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The Discoverers (Large Format)

The Discoverers (Large Format)

List Price: $19.99
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The film is an accurate reflection of the book...
Review: ... a disjointed, disjuncted pastiche.

An even worse book of the same ilk is Connections by James Burke.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The fillm is an accurate reflection of the book...
Review: ... a disjointed, disjuncted pastiche.

An even worse book of the same ilk is Connections by James Burke.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I "Discovered"... not to buy this.
Review: I didn't know there's such thing as a bad IMAX movie until I came across this.


Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not the greatest of the IMAX titles
Review: I have pretty much all of the WMVHD disks (including the more obscure ones like Muffin Man and Step Into Liquid). The film transfer of this title isn't as crisp as the other IMAX titles, and in general, the cinematography is not as stunning. Still nice, but it just doesn't compare to the others. The story line is a little campy, but they do a good job of covering a lot of ground, from 1600's to the future, showing how explorers risk everything to break new ground.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Discoverers of your childs interests!
Review: I purchased the discoverers for myself and subsequently had it shown for the whole family. It is VERY high quality production and if you have full Dolby 5.1 you will be rewarded with rich and wonderful sound effects.

This DVD has 8 'topics' all professionally mastered. The whole family was stimulated by this educational tool. I wish it was a year long series that went deeper into each topic.

Only negative - Although it is listed as 72 minutes, that includes all the behind the scenes pieces. The real event lasts only about 40 minutes.

Have fun learning!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Discoverers of your childs interests!
Review: I purchased the discoverers for myself and subsequently had it shown for the whole family. It is VERY high quality production and if you have full Dolby 5.1 you will be rewarded with rich and wonderful sound effects.

This DVD has 8 'topics' all professionally mastered. The whole family was stimulated by this educational tool. I wish it was a year long series that went deeper into each topic.

Only negative - Although it is listed as 72 minutes, that includes all the behind the scenes pieces. The real event lasts only about 40 minutes.

Have fun learning!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Lost Discoverers
Review: I purchased this DVD as a teaching aid. It is worthless from a pedagogical point of view. It is nothing more than a pastiche of disconnected topics. It displays none of the intelligence nor logic of Boorstein's book. It's not even very entertaining-- a colossal waste of time, money, and film.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Works great with an LCD projector or a mega-sized plasma dis
Review: If you're in the mood of "beautiful cinematography"c

Cutting-edge cinematography successfully capturing astonishing clips of nature - as with many other IMAX films - but only a small fraction presented in this piece of work. The story of Magellan's search for the passage to the Pacific captures a long shot of mega-icy-glaciers of the North and the teeny row boat of Magellan's team (understandably, the package cover) which is purely my favorite scene. "WOOOW!!" guaranteed on a mega-sized plasma display, but a "wooOOOOOWWWW!!!" guaranteed on a 100inch+ LCD projector.

If you're in the mood of "beautiful cinematography + dynamic sound"c

I wouldn't expect much on the sound quality. My BOSE system has seen much better production (e.g. IMAX "The Living Sea"). The documentary structure of the film makes it hard to enjoy combining your own-taste of music (unlike "The Living Sea" which works amazingly with house/ drum 'n bass/ techno).

Bottom linec
All-in-all for me, "the glaciers & the row boat" scene is the film's worth. The scene is precisely "Discovery" - human challenge to define nature and upon that, being thunderstruck.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disjoint, unconnected and bad audio too!
Review: Not up to the normal standards of IMAX movies. The flow is a very disjointed and unconnected of random events. The audio is poor enough that even following what is there can be difficult. I normally love IMAX movies, but this one leaves a lto to be desired.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: not good enough
Review: please make better documentaries if you want us to pay the price.
too expensive for this sort of level of work.


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