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The Blue Planet, David Attenborough

Advantages: interesting images, informative, good price
Disadvantages: can be repetative, dull in places

The blue planet is the comprehensive tv series, on the history of the oceans. Narrated by David Attenborough, there are some fantastic images and you will discover creatures that you have never seen or heard of before. This series looks at the various different types of habitats and how each of the creatures living in them survive. The soundtrack is composed by George Fenton and really fits in well with the images adding drama and suspense when ...
...1: The Blue Planet This is basicly an overview of all the different aspects of the oceans to show the scale, force and complexity of our planet. 2: The Deep This was by far my favourite episode it explores the depths of the ocean where no sunlight reaches, the fish down here are well, ugly, really ugly and id never seen anything like them before. The footage they have managed to capture, using a special submarine that can withstand the pressure ...

ronniwonni 09.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Blue Planet (Special Edition) (Box Set) (DVD)

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Last Documentary of Steve Irwin

Advantages: title
Disadvantages: none

...a documentary staring the late Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) and Philipe Cousteau, grandson of Jaque Cousteau. In which both of them travel through the worlds oceans looking for the most dangerous of all. It Shows all the different deadly creatures that live in the ocean, from the Blue ringed octupuse, which has the most potent venom of any octupuse, to cone shells, whos neurotoxins are used for medical purposes. While mainly entertaining, this ...
...reflex of the fish. While Steve was doing this, Philipe was in Africa in a shark cage swimming face to face with the a-pex predator of the sea, the great white sharks, as they came in for seals. During the filming of this Documentary a trajadey struck the world, Steve Irwin was fatally wonded, his heart was peirced in a freak accident encounter with a Bull Ray, whose tail spine was pushed directally into Steves Heart causing him to die from cardiac ...

nikecat 20.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Steve Irwin - Ocean's Deadliest (DVD)

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Aliens? I Think Not!

Advantages: Some new information
Disadvantages: Not a film, definately a documentary, very long and slow

After seeing a trailer for this film on a recent Disney film both me and hubby watched he decided that it looked very interesting and fancied watching it, I personally was not keen but thought what the heck we will see if it is good. I have to say that I was not impressed at all with it and thought that it was not actually a film but an hour and a half documentary which they are calling a film. The setting for the ‘film’ is out in the middle of the ...
...marina biologists who arte investigating like in the depths of the ocean and are trying to discover new ‘alien’ life forms down there. The crew have decided for some reason to let NASA join them on this mission so they can work together and investigate these life forms and discover if there are some similarities between the life forms here and those on other planets. The crew spend lots of time preparing for the first dive and showing us the equipment ...

sewbizzie 22.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Aliens Of The Deep (DVD)

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Scubas favourite place

Advantages: watch it
Disadvantages: repeated scenes from Blue Planet

Well it should come as no surprise to people that I would own this DVD set. It was released as this 2 disc set in 2003, although the more common format is the one disc version. The two discs I have are the actual documentary and the second disc of additional bonus features. The first disc has the 90 minute documentary and the isolated Music/effects option. Since I havent tried to the isolated music/effects I cant tell you what it is like. What I ...
...as stunning with its imagery as The Blue Planet - which to be fair it should be since some of the best scenes from that have been reworked in this. The narration my Micheal Gambon feels somewhat different to that of David Attenborough, I cant really describe how it differs just that it does, maybe because this was a less mass market production (never having been broadcast on TV that I know of) and that Micheal Gambon is not someone I am familiar ...

scuba_angel 17.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Deep Blue (DVD)

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Elite Documentary about an Elite unit.

Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating
Disadvantages: none

...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ...
...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...

sjp1966 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Commando - On The Front Line - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

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