IMAX: Blue Planet [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of IMAX: Blue Planet [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Great video quality, skip the dialog
Summary: 3 Stars
I recently purchased a Blu-ray player and was looking for new Blu-Ray Disks to play in it. As expected the video for this disk is beautiful, however as I listened to the dialog I felt it was preaching "enviromentally correctness" and was rather condecending to people who inhabit the earth. Eventually I turned off the sound and put some music on and was able to enjoy the great video shots in the video.Movie Review: THIS IS NOT THE BLUE PLANET TV SHOW SHOWN ON BBC/DISCOVERY CHANNEL
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the movie made specifically for IMAX 10 years before the Blue Planet television show came out. To all the people saying how awful it is compared to Planet Earth; This movie has nothing to do with the Planet Earth show, and should not be compared.
DO NOT BUY IF YOU ARE EXPECTING A DOCUMENTARY ON WHALES/SHARKS/BIOLUMINESCENT CREATURES UNDER THE SEA!
Movie Review: Not what I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
After watching and loving the Planet Earth movies I got this one for my husband. It is interesting, but not nearly as well done as the Planet Earth movies. I lost interest and had a hard time following some of the shots they were talking about from space. It's ok, informational but if you want to get something REALLY good - get Planet Earth!Movie Review: Rent it
Summary: 3 Stars
Don't buy this one, just rent it. It's not that entertaining and I would stick to Planet Earth and The Blue Planet (Not this one, but it has the same title).Movie Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
Blue Planet, by its packaging and subject matter, calls for a comparison with the vastly superior Planet Earth series. This is a little unfair considering the latter is made of recent HD material thoughtfully organized and tied together with a catchy narrative throughout several episodes. By comparison, Blue Planet -and The Dream is Alive- are older material and in many ways dated (the near-future promise of microgravity for the pharmaceutical industry was a 1980s pipe dream, not a 2007 reality just yet...).
However, one could have hoped for a nice video transfer to Blu-Ray. Dated information notwithstanding, the images still have the same inherent beauty. And since the shows were made for IMAX, one believes there should be a way to make them look good.
Unfortunately, they do not. The image quality of Blue Planet (Imax) is uneven, seemingly coming from materials of different original quality (and I exclude the Moon Landing footage). At its best, it only vaguely reminds you of the stunning (and consistent) precision of Planet Earth footage. Most of the time, it seems inferior to the quality of a good, regular DVD on an up-converting player.
Since not enough work has gone into optimizing the image quality of the program -and its companion piece The Dream is Alive- one is left with an obvious realization of what it is primarily: a cheerleading piece for the space program serving mostly NASA's and Lockheed Martin's image building but rather short on content.
Buy Planet Earth in confidence. Almost any audience should be delighted and stunned by its beauty. As for Blue Planet, it should be reserved to the most dedicated -and forgiving- fans of the space program...