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Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman document their trip of a life time where they travelled from London to New york on motorbikes. They did this successfully by using cameras, they both had a camera in their helmets and another attached to the bikes. They were ... Read review
Long Way Roundis a documentary detailing the 20,000-mile motorcycle trip Ewan McGregor ... more
took around the world with best friend Charley Boorman over 115 days. Their trip took them from London through locales such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, and Can...
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Long Way Roundis a documentary detailing the 20,000-mile motorcycle trip Ewan McGregor ... more
took around the world with best friend Charley Boorman over 115 days. Their trip took them from London through locales such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, and Can...
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2 men, 4 wheels and 20,000 miles. Long Way Round is truly the adventure of a lifetime.This ... more
is the special edition DVD of the Long Way Round story. Bonded by a unique friendship and love of motorbikes, Long Way Round documents the adventures of Ewan McG...
Advantages: exciting, you can really get into the adventure Disadvantages: It made me regret not travelling, everytime I watch it I want to explore the world.
...series about?
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman document their trip of a life time where they travelled from London to New york on motorbikes. They did this successfully by using cameras, they both had a camera in their helmets and another attached to the bikes. They were also creating video diaries although this didn’t happen too regularly. Among the places they ride through are Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia ... ...a team of people assisting Ewan and Charlie to work out the best routes from and through each country and organising the visas they need for each country. They also had to decide on the bikes they thought would do the best job at getting them through this long and hard adventure. After disscussions Ewan and Charlie chose two bikes they wanted to compare, Ewan wanted the BMW and Charlie wanted the KTM. After off road tests on both bikes, the fact ... more
I sat down to watch this special edition dvd after buying it for my boyfriend for christmas, I didn’t have particularly high hopes as it didn’t sound to appealing to me watchin a bunch of men on motorbikes. It sounded like it would be a boys and their toys documentary. I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw though, it was very interesting with a lot of information on different cultures and some comedy along the way. My personal favourite bit was during the ride along the road of bones as there were a few tense exciting moments where the team really pull together and show what they are made of, your not sure if they will make it and by this point you have gone so far with them that you really can understand their emotions at the thought of failing. The parts where they are having to cross rivers seemed to be the most challenging and caused quite a bit of concern for the team. How the locals deal with the flowing rivers in their paths is truly amazing they just plough straight into the situation take it all in their stride and off they go.
So whats this series about?
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman document their trip of a life time where they travelled from London to New york on motorbikes. They did this successfully by using cameras, they both had a camera in their helmets and another attached to the bikes. They were also creating video diaries although this didn’t happen too regularly. Among the places they ride through are Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada. Ewan and Charlie had Claudio who was a cameraman joining them also on a motorbike. There was a support team (David Alexanian, Russ Malkin and Jim Simak) who in off road vehicles would meet up with Ewan, Charlie and Claudio when crossing borders and at a few other places along the way, for example their visits to the UNICEF projects were done together, there was an orphanage in Ukraine, a climbing wall in a youth centre in Kazakhstan, and an project working with street children who live in heating systems in Mongolia. They were also joined for part of the journey, when they felt it would be an advantage to have some extra assistance for safety reasons, by Sergey and Vasily who is a doctor, at times they would be too far away to seek outside medical help. From the beginning there were problems that they had to over come with documents like visas not being given or not being completed correctly and sometimes this meant spending hours waiting to be let through borders.
The series starts with preparation for beginning the trip. We start off with a team of people assisting Ewan and Charlie to work out the best routes from and through each country and organising the visas they need for each country. They also had to decide on the bikes they thought would do the best job at getting them through this long and hard adventure. After disscussions Ewan and Charlie chose two bikes they wanted to compare, Ewan wanted the BMW and Charlie wanted the KTM. After off road tests on both bikes, the fact that the KTM is a specialist off road bike manufacturer and Charlies passion to take the KTM Ewan agrees with this bike. Then follows the dissaster where KTM decide not to provide the bikes as they thought it might damage the good name of the company, charlie took this as KTM saying they were going to fail on their trip and would then blame the bikes. Therefore the BMW becomes the chosen bike for the tour. They were given the bikes with cameras, microphones and customised GPS to assist with their trip. Before they all set out on their adventure they endured training on a variety of issues that may arise. As at times they would be in places where hostility could be a big issue they had training on how to handle it. The team also covered Off-road riding, motorbike maintenance and basic first aid. Eventually they are ready to leave London the excitement amongst the whole team is very apparent there is a lot of passion in this tour from the whole team, even those who are left in London. It was very emotional especially as Charlie and Ewan were to leave their wives behind for approxomately three months. So off they head through the first part of Europe. Obviously in some areas there were hotels about and they took advantage of the comfort as they knew they had plenty of uncomfortable nights ahead, some of the areas they visited had no hotels for absolutely miles and miles so they would find a place they decided would be safe and camped out for the night. On occasion they would also find themselves getting to know some of the locals and they were offered places to stay. This was interesting as you saw the different cultures and how people lived. They did receive warm welcomes virtually everywhere they went. Whilst in Kazakhstan they found themselves travelling with police escorts they were a little concerned about why they would need this, they quickly picked upon the reasoning behind these escorts, they found themselves being stopped every now and then to join welcome parties that were being thrown for them. The team however quickly became fed up with this as they were exhausted and needed to rest, although it was quite amusing to watch. The team make their way through each country with plenty of adventure and tense moments but eventually they find themselves in the USA for the last long stretch of the journey. They finish their amazing tour by creating a large crowd of motorbikes, which they achived with the assistance of the Orange County Choppers, to ride with them to their final destination in New York. Once again emotions are running high as the team are reunited with their loved ones and there are tears all around.
