poor birds :( - Eight Below (2006) Discussion

[–] azureus-download 18 years ago

you are the only one who feels sorry for birds..

i'm glad the birds died so that the dogs could live

:P

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[–] isaiah_chia 18 years ago

haha. same here.

why pity the birdS?

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[–] w-kirk 18 years ago

dead birds = woot

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[–] jairoradar 18 years ago

Sorry for the birds? Is that a joke?

I don't mean to disrespect you, but why feel sorry for the birds?

Don't you eat chickens instead of dogs? Lame analogy, I know, but I mean: Would you preffer that the dogs starve to death instead of the birds dying a fast death at their jawls?

Sorry, but you must be jocking.

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[–] jonrod 18 years ago

People stop feeling sorry for the animals that get eaten. I was sorry for the dogs, but hey it's nature's cycle. The foof chain. Let me put in my own way. Animals (Predators, fish, birds...I'll take these for an example) try to keep themselves alive, survive in the wild. The dogs were smart enough (As a pack) to get food. Dogs are not going to think (Like you are), "oh I feel sorry for the life of the other animals, I'll leave them alone.". The dogs took by thier insinct, how to survive. They would starve if they didn't eat the fish/hunt the birds. Don't get started about the seal/ killer whale. The killer whale was already dead. The seal scared me at first, but as If pointed out. The dogs did what they need to do to get the food. competeing against the for food.

I'm not sure if know how nature works. If you don't like it, that's how it is. The tougher smarter animals win, no questions.

I am disapinted in most of the posters. i am ashamed of the the original poster and the last poster . The three posters that followed the orignal posters were rude. Besides those people, I think the other posters (Not the ones I listed), had sense and understood the balance of this. stop reflecting your pitty and ego.

I have been surpised, because a lot of people don't know how nature works or what an animals real needs are.

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[–] wnralways 17 years ago

Very fuuny quote!!!

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[–] bill_ferencz 11 years ago

What the hell is a woot?

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[–] BoyFromOz 18 years ago

I felt bad for the birds, too, and the seal, and the whale just as equally as I felt bad for the dogs. But then again I'm a big animal lover and a vegetarian, so I guess that kind of explains it.

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[–] themichaelis 18 years ago

In the documentaries they said the birds that were eaten by the dogs were not real. They were feathers and cloth, etc. Yes, it happens in real life, but that was not what you saw.

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[–] BoyFromOz 18 years ago

Yeah I knew they weren't real, nor was the orca, because of strict cinematic animal codes, but I still found it somewhat disturbing, I guess.

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[–] menyinc 18 years ago

I'm an animal lover. I was a vegetarian for years. Sorry I fell back into the wagon.
But we are talking about the food chain.
Dogs aren't vegetarians.

If I felt sorry for anyone, it was the humans, since the dogs were so much smarter and cooler than them.

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[–] GSmith9072 17 years ago

"I'm a VEGAN and I find it a bit odd for you to feel that sorry for the birds. I mean, I felt like, wow, that sucks for the birds. Yes, I do feel sorry that their lives were taken, but in no way did I feel more sorry for the birds than I felt happy for the dogs. They NEEDED that food. It's the cycle of life."

That's true. As a result I didn't feel sorry for any of them, dogs or birds. Is that better?

you can't fight in here, this is the war room!

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[–] dianekistler 17 years ago

I'm a vegan, too. But I have two cats and I feed them what they need for their diets and that includes meat. Being vegan is a personal choice.

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[–] gdblackthorn 14 years ago

If you feel that bad for the animals that died in this movie you could never watch a movie about those who journeyed to the north & south poles. Sure the death of animals is unpleasant, but we (people) are the reason that animals are here in the first place! If you don't believe this than we really could not have a discussion anyway...

I think you should feel sorry for all the vegetables that you kill. I am quite sure that as a vegetarian you eat fish. No they aren't vegetables, but most "vegetarians" eat fish and many eat chicken! So feel sorry for them too while you are at it. Something has to die for something to live, and no not everything can eat vegetables and live! If there were no steaks and burgers, the only place you would see cows (other than milk cows) would be in India. There are few people who keep pet cows!

