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March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices
Zinside writes "Yahoo News is running a story stating that March of the Penguins may become the No. 2 documentary of all time at U.S. box offices." From the article: "The film, which follows a pack of Emperor Penguins during an arduous mating season, had grossed $18.4 million by Wednesday and was poised to surpass the $21.6 million for Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine. For 13 months, Jacquet and his crew braved Antarctic temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero - and winds up to 150 mph - to capture astonishing images of thousands of emperor penguins engaging in a mating and child-rearing ritual that is nothing short of astonishing. The Penguins are a miraculous species, capable of extreme heroism, self-sacrifice, sorrow and unshakable love."
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
...for a second there, I thought it was linux related ;).
"For 13 months, Jacquet and his crew braved Antarctic temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero - and winds up to 150 mph - to capture astonishing images of thousands of emperor penguins engaging in a mating... ritual"
1) A lot of server rooms may as well be -70 degrees, so any sysad could empathize with the conditions (sans sunlight, of course).
2) Any Slashdotter has at least one interest that the "normal population" would give a hearty 'WTF?' to.
3) A demonstration of the amazing lengths some folks will go through for their penguin porn.
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March of the Penguins:
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Isn't that the title of the nightmares Mr. Gates has had whenever he wakes up in a cold sweat.........
Could this kind of flocking (hehe) to see a documentary about penguins be indicative of a trend towards a silent audience demand for wholesome, informative movies rather than violent and crass fare?
I think it's actually due to a very loud audience of prepubescent children who, after being saturated with advertisements during Yi-Gi-Oh, continually pester their parents to the point of either getting to go see the movie or being tied in a bag and thrown off the nearest bridge.
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So.. it has come to this
>>>The Penguins are a miraculous species, capable of extreme heroism, self-sacrifice, sorrow and unshakable love.
More importantly, how do they taste? Fried, baked, or stewed? Anyone?
Oooh! There's a penguin on the television!
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
...President George W. Bush vows to fight anti-freedom around the world.
"Who do these penguins think they are? Calling themselves 'Emperors'? We, in America, do not tolerate such anti-democratic policies. Let the penguins have their rights. These penguins are part of the axis of evil..."
I don't understand. I thought that real, proud and good Americans had to boycott French products ?
So eat your popcorn and drink your soda guilt free.
.naked.
If you plan on spending hundreds of thousands of years in the Antarctic. .
KFG
Turgid carp are a part of natural history.
I guess today is a passable day to die.
...the quality of this season's Hollywood crop.
You made a typo in that last word.
That's just typical of the Slashdot audience. How can you forget the sacrifices Windows '95 made? It died for your sins. Sometimes three times a day.
Thirteen months of EXTREME CUTENESS!!! Oh my god! Mother of Hello Kitty in a hand basket! belly sliding, wing flapping, fuzzy little baby penguin extreme cuteness as far as the eye can see! And the waddling!! Oh! the waddling!!!
When this movie does so well, Hollywood execs spend years trying to copy it's box-office success, spawning Polar Wars II - attack of the Penguins, Lord of the Icebergs, Antarctic Park...
Because, despite appearence to the contrary, the /. editors *do* have a sense of humor.
a small sex game in a game can get it banned but a massive orgy with thousands of penguins is alright?
Coming soon from Rockstar "GTA: Antartica"
Somewhat of a different issue, but I disagree with boxofficemojo's choice to exclude any "Reality TV movie" from the documentary category. Otherwise Jackass would be #2.
That's the shit that feds me up
Hey, I was monogamous for a year. However, my wife of seven years doesn't think that one year constitutes 'real monogamy', sheesh.
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You're right. Most documentaries document reality.
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I fail to see the relevance of some boring smelly animal on slashdot, or some movie about said creature.
,/ posters are
Relevance? Nearly 100% of
boring and smelly animals.
Why wouldn't they be interested in seeing how at
least some boring and smelly animals are
successfully reproducing .
It does seem to be a very interesting movie indeed, and I like penguins just like the next geek, but, please, no need to get upset on boobies, ok? I really don't see why penguins and boobies couldn't get along together like old friends... so much in common, think:
waddling.
You sure? Even the ones having homosexual sex?
Or the penguins were really lousy at it and they didn't want the kid to pick up bad habits like pecking and other things which could hurt.
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The thing I hate about Luc Jacquet is that he intentionally uses lies and outright distortions to prove his liberal point about the homosexual penguins. This film is totally anti-Flighted Bird. And I even agree with his point. But anyone who casually glances at this movie can tell right away that Jacquet has a dogmatic liberal agenda. Jacquet hates Flighted Birds and the film is nothing more than a smear on the Flighted. Ooh, the poor penguins, its so hard where they live! Look at them struggle against the odds! Nonsense. If the film was fair and balanced, it would have footage of the massive environmental destruction these 'birds' have wrought upon their habitat, for instance.
Stupid commie homo birds. They're taking over, I swear to God.
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:)
Incidentally, those particular people now lock their doors
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Australia.
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Tell your mates not to come either, dickhead!
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