A politically correct, diverse Alaska at the turn of the century, and what amounts to cartoon animals. At best a simple, good-hearted tale young kids might like.

JMHO

The preview was enough to turn me off. Thanks for confirming my feelings.

just the fact it would put money in hollywoods pocket keeps me away.

After he opened his mouth a while back, I'll never see it.

Another burned out actor trying to stay in the limelight. Guess it worked for Anthony Hopkins

I don't know how many black Frenchmen ran dog sleds delivering mail in the Yukon but I imagine there weren't many.

I agree with your review. The dog Buck was almost cartoonish with the contrived human emotions.

It's a kid's movie up until the gunplay. It pained me when he threw all those gold nuggets back in the river.

Wasn’t going too.

H F is a freeeeken Libtard MAGA hater, DemoSocialist !!!!


Used to like his movies, NO more.

H F hasn't recovered from his plane crash still.... painfully obvious.

The original with Clark Gable and Loretta Young was the best one.

Political correctness in the year 2020 means that you have to include at least one Negro in every movie, television show, commercial, or anything else that the public will see. The authenticity of the scene being filmed does not matter, as most of the people who pay to watch that stuff have been so brainwashed, that they don't know the truth anyway.

The movie it most reminded me of was 1,001 Dalmatians, I kept expecting Cruella De Ville to show up.

Didn’t help any when the CGI wolf pack hunts wild boar and flocks of just male ring neck pheasants up there in the Arctic.

Wife and I saw it this past Tuesday - I wasn’t impressed. It was rather corny.

I did like the upcoming Mulan movie due out March 27th - not so much for the story line but the background scenery looks outstanding.

Pretty much my assessment when the remake was first announced. ANY modern remake of a classic will be [bleep].

Of course I won't bother. It stars a POS...

Loved the book, which means I automatically distrust it as a movie, and doubly so any recently made movie. Then I saw the previews, which were not just CGI but really bad CGI.

Our resident liberal complaining about falsifying history to make it diverse?

Harrison Ford will be 78 in July. That's a bit old to be portraying this role. He's now an "environmental activist", so that's enough for me to not want to see this movie.

Just for the record...About 30% of American cowboys were black but until recently, you never saw a black in the western movies or tv. There were a lot of them in eastern Canada and the US had no shortage of them looking for something better. I have no idea how many of the gold rushers were black but I'm guessing there were quite a few. London seldom mentioned race other than Indians but in reality it would have been entirely possible for the guy to have been black.

That said, others have mentioned that Buck looked like a cartoon. Well, he IS a cartoon, just done a lot more fancy than his predecessors Snoopy & Bugs Bunny.

Is that true? A third of American cowboys were black? I knew there were some black cowboys. I know about Bass Reeves, a badass black lawman. I never heard that 3 out of 10 cowboys were black.

Was the dog CGI?

Resident liberal? I vote pro-life pro-gun and pro environment in that order and believe every individual should be equal under the law, free to pursue excellence and rated upon their own personal merits, if that makes me a Liberal so be it.

Anyways, while I’m complaining about the movie I might as well observe that it bothered me that the Black guy, who gets about as much screen time as Harrison Ford, Is kindly, wise and comical, and lives in a tent with his generically indigenous girlfriend, hardly the message I would want to convey to the kids at home this movie is aimed.

They are even shown sharing a bed albeit fully dressed

Disney is a disease.

Disappointing. All these great large screen TV's, and content continues to decline.
A really good new movie seems about as rare as an electable democratic presidential candidate.

After emancipation, thousands of newly freed blacks went west and added to the number of freed slaves in TX. The west was being settled and ranches were badly in need of cowboys. The freed slaves fit the bill nicely. A lot of them also joined the army. They were called Buffalo soldiers.

Actually, I found the Black guy more believable because he was African, I knew some kindly, good natured people much like him in Africa. And I also know Black folks were represented everywhere on our Frontiers, these same people far removed in mannerisms and outlook from any ‘Hood culture.

It was the context and the obvious message of it all that troubled me.

Yes, along with all the animals. Looks stupid. You can tell from the trailers on TV.

