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50 things I learned from Alaska


Nobody seems to care about this movie, but I'm going to do this list thing anyway because it is hilarious.

1. This is the 90's, old man.

2. Polar bears live further south than we thought.

3. The only thing worse than a thief...is a liar.

4. If you are ever stuck in a deadly fire, follow the damn bald eagle.

5. Baby polar bears apparently know the difference between good kids and poachers by seeing their boats.

6. Alaska and British Columbia are interchangeable.

7. After a long, violent fall down a mountainside that ends with cracking your head on a rock, you will be knocked unconscious, have a dream about a creepy Indian, wake up two seconds later, and be walking perfectly within the next two minutes.

8. The color bright yellow is invisible to search and rescue teams, as are flares.

9. Reaching out the window to catch the picture of your kids is way more dangerous than you think.

10. Devil's Thumb doesn't really look like a thumb at all.

11. Even though you left all of the climbing equipment on the dining room table at home, don't worry; it will magically appear in your backpack as though you had it there the whole time.

12. Sean wishes that his dad had died instead of his mom.

13. One of the kids is obviously adopted; their accents are completely different.

14. Native Americans that you know from home will show up out of nowhere in the middle of the wilderness to lend you a hand at just the right moment.

15. Charleton Heston wants that bear.

I am Jack's broken heart.

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11 got me too.
also those bags didn't really look like they would fit in the canoe. i don't know i've never been canoeing so i dont know?

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Technically they would be Innuits or Eskimos (contrary to popular belief, some people actually prefer the term Eskimo), not Native Americans.

Otherwise, LOL!

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Very funny, but the only one I question is #5, I would guess that his animal instincts allowed the polar bear to tell the good guys from the bad guys, much the way dogs can sense those things.

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LOL ... esp 8 and 11!

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I live in Alaska. I would love to see someone actually film a movie here...it is way more beautiful than BC, and we have plenty of daylight in the summer.

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16 You can patch a raft with duck tape.



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25. I've read the hair line was shaved back to make the character (Pete?) look like he's balding. Not the actor.

26. Without rescue, they would eat the bear cub, use bear skin to keep dad warm.

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27. When poachers tranquilize and take back their bear cub.... It's jus not fair.

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28. Polar bear cubs apparently react when someone mentions "Cubs", the team.
29. The film-makers couldn't come up with a more alluring title than "Alaska".
30. TV-Shows and films set in Alaska are never filmed in Alaska.
31. Charlton Heston plays a hunter. How ironic.
32. Before he became a "Mad Men" Pete lived in the wild.
33. Thora Birch was a rising teen-star at the time.
34. Thora Birch had a career at some point.

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