A true story that will touch your heart. A girl and her killer whale in some water that doesn't exist. You will not believe your eyes.
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Free Willy: Whales Of Anguish
A true story that will touch your heart. A girl and her killer whale in some water that doesn't exist. You will not believe your eyes.
Thanks to BG! Bigger version here!
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are DVD artwork artists even trying anymore?
wv: crous
Not with straight to DVD b-movie ultra sequels they aren't, photoxris.
Of course, the ones doing the covers for blockbusters don't try much harder.
they're still making Free Willy sequels?!?!
LoL @ the little tropical island oasis in the backdrop, and the awkward costume captain guy, and eye-popping whale, and the girl with a whale crush and and and...
in the era of 3d animation it's kinda weird to see a cardboard-cutout killer whale.
Yeah, if it weren't for that pesky 'water' in the front, the image of a resonably at least 15ft tall Bindi Irwin doing a dental checkup on a baby orca would have convinced me...
The eyes scare me.
Why didn't they color the eye blue?
Seriously, that whale has an incredibly creepy eye.
I like that the whale has a human eye. It makes me feel more connected to the freaky, little thing.
They gave the pirate a second, stubby little left arm growing out of his shoulder, and took away his right arm...
And for those naysayers, yes, I know that the stubby little arm is a cloud the EXACT SAME COLOR AS HIS BLOUSE, but the point behind photoshop is that you should avoid these mistakes.
WV: swadenc. swab the deck? for a pirate mention, no less...
That is the smallest whale I have ever seen. Looks more like a large fish. I though killer whales were about twice the size of humans at birth, growing up to 10 metres in length as adults. So the little girl is either a giant, or the whale is a mutant dwarf whale. And the whole things looks so obvious as a stick-on for every character to create a cheesy composite.
Is that Michael Richards??
Michael "willy" Richards?
Why is the girl in a dry-suit en the pirates aren't?
Freaky human eye. Little girl if the whale is offering you candy and toys, RUN!
I don't think baby killer whales are that small even at birth.
I'm willing to bet the movie itself is just as fake and crap. Just a hunch I have.
Question for non-Aussies - do people around the world know who Bindi Irwin is? I'm curious to know how far her vile marketing agents have spread the cheese.
A tropical island, and a penguin. TOGETHER AT LAST.
wv: boonsse
Is that white stuff spray? From waves crashing against the rocks? Where are the other waves? Is that a penguin in the same locale as palm trees? Is the girl's hand always perfectly dry?
I think that this is an attempt to copy an old trend: Little girls use to get a "thing" for black and white stallions; over the years those stallions morphed into little brightly colored ponies. Why can't it work for orcas (soon to be my-little-clownfish) too?
The real disaster here is that there's four Free Willy movies. The first one was about as one note as you can get. At the very least, it had some some pretty iconic artwork attached to it.
@kyle - you're right, the artwork for the original Free Willy was actually pretty great. Iconic, but also very well done.
You get what your budget pays for I guess
Plastic water, plastic whale, plastic backdrop and plastic girl. What can possibly go wrong?
@DanH: I practically live under a rock and I know who she is...but I don't think, say, my parents would until I explained the parentage. It seems like people are exploiting her and the death of her dad...? You know, "Shh! Don't say anything bad about her, she has no daddy anymore!" (Which is terrible, but it doesn't entitle her to a career...) I did see a Bindi doll in a store maybe a year ago, too...but they weren't everywhere like many other celeb dolls.
@orosganos - it's not so much that I feel she isn't entitled to a career (insert Andy Warhol quote), just that they've exploited her as you say. Practically any kid, given the choice to be a famous star, will jump at the opportunity.
I dunno - it's just the "hey, your dad just died in a freak accident, how about you deal with it by becoming a child star". Cos yknow chid stars always turn out so mentally balanced anyways...
In response to Dan H., I both know who Bindi Irwin is and like her.
