8 Below

I have not seen 8 Below

 
Then, your life is incomplete.
 
(note: the preceding was humor)
 

ORIGINAL: ron2

I have not seen 8 Below

Then, your life is incomplete.

(note: the preceding was humor)

 
I know.  There are so many things yet to do.
 
I will say that it is more likely that I will rent 8 Below and see it before I ever jump out of an airplane!

Ron,  I haven't seen the movie yet. Or read the posts.  I heard that it will make you cry so I got this thing about crying in public.  I'll get the DVD and if they have a card about the requirements  Huskies need...WAY TO GO to them.  I always worry that in dog movies people run out and get that type of dog thinking it will be just like the dog in the movie...stupid people out there...

ORIGINAL: ron2

I have not seen 8 Below

Then, your life is incomplete.

 
I guess my life is complete now! We just watched it tonight. The key to not crying is to have two underexercised dogs - one who wants to crawl in your lap and one who wants the lap-crawler to play with her - in the living room at the same time with marrow bones in their crates while you try to clicker-train them not to go in each other's crates. LOL! I swear I didn't see more than 2 minutes of movie at a time. [&:]
 
I did, however, lock them in their crates for the last 1/2 hour and sniffle my way through the ending. 
 
My review? Typical Disney flick. Cute dogs. Handsome male lead. Pretty female lead. A good "got nothing better to do" rental. []  I actually liked the "making-of" better than the movie.

Same here.
 

I actually liked the "making-of" better than the movie.

 
That was neat stuff. I like the part where they put dog food on the other actor's face in order to get the dog to lick his face "on cue."
 

I realize this thread is old, but had to add my [sm=2cents.gif] since we watched the movie yesterday.  DH said he was going in the bedroom to watch auto racing when it started.  A few min's later he was back out watching from the kitchen, then sat down, then I hear sniffling...and he never left until it was over [].  Those were really beautiful, amazing dogs and even the happy moments made me cry.  I haven't seen a love story that touched me as much as that movie did.  I'm sure glad we waited to see it at home where we could sniffle our hearts out.

You won't believe this, but I watched it yesterday, too. To me, the real love story is between Jerry and the dogs. Then, I started watching it with commentary. One of my favorite parts and they did comment on it, is when, after David is injured and the get him back on the sled and Jerry puts his lead girl on an extra lead to put her in front of the fan formation. Jerry commands "Hike! Take us home!" She is exploding so hard in the harness she clears the top of the snow by about 5 feet. They pointed out the dogs were always like that and they admired her spirit so much, they kept that shot. And it was shot in an actual blizzard in northern Canada. The technical info on the dogs was provided by the musher who doubles for Paul Walker and trained him. The long distance shots are the musher and closer shots are Paul Walker.
 
I am still in awe of the power, speed, majesty, and heart of these dogs. I aspire to that level of nobility. It is best expressed by a poem read by Viggo Mortensen when he played the Master CPO in "G.I. Jane."
 
"I never once saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
 
A Sparrow, freezing to death in the midst of winter, never felt sorry for itself."
 
I know the movie wasn't "Remains of the Day" or "Howard's End" or "Schindler's List." But it wasn't meant to be those.
 
It was about the heart of a dog and the heart of a man affected by these dogs.