Earthlight (Spec Ac3)

Edition: DVD Price: $21.99 Genre:  Documentary  Movie

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Should be edited down to 15 minutes - extremely repetitive

I eagerly ordered "Earthlight" and even bought 2 copies. THANK GOD I bought them at half price from Amazon Marketplace!!!

This set of overflight views is extremely repetitve. If I had made the DVD, I'd not be at all proud of it. It is just clouds, clouds, more clouds, a couple minutes of desert, back to clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds ..... It could make a beautiful 15-minute video. At 85 minutes, it's a joke.

As example, the 3 overflights of Brazil take almost 15 minutes alone and the entire time you can scarcely see a single ground feature. Just clouds. And clouds, and clouds ... for 15 minutes!

Maybe if you view this stoned, the views set to fairly nice music would be entrancing. But I wasn't stoned and my normal-speed brain kept wondering when I'd actually get to see something!

Maybe that's what the whole view really is. Probably. But I was expecting much, much more. With modern telephoto photography a spy satellite can see you mailbox from space. There was no real telephoto camera work here. A few zooms such as a amateur videographer could do with cheap equipment. That's all.

Bummer. Any commercial crosscountry flight is more interesting.

PS - After writing the above, I have had a change of heart.
1) I finally started looking at the screensavers. They are among the best I've seen. I like them all. These views are just exactly what I'd expected from the 85-minute video. They are maybe worth the price of the DVD, though rather pricey.

2) Also, the view of the earth, though as stated in my main review as boring and needing huge editing, it is nevertheless instructive. That is to say: we DO live on a water planet with a very thin envelope of habitable space. It is a view everyone needs to understand viscerally. Maybe it WOULD be a good idea to view the whole series of overflights, but preferably stoned or somehow in a deep meditative state. Once.

Ho Hum

This is not exciting or awe-inspiring. The pictures are repetitive though well-photographed. The music is mundane and boring. There are far better examples of s[ace and music combinations. The IMAX 'The Dream is Alive' is far superior, although it has narration.

UFO

In the MIR clip on this DVD, You can clearly see an object (UFO) fly right through the shot. Mind-blowing UFO footage. It looks like it is phasing in and out...My ex-girlfriends 11 year old son said it looked like it was "catching up with itself", I thought that described it perfectly & Because it's on DVD, you can zoom right in on the object in slow Motion. If it's not a UFO, Then we had a VERY near miss from a huge object. It casts a shadow on the Earth as it flies over.