"Escape from Pirates Cove"? So... is Beau Bridges replacing Kurt Russell in the role of 'Snake' Plissken? Jeez... seems a like a let-down rescuing a whale after having rescued a President from New York and a doomsday device from LA in his first two movies.
*cries* why did a mad scientist surgically remove the eye of that poor "whale"? And, where did they get the giant humanoid replacement? It's twice the size of a normal orca eye (only compared to the face size, on a real scale, the eye is the only normally sized part of the whale). It's the wrong color, it's in the wrong spot... it's just... wrong! And it won't stop staring at me!! Thank god I work nights, I don't think I'd be able to sleep now if I tried.
I really like the way the pirate (?) is looking off to the side at something out of shot. I can hear him now, thinking, "Uh-oh, here comes one of those Photoshop Disaster guys."
DanH: Isn't it Steve Irwin's daughter?
Creepy pic. Scary eye.
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AWESOME!
Cut them some slack, after all they spent so much time on the reflections.
I think it's weird that the water is so shallow that she can stand on solid ground and yet they managed to fit a killer whale there. That takes skill
From the people who brought you Lego Star Wars comes ... cardboard cut-out Free Willy.
Coming soon: Etch A Sketch Transformers.
Ouch. Ugliness from top to bottom.
@DanH: Bindi is known even here, in Argentina. Her show is in a kid's channel for all Latinamerica (my son used to watch it, now he goes for more "gorier" stuff in Animal Planet).
BTW: How many times should they free Willy? Seems he keeps coming back to cautivity, maybe they should leave him in peace, he loves the aquarium.
VW: Fercet, as in what you get when you mix a ferret with a cetacean.
@DanH, Bindi has her own show on one of the nature cable channels in the US (Discovery Kids, I think) so a lot of Americans know who she is. As for the cast, I feel bad for Beau Bridges - his brother is an Oscar favorite and he's in Free Willy 6 or whatever this is.
Gah! It's looking at me!
Beau watch out, there's a evil penguin going to attack you...!
I hate to be anal about this, but Orcas aren't whales. They're large dolphins.
@ DanH
I'm in America, and we generally know who Bindi Irwin is. Steve Irwin was pretty popular here for awhile (there were countless parodies of him in popular culture) and when he died Bindi kind of came to our attention. I don't think she has any shows here people watch or anything, but we know who she is.
check this out, the model does even have 2 skin tones!
http://www.asos.com/By-Caprice/By-Caprice-Dolly-Mixture-Hipster-Bikini-Pants/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=849783&SearchQuery=bikini&sh=0&pge=6&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=SpotsStripes
Poor Beau Bridges...
Hibryd, orcas, like most dolphins and a few other categories of whale, belong to the suborder of toothed whales. In other words, yes, orcas are in the dolphin family, but dolphins are in the whale order, so they're all whales.
Including this rare Orca themeparkensis.
If Willy would just stay the hell out of places he doesn't belong, they wouldn't have to keep freeing him! Imagine the tax dollars it must take to keep freeing that idiot whale from its predicaments. And it sure has a thing for small children! I say drop it off halfway across the world and let it be someone else's annoyance from now on!
This is somewhat disturbing. Pirates Cove is the name of a nude beach in San Luis Obispo County in California. Do people look into this shit when they name these movies?
Do they look into what? Nude beaches in San Luis Obispo County? No. No, I don't think they do.
It's that a gigantic girls she is bigger that the whale
I don't know anything about whales really... but my first reaction is, that can't be it's real eye, followed by, I thought a whale would be bigger than her.
This cover is just horrendous, urgh, I can't look at it any longer
still dry hair
OH my god! There are pinguins in tropical places?!?
Bindi has gotten so much older. I haven't seen her for a few years.
Smallest killer whale EVER! Even if it is a young one, those things are massive.
Sure hope that killer whale can kill stingrays.
And the girl is bigger than the whale.
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