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Dr. Jim Childress Aliens of the Deep
Starring: Dr. Michael Atkins, Genya Chernaiev, Dr. Jim Childress, Pamela Conrad, David L. Dubois Directed By: Steven Quale Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 01, 2005 Running Time: 99 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Description: Take a once-in-a-lifetime journey with Academy Award(R)-winning director James Cameron (Best Director, TITANIC, 1997) in ALIENS OF THE DEEP, and make contact with another world. This incredible underwater adventure gives you extraordinary glimpses of unbelievable creatures that live in an alien world in the deepest depths of the sea. Could these alien life forms be clues to life in outer space? It's an exciting exploration you'll not soon forget.~~(c)Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. and Walden Media, LLC ~~
Amazon.com: James Cameron takes another foray into the depths with a new deep-sea documentary. Following the shipwreck of Ghosts of the Abyss, Cameron focuses his abundant energies on where life is not powered by sunlight. These implications are taken a bit further, thanks to some dandy effects, on how life may develop in the ice-covered waters of Jupiter's moons. Some of the newly seen creatures are truly amazing: a fish with feet, shrimp that can swim between boiling hot steam and icy currents. Plus there's a cute creature that looks like something from an animator's portfolio: an albino octopus with fins. Like Ghosts, this film is significantly different on DVD. Both were presented in IMAX 3-D but are only 2-D on DVD; however, also included are extended versions, doubling the original's 45-minute run time. The added footage gets you more in-depth coverage of the crew and the missions. Cameron is also an expert host, showing his enthusiasm for the project ("I love this stuff!") while letting his younger scientist co-stars lead the way. (Ages 6 and older) --Doug Thomas
More Time Spent Showing People & Equipment Than Marine Life This was a terrible movie. They spent more time showing the scientists reacting to marine life (such intelligent comment such as "awesome!") than the marine life itself. The director should have realized that viewers aren't watching the movie to look at the scientists or watch the scientists photograph each other in their vehicles - we want to look at the marine life. If they had just done a short segment showing what equipment they were using and then showed only the marine life with narration describing what we were seeing it would have been decent. This was just irritating and terrible.
I fell asleep watching it I am a fan of marine biology and oceanography. Having grown up watching episodes of National Geographic, Nature, Discovery and the Animal Planet, I was looking forward to seeing this documentary. I thought to myself, "Wow, James Cameron has lots of money so this is going to be an awesome documentary!" I was wrong. The footage is clear alright, especially of the people. The film clocks in at under 2 hours, and only about half of it focuses on deep sea life, with only about 10 different animals shown. I can even name them; the Dumbo Squid, a bigger squid that goes unnamed, white crabs, shrimp swimming among hydrothermal vents, tube worms, a fish that looks like a grouper, a rattail fish, a crynoid, lots of bacteria, and an unnamed transparent wispy creature that resembles a jellyfish without tentacles. In fact, the film features a larger selection of humans than oceanlife. Too much of it focused on the work done by humans to journey into the deep; which is fine as an extra feature, but not as the main component of the film. All in all, watch the Blue Planet episode on the Deep Sea; it is much more interesting and educational.
Great if you like shots of people instead of ocean life Big disappointment. A few spectacular shots. Way too much focus on the crew. Constantly seeing shots of somebody's face peeping out at the sea life, instead of actually seeing the sea life. Way too many schoolgirl level comments. Turned it off after half an hour. I'm guessing they are keeping the good stuff for another DVD or TV show.
boring This movie was not good. The main focus seemed to be the people and not the sea life. There are a lot of other deep sea documentaries that are really interesting. I'd recommend any other deep sea film before this one.
Aliens of the Deep Excellent--Incredible photos of what is down in the depths of the seas! Fascinating, I can't say enought!
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