisions. There's an unbearable tension/feeling of dread over the whole film and when s**t finally hits the fan... It's horrifying! Great acting, great cinematography, and incredible, PRACTICAL effects that will stick with you for LIFE! Aslo... If you're going to watch Bone Tomahawk, DO NOT read up about! Go in as "cold" as you can! Disclaimer: it's also not for the squeamish or feint of heart! It's definitely NOT loaded with gratuitous, shock-value, torture-porn but it's got a few absolutely horrific moments
"We should light a fire to signal for rescue." "No, we have to to to the open ocean on a raft despite me having witnessed planes come by repeatedly." Safe to say the girl is her own worst enemy.
Funny thing is the open ocean is more dangerous than the island even WITHOUT the monster. Dehydration, sunburn, starvation, predators like sharks. You’d be dead or close to death by the time someone found you.
Considering that waiting around a fire, day in day out, is basically just screaming "Dinner Time!" for the Monster, taking your chances on the open ocean are no less deadly.
Surviving on a desert island is already bad enough, but being hunted by an exotic salmon is next level Why in tarnation did I got two thousands likes with exotic salmon, check the others people below there is certainly better jokes than mine And actual advices, that’s important too !
Yeah but I doubt it'd be easy to rip out a shark's teeth without doing more damage to yourself. Though it is strange he didn't mention eating the shark, that's good food right there, no fishing or foraging required.
@@Fungaly This is true, however we saw with the coconut how bad this girl was with sharp rocks. You're right though, small, serrated teeth could be used either to help with cooking, you could use them to scale and cut the fish easier, considering that's basically what they were designed for, or if you were more engineeringly minded, could use them to fashion some kind of small weapon.
Fun fact: all fish can breathe on land! As long as there is water in their gills they are able to keep on breathing. Only if their gills are completely dried up they suffocate.
@@SOLARITY333 u can, until the air leaves ur lungs, that is Happens a bit faster to air breathing creatures than their fishy counterparts when not in the proper environment though...
Nah, it was a mercy kill. Even if she hadn't done that. He would have died from infection, shock, or the creature grabbing him cause he was too weak to fight back.
They should have totally sold this movie as a castaway type movie and then did the bait and switch like Predator did. You know If the monster wasn't goofy
She should just say a wild saltwater Krokodile was digging up people she burryed and went all the way inside the island looking for her. And when the night comes and they see the real monster you can explain it to them. This way they would be able to prepare for the upcoming battle. 3 on 1 would be kinda easy when she was able to kill it all by herself.
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Can we at least appreciate the protagonist finishing off the enemy with a double tap? Unlike many other movies showing the protagonist leaving an unconscious person behind hoping that they are dead, only to be surprised when the person is gone..
@@feathero3 I actually learned it two ways one in marine biology class and the other by going fishing once or twice, sometimes hard to guy a fish you gotta be careful but thankful I took the marine biology class I learned how to dissect a fish, squid, octopus, starfish, and even a shark!
you can also get the coconut water out easy if you tap the area with the 3 holes a few times, it's a lot thinner than the rest of the shell and if you're at home you can eve use a screw driver and poke each hole for the water to come out. I know because my kid really likes buying whole coconuts and cracking them and we've figured it out over time.
It might be harder but you could still, possibly make it. Water would be harder to source but if you go inland you might be able to find a source of fresh water, admittedly you'd need to sterilize it before drinking but you'd still be able to drink it. Also if coconuts grow there, you got a decent chance of other similar conditions fruits like mango and such. You could also find roots, tubers, edible vegetation or even fungi if you know what you were looking for, though that's unlikely. We also see no sign of what inland wildlife there was before the girl burned the play to the ground, there could be snakes or even small mammals like rats or the like. Not to mention the birds and, if you wanted to stay by the coast, the fish. A coconut allergy would make getting water harder sure, but no impossible, and it wouldn't really effect you from a finding food standpoint.
Hi first of all, great video, I also think a cool idea would be to give the characters survival scores or something for how well they did on they’re own
About the coral: Most cases removing things is bad, but in this case it is HIGHLY important, simply because it's coral. Several species of coral actually produce toxins and you can get coral poisoning. Palytoxin is one of the most potent marine toxins, and so removing coral of an unknown species that gets into a wound would be pretty vital in that situation.
Making fire is actually really hard. Getting one on day one or even day three is most likely not possible. I went to the woods a few times to try and make a fire with nothing but a knife and I can tell you that making a bowdrill is not easy. It just isn’t. The concept is simple, the process sounds simple but there are a thousand little things that make the process real hard in practice if you don’t have experience. In survival there is a rule of 3. 3 hours without shelter. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food. Fire is not a priority right away. Certainly not before you mapped the entire island and all its resources.
Same thing with getting food. There's no way in hell someone could fish with a wooden spear let alone get a whole shark within their first few days and zero survival experience.
Id point out that a fire is critical on an island as they tend to get very cold at night. You could effectively get sick from being too cold and die that way. Fires are always one of the first things you try to get going. Also why you use glass/matches. Bowdrill is going to be the hardest but you can do it from scratch. Having glass/matches certainly helps. Glass for catching the suns rays and starting a fire that way
RIGHT?! Also, on the reverse, people in horror movie are SO quick to call others crazy. Like? How often have you met and interacted with a genuinely crazy person? Or someone who was having hallucinations or smth? Why is this your first go to thought when you don’t understand something. Also, even if you don’t believe them if your friend is in distress, help them!
Just as a heads-up, the water in brown, ripened coconuts acts as a natural laxative, so, eat the meat from the brown ones, and drink the water from the green, unripened ones. Also, why the hell is this movie called sweetheart?
Brown coconut also tastes like wood-with-a-hint-of-piss flavored jizz, which yes, taste may not he the biggest priority surviving on an island, but seriously fuck ripe coconut juice
@@Gg-nj2yf true but still a pretty bad title for the movie, if they had focused more on her resorting to more and more messed up things to survive then I could see sweet heart as like an intentional parallel to the descent she goes through to survive.
Personally, having very few skills for long term survival alone on an island, if I could get to the point of catching sharks to use as bait, I'd catch a few to be safe and wait in a open brightly lit area for the creature to come and give it the sharks myself so it can see I'm willing to feed it, maybe some cooked fish too to see if I can get it addicted to something only I can provide. Establish a friendly relationship with a potentially intelligent creature, or die like I probably was going to anyway.
If you can get to to like cooked food and build a potentially mutually beneficial relationship then you might not even need to be the one who does the catching, since it can catch prey WAY easier then you. However, seeing the pictures of it following the family and the dead bodies, as well as what happened to the buried dead guy, we know it likes people meet. What we don't know is if that's a preference of if it's simply a creature that eats whatever it can get hold of most easily since it did seem to just eat what was left for it when honestly human girl (I've already forgotten her name) would be a bigger meal. Maybe it's not actually a full time predator, but more of an opportunist and it only took to hunting the humans because we lack SO MANY natural defences that most prey species have. It means looking at humans, we're easy pickings if the fish man isn't intelligent. Unfortunately there is too many variables. To test this, when the dead guy washed up, it might have actually been good to put him up and a shark, see when presented with two options, which one it more naturally gravitates too and if it leaves once full or if it just eats everything it can. If it eats its full then leaves, after a few nights watching it do this, if we assume we can convince it we're friendly like you were saying, the safest time to come up to it would be after it's eaten, still present the food, but also keep your weapon ready, let it know that its got a choice, food or pain. Now all this goes out the window if, when presented with choice of shark or human, it prefers human because it's going to eat you but it's an option if the creature has some rudimental intelligence and is able to grasp the idea of not eating you and you feed it. And no, it doing this in the movie is not proof. As I said, it could simply be eating the easiest to claim meal rather then wasting it's energy hunting something it might not find that night. The easy meal is something a lot of animals prefer. It eating and leaving could simply be it eating its fill and therefore not needing to expending energy hunting the girl and so going back to it's home to do whatever it does there, spawning maybe? I dunno. The movie doesn't make it clear the level of intelligence this creature has, I'd probably say it's on the more animal side since it attacked the log when the girl hid there and didn't seem to understand it could just go into the opening to grab her and when hunting it, it didn't try to trick her or trap her, it just chased her down.
very unlikely, the creature as said by Nerd is simply too stupid, to properly understand rationing and long-term food/cohabitation with a producer. the creature in over 87% of the time would just gobble you up with the food you offered and go about it's day.
