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Life on Our Planet

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2023
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
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Life on Our Planet (2023)
The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."
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The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."The incredible story of life's epic, four-billion-year journey on Earth comes alive in this series from Steven Spielberg and the team behind "Our Planet."

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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 2 wins & 14 nominations total

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    8rich-12169

    This is a different series...also with Morgan Freeman

    So yeah..its poor timing. But i thought Netflix was pointing me at a show I had just finished watching. But no. It is different.

    This show..is amazing. With amazing voice over and amazing animation...at least until they move. THen it gets a little wonky..but still not bad.

    My only complaint...and its a big one. IS that I absolutely hate the fabled story telling sections. This catbird species's males danced together for male dominance..and then they continue that trend, talking about how it probably did this and probably did that. But they don't say probably. They show and say with certainty that these fabled stories happened.

    That was my biggest complaint with the previous morgan freeman documentary..the forced storytelling. Its such a lame device.

    And i had just seen the same octopus male pretending to be a female at least twice before this. And it is even the same footage.
    8mitchmenghi

    Very good up until the final episode

    It's visually beautiful and since Spielberg's name is attached to this series you can expect a visual spectacular which it is.

    I loved every episode and as much as some complain the going back and forth during episodes to illustrate time periods this non linear change didn't bother me at all.

    My only complaint..... I was expecting the full story of the human species just like they talked about every other species but they didn't it was like as if it was a second thought or ran out of time or funding. It was a very disappointing end to say the least. The final episode barely had 20 minutes of human species discussion.

    I was left wanting more and there for was disappointed. But besides that it is a good documentary. Morgan Freeman as usual is a legend narrator.
    10jnvanzwieten

    Inspiring and truly beautiful

    Reeding alot of negative reviews here I had to add my opinion.

    In was truly touched with this series, teers in my eyes, thinking about it for months after and opening up a whole new world for me. The music is so well made: dramatic en building up, with melodic themes coming back again and again (like star wars). This repetitiveness is also seen on the screen, where the rules of life explained in the first episode, and then shown in effect again and again. I mean this positively: these rules of life is what the series really is about, and this repetitiveness (with small adaptions) is what evolution basically is (very very roughly).

    The serie is telling a story about our planet being (so far we know) unique in its ability to enable this life, but also the complete brutality of it, where only the most adapted survives, and even then mass extensions resets the stage, over and over again (in the series the 5 biggest are shown). For me, before this series, always boring to read about, but this has changed now.

    Alot of people compare the serie with walking with dinosaurs, prehistoric planet and a planet earth. A very strange comparison: This series is not about dinosaurs. This is not a nature documentary to watch when having a hangover to relax. This series is also not aka National Geographic where it will zoom in and explain a specific topic with alot of detail.

    No! This series will inspire you, with all its visual and musical power, to think about life itself, what it is, which rules it follows, and how miraculeus it is. And: how fragile, It can be all over within one day (at least for us humans). It will inspire you to broaden your knowledge afterwards about these time periods; about the Devonian, where the first amphibians came to land (long after the insects and plants), about the carbonian where newly evolved reptiles started laying eggs and as a result becoming less dependent on being near water; about the advantages and disadvantages of being warm blooded vs cold blooded; about being at the bottom of the food chain and then suddenly at the top and then at the bottom again. The series makes some assumptions but that is ok, with such a broad scope and so much tot tell, I understand these decisions.

    This series is about life itself, and you have to pay attention.

    If you want dinosaurs and relax this is not for you.

    If your want to be inspired, find love and passion for biology: watch!
    7tannegie

    Slightly dissapointing

    It was entertaining enough but for me it was a slightly dissapointing. There was hardly any mentioning as in wich era or epoch the events took place. The millions of years are mentioned but not if it was the Silurian or the Carniferous or Plioceen, to name a few. Furthermore there were too much images of modern animal life. The prehistoric life was ofcourse GCI but I've seen better in BBC documentaries. Morgan Freeman does a good job narrating this series but he is certainly no David Attenborough. All in all it was a good production but could've been better and even great if they showed more prehistoric life and less contemporary ones in this tale of the evolution of life on earth.
    7supertechie

    Needs more details but the picture is gorgeous

    I'm constantly asking "But how?" Millions of years go by and new species appear but there's no information on how. What species did it originally evolve from. The answers are provided for our current animals which I already know and yes it's evolution of course but I want more details on the process. I want more science but maybe it's just me. It's very vague but I'm on episode one so hopefully they'll provide more entail but I doubt it. A massive squid appeared but no info on its structure and what caused it grow such a long cone head. Then it mentioned another squid that's hidden under sand, referring to its large eyes being able to see prey. Large eyes? That's all?!? Just the size?!? Psshhh.

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      CGI effect sequences were done by Industrial Light & Magic or ILM, the same company that created the computer effects of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World film series. According to paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, a scientific consultant who worked with the ILM team, some of the animal models seen in the series could have been based on those seen in the Jurassic World films, albeit heavily updated to resemble real prehistoric animals rather than movie monsters. Bhullar suggested that ILM was aware that the Jurassic films had a mixed reputation among paleontology enthusiasts because the creatures seen in the films were not designed to be scientific (such as the oversized, scaly "raptors" that hark back to 1970s and 1980s depictions), so they tried to "get it right" with this series, and there was a lot of back and forth between the scientists and animators. Nevertheless, online paleo-communities have noted that some of the CGI animals presented in the series are still not up to 2020s scientific standards and feature odd mistakes like inaccurate skull shapes and body proportions. A few mistakes can be chalked up to science advancing while the series was being developed: the armored fish Dunkleosteus is shown with a long, slender body, though a 2023 study argued it would have been significantly shorter and more robust in life.
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      In one shot of the Arandaspis fish swimming near a reef, a scene supposedly set 475 million years ago when fish were just beginning to evolve, a present-day fish can be seen among the coral in the background.

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      • October 25, 2023 (United States)
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