Experience the world of dinosaurs like never before in this epic docuseries from Executive Producer Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. With David Attenborough and accompanied by a breathtaking score by Hans Zimmer, Prehistoric Planet is a five-night documentary event coming to Apple TV+ May 23rd.
I really liked the first episode. I'm sure there's a fair amount of invention involved in order to tell the kinds of stories you would expect from a BBC/Attenborough documentary, but the photography makes it all feel pretty natural. And thankfully they didn't Disney-fy it too much, plenty of baby dinosaurs getting munched.
I really liked the first episode. I'm sure there's a fair amount of invention involved in order to tell the kinds of stories you would expect from a BBC/Attenborough documentary, but the photography makes it all feel pretty natural. And thankfully they didn't Disney-fy it too much, plenty of baby dinosaurs getting munched.
It's Apple, not BBC, and I am putting this off because this feels sci-fi at best.
This is quite the improvement over the documentary that I used to watch (and rewatch and rewatch) as a kid when I was obsessed with dinos, the one called Dinosaur! with Walter Cronkite
It's practically like a classic Attenborough/BBC documentary (same tone and directing style) but with dinos instead of regular animals. Although there are some obvious dramatizations and cinematic concessions, it tries to be as realistic and believable as possible also taking into account the new knowledge gathered over the past decade. Velociraptors and earlier Tyrannosaurids for instance come with feathers, there are lesser-known lizards that get the spotlight much like in the conventional docs, and the CGI definitely does look competent overall.
Watched a little over 1.5 episodes and I'm going to stop. It's not how the story is told, which is fine and decent, but the animations are too uncanny. The dinos look fine, mostly, but the animations are odd and floaty The large dino underwater scene looked very bad, as a bunch of paperweights. No water movements etc. Everything is also too "clean", not a lot of variation between dinos, there's also hardly any dust, etc. If the rest wasn't rendered as nicely, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's too disturbing for me. Should've used some of that Unreal engine stuff used for Mando, which had much more realstic movements from large creatures.
Started the Apple TV+ 7-day trial just to watch this in 4K HDR etc. I enjoyed it a lot, and I appreaciated the little narrative touches
I think it was very good visually for the most part but I wonder what happened in the last 15 minutes or so of the final episode, it went uncanny valley/cheap fx all of a sudden It's like they ran out of money half-way into making that last episode.
Anyway, hoping that more seasons (or new similar dinosaur-inspired shows) keep coming.
Prehistoric Planet will be back for a second season. Apple TV+ has renewed the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth).
Narrated by David Attenborough, the five-episode second season will premiere globally in a five-day week-long event beginning May 22 on Apple TV+.
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The large dino underwater scene looked very bad, as a bunch of paperweights. No water movements etc. Everything is also too "clean", not a lot of variation between dinos, there's also hardly any dust, etc. If the rest wasn't rendered as nicely, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's too disturbing for me. Should've used some of that Unreal engine stuff used for Mando, which had much more realstic movements from large creatures.
