I really enjoyed the movie too. I love the actors and I liked the fact that instead of being attacked by a polar bear (which would have been realistic too since they had to evacuate some bears during the shooting) he was attacked by moskitos. When I was young I went to a boy scout camp (for children it was called the "wolf cubs" in french) and there was an invasion of black flies. There were clouds of black flies. For some reasons I was more affected then the others and my neck and ears started to swell and I started to vomit so they sent me to the hospital and returned home.
Frankie

Amen!

1. If it wasn't for the scouts, I couldn't have stood the last several years of camping with the scouts - the misery has been exquisite.

2. My kind of camping does not exist in the (over) populous Midwest - I can get away with what we did no more than 2 times a year (non-winter and winter) or I'll wear it out - we took advantage of our contiguous boundaries/interconnected trails with the county forest preserve and picked routes carefully to wind up in seemingly remote areas in both the preserve and the reservation. We (adults) are already plotting the next route to swing around a different (longer) loop with different stops.

To make matters worse - the only "experienced" adults in our unit have a lot of Philmont Trips - and zero, none, nada other experiences. Hardly my style... Philmont is fantastic, but 50,000 - 75,000 visitors a year and fairly rigid agendas - <shudder> - not my cuppa.

Gimme real wilderness - oh, Chris, sorry, but leave the dang horses home. Some otherwise reasonable folks get pretty danged arrogant sitting in a saddle... unlike our esteemed moderator. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between the tail end of the critter and the person astride it... the few exceptions I've encountered have been very noteworthy individuals.

3. It is pathetic that it has taken all this much time to finally get the unit motivated to do this sort of thing. I'll be seeing these kids in our Venturing Crew in a few short years, thank goodness - no holds bared then.

I hate sharing "my" wilderness with other folks.. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I have the worst itch to move back way north for good...

I'm not really anti-social... well, not in town, anyway...

Well ya won't find it at Blockbuster (at least not in my neighborhood). I checked last night. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

No, you might have to try a specialty video store that has a better selection of foreign/art films. (I find the Blockbuster stores in my neighbourhood are pretty much limited to relatively recent Hollywood releases; even movies that were commercial successes 3 or 4 years ago are often not available.)

You can order it online from
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Default.asp

It's "out of stock" at amazon.com but they did have a limited number available in their "Used and New" section.

It's expensive, though - $30 US at Amazon.com, $35 Canadian from Chapters/Indigo.

Lets do a pass-around. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Okay, I put my copy up on the Lending Library forum. You get first dibs, brian. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

>>I liked the fact that instead of being attacked by a polar bear (which would have been realistic too since they had to evacuate some bears during the shooting) he was attacked by moskitos.

There was probably an intentional irony in the fact that he flew Mosquitos during the war. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />