BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 There's a new documentary starting here in the UK tonight on BBC called Planet Earth. It looks awesome. Been filmed on hi-def and the clips I have seen have been just incredible - especially one of a shark coming out of the water to catch a seal.... slowed down to 1/40 speed. Really looking forward to it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4776224.stm Bit of a vid here http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi/newsid_4770000/newsid_4772900/nb_rm_4772984.stm Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yes this looks like a "must see" for sure. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 can't view the clip. Will have to try and find that on te net somewhere after it has been aired. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Planet Earth is bad and wrong according to some environmentalists, because it doesn't explicitly state that all these lovely living things are disappearing. Link to post Share on other sites
firedog23 0 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 And some environmentalists would like us to all live in the forest fending for ourselves. Let me be the first to invite them to do so and try not to be eaten by lions, tigers and bears, oh my. Maybe they could put together 4 years of work on how things are becoming extinct. Until then when people do work like this it might just be to get people thinking and to get involved. Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 It might. But you also think skiers and snowboarders would get the hint. I see idiots act in the rudest way to the environment that allows them to ski and snowboard. In this day and age, i agree with the criticism. We are already too late in telling people about this. Where in the Japanese media does it tell you that 25% of the worlds fishing areas are critically overfished, and a full 50% are at their limit? Or that Tuna stocks are down 90% from the 1950s? Have people here who see footage of tuna fishing weekly hear any of this? We live in a critical time, and it seems most humans are too stupid to make the connection between our lifestyles and the damage beind sustained by the earth. At the local snowboard shop, i constantly have to tell some dumb-ass customer to stop idling his truck. Here is a conversation i had the other day when two guys were sitting in their idling SUV watching me skateboard me-`So, do you guys snowboard?` guys (looking nervous about having a forigner approach them in the safety of their SUV)- `Um, well, yes...` me-`So, whaddya think about global warming? Kinda scary for snowboarders, ne?` guys (not getting the hint)- well, yeah. me-`What do you think causes global warming?` guys (still clueless)- `CO2 from vehicles, i guess..` me (trying so hard not to be sarcastic my tummy was hurting)- `Then could you pretty please stop idling you truck?` guys (finally getting it)- `Um, oh yeah, sure` The guys leave VERY shortly after the conversation. I am convinced that mere `getting people thinking` is too little too late. But regardless, any little bit helps. As long is it can make people think, and not just go `wow, big shark`. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by BagOfCrisps: Planet Earth. It looks awesome. Been filmed on hi-def ... Really looking forward to it. You live on the effing thing, yet you are really looking forward to seeing it on TV?! I can't work that one out. But hey, its in high definition digital! Why anyone would own a tv in the first place utterly stumps me, they are plug in anti-life boxes. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 Bloody hell... you take everything so goddam seriously - you must have a permenant headache. If I didn't know you were so content and maybe not quite as pretentious as you sometimes sound, I might actually feel sorry for you Quote: You live on the effing thing, yet you are really looking forward to seeing it on TV?! I don't get much of a chance to see the things they showed on there, especially at 9pm on a Sunday night. I'm sure you don't either. I don't watch much tv but that was really good. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 ahhh, smarty pants. I am content, best time of my life is right now, the alps have everything to do with it, although I am massively using more fossil fuels than ever before. Doco's are the only useful thing on TV if they serve to awaken people as to what is outside their window. (ps - I may have high standards and spout self righteous shit, but I'm not pretentious ) Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 You are obviously a sad uneducated peasant for a) owning a tv and going so low as to watching a decent documentary programme on a Sunday evening, BagOfCrisps. I'm above all that, of course, I was out doing more cultured things. And anyway I live on earth and so I can see all these wonders of nature at any time any day. (PS Bring the vid in tomorrow will ya so I can watch it this week. Cheers!) Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Hey 2pints, leave the smart arsed responses to BoC, hes much better at them Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 I thought that was quite funny actually. But it surely made me sit back and seriously ponder a few things about my life. Here was me thinking that I was just relaxing on a Sunday night and enjoying a bit of decent entertainment - but now I know it is much more serious than that. I can't make it tomorrow night 2 pints, but I've got the vid if you want. (It is actually repeated on Saturday night, you know.) Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 The hi definition digital is not only just the fact that things will look prettier. It lets them film things in great detail from a great distance without disturbing or alerting the animals so they can behave naturally. They're getting a lot of 'never seen before' footage and the like. I'd like to see it. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I watched Deep Blue a while ago on video on a wet Sunday, and it was far more gripping watching than one of those dumb films with a contrived plot and lots of meaningless violence. Actually, Deep Blue was full of meaningless violence come to think of it - sea creatures are just viciously brutal. But indeed, if had been marginally less wet, I would have preferred to be out in the bamboo forest. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 For those who might be interested. Planet Earth is on BS Hi vision tonight 9pm-11pm and same tomorrow. Bit late, sorry. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 2 episodes are on tonight (Tuesday) as well Link to post Share on other sites
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