@@KrakenWind my point is that in a situation I'm trapped on an island, I have very little chance to survive as I don't have many skills necessary for it, even less with an unknown species of predator. So I'd prefer to take my chances at friendship to lessen the burden on myself. Than the near 100% chance of dying to it, dehydration, starvation, infection, animal or insect venom. It's unlikely sure, but it could save my life on the off chance it does work.
It's honestly incredible how many good videos this channel features. I've yet to watch one I actively disliked. It must be hard to keep these videos at such a high quality. Thank you for putting the time, effort, and care into making sure we enjoy our time on this channel.
yeah, I only watch NE even though I love the how to survive format, the rest are either touting survival methods way out of touch with reality or are simply summarizing movies
The only videos I don't like are the ones where the movie itself isn't very good in my eyes. Like the one with the thief locked in the modified car. The videos was still as good as any other, but I just lost a bit of interest.
YO NERD! useful survival tip in a situation like this. With the fish, since she had limited items to catch rain water. Another useful way to have preserved the fish at least for about a month maybe two, instead of using the cooler. She could’ve used the tent material and sticks to fashion a smoker set up. Then hung the fish inside the set up, and started a small fire to smoke the fish. By doing this, it would’ve preserved the fish for at least a month, maybe two if she was lucky. Just something for future videos on scenarios like this. 😁😉👍
Let's be honest... I'd probably have done half the dumb stuff she did and to make up for the half i missed i'd probably wind up doing other dumb things. However, yes... once we know we can feed it and it'll just go over and eat... I mean a pit fall trap full of spikes isn't a terrible idea, especially if you can make a few long spears to poke it with once it's fallen in. We just have to make sure that it won't be able to hit us while we're poking it. As soon as i know there's a monster out here I feel like the dead would be willing to forgive some grave desecration as i'm definitely making those long spears' tips out of bone, probably a bone knife or two too. If I can't kill it then I wanna hurt it enough that it knows not to come back. I figure prep for a few days, give it its regular offerings, cover the ground under the offerings with palm fronds and forest debris so it doesn't become suspicious (if it's that smart) when there's suddenly this stuff under it later after i've made the pit. If I'm afraid to poke it due to a fear it might be able to pull me down or something... maybe just fill the death pit with spikes and more leaf debris so i can toss a torch down and burn it to death. If, like the main character, I've already been backhanded through the air then i know it's very strong and might be able to climb out or jump out very quickly, so having plans to hit it as fast as possible are probably for the best.
@@wi4305 that is a good idea, yeah. Maybe even just having a big rock or two to throw down there if it’s impaled but not dead would be a good idea too.
@@wi4305 maybe, but I also might need to eat it. If I know it’s that dangerous then I’d probably go for that anyways though, just out of fear of risking it getting away.
Better idea: the trap for the final showdown; If the trap was close to the water, the creature might've taken a chance to jump over the fire and retreat into the reef, so what we should do is clear out a large area during the day further away from the water, so that way we don't end up burning our supplies, and we will be literally making the battle field, and make sure to rig up some form of bait, and traps that activate for the monster, so we can lure it more inland into our trap
@NatSoc Kaiser Have prior knowledge of a lovecraftian horror monster living in a sinkhole off the island. Better, have prior knowledge your boat would have crashed and don't go on it.
As a US Army SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) school graduate myself. I watched the movie and if an untrained person had been put in that situation and did everything she did, except remove the coral as quickly as she did, I would be very impressed overall. The one thing I learned is that you're going to make mistakes but the most important thing is to never give up. She fought to survive.
correction: coconuts contain electrolytes but it is made up of a majority of potassium which inhibits the liver from taking in sodium which is required for proper hydration. coconut milk will dry you out in the long run.
I probably would've done the pit trap when I first saw it. I would hang an "offering" Then cover my pit trap with leaves. I would also have my flare locked and loaded at all times. Sounds simple *Which it is* But then sanity would be a different thing.
@@chewy99. to be fair, aren’t most of the accounts from people who went there in boats and plane? Cause it’s one thing to see a human appear from a terrifying, unknown and noisy contraption and another altogether, to see someone wash up ashore, clearly in distress. Or I would hope so at least ahah
I always carry my 6" boot knife so...my solution would've involved lots more sharp pointy sticks and if confrontation was needed, that lil' hugger definitely being used to hack, stab, slash and tear the beastie down. Before having to shank the shark though, I would be keeping coconuts on reserve for ANY sappy substances for mock-napalm to use, can't fight to well burning to a crisp
1.Make a habit of the monster: Hang tribute every day and light a fire nearby and watch it if coming from one direction 2 Make trap: Prepare a lot of wood and make about 8 wooden stakes and dig a hole below the place where the tribute will be hung, put the stakes in the hole and camouflage the hole 3.Prepare for the encounter: when it's getting dark, leave a pile of wood and stones near the place where the tribute is hanging and light a fire nearby 4.Wait for the monster to fall into the trap 5.Attack: After it fell into the trap (it must have been hit by 3 4 stakes by then) then run out and use all your strength to throw all the rocks into the hole and push the pile of wood into the hole and finally push the fire in there
She could have made makeshift body armor from coconuts, flat rocks, etc. That monster would have definitely torn through her in real life with those claws. She doesn't have a mans strength, so she is at an even greater disadvantage. The kinetic force of the monster should be breaking bones. One last thing I can think of is that those wooden spears shouldn't work due to the monsters skin, hardened due to sea pressure. She should aim for the joints, they should be weak spots. Nerd explains, notice me senpai.
Id argue makeshift armor being impractical in that it would both take too much time and resources but also its durability would be crap. Maybe like a chest piece and kneepads but full suit of armor is implausible. That and armor is noisy so stealth would be out of the equation.
Bit late, but I think leaving brad's body out to see if any other animals come to mess with it might be a good idea. You don't know if there are any larger carnivores on the island - it could be good to make doubly sure that there is nothing else that could attack you by doing so.
Cool video. Never would have heard of this movie otherwise, so thanks for that. I thought Jenn did pretty well, and was very interested (before I saw the video) to hear your take. I see your points, and your suggestions are informative as always, but I think Jenn deserves more props for fumbling her way forward - her results were almost always "good enough", and she did pretty well considering she probably had nothing to go on but vague memories. Having said all that, I still really enjoyed and appreciated your corrections. Your instructions are usually simple and easy to follow. Hopefully I'll never need your advice, but if I ever do, I'll be sure to let you know when I get back from peril. The coral impalement was a complete clusterfuck, I agree. I wish ppl would stop pulling out impaled objects in TV and movies. Having said that, I think it made sense to remove it in this one case, bcz the alternative was to leave it in place for who knows how long. I also considered that, bcz coral is sharp, leaving it in might cause more damage as Brad moved and breathed. If you read these, lemme know your thoughts, plz p.s. apparently, you are supposed to stuff abdominal wounds with clean cloth rather than just applying pressure
The thing with the coral is iffy, actually. She shouldn't have ripped it out like that. But Coral will actually grow into your skin if left too long. So she did the right thing, but at the wrong time without properly preparing to cauterize or at least cover the hole beforehand
@@HugeHaddock ohhh wait! It makes sense - I was thinking the live animal parts would colonize your skin, but it makes much more sense if I think in terms of your own body trying to "heal" by depositing new cells onto the coral matrix. That's how coral bone implants work, after all 🤔
Within the first few days I would have gathered as much supplies as I could bear, moved my camp, and lit the island up much sooner, ESPECIALLY after seeing that plane
That shark could’ve been so useful, Shark teeth for Weapons/Tools. Shark bones refined with rocks for more stable tools than wood, Not to mention all the wasted food on it
Tbf, Jenn would have been screwed regardless of her “friends” survived, as the implications are that Mia and Lukas are in kahoots, having killed Zach and being suspiciously close and quick to just knock her out- Even if she was blatant in stealing the raft why should they care if they don’t want to leave? Imo the main reason is that they realized if she really did manage to escape she would have found out they killed zach and they’d be done for if rescue found them- all of this factoring out the obvious creature attack at sea of course. Just an interesting side plot the movie included without explicitly saying it
If I heard my friend ranting about a sea monster in a situation like that I'd just assume they went crazy from isolation, too much sun, getting hit in the head with a rock, etc.
