Slack

[redbird]

The main thing I've done today, other than dither about what to do, is watch March of the Penguins. I liked it, though if we borrow/rent the DVD again at some point, I'm definitely going for a non-English soundtrack, or none at all. The bit about plate tectonics at the beginning barely makes up for the made-up "legends" about Emperor penguins as a tribe that stayed in Antarctica when everyone else left as it got cold, and I can do without some of the other twee bits. Gorgeous photos, though, including the ones that didn't have much directly to do with penguins, like the aurora australis and the close-ups of icicles dripping.. Newly hatched penguins poking out from between their fathers' feet are extremely cute.

I suspect I'll be shown this on the bus sooner or later. (Some of the Greyhound/Peter Pan buses on the New York–Boston route have video monitors, and Peter Pan shows G-rated films. (The ones actually run by Greyhound are film-free.))

Comments

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

I wished for this movie to be a big hit so they would make bedroom slippers tied to the movie--a little baby penguin peeping out on top of clawed feet. It *did* become a big hit, but the slippers remain a fantasy. But I can dream.

[kate_nepveu]

Judging by the French narration of the accompanying documentary, I suspect that the French narration of the movie is even *more* twee. They conveyed so much factual information that was in the English version in a "and you didn't know this" tone, that I suspect it was all emotional stuff (first-person penguin, I believe).