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Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:42 pm**

Mr arrow wrote:I agree.. I have been obsessed about Crimson Wing since I saw the trailer at Disney France...I just hope they release Crimson Wing in Australia...as I havnt seen any evidence that Disney's edit/version of the doco EARTH will be released theatrically here
The Cinematic Orchestra have composed a breathtaking score for Crimson Wing and much to my surprise they toured Australia literally days after I saw the trailer...
This may be the reason I finally get bluray!

I think I started a thread specifically for Crimson Wing on this board before, but, does anyone know its North American theatrical release date?

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:14 pm**

After seeing DisneyNature's Earth, don't jump into a Polar Bear enclosure:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europ ... index.html
Polar Bears ain't that cuddly.

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:41 am**

blackcauldron85 wrote:If you've seen the commercials for Earth on TV, have you noticed how, above (?) the rating box, it mentions a warning about how animal images can be scary to children (I can't remember how it was worded, and I've been looking online for a few minutes and can't find it).

I'm on Wikipedia right now seeing if the film contains dead animals, and indeed it seems to...

I'm assuming that all of the attacks and death is shown on-screen? I would love to see the True-Life Adventures and these DisneyNature movies, but I wish there were edited versions or something for people with quesy stomachs...I can't handle seeing dead animals, so I'm missing out on some great movies. Unless I am watching the movies with someone who knows exactly when bad things happen and they can tell me to close my eyes, then I just can't watch the films.

In a Q&A with the directors, they actually addressed that issue:

ML: I think the first thing is obviously we wanted it to be a movie for all of the family. I didn’t really think that that placed any restrictions on it at all. One of the things we were very careful about is we didn’t want gratuitous blood and gore. If you take, for example, the wolf hunting the caribou, or the cheetah hunting the gazelle, we include all the interesting bits—all the strategy of the chase and the hunt—right up to the moment where quite clearly the end has come for the prey animal, and then we move on because we felt that you’ve seen the interesting bit. You don’t really need to see what it looks like when an animal is cut up and the predator has blood all over its chops. And we just thought it would be a real shame if any parent thought that Earth wasn’t suitable to take their child to because Alastair and I both feel that Earth’s got a lot in it for children and that it’s a great chance for them to see what’s at stake in their planet and what a beautiful world they live on, and hopefully show them things that they may never see however long they live and however much they travel. So we didn’t want to exclude anybody.

I saw an early screening of the movie and he's right - they do show animals hunting each other up until the actual capture. They cut away before you see any blood or gore and move on with the narrative. At the screening I was in, the kids didn't seem scared at all during those scenes and I get pretty queasy when I watch those kinds of things as well and I was totally fine with it. I think they did a great job of showing the natural animal instincts of hunting/preying in the wild in a subtle way.

As for Crimson Wing - according to the Disneynature website, it says it starts rolling out Dec 2008. I imagine since Earth comes out this month, it probably won't be released until year's end or next year here....

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:24 am**

Thanks, Kate! That's great news to hear (read...).

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:55 pm**

All afternoon, instead of looking for a job, I've been doing research on Earth, and more so on the True-Life Advenutures. I found this article on Earth [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/movies/11earth.html]
and it mentions:

(Don't read the rest of my post if you don't want to know anything about the films at all...there aren't any huge spoilers, though)

A baby elephant is separated from its mother and dies. A cheetah eats a peppy little gazelle. The father of two cuddly polar bear cubs bleeds to death after a close encounter with a walrus tusk.

...

Jean-François Camilleri, a Disney veteran who runs Disneynature, noted that scenes depicting some of the harsher realities of nature have been carefully edited. That baby elephant dies off camera, for instance, and audiences are just led to believe that the cheetah has its snack.

...

A sequence in “Earth” showing great white sharks breaching as they feed on sea lions, for instance, will be familiar to anyone who has seen “Planet Earth.”

What about the polar bear father- is that shown on-screen? And are the sea lions shown on screen? I just don't think I can watch this if so.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:27 am**

blackcauldron: You really don't see anything too graphic. I promise you, you don't see any blood. I think that the article is a little bit misleading when it describes all those scenes. All death/hunting scenes are implied, not shown. Like I said, the little kids in the theater who watched weren't scared at all. Honestly, I think you will be ok

On a separate note, what info did you find on True-Life Adventures? Have you seen any of those old nature documentaries? I saw this clip on how he created those series as well as Bambi out of his love of nature, and then why Disney decided to create Disneynature to carry on that legacy:

http://thedisneyblog.com/2009/04/02/dis ... -webisode/

But I'd love to hear what else you read!

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:50 am**

Barbossa wrote:
goofystitch wrote:While browsing the Disney section at Best Buy today, I noticed that they suddenly had The Biscuit Eater and Last Flight of Noah's Ark in stock, which was odd for Best Buy to carry. Both titles were $9.99 and when I pulled them out, I realized that both had stickers advertising a free movie ticket to see Earth in theaters, up to an $8 value, making both films $1.99. Has anybody noticed any other catalog titles that have free movie cash to see Earth with it?
I saw a few DVDs at Toys R Us that had the stickers. "Cheetah" was one of them, and some documentary I never herd of that is narrated by Robert Redford. I haven't even seen this documentary listed on UD. Funny, the DVDs that had the coupon for Earth did not have the DMR points logo on them.

