Post by Afgncaap5 on Sept 5, 2005 9:40:21 GMT -5
To paraphrase Kevin Murphy, "Documentaries are GOOD for you!"
I enjoyed this movie. I'm not a huge fan of documentaries, I'll admit. I'd rather sit through a comic book movie with lot's of explosions and bad dialogue than an informative history of Napoleon or the fight for survival undertaken by the Madagascarian Ai-Ai (a rare type of lemur, which is a rare type of monkey. Pretty rare).
But I enjoyed this movie. My original thought was, "I will pay money to support this because it's a DOCUMENTARY, not because I'll enjoy it. Maybe this'll help get intellectual films into the cinema."
But so help me, I enjoyed this movie.
Now, I'll admit there were a few times that I didn't care for it. Once in a while I found myself wondering why it was moving so slowly. But the first one of those times only happened about an hour into the movie, and the other moments were few and far between.
I think my biggest complaint here was when the male penguins left for food after the females returned with food. They lingered on that aspect just a bit too long for my taste...but as soon as the males returned again, the filmmakers wisely didn't show the females leave for food. They instead just said, "the parents then swap the child back and forth as they journey for food, a journey that grows shorter with each trip as the ice between the hatching grounds and the shore melts, making the trip significantly shorter.
Oh,...and Morgan Freeman did a fantastic job narrating this. I like this guy's work, although I've only seen him in a small number of movies.
I enjoyed this movie. I'm not a huge fan of documentaries, I'll admit. I'd rather sit through a comic book movie with lot's of explosions and bad dialogue than an informative history of Napoleon or the fight for survival undertaken by the Madagascarian Ai-Ai (a rare type of lemur, which is a rare type of monkey. Pretty rare).
But I enjoyed this movie. My original thought was, "I will pay money to support this because it's a DOCUMENTARY, not because I'll enjoy it. Maybe this'll help get intellectual films into the cinema."
But so help me, I enjoyed this movie.
Now, I'll admit there were a few times that I didn't care for it. Once in a while I found myself wondering why it was moving so slowly. But the first one of those times only happened about an hour into the movie, and the other moments were few and far between.
I think my biggest complaint here was when the male penguins left for food after the females returned with food. They lingered on that aspect just a bit too long for my taste...but as soon as the males returned again, the filmmakers wisely didn't show the females leave for food. They instead just said, "the parents then swap the child back and forth as they journey for food, a journey that grows shorter with each trip as the ice between the hatching grounds and the shore melts, making the trip significantly shorter.
Oh,...and Morgan Freeman did a fantastic job narrating this. I like this guy's work, although I've only seen him in a small number of movies.