[Leica] planet earth series

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Ah. Interesting. The American version on the Discovery Channel offered no
David Attenborough I'm afraid. It was narrated by Sigourney Weaver. If you
follow the link in the original post of the thread you'll get to the
Discovery Channel Planet Earth page and you can hear what an actor in a coma
sounds like. It was the language that did it to her too.



On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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