I should mention that most of the cowboys, both black and white, were just that - cowboys. They tended cattle. The tv westerns were just fiction. Real cowboys cowboyed. They all carried guns but most couldn't shoot worth a darn. Most of them couldn't afford the ammo and the practice time to get even remotely proficient. Quick draws were almost non-existent and shooting from the hip? What a joke.
Any of them who went to the Klondike would have likely been hard working miners, whether prospecting for themselves or hiring out to work in other mines.

I can see that happening. The slaves have all been freed in 1865, these guys can for the first time, go where they want to go, and they can wear a gun! Now that would be freedom. So they went out west and herded cattle.
Don't see many of 'em in our western movies.

Just from the trailers, yea it looked that way. Looked cheesy

Yep...you nailed it!

Birdy and I have a friend who is on history staff at Texas Tech univ. He does buff soldier at ft. Concho. He is an awesome guy. And knows his schidt! I’ve also done several other eras of living history with him too. He is quite the character. It’s amazing what he can pull out of his small wedge tent!!! We always ask him how the hell he gets all that stuff in there! Like Fibber Magee’s closet!!!

It's not at all far fetched. A black frenchman running mail in real life is entirely possible. The book is fiction and London didn't assign any race to the man. If London wanted the man to be an Indian he would have said so but for the rest of his characters he said nothing. A black is entirely possible.

Read the book over 60 years ago, when I was maybe 10 or 12. Close enough for me. Read so many books in the school library, tended to get in trouble over not doing homework and other bits of mandated crap. London, Jim Kjelgaard and most of Zane Grey's mythologies, were favorites back then.

Ain't been inside a movie theater in years and sure as hell wasn't gonna break the habit for this POS?

Any Jack London story could not be told today in his own words. The harsh realities of life and the day to day struggles in those environs does not fit the 21st century agenda. People dying because they are stupid will not be tolerated.

Was there a scene in the book where someone fell into a lake, got out, and then froze to death? I think I read that in high school.

Can you see them making a movie from Batard?

Best I remember from the story, the chick and her two male companions eventually all fell thru the ice and all succumbed due to their stupidity.

Edit. I believe her name was Mercedes. Been about 10 years since my last read.

Some people are shocked to know that Sandwich Islanders aka "Kanakas" we’re employed in the fur trade in the NW early on like 1810-11 ish. Lots of em!

With Jamie Fox as Black Leclere.

Nope, Jamie Fox would bring in modern ‘Hood speak, Most any African could do it better, or Denzel Washington.

Batard would be one movie where they could very well use computer imaging to make it real. That one would be very difficult with a real dog. Knowing Hollywood, though, they'd make Batard into a Pomeranian.

My late aunt was a college English professior. One of her favorites for class was Conrad’s " The Ni66er of the Narcissus". She sure as hell would have a tough time with that one now.

I’m trying to remember the name of the scout who was captured by Sitting Bull and his boys but Sitting Bull did not kill him we are told because he thought he was an Indian, the guy was actually a Hawaiian and I think it more likely that Lakotas did not kill him because they had never met a Hawaiian Islander before.

Frank Grouard? I should know but I forgot.

Actually, he was supposed to be from Quebec.... as when he sold the dog team, it was because it was losing the mail contract and he was returning back to Quebec....even today, and at that time in history....blacks from the Caribbean would migrate to Canada, and Quebec inside Canuckia if they were from one of the French Colonial islands...

I thought the movie was sorta Hokey, for the reasons as mentioned, but I'm not going to condemn the movie due to some actor's political stance in life.. yeah so its Disney, and politically correct Hollywood.. most of Hollywood is fiction anyway.. why should this be any different.. even the book was fiction...

If someone is bad all of a sudden because they went to a movie that had Harrison Ford, or any other actor in it.. sorta seems to be getting as crazy as plenty on the radical left are.... do we let politics run our lives down to the bare basics...

if nothing else, I really enjoyed the scenery in the movie.. some of you guys are awfully darn picky in minute detail...if a movie bothers you for the reasons mentioned...

hell my Toyota Truck was built by Japs whose grand parents were the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor...should I go out and set it on fire and destroy it, because of that?

Loosen up and live a little maybe...couldn't hurt ya....