Dig big hole, put spikes in bottom and walls, cover in palm leaves and sand, hang bait over it, creature comes to eat bait falls in dies, burn creature in hole, eat shark man steaks.
so uh, with the family... who dug the third grave? There was a mom, dad, and kid, right? 3 graves, so assuming the kid died, then the dad or mom died, and the remaining one buried the other two, how did the remaining one get into a grave? I suppose they could've offed themselves inside of the grave, but they're clearly buried. Did they bury themselves alive?
As always, since I haven’t previously been in the same position as the main character of this movie nor have I ever been in any real survival situation, I do not know exactly how I would react in the same situation. However, I feel as though this sea creature is a much easier enemy to defeat than many other creatures/monsters from other films are. Yes, the setting of being stuck on a deserted island is an already extremely difficult situation to face on its own. But if one can handle that situation, this one sea creature shouldn’t be too difficult to take care of if executed wisely.
Jenn was clever, resourceful and her ability to adapt to her environment kicked in right away; yet this guy gave her NO praises. Instead he immediately harshly criticizes her saying she has " NO survival skills, NO experience with nature, and NO background in fending for herself" and "wished Bear Grylls was there" to help. Are we watching the same girl because that couldn't be further from the truth. Compared to almost ALL people featured in each movie covered on this channel, Jenn is LEAGUES ahead of them all in terms of self preservation. She's not acting like your typical ditzy damsel in distress - immediately locates and equips sharp rock for use, collects coconuts and fish for sustenance, builds fires, loots dead body before discard, scours area for materials upon arriving, makes spears, keeps small knife on her person convenient use or close range attacks, studies & prepares for the enemy, creates diversions to study enemy, utilizes/builds sufficient covers for herself to observe enemy for its weaknesses, builds hammock, vigorously rubs rope on tree to free herself, and unearths skeletons to brandish weapons out of bones. I thought she would be something refreshing to watch on a channel that gives best chances of survival in movies of life or death situations. But not only is that NOT the case, he gave ZERO credit Anyway, this was something that had to be said.
The first moment I saw a beast like that on a isolated island, I would be making traps and weapons faster than it could breath. Up to 3 or 4 days would be enough of work, feeding myself and planning. That bastard shark creature wouldn't last long. And yet, I would eat its heart out of spite.
jeah lets use the glass of the sunglasses, wich is build to prevent light from passing through and wich is normally not even kurved, to make a fire. best idea aver
For general knowledge, snares are extremely difficult to make and use successfully unless using pre made cable snares. Most "survival" snares break instantly and won't hold a regular animal, let alone a 9' beast. Just for future reference.
I loved how while normally your videos are more centered on surviving a direct threat, murderers, cannibals, stuff like that, half this video was just spent critiquing this girls ability to just survive in general 😂
I feel traps would be the best way to go. Like you said with the tiger pit and pongee sticks (however you spell that), I’d also try to fashion a rake of pikes that could quickly be raised when the beast changes you, essentially pulling a Braveheart on the amphibious cavalry of one. I’d also try to fashion several kinds of spike traps that could be strung up in the trees, then wait in the trees for him to come and start playing tropical tree kerplunk. Going toe to toe with him would be an absolute last resort.
The sea beast may also use the same sort of breathing mechanism as a mudskipper, wherein it has pockets of water surrounding its gills which it gulps air to dissolve oxygen into.
Shark is amazingly tasty. She should have cooked a few filets, found some fermented cocanut water and invited him over to dinner. Thats how me and Nessy became friends. Although she stays in the bathtub for hours and doesnt clean the drain.
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@nerdexplains the movie rouge, about a autralian tour boat being attacked by a large crocodile had so many F ups it made me mad.
Think you could fix their mistakes?
Hiding inside of a hollow rotting log is also a bad idea because snakes and spiders love to make their homes in and around stuff like that...you crawl on top of a venomous critter and you got more immediate problems than a nocturnal merman.
I was thinking before eating in you should at least try to clear whatever might be in there by scraping the inner edges with a long stick
Awesome trash tv pfp
yeah, tropical enviroments are home for black widows, they're lethal and most important, they're really small, one bite and you're dead
The good thing is, if you could figure out how, you might be able to use a venomous critter's venom to your advantage against the creature.
Tbf I rather die to a venomous bite then getting ripped to pieces by a merman
Just a smallish correction: Jenn isn't giving offerings to the Sea Beast, she's trying to figure out what it looks like. She only sees it shadowy figure from a super far distance with the flare, she hides in the log later to protect herself but never actually sees it. Hence she goes to the beach and sets the shark as bait to try see what she's dealing with, which is why she watches from close by. First night she falls asleep and misses it, so she has to try again.
And you think he don't now that ?
@@dakinoytc986 just assumed Hayden made a guess
@@dakinoytc986 He didn’t mention it, so it’s a reasonable assumption.
Semantics!!!
@@gamerleal9265 in what context are you saying semantics? I looked back through and I don't see anything that could be described as semantics.
What's also very important is the fact that the creature can watch you from under the water without you being able to easily see it, because of the water. You should act under the assumption that it's always watching and dip into the forest occasionally to break line of sight. No sense in making a trap or hiding if the creature watches you do it.
But it is also stupid, as previously established, so it probably would chalk it to silly prey digging, and move on. Also it probably sleeps during the day.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 never assume your enemy is stupid
@@kaiseremotion854 Yes, but we dont need to, as it was proven when he didn't grab her out of the open log
@@aguyontheinternet8436 maybe its just lazy? it kept going after easy prey most of the movie after all.
It was probably asserting dominance when it was scratching the log and scaring her, letting her know that if she ever fucks up or stops feeding it she’s next on the menu. I could be wrong though
In a book i read several years back, there was a passage about grinding glass to a powder and throwing it like pocket sand, and if it get’s into eyes, ears, nose or gills it would be hellishly painful. Not to mention if an animal was hit by it they would probably scratch or agitate it, embedding the glass deeper.
That sounds horrible. And effective.
@retsaM innavoiG pocket glass!
@retsaM innavoiG Glass basically acts like sand after it has lost all the sharp edges, for example being in water for years. But throwing sand would be irritating at most, while newly grinded glass shards actually can hurt and be more than a mild inconvenience. So go with the coke bottles, not the beach sand!
@@Moldylocks So glass is made of sand! But also a kind of ash I can't remember and sometimes limestone? I wonder if the process of melting down the materials into glass makes the ground down particles that much more sharp.
I would without a doubt throw it on myself by accident.
- *removes coral from Brad's body*
- *remembers that's not what you should do*
- *puts it back in*
yes...no no
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@@threedogsinatrenchcoat6336 hey that’s what brad did
@@GrubGrubGrubGrub lmao
Several times.