You could be a PETA freak and let all animals free from zoos, and anywhere else they are in captivity; but then they would die in the wild since they were raised in captivity and don't know how to fend for themselves.

We could just not hunt or kill any animals and then they would overpopulate, get disease, and then die by the thousands. Those that hunt and fish pay for their licenses which is used by the fish & game to promote the lives of the animals that you see in the wild. So those that cry over the death of an animal that is shot, should think twice concerning the alternative, which is far worse...

You should really feel sorry for the wilderbeast. After all they are the backbone of the food chain in Africa!

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[–] lauren_m775 12 years ago

I think you should feel sorry for all the vegetables that you kill. I am quite sure that as a vegetarian you eat fish. No they aren't vegetables, but most "vegetarians" eat fish and many eat chicken!

Vegetarians don't eat ANY meat. If you know a 'vegetarian' who eats fish, or chicken, then they are NOT a vegetarian. People who only eat fish are pescatarians, and people who eat chicken are just omnivores. Vegetarian means people who don't eat ANY animal. You can't be a vegetarian, BUT something-or-other... That means you aren't a vegetarian. So I'm fairly certain you should be hesitant next time you are 'quite sure' of something.

Also, that vegetable comment was ridiculous. Do vegetables have brains? Do they have feelings? Can they feel pain? No. But animals do.

Although I find the OPs bird comment stupid. You would prefer these smart, beautiful creatures die instead of a bird?

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[–] angelb24 18 years ago

WHAT ABOUT THE FISH?!?!?!

DOES NOONE CARE ABOUT THOSE INNOCENT LITTLE FISHIES THAT THE DOGS AT THE BEGINING OF THE FILM?!

DEATH TO THE DOGS, SAVE THE FISH!@)$!@

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[–] sleddogmusher007 18 years ago

how many of you all eat or know someone who eats fish,chicken,hamburgers, steaks, and any other meat products? well, you're doing to same thing as the dogs are doing. dogs ate the fish and the birds because they need to live. we eat meat so we can live. it's a tough world out there and everyone has their own place in it. get over the birds and fish dying and move on with your life!

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[–] DannyJacobs 18 years ago

Actually when we eat hamburgers, we dont do the same thing as dogs. The hamburger meat is made up in factories and no animals are killed via the process.

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[–] Sketch123 18 years ago

No animals killed? Where do you propose they actually get the meat from? The beef you buy for hamburger IS real meat, buddy, we're doing the same thing, just in a different way.

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[–] Maniac-9 11 years ago

The same people who say, oh what about the poor birds if you were all stranded in on a desert island, antarctica or wherever and had the same decision to make you would kill and eat the birds yourself. Every single time you'd make the same decision.

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[–] jaynekranc 10 years ago

This was just on again in honor of Paul Walker.

Can anyone say Donner Party?

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[–] juls_99504 15 years ago

lol

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[–] jonrod 18 years ago

Let give little test to the poster who were "Sorry for the birds and fish".

If your sorry for what the dogs ate, are you sorry for the cows (Steak), Pigs (Beef), fish and other animals you eat (That's meat you know). Better yet, my mother's family is a fan seafood or fish, are you going to curse them for eating the "poor fish"?

If your serious about being sorry about fish and birds, wipe the meat catagory in your diet, and don' be saying what you siad if you are a hunter or a meat lover.

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[–] clawclips 17 years ago

Sure, I might have felt a little sorry if the seagulls had saved a few human beings' lives.

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[–] angel32 18 years ago

I too feel sorry for any animal that has to die, but you just have to keep thinking that it's for the dogs' survival. The circle of life.

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[–] olde13 16 years ago

He is right - there are serious moral issues that ought not to be flippantly thrown aside, whatever the end vote of 'it's ok'or 'no, it's not'. what makes a dog's life more valuable than the birds and can that be justified?

