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Summary: More! MOre!
Review: I usually watch the sci/fi movies (which everyone thinks are boring). BUt this one is a mixture of sci-fi- you know it's all theoretical- and TRAGEDy; It's like a movie because in some other world, it was real. It makes you yearn for the dying, natural earth as it once was millions of years before man came with his chemicals and pollutants - that we can only hope for now. The whole thing was like a tragic, dreadful reunion with the dead - they would never be here in life, yet I'm still fascinated... with their beauty.
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Summary: Great animation, great DVD package.
Review: Picture the dinasaurs from Jurassic Park, but you get to see them in a natural setting, and really learn about how they ate, moved and reproduced. This is a really well-done DVD, especially for the fact that it can be watched many times without it feeling repetitive. THe graphics are so great-looking that I think I'll always enjoy pulling this one off my shelf for viewing.
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Summary: Computer Graphics 5 stars--- Puppets 2 stars
Review: If they had left off the sloppily done puppetronics and produced the whole movie with CG animation it would have been MUCH better. The puppets never look like part of the film and the animal's puppet heads look "dead" and stiff. The computer animation however is absolutely wonderful. I'm looking forward to the next series which I hear they are working on. This time I hope they leave out the "muppets" and do the entire film in CG. The ocean life wasn't especially interesting either. Show us more of the life on land. Perhaps they'll take Dr. Robert Bakker's "Raptor Red" book and make it into a series! That'd be great!
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Summary: Don't buy the hype, this is a quite ordinary series
Review: Graphically impressive for a BBC TV effort, but obtrusively overscripted, overblown and overplayed, with a touch too much melodrama and anthropomorphising. Even Branagh's voice over begins to grate. The "natural history" aspects were hard to swallow - you just can't forget that these aren't real creatures on screen - just CGI impressions of what these beasts MIGHT have looked like. The ultimate damnation is that these factors conspired to make a couple of the episodes actually BORING. Surely the cardinal sin. A passable series, with very nice effects, but groundbreaking only in the monstrous amount of hyperbole it still manages to generate.
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Summary: Wow - almost like being there!
Review: For young and old who are fascinated with dinosaurs this video is a treasure. You'll sit and watch this over and over wondering "how did they do that?" The graphics and realism of these recreated dinosaurs are truly a marvel to behold. My 4-year-old son and I watched it together and neither of us can stop talking about it. I can't shake the image of the ocean's largest carnivore coming up out of the water to take down a large meat-eater standing on the shore. Far better than Jurassic Park!
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Summary: Visually impressive, but...
Review: This program is acknowledged to be a best guess scenerio, and as such should be taken with a grain of salt. How do they really know what sounds a dinosaur made? And they throw out numbers such as 165 million years ago. If this were true, then how come some T-Rex's remains feature red blood cells? These should have vanished long ago if the numbers offered in such programs were true. This program is visually impressive, but science should use more words and phrases like, "maybe," "possibly," "we think that..." instead of always presenting these kinds of theories as fact, with such finality.
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Summary: Dinosaur Documentary NG Style!
Review: I am not a huge fan of documentaries, but a few National Geographic ones catch my eye every once in a while. Whe I first saw the preview to this documentary I though it was going to be like all other dinosaur doc's (where they show archaeological footage, etc.), but boy was I wrong! This documentary is done exactly like a National Geographic one. The narrator follows the path of several different species over a few years and the outcome is fantastic. The DVD icludes all six episodes on one DVD and The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs on the other disk. Sound is amazing and includes surround digital. Although the graphics may not be as high-tech as Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs still look at act real. An amazing buy for even those who can't stand documentaries!
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Summary: Absolutely amazing!
Review: All I have to say is that this series is excellent. We get to see amazing computer animations at work putting together these amazing creatures. I learned a lot about dinosaurs that I didn't know before. Even if there is speculation about their behaviors, this is the best interpretation I have seen yet interpreted from scientific discoveries. I would highly recommend this to anyone.
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Summary: Entertaining..but science fluffy
Review: It was a good mimicry of Wildlife Shows but some of the science involved is questionable. The picture quality of the DVD is good and practically grainless. The FX were a mixed-bag. Some were quite good, but NOT better than the ones in Jurassic Park. Others were lit improperly against the background. Most of the tracking shots are simplified. Many shots of them interacting with their environment, were either static, or showcased very little camera movement. Much of the animation had nice colorful skin textures, but the joints where the legs meet the shoulders and hips had lots of geometry seams that intersected each other, giving away that the skin is fake. The sauropods had a nice weighted look but some of the other creaures like Allosaurus in some scenes looked way to light bordering on defying gravity. The puppets, for the most part were badly done, with movements like hands, and not matching wider shot animation. Maybe they should have used mimes for them or something. Even with flaws, its quite a television acheivement, with a 6 million pound budget.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I wasn't sure buying a DVD player was a good idea until I bought this. Put simply, this is a fascinating look at what the dinosaur world may have been like. The dinosaur animations are, for the most part, amazing and really bring that world to life. The series may have been a bit overly speculative for some tastes, but paleontology has always been a speculative science. I can easily understand why BBC audiences were so captivated by this. I was too. Very highly recommended.
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