Love how she has this whole island and just stays in the same spot the whole time, right in front of where the creature comes out of the water at night, every single night. Genius character.
To be fair, she does say that she doesn’t know shit XD
Well the first rule when you are lost is to try to stay in the same spot. It makes finding you easier.
@@Shay45 I feel like a dangerous predator living nearby definitely qualifies as a valid exception to that rule.
The part where the creature is illuminated by the flare was quite a good reveal.
I remember seeing that when I watched this. He took the music/sounds and didn’t show the full scene, but it’s fucking TERRIFYING. That thing wasn’t watching her it was just coming to the surface so if she hadn’t done that at that EXACT moment she’d be dead.
@@masonrawls6436 is that the case? i didnt watch the movie but i got the impression from NE that it also saw the flare and realized something was on the island again.
@@bestibulizar6141 she blasted the flare at the perfect moment to see it before it really noticed her. If she had turned away a fraction of a second later it would have gone on the beach and torn her apart.
@@masonrawls6436 terrifying, well maybe not with that much plot armor.
@@bestibulizar6141 put her on it's radar but distracted it just in time to keep it from zeroing in at that moment
Jenn could of told her friends that large caimans hunt the shoreline at night. Tell that they need to leave out food as a deterrence. They would of heeded her warning with a more believable story. That way they would have seen the sea creature with their own eyes. Then once everyone is on the same page. They could of planned to take down the creature with greater numbers.
Large caimans font exist. Caimans are literally the small croc species
@@Its_Me_Romano I'll have to take your word. As I don't know personally. But after a quick google search. They say some Caimans can grow to 16ft+. But regardless. The point I was making was that a Large Caiman would be more believeable than a sea creature.
@@matthewsmith2298 caimans are fresh water crocodilians from south america, they’re in the south pacific, she should be saying there’s saltwater crocodiles
@@nathan.w9906 Good to know
@@Its_Me_Romano neither do mermen. I know which one id be quicker to believe in tho
Good thing the monster was so intent on just grappling her instead of eviscerating her. The truly best survival tool is plot armor.
It may just be too dumb to know what moves to make and at the right time
@@chewy99. That or while being amphibious it isn't necessarily made for hunting on land and only does so when it sees an opportunity to do so. Probably why while attacking Jen on the second night it dived back in the water to lunge back out like an alligator.
he's trying to pull of some judo moves he saw online
@@chewy99. Search your feelings. You must know it was plot armor all along
I really hate the people who always use plot armor as a conclusion. Like it's pretty lazy assumption as compared to the real world most extreme stuff that happened you would consider to be plot armor.
When she was hanging up the shark and body, I actually hadn't connected that it was her making a sacrifice. I thought she was using them to try and get more information on the creature. Since she was watching it the whole night, I figured she was trying to get a better idea of exactly what she was up against. Thinking about it though, I think it was a mixture of both. Satisfy its hunger for a night and, as a bonus, learn more about it.
Actually you were right, a couple people who had seen the movie commented that she was trying to get more information about the creature
that is quite literally what she was doing lmao
@@grindyussy_9326 Yeah, everyone interprets things differently, though I'm pretty sure the intent of the scene was to show us her trying to learn. I think Nerd just interpreted it differently, but it is an interesting interpretation. It's interesting to see how different minds work and perceive a situation. Two people can be given the exact same information and experience, yet view it from two completely different mindsets. I just like to keep an open mind and view other ideas and thoughts because it helps me personally learn and grow as a person and become (I hope) better.
@@redwood8816 she was literally trying to see what was hunting her or if she was even being hunted, it's nothing to do with how you interpret it
@@grindyussy_9326 I agree with you. Honestly it's been a while since I watched the movie so I can't remember the exact scene or the lead up, I'm just trying to be nice and see Nerds perspective and trying to figure out how he came to his conclusion.
So anyone who’s allergic to seafood is basically just screwed the first day they’re on this island. At least I learned how to properly gut a fish from this, there’s a lot of free valuable life saving information from Nerd Explains.
Bro why tf do I see your comments everywhere Jesus you and me watch the same videos I guess
@@FeralFox1 he has a unbelievable high comment score
Well not really, The average human can survive 3 weeks without food and in my opinion its way longer than that if you have a good amount of fat stores on you, You would just need to get water and you can get some calories from coconut , veggies on the island , ect
You could cook coconut meat which is somewhat sustainable as well as we can see on the island there is birds. Eating seagull and parrot for dinner isn’t too bad.
@@eneskaradeniz4311 🤣I'm probably stupid because of the heat but Cocanut 🍖 that sounds good right about now
As someone living on an island, walking the perimeter threw me for a loop. I get the absolutely valid point about the sandals but unless you have a God's eye view of the place or know what island you're on, it can take anywhere between a day and months depending on the size and I was hoping you'd bring up that point. Walking around Grenada and walking around Jamaica are two totally different things... id say _after_ we get our bearings and work out a way to get food and water _then_ we take that gamble so that if we need to make camp, we're not panicking wondering what to do
I think if it takes days to months to walk around an island, then it wouldn’t be uninhabited.
@@oliverm7138 The UK isn't uninhabited?
@@oliverm7138 You misread Nan's comment - they said "it wouldn't be UNinhabited"
@@oliverm7138 Reading comprehension moment
@@1219nan That’s true, but even if it took 2 days it would be too much to do first things first after being stranded. Also there are islands that are basically just thin deposits of sand above sea levels and thus useless to beguiled any5hing permanent nowadays or! She could have landed on a protected island! The ones I know are relatively small but I don’t know much about Pacific islands so..
I would have gone with this fantastic strategy called "Don't set up your camp next to the big gaping doom-hole that the terrifying shark man comes out of to murder stuff."
Seriously, why didn't she go all the way to the opposite side of the island after the first encounter? Or if it could pop up anywhere, go to like, the exact middle of the island with denser forests. Being safe from the murder-creature is more valuable than the energy you have to expend walking to the beach each morning.
Came here to say this!
@@makin-yer-head-itch any time :)
that was my thoughts as well. why make it easier to hunt you when for all we know he can't stay on land that long 🤔 so being in the forest makes the most sense plus plenty of space for traps.
I mean the thing hunts her down regardless, but she still should have at least attempted this sooner in the movie.
I mean, maybe build your camp a lil further away from the killer mermans habitat. Obviously gonna keep chancing it, coming and checking your camp every night if it only takes 30 seconds.
Sweetheart was one of the truly scary monster flicks of recent years, I loved the lovecraftian "shadow over innsmouth" feel of the monster.
They shouldn't have shown how the monster cause it looks fucking goofy
You can't beat the fear of unknown and showing it will just make it worse no matter how good the CGI is
@@gorkemaykut5230 agreed, the outline in the ocean was creepy AF. They should have just left it there.
@@gorkemaykut5230 while I understand the sentiment, I feel in the alternate universe where the movie was shot that way, you’d end up with everybody complaining that the entire movie was just nonsensical close-up reaction shots of the actors flailing at something off screen. For me, this story has too many moments of the character directly interacting with the creature to really pull full lovecraft style visual storytelling with not showing the beast. And I really don’t think this story is really aims to lean into lovecraft elements, more so just use them to heighten the human vs nature tale it’s telling
@@DoctorCVC yeah but you miss a very crucial part here
Merman looks fucking goofy
It's hard to take it seriously when the thing you must be afraid of is not scary
@@gorkemaykut5230 I actually thought it looked fine. Like not the most top tier monster design of all time, but I hardly thought it was terrible. Not every monster design is a 10/10, but something that’s not a 10/10 isn’t automatically a 0/10, it’s fine just to be a 7.
