Tropical Rainforest (Large Format)

Starring:Geoffrey Holder, Ben Shedo
Director: Ben Shedd
Studio: Sling Shot
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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This 40-minute documentary was one of the first commercially released DVDs. It should serve as a welcome introduction for those who are interested in but know little about the tropical rainforest and the process of deforestation. The script, however, provides little in the way of concrete information regarding the images on screen at any given time. The intended effect appears to be poetic (Ã la Henry David Thoreau), but the narration tends to veer toward the New Age. This could prove frustrating for those who would like to know exactly what species of plant or animal is being featured and what makes it unique to the rainforest. Further, indigenous peoples and their relationship to the world's rainforests is not explored.

Description

Take a totally tropical trip to the rain forest and meet spotted jaguars, colorful poison-arrow frogs, slow-moving sloths, and loud-mouthed howler monkeys - all captured by the world's finest filmmakers.

Customer Reviews:

Elementary kids will love it.......2006-07-26

We rented this during a unit study on rainforests. My 7 year old son really enjoyed it. It's very informative, and has some nice songs. The little "Earth" character who narrates is pretty funny, my son laughed a lot. I don't give a full 5 stars because it has some evolutionary junk on it.

Living Landscapes HD Costa Rica [Blu-ray]

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Living Landscapes HD Costa Rica [Blu-ray]

Manufacturer: Customflix
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: Blu-ray

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ASIN: B000PTYK7A
Release Date: 2007-04-25

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Descend into the mists of Costa Rica's cloud forest. Feel the swirling moisture nourish this lush ecosystem as a surround sound symphony of life fills the room.

Experience the Osa Peninsula's lowland Rainforest where brillant scarlet macaws and sleeoy sloths dwell in on the the most bio-diverse places on Earth.

Feast your eyes on brilliant golds and reds against an infinite backdrop of lush green. Your senses become intoxicated with the sweet, heady nectar of the jungle. Catch bright strokes of color streaking across tropical skies! Iridescent butterflies flit through the air like flowers on wings.

The Living Landscapes Collection is a series of High Definition programs designed to create sensory-immersive experiences of the world's most beautiful natural environments. These mesmerizing programs use High Definition video and 5.1 surround sound to bring your home theatre or computer screen to life. Transform your living room into a Living Landscape. Replace the static pictures on your wall with more lifelike imagery. Living Landscapes Video Collection will forever change your experience of television!

BLU-RAY FORMAT.

Standard Definition and WMV HD also available

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This 40-minute documentary was one of the first commercially released DVDs. It should serve as a welcome introduction for those who are interested in but know little about the tropical rainforest and the process of deforestation. The script, however, provides little in the way of concrete information regarding the images on screen at any given time. The intended effect appears to be poetic (à la Henry David Thoreau), but the narration tends to veer toward the New Age. This could prove frustrating for those who would like to know exactly what species of plant or animal is being featured and what makes it unique to the rainforest. Further, indigenous peoples and their relationship to the world's rainforests is not explored.

The documentary is narrated by actor Geoffrey Holder (Ray the Sun from Bear in the Big Blue House), who has a deep voice with a pleasant tone, somewhat akin to that of James Earl Jones. His thick Trinidad accent, however, can be somewhat hard to understand despite the clear diction. A couple of scientists provide supplementary narration, but it is not sufficiently clear who they are or what their relationship is to the rainforest. The film ends with a fitting musical number, "Mbube (Wimoweh) (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)" by the South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. --Kathleen Fennessy

Description

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

Digitally mastered from the original 70mm IMAX print with all the stunning clarity and visual sweep that the IMAX presentation can deliver.

Narrated by Geoffrey Holder

Music performances include Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Tropical Rainforest takes you on a 400 millon year journey to illustrate the diversity and beauty of life in the forests, featuring the birds and primates of the forest canopy as well a the insects of the forest floor.

Fom extreme close ups to tree top panoramas, this film lets you experience the forest on its own terms, to better understand and appreciate the wonders of this enangered habitat.

You witness first hand the threats that are placing these magnificent forests in peril.

Customer Reviews:

Not so bad after all.......2007-03-07

Now come on! This documentary deserves at least a 3 1/2 star rating. It's expensive and rather short like all other IMAX films but at least it tries to send us the message that humans are screwing around with the rainforests. The point of this film is just that, to remind us of the extinction of animals and plants due to human greed and stupidity! When the animals are gone for ever, humans will follow.........WAKE UP!!!! Save the rainforests!!!!!!

