Supelice Dreadfully Boring
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
bellino-angelo2014 I saw this movie for the first time in April 2009, when it came out in theaters in Italy, and I loved it . After some month I bought it in DVD and I re-saw it multiple times until now.The first time I saw it I was literally blown away because I never saw such wonderful images about our planet Earth (I was 18 years old at the time), and I am a great animal lover (of all types of animals). And the music is just wonderful, in every single scene, from the North Pole scenes to the ending sequence, and the narration of James Earl Jones is just awesome.Here the central roles are of three animal families; Polar bears, Humpback whales and African elephants. It follows in particular a mother polar bear that stays always close to their cubs while battling the harsh elements of the Arctic, a Humpback whale migrating with her baby in the search of warmer waters, and an African elephant with her baby that search, with her elephant group, the Okavango delta, full of fresh water and grass.And there are some spectacular scenes of various environments, and clips of various animals in their daily routines, like New-Zealand's birds of Paradise attracting females, or great white sharks attacking (in slow-motion) sea lions, and even dolphins and sail-fin fish attacking tiny fish.My favorite scene was the one with the male polar bear (the cub's dad) fighting with a walrus, eventually being wounded and scratched by the other walruses's tusks, and I also loved the baby mandarin duck sequence.This movie is also a summary of BBC's ''Planet Earth'', of the previous year, and that was narrated by David Attenborough. I also saw the featurette about the making of Earth, with the cameramen narrating the behind-the-scenes fatigue of getting perfect shots of our planet, and they made it.It's perfect for everybody to see and I never get tired of re-watching it almost once a year because, for me, it's one of the greatest documentary movies I ever seen in my life!
federico-robello A nice documentary on Earth.Narration is good and the story goes on well following the migration of different species. The images are absolutely astonishing and accurate. Under sea images are most probably the best part of the movie but also the aerial ones taken in Africa are gorgeous. The story teller is also adapt to the images and fluently guides the spectators throughout the different scenes.Stay till the end to watch some behind the scene of the documentary that explain the difficulties of the different operators in capturing such incredible images.
Clayton Davis In 2006, the AMPAS awarded one of the most innovative documentaries depicting wildlife in the coldest place on Earth, that film was March of the Penguins narrated by Academy Award Winning Actor Morgan Freeman.Walt Disney Studios has had a monopoly on the animated circuit for decades now. They've taken their stabs at live action film making and it's been hit and miss all across the board. Disney then created a sub-division called Disneynature and release its first feature film titled Earth. This is absolutely one of the most touching and informative documentaries I've seen in quite sometime. Narrated by the great James Earl Jones, Earth doesn't offer anything new to anyone who has watched the Discovery Channel in the past five years or follows the Global Warming crisis very closely. Earth touches very deeply on the issue and takes a very liberal approach on the subject matter.It enables an emotional connection to nature that I haven't experienced before. It also shows not only the beauty and mystifying parts of our gorgeous planet, but the grunt and disturbing aspects that it often entails. It's one thing to watch "Mufasa" fall from a cliff in to a stampede or Bambi's mother be shot by a hunter in the middle of the woods. It's all good because at the end of the film we know it is, just that, a film. This shows penguins, polar bears, elephants, all types of families, from all walks of life, living and dying in their natural habitats. These real things make a real movie experience.Though a bit heavy-weight on the graphic nature of the film (which many people will disagree), Earth is a touching experience. There is stunning cinematography work here by a great camera team and an amazing score by George Fenton. In comparison to March of the Penguins or Grizzly Man, it doesn't really hold any measure but it stands great on its own. At the end of the day, you grow an appreciation of our planet and a bit of sadness as many of us will probably never get to visit these places we'll witness in the film. We live here yet it's like we never get to explore the planet for one reason or another. Earth is beautiful.***/****
Peter Grunbaum I just saw this tonight at the cinema in my hometown. I thought it was a 2009 release but now I realize it is from 2007. Anyway, it's a very nature film but no different from what one might see on television in an average show from National Geographic or Animal Planet. Nevertheless it is awesome to see it on the big screen, and I guess this movie is out because there is a climate conference in Copenhagen this year. Some attempts at a narrative is attempted in the story with the ing of the year but nevertheless there is no real plot. The narrator sounds like David Attenbourough but it is someone else by the name of Patrick Stewart. Anyway, this film has some splendid images and the background music is very good. Honestly, it is hard to understand that someone would rate this lower than a 10. I must say it is very refreshing to see a wonderful and beautiful movie like this one with all the superfluous garbage which is out nowadays. I cannot recommend this title highly enough. It is an extremely beautiful and wonderful experience to watch something like this in the cinema.