I haven't seen it. Other than the fake dog, did the movie follow the book or was it Hollywoodized beyond recognition?

you are a dumb ass if you think Mike is a liberal.

Damn, I forgot...........Idahoan's are experts on Negroes, being as there's so many of them there.

Speaking of early day immigrants to the West.

Idahoans are familiar, but most others are not.

Southwest Idaho is high mountain desert. It contains one river which winds around and eventually ends up dumping into the Snake in Oregon. This one county is about the same area as Deleware and Connecticut combined.

The river, the mountains it flows through, and the county which contains it all are known as the Owyhees.

All because someone back in the 1700s did not know how to spell Hawaii.

The are is named for a cadre of Hawaiian immigrant trappers who were lost there.

Nobody in KY reads history?

He is just a dumbass!

I agree with you Seafire, I am not going to run a political litmus test on every artist. OK, Harrison Ford is a climate warrior nut, but I still enjoy some of his movies. Just watched Witness the other day on DirecTv, he was great in that film.
I like Van Gogh. Got the Sunflowers painting hanging in my living room. Am I supposed to research his biography, and if I learn he was a Dutch Communist in 1880, should I burn his painting in the wood stove?

Now, a case like Jane Fonda, who committed treason during the Vietnam War, that is a unique case. She should have been tried in Federal Court.

The best estimate is 35,000 cowboys working the drives and ranches in the post Civil War era. The most generous estimate that cannot really be proven is of that number-7,000 were black and mixed black race. I went to public school, but I don't believe those numbers add up to 3 out of 10 or 33.3%. 5% at best and that number seems unusually high given historical data indicates the black population in the western US during the era of cattle drives was about 1%. The myth of the prevalence of the "black" cowboy is just more BS revisionist history. But hey-anything is possible since Whitey has covered up that blacks were indispensable in every major historical event and achievement of man since Adam and Eve. Eve was black don't cha know just like half of all couples depicted in modern TV commercials.

True ,but they were called CowBoyz.

Any figures are rough estimates at best. Racism would have distorted them numbers a lot. A rancher might have said he had 20 cowboys while he he didn't mention another 5 or 6 black ones who he didn't consider to be people.

Actually Mexicans were the original Cowboys.There were probably more Vaqueros in the Old West then honkies.

I defer to your judgement, oh Einstein of the Prairies....

Yes, but Mexicans don't count, because the evil White man didn't go to their kingdom, where they were busy inventing such things as a way to send man to the moon and how to cure cancer, and kidnap them, and bring them to America and make slaves out of them.

I guess ole Hawkeye was practicing his trolling this morning Birdy.

Actually, I though Harrison Ford played his character well, I found him relatable:

He has regrets, resides in a shack, lives simply, likes to travel, sits alone and drinks out front in the evenings, and has a dog 😎

Except my dog could GAS if I get drunk or not, long as I throw something for her to bring back while I’m sitting and drinking.

Naah, it’s prob’ly related to my opinion on the whole Joo thing. In fact, when I referred to you as Einstein I thought “Oh Crap, now all that crowd here is gonna get triggered.” 🙂

I went to public school too. But mine taught math. I have no idea if your numbers of participants are correct, but 35÷7=5 and 1/5=20%. Still not 33%, but a far cry from 5%.

Me too. I'm on a solo mission to bankrupt the place.

Here's a blurb from wikipedia that puts the number of black cowboys at about 25%.

Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to 25 percent of workers in the range-cattle industry from the 1860s to 1880s, estimated to be between 6,000 and 9,000 workers.[1][2] Typically former slaves or born into the families of former slaves, many black men had skills in cattle handling and headed West at the end of the Civil War.[3] Though the industry generally treated black men equally to white men in terms of pay and responsibilities, discrimination persisted, though to a lesser extent than in other industries of the time.[1]

Wife wants to see this one, she loves any movie that includes a dog in its storyline, TOGO is another that she wants to see.

If its cheesy.
Got CGI animals
Liberal Socialist Democrat Harrison Ford
And a totally outta place Snowgro in it.




Im going!!!
LOL!!!

