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Eight Below (2006) - 7 corrections

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Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance

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Towards the end of the movie, when they are flying a helicopter, they are flying a helicopter from the Norwegian company AirLift, registered LN-OMB, very unlikely to have a Norwegian helicopter in New Zealand. Also, the boat they land on is named "Polarsyssel", a Norwegian name, and signs onboard are in Norwegian. [Considering they were on their way to a Norwegian research station, it is almost guaranteed they would be on a Norwegian chopper, and ship. Planes and ships by their very nature travel the world. I can go to an airport in Canada, and point out planes from numerous countries. An air charter place company from Canada is one of the largest transport companies, operating mostly from Argentina and New Zealand when they are supplying Antarctica research stations, and they use Canadian registered planes. No mistake.]

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This movie has these dogs playfully barking almost constantly. These breeds of dogs, particularly Huskies, rarely, if ever, bark in a playful way. The only point in the movie where I would expect to hear barking would be during the leopard seal attack and it would be a very angry bark with a growl. Although mostly quiet, when happy, these breeds also groan, growl, and howl as their way of communicating, which is something you do not see in this movie. [Impossible to judge a small group of dogs' behavior according to a general behavior across the breed. The dogs were also alone for months, and we don't know their behavior when alone.]

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Throughout the movie the sound from the yellow DeHavilland Beaver airplane is that of a piston engine. The aircraft in the movie was a turboprop. A deliberate foley decision to make the plane sound more authentic, but a mistake nevertheless. [The aircraft in the movie resembles much more a DeHavilland Otter than a Beaver, even though it had the word Beaver painted on the side. The Beaver has a blunt rotary nose while the Otter has a pointy nose, sometimes confused for a Pilatus. The Otter was originally called a King Beaver, which might mean the plane in the movie is an early 1950's vintage, but soon renamed Otter, in both single and twin engine. The single engine plane, as seen in the movie, can either be a turboprop, or a radial piston engine. It can also have a PZL radial engine from an Antonov An-2. All this means, is that with the variety of engines available for the Otter, it could very well have a radial piston engine.]

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