march of the penguins

[JP]

hey has anyone seen this?

Amazing scenery, colours, awesome and fascinating creatures and a simple storyline. Cool movie

I think there is an animal rights angle in this because it focuses on the emotional and decision making side of the penguins, rather than reductionist "gene" level explanations to every action.

[RAZ]

Seen it. Loved it.
I'm a nature documentary freak! When I found out there was one on the big screen I had booked the tickets a matter of seconds afterwards!

In swedish it is called Pingvin resan or something like that.
Beautiful cinematography!

[Rochellita]

It was quite spectacular, and sensitive as well. The team and community work was absolutely fascinating to watch.

I did however keep thinking about global warming the whole way through, and the impact it will have on the habitat and survival of the emperor penguins.

[Jonathan]

I loved it. I think that I actually had a picture of one of the baby penguins for my avatar for a bit.

Jonathan

[Dave Noisy]

Drives me nuts, how they try and copy us. The little buggers need to get over themselves.

[Jonathan]

Well I wasn`t going to say it, they were very cute!

[Gelert]

Drives me nuts, how they try and copy us. The little buggers need to get over themselves.

Hehehe

I've got the DVD but haven't watched it yet!

But I know what you mean - these two pics are from a mate in Antarctica who has penguins on his doorstep

[Dave Noisy]

When i grow up, i'm gonna be a baby penguin.

[fredrikw]

a bit late, but we watched this tonight, and I must say I was really really disappointed. what annoyed me the most was how they felt the need to over dramatise it, and put some kind of silly disney storyline to it, adding human emotions that's just stupid.

I found the extra material on the dvd more interesting than the movie, in these short clips we at least got to see what happened for real, not some badly written scripted montage. it was so irritating listening to the narrator telling a bad and extremely naive story, instead of actually narrating the phantastic footage and the amazing events that they had caught on camera. as if nature wasn't enough...

[Dave Noisy]

I'm still gonna be a baby penguin when i grow up.

[fredrikw]

yeah, I think that's a splendid idea. I'm not against the penguins, they are super cool, it's just the idiot who have watched too many disney movies I'm annoyed with.

[JP]

what did you expect though? I mean your reaction is like being angry that water was wet when you stepped in it

of course it was over dramatisation, of course it was anthropomorfising the events - it was made for american young audience and the aim was to have as big of a return to the investment as possible, so the audience needed to be maximised. If there was some educational angle in it, thats a bonus

[fredrikw]

what did you expect though? I mean your reaction is like being angry that water was wet when you stepped in it

with that line of reasoning we shouldn't react on anything around us because we shouldn't expect too much...

thing is, with that narration they made the whole thing a disney movie instead of letting the amazing footage and the very interesting and moving phenomenon they observed narrate the whole thing.

also, I don't think anthropomorphism is good from an AR perspective either. projecting human emotions on other animals might be a good short-term solution, but in the long run we're much better off understanding that we're indeed different.

[JP]

what did you expect though? I mean your reaction is like being angry that water was wet when you stepped in it

with that line of reasoning we shouldn't react on anything around us because we shouldn't expect too much...

well, your original post indicated that you had high expectations and you were disppointed and annoyed - had you had around the same level of realism that you have when entering water and expecting it to be wet, you would have known that a hollywood mainstream production movie documentary aimed at mass production and about 100% theather coverage in US would be exactly what you described.

I think you would have enjoyed it more in that way rather than stewing these negative emotions and ruining the experience for yourself.

[fredrikw]

I think you would have enjoyed it more in that way rather than stewing these negative emotions and ruining the experience for yourself.

unfortunately not, it wasn't my expectations that ruined it for me, it's the fact that I don't enjoy that kind of movies. so perhaps you're right, I was a bit naive believing it should have been something different than that. but that doesn't really change anything, now does it? I still think the movie sucked big time. sorry to rain on your parade here.