Deep Blue
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Movie Reviews of Deep Blue
Movie Review: Beautiful Images
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not a hard core documentary that satisfies a hunger for learning. Instead, it is an appetizer to whet the appetite. It is survey of the polar environments and the lifeforms that inhabit them. The video is stunning and the narration is adequate. For young people, it will be quite a treat. For those hungering for more information, they will not find it here. That does not stop the enjoyment, however. It is well done.Movie Review: Good, but there is better.
Summary: 3 Stars
As I watched this film, I realized I had seen much of it before, on my 4-disc collection Blue Planet, Seas of Life. That being said, Blue Planet is light years better than this feature-length dvd. The most memorable identical scenes include the grey whale/killer whale incident, as well as the footage in deep water of bioluminescent fish, plus the amazing critters surviving without any sunlight in the Marianas trench. I believe there are some other identical sections, though they escape me at the moment. If you don't want to spend the money for the Blue Planet collection, then this dvd will be ok. However, if you do buy Blue Planet, you will be treated to even more amazing ocean footage: a whole disc for coral reefs, a whole disc for coastal waters, a whole disc for deep ocean life, and a whole disc on arctic oceans life. Go for Blue Planet!!Movie Review: Blue planet DVD is this and more.
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD has some very nice footage, but if you own blue planet you have seen this before. Even much of the music is the same. It is identical footage re-cut and re-edited with little narration and not almost nothing informative.
Do not get me wrong, it is pretty. Just not quite a best of Blue Planet. But for 10$ more you can get the entire 5 disk Blue Planet set, right now from amazon. Before buying this check out Blue Planet. I'm sure you'll want to compare both to compare price vs content.
Movie Review: Nice Video
Summary: 3 Stars
This video is out takes from the Blue Planet series. While it is visually great there is little information to go along with the video clips. Good if you just want something pretty to look at and are not looking for any sort of information.Movie Review: Deep blue - little depth, too much sensationalism
Summary: 2 Stars
Just came from the cinema. The film was repeated today, 15 Feb 06, in a program cinema (which was sold out!). The movie contains fantastic pictures of many of the well-known and not so well-known big creatures of the sea: all kinds of whales, sharks, turtles, mantas, seals, penguins. But also small beings like small fish in huge swarms, shrimps, jelly fish, and the strange light-emitting cratures of the deep sea are shown. There is no real plot (like there is none in real life) but the images have superior quality and one asks oneself again and again how they were shot.
I would have given Deep Blue a rating of 4 if there hadn't been one sequence of scenes which I perceived as visual rape of the audience, especially of those members of the audience who love their children: In maximum detail, the film shows how a group of killer whales hunt down a grey whale baby and partially eat it. Nobody would ever think of showing to a general audience how a human child is hunted down and killed, e.g. by wolves, without at least warning that there will be "explicit content". Whales are large mammals and one identifies the whale baby automatically with a human child. It's just very painful to watch it being killed. Of course, nature is full of death, and the authors already made this point when they showed at the beginning of the film how killer whales hunt sea lions. But the only explanation I can think of why they showed the killing of the whale baby in such detail is that they are trying to satisfy the assumed craving of the audience for sensation. However, by assuming that their audience has such a craving, the authors unmask themselves as sensationalists. And looking back at the whole film, this judgement holds. After all it's just a B-movie.