Personally, I would suggest never, ever saying that you're being hunted by a sea monster. Be nonspecific, but useful. Say that there's some predator on the island, that you've been hiding and stringing stuff up, but you've been too scared to actually look at it. Get them to hide, and then when THEY see it's a sea monster, you're not the crazy sea monster person, you gave them a useful tip. I mean, are they that unlikely to believe you that, like, there's a population of big cats or something?
Yes, I agree. Plus the friends had been stranded in the middle of the ocean without being bothered by any “sea” creature, so they would less likely to believe that there was a sea creature *on an island*
Instead, they would blame loneliness, grief, and heavy stress for her nonsensical “hallucination”
You are right but the plot demands it.
Saying the monster was a Saltwater Crocodile would be a very good "explanation" because not only are you already telling your friends that the predator is aquatic but that it's notoriously dangerous and needs to be taken seriously.
Yeah, it'd be better to say there's a humongous fish, maybe a great white shark, was in the waters and that it isn't afraid to crawl onto land for food.
Step 1: Make makeshift spears, clubs and a huge ass fire
Step 2: wait for the merman to come after dark
Step 3: try to make friends with it (give it food, show it that you're not a threat)
Step 4: fail
Step 5: chose violence by already prepared makeshift weapons
I expected nothing less out of a comment from a man with such a wonderful name and PFP
@@mud4309 😎
But what if the merman is a karate black belt?
Nvm, i think that more violence is the answer
@@jestfullgremblim8002 prepare by creating a makeshift gaming chair
after marathoning nerd explain vids for the last 3 days and ran out, this is such a treat.
Yeah! Did the same thing here lol
im currently in the process on day 1 lmao
Join the club lol
Same
That summarizes my life at this point
Ngl, this is the first one of these videos that has made me actually want to watch the movie. I wasn’t even watching the movie but I was invested in Jen’s story and felt a genuine sense of pride in her when she killed the creature
You know what would be two GREAT movies to vids on??
1. Bone Tomahawk: might be tough because the characters are (mostly) smart and make good decisions BUT... You could do how to survive as one of the main characters and how to survive as one of the cannibal Troglodytes!
2. From Dusk Til Dawn: would just be an incredibly fun vid to see
From dusk til dawn. Im sooo down for this one. Please give this Lady/Gentleman some likes and let this damn nerd see it.
That scene from Bone Tomahawk still gets to me.
Never heard of Bone Tomahawk, but Drom Dusk Til Dawn would be awesome!
@@feathero3 Well if you decide to watch it, be prepared for that ONE scene
@@feathero3 if you're a fan of Westerns and Horror, I absolutely, 100%, without a shred of doubt recommend you watch Bone Tomahawk!!
Stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, and Matthew Fox as the 4 main characters. Their little posse is after a small "tribe" of BIG-ass, hulking, scary-ass, cannibalistic Troglodytes who abducted some people from their town!
It is a relatively long (at 2hr12min runtime) and slow-burning film but, I PROMISE, if you stick with it, you will NOT be disappointed!
The classic "rescue mission" story obviously isn't a new concept but it's done in a very unique way! The characters are SMART and make good decisions. There's an unbearable tension/feeling of dread over the whole film and when s**t finally hits the fan... It's horrifying!
Great acting, great cinematography, and incredible, PRACTICAL effects that will stick with you for LIFE!
Aslo... If you're going to watch Bone Tomahawk, DO NOT read up about! Go in as "cold" as you can!
Disclaimer: it's also not for the squeamish or feint of heart! It's definitely NOT loaded with gratuitous, shock-value, torture-porn but it's got a few absolutely horrific moments
"We should light a fire to signal for rescue."
"No, we have to to to the open ocean on a raft despite me having witnessed planes come by repeatedly."
Safe to say the girl is her own worst enemy.
Once the plane intervals are confirmed, Burn the whole island.
I say nerves and stress were probably getting to her. Being hunted by a giant merman every night probably doesn't do wonders for the psyche.
@@seasnaill2589
"Ah, the salmon is coming to me. I'm feeling ravenous."
Funny thing is the open ocean is more dangerous than the island even WITHOUT the monster. Dehydration, sunburn, starvation, predators like sharks. You’d be dead or close to death by the time someone found you.
Considering that waiting around a fire, day in day out, is basically just screaming "Dinner Time!" for the Monster, taking your chances on the open ocean are no less deadly.
Surviving on a desert island is already bad enough, but being hunted by an exotic salmon is next level
Why in tarnation did I got two thousands likes with exotic salmon, check the others people below there is certainly better jokes than mine
And actual advices, that’s important too !
Or a human-wannabe salmon that see us humans as tyranic apexes predators that must be overthrow.
exotic salmon is the best thing i've ever heard
Exotic salmon 🤣🤣🤣
Yea. Those special tilapia Are the worst.
Exotic salmon, I'm dead.😂😂😂
I’m upset that he didn’t consider the shark an asset, the teeth could be used to fashion a better weapon, even if they are small.
Yeah but I doubt it'd be easy to rip out a shark's teeth without doing more damage to yourself. Though it is strange he didn't mention eating the shark, that's good food right there, no fishing or foraging required.
@@kitsu1379 you could also just use the rock or a stick to dig out around the teeth and pry them out, and sharks are a pretty good source of food too.
@@Fungaly This is true, however we saw with the coconut how bad this girl was with sharp rocks.
You're right though, small, serrated teeth could be used either to help with cooking, you could use them to scale and cut the fish easier, considering that's basically what they were designed for, or if you were more engineeringly minded, could use them to fashion some kind of small weapon.
@@kitsu1379nah don’t eat sharks or dolphins or stuff like they have a lot of mercury and you will die from mercury poisoning
Fun fact: all fish can breathe on land! As long as there is water in their gills they are able to keep on breathing. Only if their gills are completely dried up they suffocate.
By that logic, I can breathe underwater as long as there is oxygen in my lungs
@@SOLARITY333 Correct, you actually can
@@SOLARITY333 u can, until the air leaves ur lungs, that is
Happens a bit faster to air breathing creatures than their fishy counterparts when not in the proper environment though...
@@SOLARITY333 DO IT👹
sharks cant. They even cant stay still in the water as water always needs to rush through their gills
I wish I could've seen the aftermath. I just imagine Jenn nonchalantly carrying a fish monster's head with her on the plane or boat that rescued her.
It’s funny af how this movie started off with Jen basically murdering Brad
Nah, it was a mercy kill. Even if she hadn't done that. He would have died from infection, shock, or the creature grabbing him cause he was too weak to fight back.
fair play to jenn actually fighting the monster, i would've pussied out tbh
Ironically, flares are deadly
They should have totally sold this movie as a castaway type movie and then did the bait and switch like Predator did. You know If the monster wasn't goofy
To be honest , Shes actually pretty smart when compared to typical horror movie protagonists
She should just say a wild saltwater Krokodile was digging up people she burryed and went all the way inside the island looking for her. And when the night comes and they see the real monster you can explain it to them. This way they would be able to prepare for the upcoming battle. 3 on 1 would be kinda easy when she was able to kill it all by herself.
i gotta be honest i found the scenes where their looking at the ominous sinkhole more terrifying than the monster
agreed oh my goodness
Thallasophobia really got tested during those
Man has one of the best uploading schedules on this entire platform and still makes good content while having a consistent uploading schedule he deserves over 10 million subs
We "deserve" nothing in this life but death bro. Everything else is icing on the proverbial* cake.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo no
No one taking money from raid is deserving of anything that shits fucked more families then fentanyl
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@@bigbanktakelilbankLABIH I can't tell if your edgy or philosophical or stupid pls decide on one .
Can we at least appreciate the protagonist finishing off the enemy with a double tap? Unlike many other movies showing the protagonist leaving an unconscious person behind hoping that they are dead, only to be surprised when the person is gone..
