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ravenswept) wrote2010-12-22 03:07 pm
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30 DoM: Day 22
22. Favorite documentary
Not much of a documentary watcher really. On things like bigger issues, more often than not I find the things just way too preachy. Too many I find are just singing to the choir, people who agree with you are going to love it and those against the issue won't find anything new. And those are the ones that attempt to be neutral, there are hundreds of direct to DVD/internet site documovies of people not even hiding that they're preaching. And they think it's a good thing.
Well, that turned out ranty-er than I thought, so let's actually answer this thing.
Well, it's a fauxcumentary, but I really like Animal Planet's Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (or The Last Dragon for you English folk, or even Dragon's World for those in other countries). The whole thing's on Youtube, my link is the first part.
I've always loved dragons (Eragon tested that love) and collected and watched as much as I could. When I drew more, they were a big part of what I did draw. So when AP made a docufiction "what if", I was all over it. And it's pretty well put together. It attempts to tackle the issues of what dragons looked like (a little to romantic-classical for my tastes, but still nice), how they lived and functioned, mating, how and why the appear in almost every culture mythology in the world. The whole thing is based on a research team "finding" the frozen remains of a dragon on a high mountain, and what they conclude from the corpse.
It's not perfect; the CGI is Syfy level, some things are still unexplained or explained badly, and like a lot of these "what if" series, the production has a very fatalistic view. Yes, I know that they're trying to say why dragons are no more, but I hate "worse case scenerio" glorification.
Still, the movie was narratored by Patrick Stewart (Ian Holm for the Brit version).
Not much of a documentary watcher really. On things like bigger issues, more often than not I find the things just way too preachy. Too many I find are just singing to the choir, people who agree with you are going to love it and those against the issue won't find anything new. And those are the ones that attempt to be neutral, there are hundreds of direct to DVD/internet site documovies of people not even hiding that they're preaching. And they think it's a good thing.
Well, that turned out ranty-er than I thought, so let's actually answer this thing.
Well, it's a fauxcumentary, but I really like Animal Planet's Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (or The Last Dragon for you English folk, or even Dragon's World for those in other countries). The whole thing's on Youtube, my link is the first part.
I've always loved dragons (Eragon tested that love) and collected and watched as much as I could. When I drew more, they were a big part of what I did draw. So when AP made a docufiction "what if", I was all over it. And it's pretty well put together. It attempts to tackle the issues of what dragons looked like (a little to romantic-classical for my tastes, but still nice), how they lived and functioned, mating, how and why the appear in almost every culture mythology in the world. The whole thing is based on a research team "finding" the frozen remains of a dragon on a high mountain, and what they conclude from the corpse.
It's not perfect; the CGI is Syfy level, some things are still unexplained or explained badly, and like a lot of these "what if" series, the production has a very fatalistic view. Yes, I know that they're trying to say why dragons are no more, but I hate "worse case scenerio" glorification.
Still, the movie was narratored by Patrick Stewart (Ian Holm for the Brit version).