Misinformational Movie of the Year?

Your comments about this movie sound a bit pompous! Take it from someone who was on set, I think you'll find your opinion very wrong! There was great care taken working with the hawks with professionals. Also, this movie has a great story!
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get over yourself...this is a great story and has tremendous photo appeal!!!

By getting on your own high horse...Nice.
That is all.

Hey, lassie was un-realistic, and what did it harm, nothing. Mainly because you had a bunch of goof balls talking to thier dogs. But movies have the ability to inspire. We are all inspired by movies. Thats why we watch them. Having a movie that portrays the training of a red tailed hawk that is "un-realistic" is going to inspire people to train them on thier own. Besides the fact they are a protected species, they are dangerous, they are fragile, it takes a LOT of damn studying, and even MORE hard work and patience, you can BET YOUR ASS im gonna be upset if it isn't realistic.

I REALLY do hope im wrong. Because if im right, than countless morons around the country will attempt it because they saw how easy it was in the movie. If it is portrayed correctly then ill be very happy, as it should inspire people to STUDY first, and get an idea of what REALISTICALLY to expect if you are interested in this. Hell, every time advertising agencies deem a certain breed of dog as "cute" animal shelters and rescue centers fill up with them becaus people buy em, then find out they don't like em. The EXACT same thing could happen with red tails, only the laws concerning them are much more strict. Not to mention that almost everyone in the country can't tell the difference between speices... God knows how many idiots out there will trap a peregrin falcon(threatened speices) and end up killing it while trying to feed it hamburger meat. See what im talking about?

High horse my butt. Sorry for being protective of an animal that i have seen with my own eyes, treated so poorly by the ill informed that the animal died because of thier caring nature.

Im sure it was all done profesionally, but its the STORY that will inspire, and if it inspires "un-realistically"... well, lets just say the emergency rooms of the country will certainly get thier fair share of facial and extremety laceration victims.

Hey dimwit, maybe you need to see Sideways again; Sideways wasn't about being an alcoholic. It did deal with appreciating wine and after the movie opened the sales of pinot noir went up by 22 percent. But you're probably right and I'm sure NO ONE is drinking to excess or even <gasp> getting drunk If this movie turns out to be any good I'm sure there will be plenty of people who will romanticize the idea of training their own hawks without any previous experience. People seem to mimic what they see on the big screen. Next time you cite an example to bolster your arguement you should give it a little more thought. Try not to hurt yourself....

Careful, your ignorance is showing. I really doubt that the 4000 practicing falconers in the US fit your rather misinformed stereotype. What most of the falconry community has a problem with is the references to "breaking" the hawk and other references about the hawk needing to be nearly killed in the training. The truth is really very different.

Should any of this be the responsibility of the film makers?

Fight Clubs have been started, Dalmations abused, People started eating Fava beans. Ferris Bueller made it trendy to skip school, PCU had people throwing meat, and I'm sure more than one person tried heroine as a result of having watched Trainspotting.

Kids are jumping off their roofs immitating wrestlers, Burning things thanks to Beavis & Butthead, and a woman actually froze to death attempting to find an unclaimed fortune buried in a snow bank on a roadside in Minnesota.

My point being, people are idiots, and are going to do stupid idiotic things. Blaming this movie for the mistreatment of Hawks (before even seeing it) is just another way of passing the buck, and misplacing the blame.

I think we ALL agree the OP is an idiot
So the movie MIGHT get people interested in the craft and they will look into it.
After watching "Explorers" kids wanted to learn about astronomy, they weren't outside building spaceships out of garbage cans.

who the hell even KNOWS where there is red-tailed hawks? Or how to recognize them? And if they do, they probably have an interest in it already anyways so they know what not to do.

Okay, I only have one or two things I'd like to add to some of the stuff that's already been said here. Firstly, BobTheBird, I can see where you're coming from but you really made what you had to say sound arrogant and managed to piss people off. As someone who did falconry for a few years I know why you get upset by the rubbish you sometimes see in movies regarding falconry but putting down a film even before you've seen it is over the top. Secondly, to the guy who said these movies won't make people want to go out and capture Redtails to train them - you're wrong. Have you ever heard of the English movie called Kes. It's about a young boy who takes a Kestrel from the wild and trains it. That movie inspired hundreds of kids to go out and raid Kestrel nests to train them. How do I know? Because being a falconer you meet other like minded people and I lost count of the number who told me they got into falconry after seeing Kes and went out and took a Kestrel from the wild. Having trained a Redtail myself, (captive bred btw, I live in the UK and we don't have them wild anyway), BobTheBird is right when he says they're fragile. It sounds dumb that a predator can be 'fragile', I know, but they are. They're prone to foot infections like 'bumblefoot' (sry, that's what we call it in the UK, might be different in other countries), the foot gets infected, swells to twice it's size and if left untreated will cause blood poisoning and death pretty quickly. I could name other problems Redtails seem particularly prone too besides. In short, taking them from the wild is a bad idea, unless you know what you're doing and have a permit from the Dep Of Enviroment (or whatever you have where you are). If you see this movie and fancy trying falconry, take a falconry coarse and get taught bby experts. To the person who said something about, "there's more important things to worry about", - if we just forgot about 'everything else', just because there's "more important things to worry about", the world would fall to pieces. And in nature especially, we'd have a lot of extinct animals by now. Maybe it doesn't matter to you but here's a newsflash - the world doesn't revolve around you or the things you worry about.