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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.

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Take Cover" is a decent B grade movie, stretches credulity and drags a little, but I've seen much worse. Scott Adkins isn't a household name, but he's been in a ton of movies. If he's the lead, it's not a big movie, but he's in plenty of blockbusters as a henchman, bodyguard, head of security type of character. Not the greatest actor, but solid for action movies with lots of fight scenes.

This isn't breaking new ground. He's a sniper working for a shadowy government agency. He wants out. You know what that means. Nobody gets to retire. So he's set up and becomes the target. Most of the movie is Adkins, his spotter and two escorts in a hotel penthouse with no way to get out, a sniper across the way, and one elevator load after another of baddies coming to get them.

Alice Eve plays his handler. She's barely onscreen, but you hear her voice off and on. I thought one of the women in the room with them stole the movie. Never heard of her before. Madalina Bellariu Ion. IMDB has almost nothing on her, except she speaks 5 languages and she was born in Romania.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The Free State of Jones. Rewatch, wife hadn’t seen it. Matthew McConaughey is Newton Knight a confederate medic during the civil war. He’s disillusioned with the war and death. Keri Russel is his wife. He deserts the army and through events, meets some runaway slaves, including Moses, played by Mahershala Ali. They hide together. Eventually more defectors arrive and Knight turns them into a resistance force. At first most just protecting local farms from confiscatory “taxes” of food and clothing meant to support the army. Later it’s a full revolt and they turn Jones county Mississippi and some others into free/unionist territory. There’s a lot more here, including flashbacks to a trial in the 60s. This is all based on a true story, but it’s unclear what’s been embellished. It’s a good movie nonetheless.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I know I've seen parts of "The Ice Pirates" before, but I don't think I've ever watched it from beginning to end. Well I finally did. It's free on Tubi. Spectacularly cheesy. Don't expect too much and it's a fun ride. A surprisingly decent cast, including Robert Urich, Anjelica Huston and Ron Perlman.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Free State of Jones. Rewatch, wife hadn’t seen it. Matthew McConaughey is Newton Knight a confederate medic during the civil war. He’s disillusioned with the war and death. Keri Russel is his wife. He deserts the army and through events, meets some runaway slaves, including Moses, played by Mahershala Ali. They hide together. Eventually more defectors arrive and Knight turns them into a resistance force. At first most just protecting local farms from confiscatory “taxes” of food and clothing meant to support the army. Later it’s a full revolt and they turn Jones county Mississippi and some others into free/unionist territory. There’s a lot more here, including flashbacks to a trial in the 60s. This is all based on a true story, but it’s unclear what’s been embellished. It’s a good movie nonetheless.

What’s cool and interesting is that even today that part of Mississippi is rebellious and contrarian.

As for the movie, I thought it was kinda boring.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnen and The Three Musketeers: Milady. Both on Hulu.

Both are French films. Hulu has the dubbed versions of each or in French with subtitles. I do not like dubbed films so I went with the original format in French. I thought both were very well done and some of the better movies I have seen in a few years.

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Kill" is new on Hulu. The name says it all. Indian action movie. Calls to mind "The Raid: Redemption" a bit, although it's been years since I saw that. This is BRUTAL. I almost pulled the plug about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way thru. Bloodier than your average slasher flick. A gang is robbing a train, supposed to be quick in and out job. Two commando soldiers are on board and throw a wrench in the plan. Starts out with fairly normal brawling, interesting because it's mostly in tight quarters in the aisles. Then something happens, and one of the soldiers loses his mind, all hell breaks lose. Don't watch it if you're squeamish. You've been warned.

 

[superjohn]

Finally got around to watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino did the happy ending scene thing again but I liked it and I didn't really see it coming. Another good one from Quentin...Brad Pitt killed it and DiCaprio was also really good.