Wal-Mart has a few out in the New Release section
Benji - $11.96
Eight Below(FF) - $7.50
Homeward Bound Double Feature - $13.00
King of the Grizzlies - $7.50
Never Cry Wolf - $11.96
Old Yeller Double Feature - $9.96
Treasure Island - $7.50
White Fang 2 - $7.50

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:29 am**

katemonster wrote:blackcauldron: You really don't see anything too graphic. I promise you, you don't see any blood. I think that the article is a little bit misleading when it describes all those scenes. All death/hunting scenes are implied, not shown. Like I said, the little kids in the theater who watched weren't scared at all. Honestly, I think you will be ok

On a separate note, what info did you find on True-Life Adventures? Have you seen any of those old nature documentaries?

For me, though, even if there's no blood, just seeing a dead animal freaks me out...so, if, for example, you see a lion chasing after a gazelle, and the camera doesn't show the lion attacking the gazelle, but we see the gazelle's dead body on the ground, I'd rather not see that. But it's nice to know that the article was too extreme in what it said!

As far as the True-Life Adventures, I was mainly looking up how much violence or death are in them (I've been interested in seeing them for years, but have never picked up the Legacy Collection DVDs), but I read a couple interviews with Roy Disney about his involvement...I posted some things in the True-Life Adventures thread, but the sites I visited were:

http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/review/w ... tion-10477

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25435/wa ... the-world/

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25439/wa ... ploration/

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25443/wa ... -the-wild/

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25449/wa ... mysteries/

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/truel ... ntures.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Life_Adventures

http://entertainment.kaboose.com/movies ... tures.html

And a lot of the IMDB pages of the True-Life Adventures

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:16 pm**

But Amy, it's real life. That happens numerous times a day. You can't hide from it.

And it's rated G, I highly doubt they would show anything graphic.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:29 pm**

I know that it's real life...I don't like seeing it in real life, so I don't want to pay to see it, when I'm supposed to get entertained. I can't help how I am...

And as katemonster had said, the graphic stuff is off-camera, so I should be alright, but I'm still a little apprehensive.

It does look like a really good movie, and so do the True-Life Adventures...that's why I'm trying to get as much info as possible, because I do want to see them.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:38 am**

Thanks for all those links! Yeah, ever since I heard about Disneynature and Earth, I've been really interested in True-Life Adventures and I want to check them out as well. I mean, I've already seen Planet Earth numerous times, so it would be great to see where nature documentaries started - seems like Walt's fascination for all things nature was apparent long before being "green" was "in"

I hope you do get to see Earth...I definitely thought it was worth my while.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:31 pm**

Just got the DMR promo e-mail for Earth. As with any Disney movie, each ticket stub is worth 50 points up to a maximum redemption of 200 points.

Are there release dates posted anywhere for the other upcoming DisneyNature movies?

Posted: **Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:27 am**

I usually just go to their website for info on all their movies - it tends to be pretty up-to-date and reliable and has a bunch of resources. Or if Facebook is more your speed, I ALWAYS get news & updates from them through there on their upcoming movies (for all Disney, not just Disneynature). Some possible suggestions

Posted: **Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:38 am**

Barbossa wrote:I saw a few DVDs at Toys R Us that had the stickers. "Cheetah" was one of them, and some documentary I never herd of that is narrated by Robert Redford. I haven't even seen this documentary listed on UD. Funny, the DVDs that had the coupon for Earth did not have the DMR points logo on them.

Sacred Planet is listed on our IMAX & Documentaries page and reviewed here.

Posted: **Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:08 pm**

Luke wrote:
Barbossa wrote:I saw a few DVDs at Toys R Us that had the stickers. "Cheetah" was one of them, and some documentary I never herd of that is narrated by Robert Redford. I haven't even seen this documentary listed on UD. Funny, the DVDs that had the coupon for Earth did not have the DMR points logo on them.
Sacred Planet is listed on our IMAX & Documentaries page and reviewed here.

Thanks for the link Luke. Funny I didn't pay attention to it on that page and missed it the first time.

Posted: **Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:48 pm**

I'm really looking forward to this. Im a vegetarian and environmentalist and I am really happy that Disney is taking the environmental approach with Earth. I hope when it is released on DVD it will be in Eco-Friendly packaging like WALL-E was!

Posted: **Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:38 am**

Andy - Considering all that Disney has done so far with environmentalism and this film, I'm sure it will continue with its DVD release!

I know it's early in the week, but the movie has an 80% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far - pretty impressive!

EW Review:

With its cozy references to animal ''moms'' and ''dads'' and its delicate avoidance of disturbing imagery in the depiction of life and death in the wild, this super-duper deluxe nature documentary (the first title from the new Disneynature label of environmentally conscious crowd-pleasers) clearly aims to recruit young viewers as conservationists. The pitch works for adults, too. Earth, a showpiece from the BBC team that made Planet Earth, is spectacularly photographed, gracefully edited, and effectively matter-of-fact in demonstrating the effects of of climate change. James Earl Jones narrates with the authority of Adam naming the animals. A–

Posted: **Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:33 pm**

Yay- I'm glad that it's gotten such good reviews so far!

I was on the phone with my mom today, since my parents are coming down later this week, and my parents are taking me to see Earth, so I shouldn't even worry about seeing anything I don't want to, since we're seeing it, end of story.

Posted: **Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:48 pm**

A friend and I are going to see earth on friday. I can't wait. I really loved the Planet Earth series and since this is from the same footage, it makes me even more excited. Plus I get points for sending in my ticket stubs (though I perfer to keep them, but if it can take me closer to 6,000...)

Posted: **Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:07 pm**

I'm so excited for this. I'm a huge environmentalist and big animal activist/vegetarian for two years. I love the two new previews too.

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