The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."
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- TriviaCGI effect sequences were done by Industrial Light & Magic or ILM, the same company that created the computer effects of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World film series. According to paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, a scientific consultant who worked with the ILM team, some of the animal models seen in the series could have been based on those seen in the Jurassic World films, albeit heavily updated to resemble real prehistoric animals rather than movie monsters. Bhullar suggested that ILM was aware that the Jurassic films had a mixed reputation among paleontology enthusiasts because the creatures seen in the films were not designed to be scientific (such as the oversized, scaly "raptors" that hark back to 1970s and 1980s depictions), so they tried to "get it right" with this series, and there was a lot of back and forth between the scientists and animators. Nevertheless, online paleo-communities have noted that some of the CGI animals presented in the series are still not up to 2020s scientific standards and feature odd mistakes like inaccurate skull shapes and body proportions. A few mistakes can be chalked up to science advancing while the series was being developed: the armored fish Dunkleosteus is shown with a long, slender body, though a 2023 study argued it would have been significantly shorter and more robust in life.
- GoofsIn one shot of the Arandaspis fish swimming near a reef, a scene supposedly set 475 million years ago when fish were just beginning to evolve, a present-day fish can be seen among the coral in the background.
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Well I have just spent the whole day binging this series and I loved it! I found it hard to put the remote down, it was an rollercoaster of emotions for the life that has come before now.
I loved everything about it, I thought the special effects were great, I've no idea what the other reveiwers are talking about, the special effects were amazing. Morgan Freemans voice was wonderful and it made it for me knowing that he is a beekeeper and lover of animals, it had to be someone like this. As much as I love David Attenborough I found it a refreshing change to hear someone else narrate the story of a life on earth.
The score was great, it did have an orchestral, dramatic Steven Speilsberg feel to it. What made the whole thing for me was how the story of the start of life, to where we are now came together, well done to the script writers and producers here. I think going through the episodes as they did and featuring animals relevant to that era for that episode was great, the timeline I found a very useful visual to visualise the time involved, otherwise to me it is just a number and doesn't represent the immense scale that this series covered. The story writing was full and a lot to take in, I'm going to have to watch it again to really absorb all the information. You can really see how this series has been over 6 years in the making.
As usual with Silverback Films the camera work was just incredible, every single frame in the series could have been a National geographic photograph, utterly breathtaking scenes.
Well done too all of the production team and everyone involved in the making of this, you have done it proud.
I loved everything about it, I thought the special effects were great, I've no idea what the other reveiwers are talking about, the special effects were amazing. Morgan Freemans voice was wonderful and it made it for me knowing that he is a beekeeper and lover of animals, it had to be someone like this. As much as I love David Attenborough I found it a refreshing change to hear someone else narrate the story of a life on earth.
The score was great, it did have an orchestral, dramatic Steven Speilsberg feel to it. What made the whole thing for me was how the story of the start of life, to where we are now came together, well done to the script writers and producers here. I think going through the episodes as they did and featuring animals relevant to that era for that episode was great, the timeline I found a very useful visual to visualise the time involved, otherwise to me it is just a number and doesn't represent the immense scale that this series covered. The story writing was full and a lot to take in, I'm going to have to watch it again to really absorb all the information. You can really see how this series has been over 6 years in the making.
As usual with Silverback Films the camera work was just incredible, every single frame in the series could have been a National geographic photograph, utterly breathtaking scenes.
Well done too all of the production team and everyone involved in the making of this, you have done it proud.
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- squilla
- Oct 25, 2023
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