The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
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Movie Reviews of The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
Movie Review: An old classic that was far beyond its time
Summary: 4 Stars
This collection of The Living Planet series appears to be one of the first of David Attenborough and is a "gateway" of sorts to the many wonderful life of series from the BBC. The transfer could use some cleaning up, but that seems to be my only complaint. The series is interesting, enlightening, and thoroughly informative. At times David Attenborough is discussing issues that are now being addressed by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth. Keep in mind, this series is at least 22 years old. I feel anyone who loves David Attenborough and the other series he is involved with (Recommend The Blue Planet, Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, and Life in the Undergrowth) will love this classic too. A must have for fans.Movie Review: Great nature film for it's generation, but showing it's age
Summary: 3 Stars
The knowledge imparted and some of the footage is really great quality, but by today's standards the DVD's are no beginning to look a bit old.Movie Review: Great Nature Collection on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got this today on DVD. I never watched the show when it was on TV. I see from some of the other reviews that they changed it around on the DVD. So I really can't say anything about that sense I never saw it on PBS. Also in my opinon the video quality is fine to for an older program put on DVD.I do think it is a informative collection on the plants and animals on our plant. I think if you really love nature then you will love this DVD set. I just love the way it is packaged and it's case it comes in too. I like all the shows David Attenborough has done so this is one of the best. Movie Review: Somewhat disappointing, but still great
Summary: 3 Stars
This series was originally aired on PBS in the mid 1980s and was groundbreaking. It set a new standard for nature documentary. I was excited to see it released on DVD.
Given the apparent age and material of the source for the transfer (it looks to me like the DVD was made from a videotaped copy of the original film stock, and the video tape probably sat in a storage room somewhere for 15+ years), I think one needs to make allowances for a diminished sound and picture quality, but I really wonder who thought it was a good idea to change the order of episodes. The way Sir David originally wrote and performed the voice-overs for the ends of each episode was as a tie-in to the next, so that there would be a sort of cliff-hanger, but also a continuity to the whole series. Some idiot at Time/Life must have thought he/she knew better than Sir Attenborough how the shows should be ordered, so they cut those parts out. The result is very abrupt and startling endings to the shows--sometimes in mid-sentence! Why? This makes no sense at all.
I hope that someone comes to their senses and these classic shows get re-released without the stupid edits, and with the shows in their proper order.
Movie Review: Great stuff but embarrasing picture quality
Summary: 1 Stars
Great quality series as the majority of BBC's but they did not do any effort to make a new rank cintell trasfer of the material from the negatives. The quality of the picture reminds me an ugly 16mm footage transferred to U-Matic, the noise is umbeareable. Non talking about the poor quality of the sound and the music made with synthetizers from the early seventies.
Same price as prime new series like The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Seas of Life, not worth the price.