Keeping cold (Part 2)

If you missed part one, catch up here.

RIMYC: Everyone in this movie is cold all the time. The oil rig is cold, the plane is cold, the bar is cold, the tundra is cold and the forest is cold.
Inherent flaw: I wanted this movie to be Taken on Ice (with wolves!), which is what the trailer seemed to promise. It is not.

RIMYC: It's a movie about a dog sled driver (and his dogs) in which the main character (and his dogs) gets trapped in the Antarctic winter.
Inherent flaw: Not Paul Walker's best work.

RIMYC: Some guys take a hunting trip to frigid Alaska, where they walk around in the cold, sloshing through rivers and trying to avoid being eaten by bears.
Inherent flaw: Anthony Hopkins creeps me out.

RIMYC: A "world famous" pond hockey team battles NHL greats during the Alaskan winter.
Inherent flaw: Russell Crowe is from known-desert Australia. Just seeing him makes me hot*. And how did a hockey team in Alaska become so enticing that the New York Rangers decided they need to come play them?

RIMYC: Snow and cold are an ever-present character in this movie about a small Swedish girl who befriends a small Swedish vampire boy.
Inherent flaw: I think it sends the wrong message about children befriending vampires**.

RIMYC: This movie probably isn't as good as the original, but there are fewer scenes with Adelie penguins who inexplicably have Mexican accents, which makes it better in my book.
Inherent flaw: The coldness is animated on a computer in an office somewhere, so the cold just doesn't feel real.

RIMYC: Keyser Soze is so cool.
Inherent flaw: Not necessarily a "cold weather" movie, per se.

RIMYC: That ice-encrusted hull of the frozen spaceship floats through vacuous outer space as three astronauts shiver inside without anyway to create heat. Later they splash into the refreshing ocean waters.
Inherent flaw: Tom Hanks' wife looks hot when she is sitting around worrying. Take that how you will.

RIMYC: Jack Nicholson 'n' friends are stuck in a remote hotel all winter because the roads leading to it are snowed over. It is too cold to go outside for more than a few minutes.
Inherent flaw: Probably too scary to actually make the viewer cool off. I spend too much time shaking in fear to relax and let the coldness sink in.

RIMYC: The entire first act is set on The Ice Planet Hoth. In one scene things are so cold Han is forced to shove Luke into the belly of his tauntaun to keep him from dying. Later in the film Han is frozen solid in a brick of space metal.
Inherent flaw: The steamy, clammy swamps of Dagobah.

RIMYC: Penguins spend three months huddled together in a massive pile, without moving, because it's the only way to combat the subzero temperatures. If an egg touches the ground for even a second, the chick will die. In the summer the penguins swim in frosty waters, dodging icebergs.

Inherent flaw: None. This is the perfect movie for making yourself cold. Unless you're now turned off by Morgan Freeman. Which I'm not.

Coming next time*** (probably immediately after the next person posts a blog) my "Top Eleven TBD" worst movies to watch when it's 100 degrees in your house.

(*) You're lying if you say otherwise.
(**) I'm not saying kids shouldn't befriend vampires, I just think they should be more open about it. The girl keeps here vampire boyfriend a secret, possibly because she is ashamed of him, and that is really just hurtful and mean. I suppose an argument could be made that kids are hurtful and mean, at least when it comes to treating their peers, but that doesn't mean we have support this idea in our movies.
(***) Or the time after that.