I read that. Not sure if *I* can see the Japanese movie without crying my eyes out. :(
We just came back from seeing Eight Below. (It needs less of the actors cluttering up the screen! More dog footage!) What gorgeous dogs, even though you just know some of things they do in the movie would not have been THEIR ideas.
(In January, when the movie begins, it's not that long after "midsummer down-under", and there should almost continuous daylight in Antarctica. By midwinter (late June) it should be dark pretty much 24 hours. The ice generally reaches its thinnest in December, and March is the onset of winter when the big "growth season" for the ice begins, so my guess is that for the purposes of the movie some ice in January could possibly be thinning for a bit due to a warm front... but the continent triples in size from frozen seawater in winter. And yeah; what's with all the sun in August?)
I kept reassuring my anxious and teary 11-year-old all through the movie that nothing bad actually happened to these doggie actors, the very fact that they were on film meant people were with them to take care of them, etc. etc.
And then after the movie my 15-year-old (who had to take an open seat a few seats away) comes over and SHE'S crying her eyes out. :/
Younger daughter said the theater should put tissue boxes out for dog lovers who see this movie.
Now that we're home, the corgi-children are getting loads of love and attention...
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Date: 2006-03-19 02:12 am (UTC)We just came back from seeing Eight Below. (It needs less of the actors cluttering up the screen! More dog footage!) What gorgeous dogs, even though you just know some of things they do in the movie would not have been THEIR ideas.
(In January, when the movie begins, it's not that long after "midsummer down-under", and there should almost continuous daylight in Antarctica. By midwinter (late June) it should be dark pretty much 24 hours. The ice generally reaches its thinnest in December, and March is the onset of winter when the big "growth season" for the ice begins, so my guess is that for the purposes of the movie some ice in January could possibly be thinning for a bit due to a warm front... but the continent triples in size from frozen seawater in winter. And yeah; what's with all the sun in August?)
I kept reassuring my anxious and teary 11-year-old all through the movie that nothing bad actually happened to these doggie actors, the very fact that they were on film meant people were with them to take care of them, etc. etc.
And then after the movie my 15-year-old (who had to take an open seat a few seats away) comes over and SHE'S crying her eyes out. :/
Younger daughter said the theater should put tissue boxes out for dog lovers who see this movie.
Now that we're home, the corgi-children are getting loads of love and attention...