[.ca] Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Open Ocean/The Deep (Widescreen)

From Amazon.com:
The BBC's acclaimed nature series The Blue Planet will astonish you from start to finish, and these two episodes are even better than those included in Part 1 ("Ocean World" and "Frozen Seas"). "Open Ocean" travels thousands of miles into the vast "liquid desert," where currents determine how the ocean's diverse life forms will assume their places in the food chain. From manta rays to spinner dolphins, hammerhead sharks, and a plethora of smaller creatures fending for their lives, the patient cameramen capture a movable feast with intense proximity, while narrator David Attenborough brings these forces of nature into eloquent perspective. Even more amazing, "The Deep" descends with a state-of-the-art submersible to the ocean's abyssal plain and beyond, filming such bizarre creatures as the fangtooth, bioluminescent jellies, transparent squid, the giant-mouthed gulper eel, and the never-before-seen hairy angler fish. The Blue Planet provides the privilege of visiting a truly alien world teeming with the rarest wonders of nature. --Jeff Shannon

Additional Features:
How did they film these awesome images? The DVD's behind-the-scenes featurettes offer tantalizing answers, along with informative photos and factual data. --Jeff Shannon

Whoa!:
The Blue Planet's two episodes on this tape are the very best I have ever seen on the ocean's bowels and surfaces. The best episode here is "The Deep", which alone completely trashes Steve M's film "The Living Sea!" The Deep is ten times more amazing than anything shown in "The Living Sea". This episode takes you in a submersible down into the dark depths of the planet. The creatures shown are amazing, including: Gulper Eels, rodlike fish, Anglerfish, Sixgill Sharks, and many more! The submersible even passes over a trench 4000 meters down in the deep ocean. It is amazing and sometimes frightening. Very much worth the expense of the entire video! "Open Ocean", is also very exciting. The real highlights of this episode are the battles between different fish. There is ocean footage almost every second of the 45 minutes. You will have to view this for yourself and find out how excilirating it really is!

So beautiful a series, I went out and bought a big screen tv:
This series is a beautifully crafted piece of informative cinematography! As indicated above, I was so impressed with the quality of filming, narration, and background music that I was compelled to purchase a big screen tv and suround sound audio system on which to enjoy it over and over again. Sadly, no other video presentation involving similar subject matter that I've purchased since, including IMAX features, has been as visually stunning and informative to watch. The BBC has definitely set a gold standard.

Ground-breaking!:
All other documentaries should aspire to the level of that of the Blue Planet series. By far the most impressive documentary ever put together! Even though the Discovery Channel re-airs these programs; the high quality of DVD sound and audio make this worth paying for it.

Absolutely Unbelievable:
You just won't believe your eyes. I think it may be the best thing ever on television.

Very good filming:
The only thing that kept me from giving this film five stars was the fact that I didn't find the audio as stimulating as the video. There's nothing really wrong with the score or the narrator, but in my opinion niether sounded as inspiring as the images on the screen, and the added sound effects were at times almost annoying. The information in this documentary is very fascinating, but after watching it once I found the desire to play it again with the sound off; while listening to Beethoven instead. But for all this, it is really a very beautiful film.