first off i can't believe europe was but a week ago, cuz it feels like months. this is just generally how my life is though. now onto the point, i am watching tv because the second episode of seasons V of cathy's bootleg vietnamese sopranos dvd's isn't t working so i am stuck and can't move forward with the series and consequently am looking for things to entertain me for the next 30 minutes as i contemplate a shower.
anyways tv guide channel, i see a commercial for that movie "8 below" with paul walker and it took me back to when i was on the plane on the way back from europe and i'm not gonna lie when this movie was out i kind of secretly wanted to go see it because i have a penchance for realllllly bad movies. well anyways on the way to europe i noticed that the movie schedule showed 8 below and "take the lead" (antonio banderas, mad hot ballroom with teenagers) as playing on my flight back and i'm not gonna lie this knowledge is kind of what kept me going because i reeeeally wanted to see these movies but couldn't rationalize actually renting them and having people know that i wanted to see them. so the flight back i was kind of stoked. actually i'm remembering now what happened was on teh way there 8 below ws supposed to be playing but the tape wasn't working so the channel was blank and i'm not gonna lie, i was a little disappointed.so anyways dreams came true and i got to watch 8 below on my flight from zurich to dulles and it was AWESOME!! paul walker is a guide in antarctica and some scientists goes to the USA station in antarctica and wants to hire paul walker to take him to the top of some arctic peak to get a meteor peice of mars that has landed (this is all based on a true story! i know right!) and anyways paul walker takes his trusty 8 wolves and they have one of those sleds and it's all very white fang, another great movie. (SPOILER ALERT!!) The dogs are so cool and save lives and shit but in the end there is a big storm and all the humans have to fly out of the station but they don't have room for the 8 dogs and so they have to leave and promise to come back but they can't cuz winter in the arctic is a bitch and so they can't fly and paul walker is muy muy triste for like a year and decides to go back finally after getting funding and what do you know the dogs are alive!!! and the whole movie is partially paul walkers depressed life after leaving the dogs and the dogs surviving in the wilderness, a la "milo and otis" and it's so heartwarming.
I must explain though that i love wolves because my dog growing up was an american eskimo and so was part wolf and these animals touch me cuz my dog Q-tip Hernandez would not have let anyone hurt me ever and she was the best dog. and the whole story of how a little mexican girl at 7 ended up with pure bread American Eskimo for a dog is one for another day. it involved my dad's ghetto family stealing 2 pure breeds, mating them, and having lots of babies that they gave out to our huge mexican family. Yes, mexicans are sometimes ghetto. Anyways i'm not gonna lie, as i was watchign this movie and the dogs were all sad because paul walker left them i shed some tears. who are we kidding, i cried buckets! thank god the lights were off cuz i could hide them but it was too much for me.i can't say the same for the emotions that "take the lead" evoked in me, which were none. it was basically sister act 2, with dancing instead of singing, and Yaya from ANTM was NO lauryn hill. But seriously, part of the problem was that the tape they were using was bad and the sound kept cutting out every 10 seconds so i missed part of the dialogue and this may be why i didn't really feel for the characters. I mean, also ever since antonio married melanie griffith i haven't really been able to take him seriously because melanie is so gross and old and nasty. ok sorry for that rant but i just want to say if you like animal movies and are home alone one night and want to give into your secret desires, rent "8 below."
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