Last night, roomie and I went to watch Disney’s Earth. There was something about that baby duck jumping off a tree branch (see the 1:00 min mark) for its first “flight” that had me convinced that I had to see this movie.
I was told that scenes from Planet Earth and Blue Planet were used in this film, but I was unaware that pretty much the entire movie with the exception of maybe 3 scenes were from the TV series. Even the narration was the same, instead I was hearing it from James Earl Jones and not David Attenborough. Personally, I enjoyed narration from the latter. The overlapping of scenes was disappointing, mainly because a) Roomie has the series and b) it’s currently playing on CBCNewsWorld, nightly at 8:00pm. Ah well.
Watching this, I picked up on a few things:
a) I never cheer for the predator, unless it’s a cat.
b) Disney totally censored this because I remember the polar bear taking huge chunks out of these walrus’ and having an extremely bloody snout.
c) The Northern Lights are so amazing.
It was this last point that inspired me. Boy and I are heading out on what seems to be an annual trip to Gros Morne, NFLD and will be spending some time at the northern most point of the island - L’Anse Aux Meadows. I wondered, can you see the Northern Lights from there? Turns out you can! Also turns out that you can see them from Lindsay, ON too which is a mere hour or so from Toronto, WTF?! I’m totally looking forward to this trip and cannot wait to (hopefully) see the Aurora Borealis, Glaciers, whales and the famous Viking settlement.
Photo courtesy of hoskarsson on Flickr.
