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03-01-2018, 10:29 PM
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Stunning footage. So good to hear Attenborough narrate again. It’s been a decade since the original series and longer since Blue Planet. I’m starting to think about revisiting all of those. In HD, it’s incredibly beautiful. Inspirational. Awesome. And refreshingly positive. Sure, it’s crazy violent, brutal nature and all, plus there’s the ever-present inevitability of climate change. But what they can do with drones and high res zoom is just deliciously visual, pure eye candy that is completely unmatched by cgi. I can’t stop watching this.
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Done that. Enjoyable. Recommended.
I think overall, PEI was stronger. At least, it had more episodes. I was expecting more from the final PEII ep 'CITIES' but that was a bit disappointing.
Also Blue Planet which is just water environments and earlier is better than PE overall, just because it's more surreal. If you only watch one ep of any of these BBC Attenborough-narrated Planet docs, it should be BP ep 2 THE DEEP.
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I had a 'gotcha' moment just now, just like a deep sea angler fish with a glowing bait forehead appendage must have when a squid hits it. I was thinking I should suggest something horrifically eye-raping next to see if cf would bite at that too. Then I remembered who I was talking to. As if I could even come up with anything that could violate cf's calloused retinas. As if...
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10-18-2018, 11:26 PM
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Planet Earth: Africa
Attenborough’s latest. Most staggeringly panoramic footage, exquisite slow-mo and time lapse. Plants animals rivers deserts - rhino moon party in night cam, alpha male elephant duels and giraffe battles, lions hunting, merecat mind messing, zebra sex, rhino sex - so good.
No eye rape here. Just the wonders of nature in Africa. In HD.
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The cinematography is not as good in this one...
--tg