Zero stars really.......2006-01-14

This is a total joke and a piece of trash. From now on, I just hate Rainforests because of this movie. I must hope they are all cut down from now on since this film makes it so boring and stupid too.

Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!.......2003-10-21

This movie had poor content, I know more facts about the Rainforest than this movie presented. I don't think an overview of the Rainforest will cut it, should be more in-depth!

Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL.......2002-11-10

This is the WORST documentary I have ever watched. Anyhow i consider iMAX documentaries sub par to National Geographic and BBC documentaries. Given that leeway, this documentary still sets new standards. New stardards in terms of the worst documentary made.

The narrator sounds like hes overdosed on prozac, there is no theme whatsoever (they take a rainforest, take the first person off the street to narrate, and an IMAX camera: where they spent all their money). I was so severly disappointed. The DVD transfer is nothing spectacular.

Which brings me to my next point: IMAX documentaries are subpar in terms of filming and content and narration to the aforementioned documentaries. They are only popular becuase of the film and projection technuiques of the BIG screen IMAX theatres. Once they are transferred to DVD, the effect is lost and they appear as inferior, B-class documentaries. Stick to some BBC or National geographic documentary.

I think the grass growing in my lawn is more fascinating than this lacklustre piece on a "rainforest". Useless.

Worst IMAX I ever saw.......2000-12-28

I felt so happy when I was able to return this DVD for a refund. I stopped collecting IMAX DVD's without renting them first after the experience I had with this one.

Description

Descend into the mists of Costa Rica's cloud forest. Feel the swirling moisture nourish this lush ecosystem as a surround-sound symphony of life fills the room. Experience the Osa Peninsula's lowland Rainforest where brilliant scarlet macaws and sleepy sloths dwell in one of the most bio-diverse places Earth. Feast your eyes on brilliant golds and reds against an infinite backdrop of lush green. Your senses become intoxicated with the sweet, heady nectar of the jungle. Catch bright strokes of color streaking across tropical skies! Iridescent butterflies flit through the air like flowers on wings. The Living Landscapes HD Collection is a series of High Definition programs designed to create sensory-immersive experiences of the world's most beautiful natural environments. These mesmerizing programs use High Definition video and 5.1 surround sound to bring your home theatre or computer screen to life. Transform your living room into a Living Landscape. Replace the static pictures on your wall with more lifelike imagery. Living Landscapes HD Video Collection will forever change your experience of television! This DVD-R contains Windows Media Video High Definition (WMVHD) content. View WMV-HD content on a Windows PC (3GHz or faster recommended) with Windows Media Player for the true HD experience of 720p and stereo sound. It will not play on a standard DVD player. WMV-HD FORMAT. Available in HD-DVD and Blu Ray DVD Spring 2007. Also available in Standard Definition now

Customer Reviews:

Living Landscapes HD Costa RIca ( WMV-HD Version for Windows Media and PC's ).......2007-05-15

This DVD is totally amazing. I feel like I have received a real window into Costa Rica's natural beauty with this DVD. The nature sounds and the music are unbelievable. I play it on my home office PC all the time. It is very relaxing. I love all the hummingbirds and butterflies. Very nice.

Average customer rating:

Not so bad after all
Zero stars really
Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!
Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL
Worst IMAX I ever saw

Tropical Rainforest (Large Format)
Starring: Geoffrey Holder , and Ben Shedo
Director: Ben Shedd
Manufacturer: Sling Shot
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00000F190
Release Date: 1999-03-16

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Customer Reviews:

Not so bad after all.......2007-03-07

Zero stars really.......2006-01-14

This is a total joke and a piece of trash. From now on, I just hate Rainforests because of this movie. I must hope they are all cut down from now on since this film makes it so boring and stupid too.

Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!.......2003-10-21

This movie had poor content, I know more facts about the Rainforest than this movie presented. I don't think an overview of the Rainforest will cut it, should be more in-depth!

Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL.......2002-11-10

I think the grass growing in my lawn is more fascinating than this lacklustre piece on a "rainforest". Useless.

Worst IMAX I ever saw.......2000-12-28

I felt so happy when I was able to return this DVD for a refund. I stopped collecting IMAX DVD's without renting them first after the experience I had with this one.

