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[CL82]

Agree with you and CL82. But it does make one wonder what exactly did they all eat during that storm ;-)

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed so that they would not need to eat each other during their stay in the hut.

The better "thinking way too much about this" question is why wouldn't they all have frozen to death in a big hut that had an open door? Basically the ambient temperature inside that hut would probably be within 10° or so of the temperature outside the hut. Of course, the robot would've lacked information based upon what's necessary to survive for warm blooded animals. There would be no reason for her to design a winter shelter that would actually be survivable.

For those of you who are now thinking "wait they had a fire", you're not wrong, but with a wide open door, that's only providing radiant heat, so anyone who is not line of sight isn't getting much benefit from it. Also, why didn't the structure fill up with smoke? If the notion is well, there was a hole in the top then wouldn't the heated air exiting outside the top also be drawing in cold air from the wide-open front door? Anyway, where were they getting the wood for the fire? There was none stored within the hut or anywhere anywhere else around and the ground was covered with snow. Who was feeding the fire? Kind of tough for animals that lack a prehensile thumb to feed fire since they have to stick their face in it to drop additional wood. I mean, I guess the opossums and the raccoons could have been feeding it, but their hands are very tiny so they would find it difficult to place wood of any significant size in the fire.

Come to think of it, that movie sucked! It wasn't realistic at all! Oh, wait, it was never intended to be...

 

[CardiacAndre7]

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed so that they would not need to eat each other during their stay in the hut.

The better "thinking way too much about this" question is why wouldn't they all have frozen to death in a big hut that had an open door? Basically the ambient temperature inside that hut would probably be within 10° or so of the temperature outside the hut. Of course, the robot would've lacked information based upon what's necessary to survive for warm blooded animals. There would be no reason for her to design a winter shelter that would actually be survivable.

For those of you who are now thinking "wait they had a fire", you're not wrong, but with a wide open door, that's only providing radiant heat, so anyone who is not line of sight isn't getting much benefit from it. Also, why didn't the structure fill up with smoke? If the notion is well, there was a hole in the top then wouldn't the heated air exiting outside the top also be drawing in cold air from the wide-open front door? Anyway, where were they getting the wood for the fire? There was none stored within the hut or anywhere anywhere else around and the ground was covered with snow. Who was feeding the fire? Kind of tough for animals that lack a prehensile thumb to feed fire since they have to stick their face in it to drop additional wood. I mean, I guess the opossums and the raccoons could have been feeding it, but their hands are very tiny so they would find it difficult to place wood of any significant size in the fire.

Come to think of it, that movie sucked! It wasn't realistic at all! Oh, wait, it was never intended to be...

Honestly biggest bugaboo for me…Since when can animals even friggin talk?

 

[CL82]

Honestly biggest bugaboo for me…Since when can animals even friggin talk?

This one was answered in the movie. The robot sat for a day, listening to their various vocalizations and worked out their language. of course that only explains why she could talk to each individual species and not how they could talk to each other.

 

[storrsroars]

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed

However, in some cases, particularly the bear's, winter hibernation comes with a significantly lower metabolism due to non-activity. If the animals are awake and doing things, then they'd be burning more calories. And the squirrels would have a cache of acorns, none of which are seen in the film.

Yes, it's perhaps a stupid criticism when a movie is taking poetic license. But I've had this problem ever since being taught about Noah's Ark

 

[CL82]

However, in some cases, particularly the bear's, winter hibernation comes with a significantly lower metabolism due to non-activity. If the animals are awake and doing things, then they'd be burning more calories. And the squirrels would have a cache of acorns, none of which are seen in the film.

Yes, it's perhaps a stupid criticism when a movie is taking poetic license. But I've had this problem ever since being taught about Noah's Ark

Separate rooms in Noah's Ark mitigate the predation issue. I guess one has to presume some amount of grain, fruit, or other survival food for the herbivores and the use of fish to feed the predators.

 

[Palatine]

Honestly biggest bugaboo for me…Since when can animals even friggin talk?

My nephew had the same problem with Lion King.

 

[Deepster]

Saturday Night (Netflix) is presented as the 90 minutes leading up to the first episode of Saturday Night Live. I think it is mostly based on fact, although I do not think most of the events in the movie actually happened in the 90 minutes before the show. Some of it was in the days and weeks leading up to it, and a few events happened weeks and even years after the first episode of SNL. The movie makes Lorne Michaels look like a hero, but presents a complicated picture of the rest of the cast, which is interesting. Belushi and Chase are arrogant, and Aykroyd is weird and a little creepy. The three main female actresses from that first season, Curtain, Radner and Newman, seem just happy to be on the show in the movie, which was not what I was expecting. I wanted more Curtin in the movie, who, in real life, was a normal life person with model looks that always seemed out of place in that SNL environment, and more of her perspective would have been interesting. The movie acknowledges that the show did not know what to do with a very talented Garrett Morris. Michael O'Donaghue was nuts in real life, and comes off nuts in the movie. Others at NBC at the time, like Milton Berle and Johnny Carson, are skewered, especially Berle, and by all accounts, he was a terrible human being in real life.

I think playing a real person that everyone already knows is really hard, and the actors that played Chase, Aykroyd and Belushi did a great job. Nick Braun was fantastic playing both Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman. JK Simmons was really repugnant as Berle while still making it credible that so many of that generation really liked Berle.

If you like this movie, I would recommend Netflix's A Futile and Stupid Gesture, which is about Doug Kenney and the founding of National Lampoon, kind of an origin story for SNL. I think of these as really important movies about a seismic change in our culture that was reflected in comedy of the 1970's. Comedy, by its nature, does not age well, but National Lampoon and SNL completely changed the arc of comedy from the Johnny Carson's sight gags and silly one-liners and puns, and Milton Berle's and Henny Youngman's reductive misogyny of wife jokes and dressing up like women to mock women, in addition to the barely concealed racism of so many comics of that era. National Lampoon and SNL blew all of that apart. Movies changed, TV comedy changed, and our culture changed. I think comedy reflects the culture, but the seismic shifts in our society in the late 70's were not being captured by traditional comics prior to National Lampoon and SNL.

I'm a lifelong SNL fan. When the show first aired, I was 8 when it first aired and my best friend's older brother would tape the shows on his boombox for us because we couldn't stay up that late.

I thought the movie was great and the performances were really well done. The guy playing Belushi really had his facial mannerisms down pat. The movie had a great pace and made it feel like you were backstage going through some of it. And, yes...I was surprised how they portrayed Carson and if that was realistic? He is a grade A jerk.

Second the recommendation!

 

[nwhoopfan]

There have been talking animals in cartoons for almost as long as there have been cartoons, right?

I think after the first trailer for "Wild Robot" there was speculation there wouldn't be dialog in the movie, but that is really hard to pull off.