I'm adding "knows how to gut a fish" to my list of soft skills I learned from this channel. Thanks dude 👌
you can get away with not doing it and cooking it longer, but learn how to break a dead animal into cuts you find at the store is always a good thing
"Knife goes in, guts come out."
@@feathero3 I actually learned it two ways one in marine biology class and the other by going fishing once or twice, sometimes hard to guy a fish you gotta be careful but thankful I took the marine biology class I learned how to dissect a fish, squid, octopus, starfish, and even a shark!
you can also get the coconut water out easy if you tap the area with the 3 holes a few times, it's a lot thinner than the rest of the shell and if you're at home you can eve use a screw driver and poke each hole for the water to come out. I know because my kid really likes buying whole coconuts and cracking them and we've figured it out over time.
As someone severely allergic to coconut and almonds … I’d be dead quick
Lol I just really don’t like em. I’d probably drink from it if I was thirsty enough though
@@chewy99. id drink it but then go into anaphylactic shock and not be able to breath in 5 mins 🤷🏽♀️😂 no winning here
It might be harder but you could still, possibly make it. Water would be harder to source but if you go inland you might be able to find a source of fresh water, admittedly you'd need to sterilize it before drinking but you'd still be able to drink it. Also if coconuts grow there, you got a decent chance of other similar conditions fruits like mango and such. You could also find roots, tubers, edible vegetation or even fungi if you know what you were looking for, though that's unlikely.
We also see no sign of what inland wildlife there was before the girl burned the play to the ground, there could be snakes or even small mammals like rats or the like. Not to mention the birds and, if you wanted to stay by the coast, the fish. A coconut allergy would make getting water harder sure, but no impossible, and it wouldn't really effect you from a finding food standpoint.
Black noir.
desalination is your best friend, make a diy evaporation dish and collect sea water
The treatment after you step on coral is horrifying. They have to aggressively debride the wound if pieces get embedded 💀
Hi first of all, great video, I also think a cool idea would be to give the characters survival scores or something for how well they did on they’re own
I love this idea!
I like this idea, yeah, even if he doesn't do it, it would be neat to have another channel that did.
plss. i would love thiss!!!
bump
About the coral: Most cases removing things is bad, but in this case it is HIGHLY important, simply because it's coral. Several species of coral actually produce toxins and you can get coral poisoning. Palytoxin is one of the most potent marine toxins, and so removing coral of an unknown species that gets into a wound would be pretty vital in that situation.
Nothing like a little bit of Nerd Explains on a day like this. Thanks for all your work!
Making fire is actually really hard. Getting one on day one or even day three is most likely not possible.
I went to the woods a few times to try and make a fire with nothing but a knife and I can tell you that making a bowdrill is not easy. It just isn’t. The concept is simple, the process sounds simple but there are a thousand little things that make the process real hard in practice if you don’t have experience.
In survival there is a rule of 3.
3 hours without shelter. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food. Fire is not a priority right away. Certainly not before you mapped the entire island and all its resources.
She has matches only eight but if she keeps a fire going she can stretch them out a long time
Same thing with getting food. There's no way in hell someone could fish with a wooden spear let alone get a whole shark within their first few days and zero survival experience.
Id point out that a fire is critical on an island as they tend to get very cold at night. You could effectively get sick from being too cold and die that way. Fires are always one of the first things you try to get going. Also why you use glass/matches. Bowdrill is going to be the hardest but you can do it from scratch. Having glass/matches certainly helps. Glass for catching the suns rays and starting a fire that way
Mapping out the entire island is a dumb idea to an extent, if an island is too big, give up and focus on survival
I love how no one in horror movies can ever explain anything to another person.. like what the fuck bitch, explain to them what the fuck is going on
Lol true I would’ve said there was a huge nocturnal alligator or crocodile that was really dangerous
RIGHT?! Also, on the reverse, people in horror movie are SO quick to call others crazy. Like? How often have you met and interacted with a genuinely crazy person? Or someone who was having hallucinations or smth? Why is this your first go to thought when you don’t understand something.
Also, even if you don’t believe them if your friend is in distress, help them!
If they actually spoke coherently there'd be less DUH-RAAAAMAAAAA
Just as a heads-up, the water in brown, ripened coconuts acts as a natural laxative, so, eat the meat from the brown ones, and drink the water from the green, unripened ones.
Also, why the hell is this movie called sweetheart?
One of her friends calls her sweetheart a few times
Brown coconut also tastes like wood-with-a-hint-of-piss flavored jizz, which yes, taste may not he the biggest priority surviving on an island, but seriously fuck ripe coconut juice
@@Gg-nj2yf that’s so fucking stupid. Sweetheart sounds like the name of a high school chick flick.
@@Gg-nj2yf true but still a pretty bad title for the movie, if they had focused more on her resorting to more and more messed up things to survive then I could see sweet heart as like an intentional parallel to the descent she goes through to survive.
@@NinjaTyler Yeah it's not a great title thats just why they named it that
"What a waste of an lifeless body" - Nerd Explains
Personally, having very few skills for long term survival alone on an island, if I could get to the point of catching sharks to use as bait, I'd catch a few to be safe and wait in a open brightly lit area for the creature to come and give it the sharks myself so it can see I'm willing to feed it, maybe some cooked fish too to see if I can get it addicted to something only I can provide. Establish a friendly relationship with a potentially intelligent creature, or die like I probably was going to anyway.
this has a small chance of working but if it does you could probably live on that island for weeks
If you can get to to like cooked food and build a potentially mutually beneficial relationship then you might not even need to be the one who does the catching, since it can catch prey WAY easier then you.
However, seeing the pictures of it following the family and the dead bodies, as well as what happened to the buried dead guy, we know it likes people meet. What we don't know is if that's a preference of if it's simply a creature that eats whatever it can get hold of most easily since it did seem to just eat what was left for it when honestly human girl (I've already forgotten her name) would be a bigger meal. Maybe it's not actually a full time predator, but more of an opportunist and it only took to hunting the humans because we lack SO MANY natural defences that most prey species have. It means looking at humans, we're easy pickings if the fish man isn't intelligent.
Unfortunately there is too many variables. To test this, when the dead guy washed up, it might have actually been good to put him up and a shark, see when presented with two options, which one it more naturally gravitates too and if it leaves once full or if it just eats everything it can. If it eats its full then leaves, after a few nights watching it do this, if we assume we can convince it we're friendly like you were saying, the safest time to come up to it would be after it's eaten, still present the food, but also keep your weapon ready, let it know that its got a choice, food or pain. Now all this goes out the window if, when presented with choice of shark or human, it prefers human because it's going to eat you but it's an option if the creature has some rudimental intelligence and is able to grasp the idea of not eating you and you feed it.
And no, it doing this in the movie is not proof. As I said, it could simply be eating the easiest to claim meal rather then wasting it's energy hunting something it might not find that night. The easy meal is something a lot of animals prefer. It eating and leaving could simply be it eating its fill and therefore not needing to expending energy hunting the girl and so going back to it's home to do whatever it does there, spawning maybe? I dunno. The movie doesn't make it clear the level of intelligence this creature has, I'd probably say it's on the more animal side since it attacked the log when the girl hid there and didn't seem to understand it could just go into the opening to grab her and when hunting it, it didn't try to trick her or trap her, it just chased her down.
I see you're a fan of cohabitation.
very unlikely, the creature as said by Nerd is simply too stupid, to properly understand rationing and long-term food/cohabitation with a producer. the creature in over 87% of the time would just gobble you up with the food you offered and go about it's day.
@@KrakenWind my point is that in a situation I'm trapped on an island, I have very little chance to survive as I don't have many skills necessary for it, even less with an unknown species of predator. So I'd prefer to take my chances at friendship to lessen the burden on myself. Than the near 100% chance of dying to it, dehydration, starvation, infection, animal or insect venom. It's unlikely sure, but it could save my life on the off chance it does work.