Product Description

On Your EcoTours *The Legendary Kaieteur--the World's tallest single-drop waterfall *The river with a thousand islands *The Amazon Rainforests of Guyana *The animals of South America *Fort Island *Orinduik waterfalls *Gem Falls *Niki Falls *The Rupununi Savannahs *Georgetown--the garden city of the Caribbean *Bartica--the gateway town to the amazon *The Guyanese Countryside

Customer Reviews:

Don't watch it.......2007-01-23

This video was a REAL dissapointment. The entire movie looks like a vacation video of someone who had to much rum. What a waste of money.

Excellent Film!.......2005-06-11

I wanted to go to guyana,but my mom wanted to see it first,so she bought this dvd and it was great!She loved guyana so much she said we could go there this summer!

Guyana Ecotours (A Tropical Adventure) Guyana DVD.......2005-05-15

I have watched entralled at this 60 minutes DVD and it is unbelievable how exciting it is. Guyana Eco tours or rather ecotourism in Guyana makes island sand and beach pale in comparison. Ecotourism in Guyana is very exciting. As a result of this DVD I took three of my friends to Guyana. One Australian, one German and the other, a Scandinavian female. My friends were so excited, they gushed praises upon the breathtaking beauty of Guyana. I must say this DVD, which we took along as a reminder of the places on it that we wanted to experience, was very acurate describing these places as 'Spectacular Wonders of Nature', as indeed they were! This is truly a remarkable production. I rate this DVD five stars! (I wish they had ten stars to rate this DVD. I would use it all up) A Tropical Adventure, Guyana Ecotours, a must-have on either DVD or VHS!----This review is excerpted from Caribbean Diary Magazine and written by Nadia De Frietas, it's Assistant Editor

A Tropical Adventure.......2004-05-08

This DVD is indeed breathtaking it gives you an educational background to Guyana South America. I often recall the lengths I had to go through explaning to friend in Europe and others parts of the world about my country some people thought it was Ghana in West Africa, I would say no Guyana South America the only english speaking country. A Tropical Adventure truly is explicit and parents should allow there children to sit and look at this lovely breath taking DVD. I also recommend it to environmentalist, and if you are from Guyana and has never really visited the riverin areas here is your opportunity to travel the beautiful country of Guyana a land of one people one nation and one destiny.

A Tropical Adventure (Guyana Ecotours).......2004-04-21

Great quality, professionally produced, fast paced, exciting ecotour. A must-have for Guyanese, Caribbean people or anyone interested in travelling that part of the world or anyone who is into seeing Earth's own spectacular show.

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The Tropical Rainforest Habitat

Manufacturer: 100% Educational Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Average customer rating:

Not so bad after all
Zero stars really
Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!
Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL
Worst IMAX I ever saw

Tropical Rainforest
Starring: Geoffrey Holder
Director: Ben Shedd
Manufacturer: Lumivision
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Documentary | Genres | DVD | Video

Nature & Wildlife | Special Interests | Genres | DVD | Video

( T ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
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ASIN: 6303272916
Release Date: 1997-03-26

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Customer Reviews:

Not so bad after all.......2007-03-07

Zero stars really.......2006-01-14

This is a total joke and a piece of trash. From now on, I just hate Rainforests because of this movie. I must hope they are all cut down from now on since this film makes it so boring and stupid too.

Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!.......2003-10-21

This movie had poor content, I know more facts about the Rainforest than this movie presented. I don't think an overview of the Rainforest will cut it, should be more in-depth!

Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL.......2002-11-10

I think the grass growing in my lawn is more fascinating than this lacklustre piece on a "rainforest". Useless.

Worst IMAX I ever saw.......2000-12-28

I felt so happy when I was able to return this DVD for a refund. I stopped collecting IMAX DVD's without renting them first after the experience I had with this one.

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Customer Reviews:

Not so bad after all.......2007-03-07

Zero stars really.......2006-01-14

This is a total joke and a piece of trash. From now on, I just hate Rainforests because of this movie. I must hope they are all cut down from now on since this film makes it so boring and stupid too.

Worst documentary on the Rainforest I ever seen!.......2003-10-21

This movie had poor content, I know more facts about the Rainforest than this movie presented. I don't think an overview of the Rainforest will cut it, should be more in-depth!

Are they for real? Absolutely AWFUL.......2002-11-10

I think the grass growing in my lawn is more fascinating than this lacklustre piece on a "rainforest". Useless.

Worst IMAX I ever saw.......2000-12-28

I felt so happy when I was able to return this DVD for a refund. I stopped collecting IMAX DVD's without renting them first after the experience I had with this one.

The things that are bad with this one: 1. Poor Video 2. Lousy narration(worst ever for an IMAX). 3. Not at all interesting

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