Alaska Reality


In todays advanced info and technology it is disappointing to see Alaska portrayed as an extension of northern California.
First - a location three hundred miles north of Anchorage is NOT just outside of Anchorage - it's just short of Fairbanks....You would fly into Fairbanks to get to a location less than a hundred miles away. Anchorage Airport looks very similar to most big city airports with cement sidewalks.
There are no towns between Anchorage and Fairbanks more than a few hundred in population and none with large businesses and beautifully laid out streets with lots of stores and people on streets. There are no brick buildings in the interior because the cost of transporting building materials inland is way too expensive.
Cedar trees don't grow in the interior and neither do large pines. The trees have lost their leaves by Dec. and the spruce north of Anchorage are mostly short and spindly.
December is cold and mostly dark.
Alaska does have a large population of people and they do watch television - can you make it at least slightly believable if you are going to pass it off as Alaska??

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While enjoying the movie, I agree that even more than the strange tri plot of personal fulfillment, romance, and is this really Santa the depiction of December in Alaska as sunny, green, without any clouds, the most annoying part of the film.

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I'm watching right now and thinking to myself "if THAT was Alaska I'd move there in a heartbeat!" LOL I'm in New England and won't move anywhere any colder....TV Alaska looks amazing! ;)

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I totally agree. What really got me was that there is no town, NO TOWN, in Alaska without any Native people. Even if they didn't shoot it in Alaska, they could've at least found a Native Americans from one of the Lower 48 tribes. It's annoying and short sighted to see these kinds of thing time and again in movies. If you're going to do it, do it right

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People, People! This is television! It's not a documentary, it's just a movie! Get over it. It's a sweet story and, while maybe not award-level acting, not so bad, really.

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I can understand rolling your eyes at the portrayal of Alaska in this film, but you seem to be taking it so personally lol. You don't hear people from New Jersey complaining about Harold and Kimar going to a White Castle in Cherry Hill where no White Castle has ever and will ever exist and they travel all around the state as if it's 15 miles one way.

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