It's honestly incredible how many good videos this channel features. I've yet to watch one I actively disliked. It must be hard to keep these videos at such a high quality. Thank you for putting the time, effort, and care into making sure we enjoy our time on this channel.
yeah, I only watch NE even though I love the how to survive format, the rest are either touting survival methods way out of touch with reality or are simply summarizing movies
The only videos I don't like are the ones where the movie itself isn't very good in my eyes. Like the one with the thief locked in the modified car. The videos was still as good as any other, but I just lost a bit of interest.
@@omikron6218 I thought the movie was okay and I loved the premise.
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I agree. When the movie isn't very interesting, the "how to survive" can end up not very interesting as an unfortunate side effect.
YO NERD! useful survival tip in a situation like this. With the fish, since she had limited items to catch rain water. Another useful way to have preserved the fish at least for about a month maybe two, instead of using the cooler. She could’ve used the tent material and sticks to fashion a smoker set up. Then hung the fish inside the set up, and started a small fire to smoke the fish. By doing this, it would’ve preserved the fish for at least a month, maybe two if she was lucky. Just something for future videos on scenarios like this. 😁😉👍
I’m realizing now that in any movie with a character named Brad they never survive to the end which isn’t looking good for me my name is Brad
well Brad i can confidently say you will survive right up until the end of your own movie.
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She was smart enough for a civilian without any training. I would've died
Let's be honest... I'd probably have done half the dumb stuff she did and to make up for the half i missed i'd probably wind up doing other dumb things. However, yes... once we know we can feed it and it'll just go over and eat... I mean a pit fall trap full of spikes isn't a terrible idea, especially if you can make a few long spears to poke it with once it's fallen in. We just have to make sure that it won't be able to hit us while we're poking it.
As soon as i know there's a monster out here I feel like the dead would be willing to forgive some grave desecration as i'm definitely making those long spears' tips out of bone, probably a bone knife or two too.
If I can't kill it then I wanna hurt it enough that it knows not to come back.
I figure prep for a few days, give it its regular offerings, cover the ground under the offerings with palm fronds and forest debris so it doesn't become suspicious (if it's that smart) when there's suddenly this stuff under it later after i've made the pit.
If I'm afraid to poke it due to a fear it might be able to pull me down or something... maybe just fill the death pit with spikes and more leaf debris so i can toss a torch down and burn it to death.
If, like the main character, I've already been backhanded through the air then i know it's very strong and might be able to climb out or jump out very quickly, so having plans to hit it as fast as possible are probably for the best.
I would definitely add rocks to the spears to give it extra weight when stabbing it downwards.
@@wi4305 that is a good idea, yeah. Maybe even just having a big rock or two to throw down there if it’s impaled but not dead would be a good idea too.
@@athatcher9367 Might as well add your own poop to it so if it does escape the poop can lead to an infection.
@@wi4305 maybe, but I also might need to eat it. If I know it’s that dangerous then I’d probably go for that anyways though, just out of fear of risking it getting away.
Coral is unique because it will actually continue to grow inside the human body so it’s important to remove it or the injury could get a lot worse
If the sea beast has gills, why not just stab them, it would not be able to go in the water and it would be fatal.
Your opponent won't stay still for you to stab them and unless you have nerves of steel or a professional you ain't gonna stab it in the gills
@@gorkemaykut5230 hit or miss
The creature is amphibious so it can breathe on land
@@ketamineheadyoda2248 I guess they never miss, huh?
That's an even bigger problem...now the beats cant go in the water and is stuck on the land WITH you
Better idea: the trap for the final showdown; If the trap was close to the water, the creature might've taken a chance to jump over the fire and retreat into the reef, so what we should do is clear out a large area during the day further away from the water, so that way we don't end up burning our supplies, and we will be literally making the battle field, and make sure to rig up some form of bait, and traps that activate for the monster, so we can lure it more inland into our trap
i literally watched this movie yesterday and I wanted you or cinema summaries to make a video on how to beat it, and you did!What a coincidence👍😅
@NatSoc Kaiser Have prior knowledge of a lovecraftian horror monster living in a sinkhole off the island. Better, have prior knowledge your boat would have crashed and don't go on it.
As a US Army SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) school graduate myself. I watched the movie and if an untrained person had been put in that situation and did everything she did, except remove the coral as quickly as she did, I would be very impressed overall. The one thing I learned is that you're going to make mistakes but the most important thing is to never give up. She fought to survive.
"If only bear grills was here to save us" nah man he'd eat you
correction: coconuts contain electrolytes but it is made up of a majority of potassium which inhibits the liver from taking in sodium which is required for proper hydration. coconut milk will dry you out in the long run.
I probably would've done the pit trap when I first saw it. I would hang an "offering" Then cover my pit trap with leaves. I would also have my flare locked and loaded at all times. Sounds simple *Which it is* But then sanity would be a different thing.
I would have done an offering the first night, then the pit trap.
@@RequiemPoete But we didn't know of the monster on the first night lol
@@scrubadubdubdub I mean the first night we started offering the creature food.
But why dont try to poison it? humans are toxic for many animals. Just try to infect it with your vinom and hope it gets superaids
@@woodstock7799 Sadly I was never born with it. Very unchadly of me I know-
I love how Nerd is referencing Stranded Deep AND The Forest
*Imagine if you become shipwrecked on an island and it turns out to be sentinel island* 💀
Would they not immediately kill you if you had your arms up or begged on your knees or something?
Those guys have the right idea if you ask me!!! Lol
@@chewy99. most people that have went there were killed
@@chewy99. to be fair, aren’t most of the accounts from people who went there in boats and plane? Cause it’s one thing to see a human appear from a terrifying, unknown and noisy contraption and another altogether, to see someone wash up ashore, clearly in distress. Or I would hope so at least ahah
What is a sentinel island?
The fact she speared anything while looking away is nothing short of a miracle. Just like her whole surivival.
14:26 How cool is that shot ?!
The monster is kinda-
31:17 It's the return of Wilson!!!
Okay but the real question is : how the last person in the family buried himself ?
I don't think they did. I think the last person fought the beast and lost. Thus their body was eaten/taken into the abyssal hole.
I always carry my 6" boot knife so...my solution would've involved lots more sharp pointy sticks and if confrontation was needed, that lil' hugger definitely being used to hack, stab, slash and tear the beastie down. Before having to shank the shark though, I would be keeping coconuts on reserve for ANY sappy substances for mock-napalm to use, can't fight to well burning to a crisp
1.Make a habit of the monster: Hang tribute every day and light a fire nearby and watch it if coming from one direction
2 Make trap: Prepare a lot of wood and make about 8 wooden stakes and dig a hole below the place where the tribute will be hung, put the stakes in the hole and camouflage the hole
3.Prepare for the encounter: when it's getting dark, leave a pile of wood and stones near the place where the tribute is hanging and light a fire nearby
4.Wait for the monster to fall into the trap
5.Attack: After it fell into the trap (it must have been hit by 3 4 stakes by then) then run out and use all your strength to throw all the rocks into the hole and push the pile of wood into the hole and finally push the fire in there
As soon as an apocalypse begins, Nerd is just gonna be in a dark corner covering arrow heads in feces lol
She could have made makeshift body armor from coconuts, flat rocks, etc. That monster would have definitely torn through her in real life with those claws. She doesn't have a mans strength, so she is at an even greater disadvantage. The kinetic force of the monster should be breaking bones. One last thing I can think of is that those wooden spears shouldn't work due to the monsters skin, hardened due to sea pressure. She should aim for the joints, they should be weak spots. Nerd explains, notice me senpai.
notice me senpai notice me
Her plotarmor was too strong for the monster to handle
Id argue makeshift armor being impractical in that it would both take too much time and resources but also its durability would be crap. Maybe like a chest piece and kneepads but full suit of armor is implausible. That and armor is noisy so stealth would be out of the equation.