My wife and I watched that old fart,Harrison Ford,on Jimmy Kimmel.The old adage about actors certainly applies to this moron.When they don't have a script from which to read,they prove themselves to be dumber than a bucket of hair.

My God was he stupid.

Does HF get murdered by Indians at the end, and does Buck kill a bunch of them for revenge?



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If you pick a group of actors at random and read through their credentials, you'll find that most of them majored in theater or something similar if they have any advanced education at all. Very few of them have any kind of education in the real world. It's all make believe. The make believe carries over into their vision of real life and badly distorts it. They're simply out of touch with the real world.

Not Indians. An evil white man is the murderer. Cartoon Buck kills him then runs off with a pack of wolves and lives happily ever after.

Copy. Evil white man sends a better message than indignant indigenous.




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Did she enjoy Cujo?

L.W.

At least they gave Harrison a cool-looking old lever action he sensibly packed into the bush, which he does pack when saving Buck's life. I'd have to see it again to see how authentic and period-correct that rifle is.

Probably. lol

The dog used in the movie was a stray found in Emporia Ks, after the shooting had started. Ford had been acting with a human on green screen they then "dubed" the dog in. From the news article on KWCH in Wichita.
EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW)


It was a match made in the movies! An Emporia dog is starring alongside famous Hollywood actor Harrison Ford in the new movie, “Call of the Wild.”

The movie is based off the book “Call of the Wild,” published in 1903. The staring animal in the movie is named Buck.

According to the movie bio, “Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world.”

Producers were looking for a dog like the one in the book which was a cross between a farm collie-type dog and a St. Bernard.

When they went looking for the right dog, they came across Buckley at the Emporia Animal Shelter.

“Buckley was found as a stray, so he was wondering the streets of Emporia, Kansas. He was a good 30 pounds underweight. You know, he’d been there for three weeks, so I can only imagine how emaciated he must’ve been when he was first picked up,” said Jessica Steele-Sanders, the wife of the movies director, Chris Sanders.

When Steele-Sanders was looking for the right dog, she said the dog in the book and Buckley were an exact match.

Steele-Sanders said Buckley is a classic rags-to-riches story.

The Sanders’ family enjoyed working with Buckley so much, they adopted him.

"Call of the Wild" hits movie theaters on February 21.

^^ This.^^

I have liked Harrison Ford's acting ever since he shot the big sword man in the first Raiders, and wanted to see Jack London's book on the screen, but when Ford ran his mouth recently I decided he would not get one cent of ticket sale nor rental percentage from me.

Thanks for the review, Birdy. Didn't think I was missing much to skip the movie, and you confirmed that.

Sadly that’s true. One of the great things about London’s work is how it teaches a yini reader that there are consequences for decisions and how stupidity often kills

I agree that the movie. It was horrible. I was ready to leave within the first ten minutes.

Didn’t HF start out as a stage carpenter?

Wasn't aware of this, looks better, hope it comes to the big screen, only way I can do Netflix is on a 4 1/2" iphone screen...

You sure were enthralled with AOC. Weird when men embrace emotional based thinking

“Enthralled”? “Embraced emotional based thinking”?

Ya need to look up some posts there Jose. Where was I ever even remotely an AOC supporter?

I said a) I would sleep with her and b) she represented an existential threat to Conservatism.

Fortunately the Indian Indian guy telling her what to say was run off, possibly by the machinations of the DNC themselves and she has likewise incurred the wrath of that body.

Young people are notorious for having both strong opinions and not voting, hopefully this will remain true this next time around, because in the upcoming millennial generation, Bernie is #1, AOC could be around for a while.

I would still sleep with her tho.

And the Hawaiian cowboys......don’t forget them

yeah i'd hit it, but she would have to be careful with those teeth.

This!

This

I'd sleep outside in the cold in my truck, before I'd even sleep under the same roof with that stupid ugly bimbo...

not criticizing your guys choice for yourselves...

I wouldn't get near her even if she was a Republican.... much less even shake her hand...

Enough good looking women in the world to sleep with.. and she ain't one of them...

and as a side point, I don't consider Mike or Roger as the 'hard up' types...
and I also tend to stick to the Northern European types...

Yeah, when I saw Harrison Ford on the ad I passed. Flaming lib.