[Leica] planet earth series

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Planet Earth is a BBC series, brilliantly narrated by David Attenborough,
and upto the usual very high BBC standard. Where does Sigourney Weaver come
into this?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I am -- based on these encomia -- going to go back and try to watch them
> again. My problem was the narration which is a pile up of relentless
> cliches
> ("To avoid overgrazing the migrating caribou truly eat 'on the run'..." and
> "For the seals the sea is a banquet, but the feast comes at steep
> price..."). Sigourney Weaver's reading it as if its her kidnappers' ransom
> note and they're holding a gun to her head. It's almost all like this,
> truly
> relentless, so I stopped watching it though I did see the snow leopard
> sequence and yes, the photography is absolutely amazing. If I were to
> listen
> with the sound off I wouldn't know half the time what exactly I was
> seeing... oh well.
>
> I hope the Life series got a better writer.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > reving up the TiVo even as we speak...
> >
> > ab
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > same crowd has a new one starting march 21-- Life
> > >
> > > ric
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have the whole thing on DVD - absolutely brilliant!
> > >> Cheers
> > >> Jayanand
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:25 AM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Anyone else seen any of the Planet Earth series?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
> http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/video-player/video-player.html
> > >>>
> > >>> Just finished watching the "Mountain" chapter.  Stunning film.  Don't
> > >>> know how they do it.   There was a shot of a Snow Leopard hauling a
> > >>> kill up a mountain face in a snowstorm.  Amazing.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Leo Wesson
> > >>> Photographer/Videographer
> > >>> 817.733.9157
> > >>> www.leowesson.com
> > >>>
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