Bit late, but I think leaving brad's body out to see if any other animals come to mess with it might be a good idea. You don't know if there are any larger carnivores on the island - it could be good to make doubly sure that there is nothing else that could attack you by doing so.
Keep up the great vids man I remember your first video I watched was how to survive the blob and I’ve been hooked since
Cool video. Never would have heard of this movie otherwise, so thanks for that. I thought Jenn did pretty well, and was very interested (before I saw the video) to hear your take. I see your points, and your suggestions are informative as always, but I think Jenn deserves more props for fumbling her way forward - her results were almost always "good enough", and she did pretty well considering she probably had nothing to go on but vague memories.
Having said all that, I still really enjoyed and appreciated your corrections. Your instructions are usually simple and easy to follow. Hopefully I'll never need your advice, but if I ever do, I'll be sure to let you know when I get back from peril.
The coral impalement was a complete clusterfuck, I agree. I wish ppl would stop pulling out impaled objects in TV and movies. Having said that, I think it made sense to remove it in this one case, bcz the alternative was to leave it in place for who knows how long. I also considered that, bcz coral is sharp, leaving it in might cause more damage as Brad moved and breathed. If you read these, lemme know your thoughts, plz
p.s. apparently, you are supposed to stuff abdominal wounds with clean cloth rather than just applying pressure
The thing with the coral is iffy, actually. She shouldn't have ripped it out like that. But Coral will actually grow into your skin if left too long. So she did the right thing, but at the wrong time without properly preparing to cauterize or at least cover the hole beforehand
@@HugeHaddock I hadn't heard that. Interesting
@@HugeHaddock ohhh wait! It makes sense - I was thinking the live animal parts would colonize your skin, but it makes much more sense if I think in terms of your own body trying to "heal" by depositing new cells onto the coral matrix. That's how coral bone implants work, after all 🤔
There's something about listening to these how to beat videos in the summer time that makes me feel nostalgic.
Within the first few days I would have gathered as much supplies as I could bear, moved my camp, and lit the island up much sooner, ESPECIALLY after seeing that plane
"Time to feed the old gods."😂
Is that a WOW reference?
I got a song that goes well with this
“The devil’s gonna come when the sun goes down” good song and fitting for this situation
That shark could’ve been so useful, Shark teeth for Weapons/Tools. Shark bones refined with rocks for more stable tools than wood, Not to mention all the wasted food on it
Tbf, Jenn would have been screwed regardless of her “friends” survived, as the implications are that Mia and Lukas are in kahoots, having killed Zach and being suspiciously close and quick to just knock her out- Even if she was blatant in stealing the raft why should they care if they don’t want to leave? Imo the main reason is that they realized if she really did manage to escape she would have found out they killed zach and they’d be done for if rescue found them- all of this factoring out the obvious creature attack at sea of course. Just an interesting side plot the movie included without explicitly saying it
If I heard my friend ranting about a sea monster in a situation like that I'd just assume they went crazy from isolation, too much sun, getting hit in the head with a rock, etc.
Dig big hole, put spikes in bottom and walls, cover in palm leaves and sand, hang bait over it, creature comes to eat bait falls in dies, burn creature in hole, eat shark man steaks.
Being able to spend long periods of time in water doesn’t make a creature amphibious, it could just as easily be a mammal with large lungcapacity
Yes, whiping your head back and to the side while closing your eyes, is the best way to aim a spear.
so uh, with the family... who dug the third grave? There was a mom, dad, and kid, right? 3 graves, so assuming the kid died, then the dad or mom died, and the remaining one buried the other two, how did the remaining one get into a grave? I suppose they could've offed themselves inside of the grave, but they're clearly buried. Did they bury themselves alive?
He sounds so defeated at 10:54 lmao
incredible videos you really are a genius the way you break down how they should go over things is very admirable thank you for such amazing content
Maybe the other two didn't want her to leave with the raft because they planned to kill and eat her too
As always, since I haven’t previously been in the same position as the main character of this movie nor have I ever been in any real survival situation, I do not know exactly how I would react in the same situation.
However, I feel as though this sea creature is a much easier enemy to defeat than many other creatures/monsters from other films are.
Yes, the setting of being stuck on a deserted island is an already extremely difficult situation to face on its own. But if one can handle that situation, this one sea creature shouldn’t be too difficult to take care of if executed wisely.
Jenn was clever, resourceful and her ability to adapt to her environment kicked in right away; yet this guy gave her NO praises. Instead he immediately harshly criticizes her saying she has " NO survival skills, NO experience with nature, and NO background in fending for herself" and "wished Bear Grylls was there" to help. Are we watching the same girl because that couldn't be further from the truth. Compared to almost ALL people featured in each movie covered on this channel, Jenn is LEAGUES ahead of them all in terms of self preservation. She's not acting like your typical ditzy damsel in distress - immediately locates and equips sharp rock for use, collects coconuts and fish for sustenance, builds fires, loots dead body before discard, scours area for materials upon arriving, makes spears, keeps small knife on her person convenient use or close range attacks, studies & prepares for the enemy, creates diversions to study enemy, utilizes/builds sufficient covers for herself to observe enemy for its weaknesses, builds hammock, vigorously rubs rope on tree to free herself, and unearths skeletons to brandish weapons out of bones. I thought she would be something refreshing to watch on a channel that gives best chances of survival in movies of life or death situations. But not only is that NOT the case, he gave ZERO credit Anyway, this was something that had to be said.
The first moment I saw a beast like that on a isolated island, I would be making traps and weapons faster than it could breath. Up to 3 or 4 days would be enough of work, feeding myself and planning. That bastard shark creature wouldn't last long. And yet, I would eat its heart out of spite.
Gritty reboot of Sharkboy and Lava Girl. Love it! 10/10
jeah lets use the glass of the sunglasses, wich is build to prevent light from passing through and wich is normally not even kurved, to make a fire. best idea aver
For general knowledge, snares are extremely difficult to make and use successfully unless using pre made cable snares. Most "survival" snares break instantly and won't hold a regular animal, let alone a 9' beast. Just for future reference.
I loved how while normally your videos are more centered on surviving a direct threat, murderers, cannibals, stuff like that, half this video was just spent critiquing this girls ability to just survive in general 😂
I feel traps would be the best way to go. Like you said with the tiger pit and pongee sticks (however you spell that), I’d also try to fashion a rake of pikes that could quickly be raised when the beast changes you, essentially pulling a Braveheart on the amphibious cavalry of one. I’d also try to fashion several kinds of spike traps that could be strung up in the trees, then wait in the trees for him to come and start playing tropical tree kerplunk. Going toe to toe with him would be an absolute last resort.
Just put the shark above the pit and watch it impale itself...
Ironically enough, my Zombie Apocalypse plan is a sailboat and an isolated island. I am able to compartmentalize my daydreams
Well done on the “Frequently flown flight path”
Not sure a jungle ablaze would actually be that great.
A controlled fire seems man made, a forest fire might not.
"She should have buried him on day zero"
Why, that's bait?
30 seconds later
Well, I think I just got called out...
The sea beast may also use the same sort of breathing mechanism as a mudskipper, wherein it has pockets of water surrounding its gills which it gulps air to dissolve oxygen into.
Oh a man's stabbed by coral that might have hit an Artery? I should just pull it out, we wouldn't want Brad getting an infection right?
Shark is amazingly tasty. She should have cooked a few filets, found some fermented cocanut water and invited him over to dinner.
Thats how me and Nessy became friends. Although she stays in the bathtub for hours and doesnt clean the drain.