Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Movie Reviews of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Movie Review: Judeo Christian ethic not mentioned
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed the documentary. I would add the influence of the Judeo Christian ethic to the contributing forces in western civilization and why it has been so successful. Work ethic, morality, system of laws, and temperance have helped to create an environment conducive to advancing technology.Movie Review: Read the book instead
Summary: 3 Stars
Diamond's book had some amazing insights. These insight do not come across in this documentary. The first episode is quite good because it shares some of Diamond's genuine insights. The remaining two episodes are okay, but they are not closely linked to Diamond's theory.Movie Review: "Danny Crane"
Summary: 2 Stars
The primary purpose of the documentary appears to be repeating the phrase "guns, germs and steel" -- much like William Shatner repeats "Danny Crane" in Boston Legal.
By the time you've reached Africa, you hear "guns, germs, and steel" so often that you realize you're supposed to ignore the historical shortcuts the production takes in demonstrating the supposed lack of permeation of "guns, germs, and steel" in Africa: Whereas it took televisable hours to follow the spread of "guns, germs, and steel" thru Asia, Europe, America, European contacts with Africa are reduced to a few minutes of Dutch/English settlement and expansion of/from South Africa in the 19th century. (Apparently, there were never any Roman, Phoenician, Spanish, Portuguese, French contacts prior to the Boer trek.)
Accordingly, a hapless Boer family contracting athlete's foot in the heart of the continent has to double as the proof that somehow, those wily native cultures were not susceptible to "guns, germs, and steel". That's about a minute before Diamond starts sobbing hysterically about what "guns, germs and steel" have done to Africa.
Mercifully, by that time you have turned off, tuned out and dropped out.
Oh. I forgot: Guns, germs and steel.
Movie Review: Not as good as I hoped!
Summary: 2 Stars
I had just finished the book, when I learned this DVD set was available. Much like almost every movie adapted from a book, many details and material need be left out. If you read the book, don't bother with this. If you haven't read the book, this DVD might lead you to read the book. It was good to see what Jared Diamond looks like, as well as the people and terrain of New Guinea.Movie Review: Absolute response to a absolutist series
Summary: 1 Stars
Reality and truth have no place in politically correct works like this. The series requires and seems to find a vast ignorance from the many that laud this fiction. It is barley possible to refute such nonsense. Diamond is not a Geologist, Paleontologist, Historian, Botanist, Metallurgist or have any understanding of the science of the "facts" he babbles on about. The series mentions Eurasia and then Asia is
ignored other than the fertile crescent for the next 9,000 years. Reality check, Europe and Asia were populated by many different peoples, keep in mind for all you left wing racists that the near east would have been populated by Caucasians not Orientals. Unlike most I have actually been to Egypt and the Near East, the ancient Egyptian statues with people of light skin and gray and green eyes in the Cairo museum. Where do you think white people came from the middle east and central Asia moving into Europe. It is so bizarre that Diamond wants to disparage white Europeans forgetting that they where the same people to come out of Asia from the Fertile Crescent and Black Sea area. Smallpox originate in rodents not cattle. Most virulent strain originated in Asia. There is no great outcry how this Asian disease killed so many Europeans. The delusional author claims on the one hand there are no tropical civilizations comparable to Europe but misses the Thai, Khmer, Indus, Viet and ignores the Mayan he mentioned earlier. The fertile crescent went north south as well as east west, since this would mess up his theory (ideology) he just rearranged the location to suit him. Singapore was a successful British colony because the British made it so even the people of Singapore recognize this, they have a statue honoring the Brit that made it successful. Bantu language group as an entire civilization would be the same as calling most of Europe, US, Australia and all of South America a Aryan civilization since English and all Latin languages are in the Aryan language group. Diamond is clearly a clueless individual. Not a historian and he bets on the ignorance and racism of the multitudes who praise this crap to support some self righteous or self hating delusions. Why not call the continent the AfroAsiaEuro continent since Africa was (still is by tunnel) connected to Asia. The Mayan civilization was in a tropical location. His latitude theory keeps failing if anybody makes a effort and looks at a map and more importantly the climate has changed over thousands of year as well as the angle of the Earth in it's orbit. His entire delusion is contradicted by the South African "Civilization"
that had cattle, metal and trade thousands of years before whites showed up. Essentially if you have already decided that whites are inferior creatures and all western civilization is bad then you will laud this pc rant of a series. Basically we have to accept what he says without any real proof skipping almost all of Asia and all of it's peoples, civilizations and 11,500 years of history because he says it's so. This is so sad that such baseless garbage is gobbled up by so many people. Yes, geography has an effect, there are no great civilizations in the Antarctic at almost every other latitude with land they have existed.