The special edition DVD of this series is ten episodes long over three discs. There are extras which include unseen material, a post trip interview and interviews with the creators.
This whole series was amazing and was helped with the true bond of friendship and the passion shared for the success of the adventure between Ewan and Charlie. I thought this series was very well made and I enjoyed it from start to finish, the end of each episode had me hooked and I always wanted to watch one more episode before turning it off, and therefore I would recommend this to others.
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Lele76 12.03.2009 (12.03.2009)
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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)
Advantages: Engaging, funny, emotional, exciting, educational Disadvantages: I want even more footage!!!
...the epic adventure undertaken by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in 2004 to travel from London to New York...the long way, through Europe to Far East Russia, and then across to Canada and the USA. It first aired on Sky One, and it was there that I watched it for the first time. I've been a fan of Ewan McGregor for a long time (interesting fact - he went to school with my cousin) and when I saw the adverts the show was promoted more about motorbikes ... ...the next one! Ewan and Charley were long time friends, and once Ewan came up with this mad idea, they brought in other friends and acquaintances to help make it happen. They included their producers David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, cameramen Jim Simak and Claudio Von Planta, and numerous other based in their office in London and around the world to help them with visas, language and local customs. The route took in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Czech ...
eilidhcatriona 01.07.2009
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Advantages: Extremely funny, entertaining and touching in places Disadvantages: None really worth mentioning
...the adventures of best friends Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Trainspotting) and Charley Boorman (On Edge, The Bunker) as they travel from London to New York via Europe, Russia, Mongolia and other countries with nothing but themselves, their motorbikes and their camera man Claudio, (plus a small support crew following behind, but rarely interfering with their journey). They get themselves in some very peculiar situations, have a few near-death experiences, ... ...The friendship between Ewan and Charley is obvious for all to see and the shows themselves are both entertaining and, in places, touching. They decided to work with Unicef and throughout their travels they go to various Unicef hostels around the globe to see the work Unicef do, meet the children and try and help out anyway they can. I think the significant thing about the show is, certainly for me, it raised my awareness of Unicef's work - I hadn't ...
BlueMidget 10.09.2006
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Advantages: More detailed than the TV series Disadvantages: Not everyones taste
...of the first trip that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made together on motorbikes.
The DVD i am reviewing is the 2 disc set which contains both unseen and extended footage.
The trip took a long time to play and ultimately was a journey from London to New York via Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, USA and Canada.
The DVD covers the entire television series.
The way the two discs are split is disc one conatins episodes ... ...disc has the remaining episodes on , namely 4, 5, 6 and 7. The total running time is about 6 hours so ideally you wont want to watch them in one sitting.
The extras are the unseen material, the photo gallery and the exclusive post trip interview.
The DVD's start with the planning stage where they have to trial possible motobikes that may be suitabel for a trip like this, they settle on either a KTM or BMW. Those that have watched the series will ...
wildtinsey 30.06.2008
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I liked the sound of this documentary, purchased it and watched the whole thing through in one evening (was up till 2:30am).
It is absolutely excellent, the two leads have a brilliant relationship, and it is the relationship between them that makes the film.
Loved the "you don't need to see our identification, move along" quote when they were at a border crossing.
A great "blokes" movie.
ps. You don't have to like motorbikes, but it'll help. ...
GrahamPearce 18.08.2007
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...pride for them and a massively strong desire to apply everything they gave to achieving it to your own daily life. and surprisingly it didn't give me any sense of resentment for to people being given there dream because both Ewan McGregor and Charley Boreman are completely honest and genuine. ...
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Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman begin a twenty thousand mile trip by motorcycle around the world, travelling through Europe, Mongolia and Canada. Features all ten extended episodes.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
EMI MUSIC; EMI OPERATIONS
Release date
07/11/2005
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
VTDVDX 693
Barcode
0094633952294
Languages
Main Language
English
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo English
DVD Description
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman begin a twenty thousand mile trip by motorcycle around the world, travelling through Europe, Mongolia and Canada. Features all ten extended episodes.
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