Sunday, July 10, 2005
Tom Cruise's Love Rival.
What a lovely thought. Tom Cruise being trampled by a tribe of penguins. In the few cinemas where it has been shown, the low budget documentary March of the Penguinshas been pulling in larger audiences than War of the Worlds.
Shot by Luc Jaquet, a 24 year old with a masters degree in animal biology, the film cost just £5m. to make. It's success is due mainly to word of mouth. Luc spent 13 months in Antartica trailing a flock of lovesick emperor penguins as they make their 70 mile journey, walking through blizzards and temperatures of minus 85 fahrenheit, to find the ice shelf where they breed. One critic has described it as an avian version of When Harry Met Sally.
So popular is the film, it was opening in another 350 cinemas this weekend, and is tipped to be far more profitable per pound spent than Cruise's film.
I sincerely hope Tom Cruise's overblown ego is severely dented by the news that filmgoers actually think penguins are more interesting than him. It will be even more crushed if Katie Holmes agrees, and marries a horny three foot high big beaked bird wearing a tuxedo - that's an emperor penguin I'm talking about, not Cruise.
Shot by Luc Jaquet, a 24 year old with a masters degree in animal biology, the film cost just £5m. to make. It's success is due mainly to word of mouth. Luc spent 13 months in Antartica trailing a flock of lovesick emperor penguins as they make their 70 mile journey, walking through blizzards and temperatures of minus 85 fahrenheit, to find the ice shelf where they breed. One critic has described it as an avian version of When Harry Met Sally.
So popular is the film, it was opening in another 350 cinemas this weekend, and is tipped to be far more profitable per pound spent than Cruise's film.
I sincerely hope Tom Cruise's overblown ego is severely dented by the news that filmgoers actually think penguins are more interesting than him. It will be even more crushed if Katie Holmes agrees, and marries a horny three foot high big beaked bird wearing a tuxedo - that's an emperor penguin I'm talking about, not Cruise.
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