my mum and her boyfriend are watching the DVD right now - and I just remembered how lame they are…
here are just three good reasons for them not being included…
They were CGI… which meant - a) they cost a lot and b) they looked shit
There was NO need for them… surely the freezing temperature and the fact that they NEED teh medicine urgently should be enough to drive that section of the film along
They should have been DEAD! - where did they hide initially???
I don’t think anyone can say - actually they were an integral part of the plot because they represent the metaphor of blah blah blah…
but can someone give and reason, justification or reasonable excuse for them…
apart from that I enjoyed the film…
It’s not Donnie Darko of course - - not even Attack Of The Clones - - but I enjoyed it (apart from them damn wolves! )
The stupidest part was that they were looking for food, despite the fact that there would’ve been plenty of perfectly edible New Yorkers’ bodies lying around everywhere.
But the whole movie was absurd. “Ice Ages” do not last three days.
They had just escaped from the zoo. Supposedly they were looking for food. Somehow they got on the ship and were in the kitchen - that’s where the food usually is I guess. Maybe being in the ship somehow protected them from the worst of the weather, if you accept they lived long enough to get there. Since they were zoo animals, it’s unlikely they would be starving yet, and there would be plenty of bodies for food. So, they had no real incentive to attack prey that runs or fights back. I think it was just a tired cliche about evil wolves or nature strikes back or something. Wolves were not necessary for the plot.
I can’t think of any good explanation for the wolves. At the time, I figured that maybe they felt the movie needed a fight scene, and you can’t exchange fisticuffs with a snowstorm.
Not wanting to sound insensitive or anything, but…
… what was the deal with the kid that looked like he was suffering from cancer? He made two brief appearences in the film and, as far as I could tell, wasn’t instrumental to the story at all.
Ya know, late at night with a good friend, after seeing the slightly more serious ‘Garden State’ earlier in the evening, it was a great way to have some fun. Talk about the movie, point out the logical inconsistencies and general impossibilities . . . to bad Dennis Quaid is old and Jake Gyllenhall is too young. It needed a hot guy to round it out.
lets be honest - - in a real world situation the woman would have been left to die at the hospital - - with the kid who was going to die in a few (weeks/years/months???) would the kid really have wanted people to risk their lives to prolong his?
mind you – - if I’d have known I would have gone for him – I’m just saying that 9 times out of 10 - - that doesn’t happen…
Maybe to show that even in the face of adversity, we won’t lose our humanity or something else similarly stupid? Otherwise, I have no idea. If I had been the doctor, that kid would have been left to die since he’s most likely going to with the First World now under ice anyway.
The kid was just a device to tug at heartstrings. If he was actually dying anyway, maybe going out into the minus zillion degree deep freeze downdraft/microburst thing would have been a more humane end.
