Just finished watching this and I gotta say this movie is f***ing amazing. The visuals are incredible and the music is unbelievable. Can't recommend this doco enough and if you like watching stuff on nature then this is for you.

However, it hasn't been released out here yet. I think it starts screening at some ridiculous time like March next year but the DVD is available to buy off Amazon anyway.

March of the Penguins instantly qualifies as a wildlife classic, taking its place among other extraordinary films like Microcosmos and Winged Migration. French filmmaker Luc Jacquet and his devoted crew endured a full year of extreme conditions in Antarctica to capture the life cycle of Emperor penguins on film, and their diligence is evident in every striking frame of this 80-minute documentary. Narrated in soothing tones by Morgan Freeman, the film focuses on a colony of hundreds of Emperors as they return, in a single-file march of 70 miles or more, to their frozen breeding ground, far inland from the oceans where they thrive. At times dramatic, suspenseful, mischievous and just plain funny, the film conveys the intensity of the penguins' breeding cycle, and their treacherous task of protecting eggs and hatchlings in temperatures as low as 128 degrees below zero. A marvel of wildlife cinematography, this unique film offers a front-row seat to these amazing creatures, balancing just enough scientific information with the entertaining visuals.

http://www.members.optushome.com.au/gpahl/penguin.jpg

So how long till we see this on SBS?

I hired this out and watched it the second night I was here in America and I thought it was really amazing as well. Morgan Freeman as narrator along with outstanding photography and a great telling of the story really keeps it interesting and gives an awesome insight into how penguins live year round and what they have to go through to breed.

128 degrees below zero

:O

Thank you A_W for you contribution to the thread

Your welcome. TY too.

penguins are evil

Maybe. But they can swim like motherf***ers.

if anyone else posted this Rev they'd be called f*****s and bitches etc
but not you, you are the exception, the one that brings us back from tough guy town and reminds us, we're all bitches

You reckon?

I just thought it was an awesome movie. I'm a sucka for a good nature doco. I love stuff like Walking With Dinosaurs and that David Attenborough s***.

8-)

looks good, downloading now

yeah same, love documentaries

this one however



boring.

give me the life of plants or birds any day. go sir david!

wasnt it on TV a while a go wehn they were doing those imax movies?

Reverend Evil ... Mandy Moore has apparently gone blonde again, have you seen any new pics or anything?

hes on at 630 sbs saturdays

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20030211.jpg

curse my lack of photoshop talent. that dvd cover is just asking to be toyed with

that comic has serious issues with being good

indeed, that comic is so dam unfunny i want to cry

Can't believe the s*** these things go through just to have a kid!

I sook when penguins die too :(

I don't see people's fascination with CTRL-ALT-DEL as well as VG Cats. None of the comics are funny!

hlcomic for the win.

This doco was used as an arguement by the more right wing bits of American culture to prove homosexuality was not in God'ss design. So then the gay community went on a hunt to find gay penguins ... And they found them in New York

So then the gay community went on a hunt to find gay penguins

*shakes head*

I'm not sure why you posted that Obes, except maybe to somehow justify your choice of automobile ...

maybe they are gay because living in a cage fuks your brain...

Exactly E.T. Just look at the prison system. If they had a co-ed type prison I'm sure there'd be less people re-offending. Unless, it was easy to hook up in there. So maybe that would be a bad idea. Only time will tell I guess.

a bit OT, I was looking at the quals required for working in Antarctica. A supervised CTO (my guess is you get given a job roster instead of managing one) need to have experience not only with UHF/VHF operation, but repair and maintenance (bust out the solder and iron and read the tracks on the pcb, no manual for you!) experience. You also need to be proficient in installing and maintaining weird UTP types and something called Krone? wtf? Isnt that a games studio?

Along with your usual senior admin knowledge and skills, maintenance of solar and wind power systems should just about round out your skillset; oh I didnt mention a detailed knowledge of various satellite and microwave types should get you in the pool of candidates they have a choice of sending down.

Looks like it would be one hella rewarding experience though. If youve seen some of David Attenboroughs Natural History docos youll get a glimpse of what these people living down there get upto and the weather conditions they get to experience when theres no full daylight for something like 37 days straight. Oh and those Emperor Penguins in 1000+ mass huddles during that kind of weather.

You can keep on talking about gay penguins now if you like... freaks ;-)

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