Ok... I have a challenge for you. This is a good one that I guarantee will actually sound like a complete mind-f*ck but is totally doable. Rent or buy the entire five-disc set of the BBC documentary, Planet Earth. Take a sh*t. Order a pizza (and a salad too). Make sure there are plenty of beers, etc. available within arms reach. Close the blinds and power down your mobile device. If you are married, have kids or have a job, then maybe you'll need to do this one night instead of sleeping. Get ready for a movie that's a little over nine hours that will blow you away. Again, I told you how to do it, and it's totally doable, so you have no excuses.
They literally used an HD camera mounted onto a helicopter with a super-duper telephoto lens (plus plenty of cameras "in the field") to capture the most amazing moving pictures of life on earth that you've NEVER seen before -- herds of animals from above as far as the eye can see... like ants crawling over the top of each other on a sea of spilled Slurpee; context brought, quite eloquently, to the chase of predator and prey like you won't believe; animals and their lives that seem like something from another planet or from a comic book; gi-f*cking-gantic great white sharks jumping completely out of the water like dolphins; and plenty of other interwoven stories about this incredible planet.
FilmBender is Funny Movie Reviews. Just watch the trailer... I think you'll see what I mean. I like documentaries a lot, and I also can appreciate wildlife ones I suppose, but I have been putting this one off because it seemed like such a commitment. I am more than satisfied. I'm in total movie nirvana. Now if you don't like to get totally wasted on film like me, then maybe you'll have to wait to see the abbreviated version of this (also with an abbreviated title, Earth) hitting theaters Spring 2009 -- have a decaf and some tofu while you're at it.
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