ENTS, I have been watching the episode tonight. I don't think it is bad overall. It is very slow paced as if the material was stretched out to fill more time and space - much like Steven King novels. I think aside from pacing the thing is that he has used the same techniques in all of his documentary films. It was groundbreaking with the slow pans to make the still photos seem to move and come alive. Now it is old hat as we have seen it before. The material details much of the history of the early Park Service and covered material I did not know. I will watch the rest of the series, but maybe on DVD.
Ed Frank "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I couldn't live with myself" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan McEwan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:40 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ken Burnt-Outs' National Parks I am not watching the series, so I have no ground to stand on- but, I would just like to mention that someone who really knows Baseball might have disliked his Baseball movie, same for the Civil War. etc. He did not write the film for the ENTS audience...he is writing the film to engage a broad spectrum of people including those who know nothing about the parks to begin with. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