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[–] olde13 16 years ago

"it's nature" is surely, in and of itself, not a justification of that view. what if in the end of this movie, we were to see that a bear comes along and eats the dogs? would you simply say, "oh, that's cool - it's nature"? i highly doubt it. what if the people got stranded in the storm and their only hope for survival was to eat the dogs? would it be OK then, as it would be 'natural' to try to save yourself?

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[–] MallowInLimbo 16 years ago

LOLOLOLOL
w-kirk is awesome
"dead birds= woot"
cruel... and yet so funny

Riley: A blue-ish green man... with a strange goatee... I'm guessing that's significant.

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[–] GabzGirl 15 years ago

I find it ironic how when we (and dogs) eat birds, nobody cares. But when we eat dogs, everyone is outraged. XD

It's nature!

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[–] andromache3 15 years ago

I felt sorry for the seagulls too but the dogs had to eat. Seagulls eat fish, don't they feel pain? It's the natural order of things. At least the birds didn't die for nothing.

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[–] Anti-Affectations 15 years ago

First of all, people are not carnivores, they are omnivores. No one would kill their companion unless they went seriously insane, and then the point of the movie would focus on feeling sympathy for the humans, because they are sick physically and mentally, and yes, we'd feel sorry for the animals, because we own dogs as companions. Do you think people in countries that eat dogs and cats sympathize with our animal rights? Heck, no! Secondly, if the story was about an abandoned pack of bears (I don't see how they'd be abandoned, but for analogy sake, let's say they are)you would probably feel bad if they learned how to kill and eat antelope or dogs or what have you, but you'd also realize that most bears are carnivores, and their instincts tell them to eat meat. Our instincts are to eat whatever we can find...snow, leaves, fruits, meat, etc. Humans also know how to ice fish. Your point is kind of moot, simply because it is not likely.

PS-Anything is "ok" for the sake of survival. It's all about survival of the fittest. What is "ok" for humanity is a completely different thing.

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[–] baldninja2004-1 15 years ago

LOL, Uh, if a bear ate the dogs at the end of the movie I'd have been too perplexed as to how a bear got to Antartica to begin with to even concern myself with its eating of the dogs. That would be one heck of a swim for that bear!

Are we seriously having people debating on here the morals of dogs eating birds and fish? Everything eats something. To concern yourself with fish or birds being eaten by dogs is, well, sorry to say it, but plain silliness. Do some research, people. Fish eat smaller fish. Predatory birds eat smaller birds, and fish, along with small mammals. Smaller birds eat insects, worms, and fish.

Good grief, when does it all end? Vegans and vegetarians want to be taken seriously, but come on, look at what you all say and tell us how this will ever happen. FFS, Someone needs to create a group that is against the eating of plant life, since life is so very precious. Then we can police all people around the World, along with all animals, parasites, insects, fish, birds and microorganisms to make sure that nothing eats anything ever again. All life on Earth can just sit there with hunger pangs and starve to death together...lol

As for me, I'm doing my part to end Global Warming, by eating one cow at a time. You have absolutely no idea how much methane has not been produced due to my efforts alone! ;)

It's always better to fart in the toilet than to poop in your pants!

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[–] baldninja2004-1 15 years ago

Oh, and why isn't anyone ever concerned about all of those poor, poor worms that were eaten by the birds? Noone ever seems to care about the worms, perhaps I should champion their cause, after all, I don't see myself eating them anytime soon.

It's always better to fart in the toilet than to poop in your pants!

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[–] alamay 15 years ago

I'm going to assume that the original poster here has never watched the National Geographic channel.

Nature's brutality may be difficult to comprehend, and even harder to watch, but it is the "nature of the beast." Survival is based on sacrifice, and sacrifice is part of survival. Sacrifices are made all the time to bring food to the table, even for vegans. Areas are cleared and plowed under to grow soy beans and alfalfa sprouts. Animals are displaced. Pesticides poison wild life, including "pests" such as locusts.

While it is hard to accept the killing of any living animal to meet the needs of the food chain, it is the way things work. I too am sorry to see any living thing die, even sea chickens. However, anyone feeling pity for the birds in this movie is obviously someone with a full belly and a warm roof over their heads.

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[–] igol 15 years ago

Go back to school.

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