Exciting! Looks like we’re getting a selection of animals from at least the last ~500 million years through to the present! The CGI is not quite photo-real quality, not quite up to Prehistoric Planet standards, but it’s good enough. I like that this is not just dinosaurs, but the Paleozoic (538-252 million years ago, basically the dawn of recognizable animal life), and the Cenozoic (66 million years ago to now, the age of mammals).
I’m hoping this will be better than the last Netflix Morgan Freeman nature documentary I watched, “Our Universe.” That was something that just did not show or teach me anything interesting. The whole bit was basically “here’s how nuclear fusion in the sun works, that makes the energy that Earth life needs” stretched out over multiple episodes. Maybe it would have been entertaining/profound if I knew literally nothing about how the universe worked, or I was incredibly stoned, or if I was a business major.
They wasted a lot of money on expensive space CGI for that one, at least this one is using it to render cool extinct animals.
frik yes. i need more leviathan level nature reference in my life. is that Morgan Freeman? sounds like he just drank a huge glass of warm milk and said “i’m ready to narrate”
Might be good but I am VERY sceptical of any Netflix documentary after seeing the horseshit they have been releasing lately, namely the Cleopatra docu drama by Jada Smith and the completely wrong Ancient Apocalypse with Graham Hancock. How are you supposed to trust them to ever produce anything credible after those disasters? Also the tons of cheap ones where they just get some “expert” into a chair and have them explain stuff while stock footage plays. Or their celebrity “documentaries” that are produced together with that celebrity. Funny how they always end up portraying the celebrity in a good light even when they are a total shithead.
For me its going to be impossible to enjoy this if all I’m thinking is “did they actually study this, or is it all bullshit?”. Especially when they are covering a subject like this with a ton of unknowns and different theories. And its produced by Steven Spielberg. Nothing like a hollywood producer to put excitement over accuracy.
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Kind of wish someone would just do one of these just about bugs
Exciting! Looks like we’re getting a selection of animals from at least the last ~500 million years through to the present! The CGI is not quite photo-real quality, not quite up to Prehistoric Planet standards, but it’s good enough. I like that this is not just dinosaurs, but the Paleozoic (538-252 million years ago, basically the dawn of recognizable animal life), and the Cenozoic (66 million years ago to now, the age of mammals).
I’m hoping this will be better than the last Netflix Morgan Freeman nature documentary I watched, “Our Universe.” That was something that just did not show or teach me anything interesting. The whole bit was basically “here’s how nuclear fusion in the sun works, that makes the energy that Earth life needs” stretched out over multiple episodes. Maybe it would have been entertaining/profound if I knew literally nothing about how the universe worked, or I was incredibly stoned, or if I was a business major.
They wasted a lot of money on expensive space CGI for that one, at least this one is using it to render cool extinct animals.
frik yes. i need more leviathan level nature reference in my life. is that Morgan Freeman? sounds like he just drank a huge glass of warm milk and said “i’m ready to narrate”
Might be good but I am VERY sceptical of any Netflix documentary after seeing the horseshit they have been releasing lately, namely the Cleopatra docu drama by Jada Smith and the completely wrong Ancient Apocalypse with Graham Hancock. How are you supposed to trust them to ever produce anything credible after those disasters? Also the tons of cheap ones where they just get some “expert” into a chair and have them explain stuff while stock footage plays. Or their celebrity “documentaries” that are produced together with that celebrity. Funny how they always end up portraying the celebrity in a good light even when they are a total shithead.
For me its going to be impossible to enjoy this if all I’m thinking is “did they actually study this, or is it all bullshit?”. Especially when they are covering a subject like this with a ton of unknowns and different theories. And its produced by Steven Spielberg. Nothing like a hollywood producer to put excitement over accuracy.
Is Netflix sitting down with the unions yet? If not I don’t give 1 goddamn shit.
I feel like I’ve seen this before
Hell yeah
With that score and the fantastic CG, I was expecting an awesome beast to writhe across the screen with a Fremen riding on top.
I loved Prehistoric Planet and I’m sure I’ll love this. I can’t get enough of prehistory!!
they’re getting super creative with the names of these nature docs