Penguin movie

Last night, I left work later than usual and had to rush to Harvard to meet Molly. We went to see March of the Penguins, which is like a theatrical nature documentary. The movie was good, it chronicled the time from when penguins go to the breeding ground to when the babies leave the breeding ground. The audience kept laughing everytime a penguin would slip on the ice. True, it was comical, but I bet that penguin's ass didn't find it so funny. It's just like America's Funniest Home Videos. Anyway, I was baffled by some of the penguins' behavior. I mean, the adult penguins go through such pains to have a baby, but when a predator flies to come eat the babies, they don't fight the predator or even try to protect the babies. They just stand there like dopes. I guess the narration really threw me off because it made it seem that the parents really love the babies when it could really all just be instinct to breed, and then they say, "Play ya, play ya, play ya." (South Park reference). But what made the movie so good was the footage. The filmakers got super close to the penguins, I guess the penguins don't really know people since who in their right mind would live in Antarctica. And the baby penguins were really cute.

Anyway, there was a little girl, probably 5 years old, who sat behind me and kept asking her mom questions throughout the movie. She was whispering, but it was a loud whisper. It didn't really bother me since I thought this movie was good for children, and she just wanted to learn. But I think other people were getting irritated. The girl who sat in front of me kept turning around to glare and then near the end of the movie, some college boy turned around and said, "shh" really harshly. I think the mom was pretty embarrassed, but I thought the mom did a pretty good job at least teaching her daughter to whisper. At the end of the movie, mother and daughter hurried out of the movie probably to avoid the glares with the lights on.

Another exciting thing that I learned at the movies last night was that the Rent movie preview is out. They previewed it while I was at the concession stand waiting for my nachos dinner. So when I got home, I watched it on my computer. I'm sure the music will be awesome, but the movie did look kind of weird with all these different scenes instead of the simple stage they have on Broadway. Like Roger was riding a bus and Mark was bicycling outside. It's out November 11th, so I have a while to wait before I can really judge it.