Oceans (2010)

terrible... so disappointed.

Awesome Movie

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Oceans (2009): Dir: Jacquacs Cluzaud, Jacquacs Perrin / Narration: Pierce Brosnan: The question is poised during the opening moments of this fetching documentary, "What is the Ocean?" We begins with a group of boys staring out at the lush wonders before we are taken deeper. Filmmakers Jacquacs Cluzaud and Jacquacs Perrin do a fine job at taking viewers beneath the surface as dolphins playfully leap and dive in union. Crabs crawls about the oceans bottom. Various whales are shown including the humpback whale, orcas, beluga, and the biggest of all, the blue whale which we're told is as long as a half block and weighs 120 tons. We witness sea lions frantically struggle to escape the gaping jaws of great white sharks. Plus we are subjected to polar bears on the Arctic surface. It all began with Earth, an excellent documentary by Disney that seems to inspired many animal related theme movies. Unfortunately Oceans lacks the effective narrative storytelling that Earth presented. Oceans has breathtaking scenery of great shots of wildlife but without the narrative structure it is nothing more than a pleasant view. That ranks it perhaps the weakest entry in this promising franchise yet still worthy viewing for families. This is fine viewing for anyone interested in marine wildlife but much of it was already referenced in Earth. The two can easily double bill. Score: 6 ½ / 10

I have been to see this moovie yesterday on a Summer Open air cinema just in the coast of Barcelona in Spain.It has been wonderful to see this moovie with the sea background and it suggested us a lot of inspiration and moments of wisher. It's marvelous on this days that there is a moovie production oriented to this type of topics that suggested us to take care of ourselves and our environment by giving us the advise we can learn to start thinking in a positive way, from one to one, for really change the current status of things. I always think on a quote H.P. Lovecraft, "The White Ship". "But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean".Beo el film. Peró non ghemo mia capío na roba. Aa fine, i pési...scorexei?

I just watched Oceans on Starz On Demand and to me it had the best underwater photography i have seen in years. As a long-time fan of the TV series Sea Hunt, I have enjoyed watching underwater shows for many years. But Oceans is far way superior than the Lloyd Bridges show, since it's filmed in sharp color and the shots of the ocean floor are very outstanding. Not to be overlooked are the shots of sea lions, sea otters and whales.Another aspect that I enjoyed is Pierce Brosnan's narration. He adds a lot to the documentary, explaining to viewers what is happening. The producers did an outstanding job in going all over the globe to capture the view of the oceans. I plan on watching it again in HD to get the full screen effect that was missing in the normal on demand viewing that looks like a large postage stamp. Go down deep with Oceans, it's so beautifully photographed.

There is a sequence in Oceans that blows my mind. A stone crab emerges from the seabed and crawls along. Another follows. And then a few more follow. The camera then trails these creatures as they make their way to somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The stone crabs are joined by more of their own. Suddenly, in an establishing shot that continues to baffle me, the camera reveals what seems like hundreds of thousands of stone crabs in "a great big orgy". The sandy seabed that stretches for miles and miles could not have been more alive.That is only one of a number of spectacular scenes on show. Another highly memorable sequence shows deft skill in quick cutting as hundreds of predatory birds dive headfirst into the water at startling speeds as the camera captures their assault on small fishes through above water and underwater shots. The latter is quite incredible, and eerily reminiscent of bullets ripping through the water in the Normandy beach scene of Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998).Jacques Perrin, whose previous film credits famously include acting as the adult Toto in Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988), director of the excellent Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration (2001), and producer of Z (1969) and The Chorus (2004), now has Oceans in his resume, a documentary that explores in amazing detail what happens under the sea, bright day or still night, stormy or fine weather. The result is like nature washing over you as you drown in its unrivalled beauty. There is no gasping for air but the taking in of the vitality of life.Oceans surprisingly works well as "a thriller". In certain sequences, Perrin opts for suspense, such as the one involving baby turtles as they evade hungry birds, making their way into the sea from the shore in their own version of Normandy. Many of them are eaten while the lucky ones try to survive in the big blue ocean. Even though collectively the turtles represent a faceless mass, we fear for each one of them because Perrin focuses on one or two of them at any one time, heightening the sense of vulnerability.It is not surprising, however, to see Oceans preaching the ecological message. "Save the planet! Save the animals!" become the general plea for viewers to do their part in protecting their only home in this vast universe. But the plea is not as strong and specifically targeted as what is felt in The Cove (2009), the Oscar-winning documentary that secretly chronicles the slaying of hundreds of dolphins by Japanese fishermen in a hidden lagoon, and has now been controversially and unfairly labeled as "anti-Japanese".Oceans is lightly-narrated. This is a good move as the stunning underwater cinematography is left to do all the talking, or in this context, to speak in silence to the viewer. Perrin films in cinema verite style; his camera is unbiased, objective, and unobtrusive. His use of original music by Bruno Coulais (The Chorus) is also spot on. Very often, the marrying of melody and motion (that of sea creatures) is a joy to experience, alternating between the subtle and the grandeur.It's weird to say this but Oceans may leave your forearms bruised. Now, you may wonder why. Well, every once in a while, you might just pinch yourself to see if those beautiful imageries are really real or created with a green screen. Of course, no CG effect could ever replicate nature's beauty. Oceans shows why and that's quite something to think about.SCORE: 8/10 (www.filmnomenon.blogspot.com) All rights reserved!