Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Micransix Crappy film

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

afortiorama I've just watched again this series in DVD, because I had a sudden need of dinosaurs and to my amazement 15 years later it's still the best documentary about them. Anything that came later is a pale copy. Not only it still looks good, even seen on a more modern TV, but the specific animals stories and their struggle to survives, the recreation of the environment with mentions to other animals and plants, the narration and the music all make this documentary still epic. When the Allosaurus faces the Stegosaurus when the Liopleurodon snatches the big scavenger from the beach, the community of little dinosaurs in the Arctic forest, the tyrannosaurus careful mother, the Ornithocheirus really sad story of last effort and death plus others are all great stories. Some of the science and hypothesis behind have changed in the meantime, but not that much and considering how long things linger in school books I think this is still educational on top of being awfully entertaining. If nothing else it makes you want to know more about those eras, for example I hadn't realised that modern fish was already there when the dinosaurs appeared and that there were other types of reptiles before them. Doesn't it make you want to know more?

Lechuguilla One of the best documentaries I have ever seen, this BBC series uses a combination of Computer Generated Images (CGIs), animatronics, realistic sound effects, an intelligent script, and effective narrative transitions to tell the story of the rise and fall of the majestic creatures that lived during the Mesozoic Era. The program is educational, entertaining, and breathtakingly realistic.Though the focus is on the dinosaurs, the program puts them into their natural habitat, and thus we learn also about the vegetation, the climate, changes in the continental land masses, and smaller life forms of that era. Background music, combined with ominous images, conveys a hauntingly terminus message, accompanied by poignancy and sadness.Maybe some of the technical detail about the dinosaurs is a bit speculative or not quite in line with more recent information. Our knowledge about them continues to ... evolve. But these minor imperfections are overwhelmed by the program's terrific presentation of such a grand sense of historical perspective.Dinosaurs lived for over a hundred million years. Their extinction was not their fault; they did nothing wrong. By comparison, humans, thus far, rate barely a one sentence footnote in a multiple volume encyclopedia of Earth's history. And I doubt that we will be so fortunate as to be around for even one million years.My only disappointment is that the dino's demise only covers a few minutes of the final episode. I would like to have seen more information presented, and more time spent, on the likely causes of the K-T extinction event, specifically from the Chixculub crater impact and the volcanic eruptions from the Deccan Traps.Breathtaking in historical coverage and brilliantly produced, "Walking With Dinosaurs" is a program that everyone needs to see. I hope viewers will watch all of the episodes and thus can appreciate the diversity and grandeur of such magnificent creatures. If nothing else this program's geologic time-scale puts our little egocentric lives and petty political squabbles into proper perspective, showing how irrelevant we are in the grand scheme of things.

Blueghost That's my only beef with this program. And my info could be out of date, but last I read the Smithsonian, in the late 80s (circa 1988 or thereabouts) ran an international symposium where the super-majority of scientists agreed with the new model of the dinosaur was that they were warm blooded (mostly anyway), and had all of the range of motion and features of a lot of modern animals.Beyond that, the first installment of this series has me hooked. Great CGI animation brings to life creatures of millions of years long gone, and like any good wildlife documentary, this program shows the brutal kill or be killed environment that creatures of millenia long gone contended to survive in, including eating their own young to preserve themselves. These are animals with pure basic instincts of survival and territorial domination alone. They know little else. Water comes, they drink, food is either hunted or scavenged if you're a meat eater, otherwise they tear at the primitive ferns and primitive palms that are the forerunners of today's flora.It is as honest a look as you can get. I think of all of the great wild life special s and programs that I have seen throughout the years, and this magic behind this piece is that it attempts to imitate those programs to really give us a sense of the liveliness of these creatures that dominated the Earth long before we came along.But it's not just the animals and insects that are showcased here, but the natural environment. We are shown a bare-bones earth. One where grass has yet to evolve. One where primitive seedlings give rise to a limited number of plants. One where the Earth itself is a tropical over much of its surface; where there are no polar ice caps. This is Earth in the raw, as it perhaps was meant to be and is headed towards now regardless of man's activities. This is more than just prehistoric Earth, this is primordial Earth, when it was young, and life was just beginning to take root and feel its way around.Gone are charts showing what creatures developed where and from what other creatures. We're not given other graphics describing postulated bone structures from fragments of fossils, nor are we given the long winded and sometimes boring video lecture on geophysics and how it impacted species development on a young Earth. No, we are merely given how it was like back then to our best approximation and understanding based on the natural forensics that scientists the world over have studied for over a century.And the effort pays off with some very nice animation of creatures that we may never see again on the face of this planet.If you're into natural history, or just have a mild curiosity about what life and the environment were like ages ago, then give this show a chance.Enjoy.

dinolove453 Walking With Dinosaurs is an amazing Documentary, educational for both the Ignorant of Dinosaurs and Dinosaur-Lovers (like myself) alike. I admit, I was very young when I saw this on Discovery, but I was obsessed with it immediately. (Spoliers!!!!!) The series contains 6 episodes, going from the Late Triassic when dinosaurs were just first evolving to the Late Cretaceous, at the end of Reign of the dinosaurs. When I first saw this film, it was like I really had traveled back in time. The majesty of the Diplodocus, the adventures of Opthalmosaurus, and the caring mother version of T-Rex all astounded my family and me. It is an amazing film, and I believe that BBC managed to do just what they set out to do. Awesome job!