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Agata Schweiss
A Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops battle it out, so scaly you want to reach out and touch them. A giant squidlike sea monster floats ominously in the brine, more freaky and menacing than any puny great white shark. A woolly mammoth, 12-feet tall, weighing over 7 tons, stomps through the snow. All as seemingly real as the actually real live-action shots of familiar insects and birds and mountains and rain forests that surround these long-extinct creatures and persist among us today. The new eight-episode docuseries Life on Our Planet, from the producers of Our Planet, is a nature documentary with a difference, augmenting its footage of the world around us with hyperrealistic renderings of long-extinct creatures, brought (back) to life by bleeding-edge technology.
In parallel to the makers of movie magic, Life on Our Planet needed academics, and so tapped lead scientific researcher Tom Fletcher, a paleontologist and honorary fellow at the University of Leicester in England.
All in all, across six years of planning and production, the series would involve a crew of 440 people; visits to six continents; portrayals of 500 species, some still living and some very dead; 868 VFX shots; and 2,181 hours of footage filmed. Oh, and along the way, a global pandemic necessitated 26 weeks spent in quarantine hotels.
Read on to see what the makers of Life on Our Planet had to say about how they pulled it off, the sneaky filmmaking techniques they used, the references and Easter eggs they planted, the Morgan Freeman and Spielberg of it all, and more.
Surprisingly, that collaboration was close and productive throughout. Consulting scientists would go through clips frame by frame when giving the animators notes. Finalizing creatures could take up to four months.
One of the ways my wife and I coped with pandemic lockdowns was binge-watching Cobra Kai on Netflix. This series is, of course, a sequel to one of the greatest underdog movies known to man: The Karate Kid (#2 according to Ranker. I guess we have to give it to Rocky).
In The Karate Kid, new kid Daniel LaRusso evolves from bully fodder to tournament champion over the course of 127 delightfully retro minutes. An unassuming Japanese handyman, Mr. Miyagi, teaches him the graceful art of karate as a means of self-defense.
Through his training, Daniel not only masters karate but also gains courage and confidence. I watched this movie repeatedly as a kid, inspired by the transformation Daniel undergoes through hard work and disciplined training.
Relying on ourselves sometimes seems safer, easier, and more comfortable than relying on God. Our own ideas, emotions, opinions, and effort are all things we can control. Self-reliance promises protection from harm and freedom from fear, but these are false promises. Self-reliance is limited because humans are limited; there are some things we just cannot do:
Cursed is the one who trusts in human strength and the abilities of mere mortals. His very heart strays from the Eternal. He is like a little shrub in the desert that never grows; he will see no good thing come his way. He will live in a desert wasteland, a barren land of salt where no one lives.
Jesus is teaching us that we cannot live a fruitful life, a life filled with lasting impact, without learning to be attached to God and becoming God-reliant. The good news is that we can all learn to go from self-reliant to God-reliant.
But blessed is the one who trusts in Me alone; the Eternal will be his confidence. He is like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots beside the stream. It does not fear the heat or even drought. Its leaves stay green and its fruit is dependable, no matter what it faces.
This passage describes a life much more inspiring than the passage that we looked at in the beginning of this article. Just as there are negative side effects from the drug of self-reliance, there are positive benefits to being God-reliant:
I prayed to God but my focus was still on me, what I needed to do, what I needed to change, and who I needed to love. As we continued talking and I reflected on it, I realized that I never chose to believe God would help with what I was asking.
This passage teaches that we need to find a sacred space away from distractions so that we can pray to God simply and honestly. My challenge is that I hold onto some level of control instead of understanding my need for God and simply being honest with him about everything.
This is not just about spending time with God praying in the morning or right before bed. Just as this simple and honest prayer shifts our focus from ourselves back to God, things are constantly vying to shift our attention away from God and on to ourselves. Common distractions include work issues, kid challenges, the incessant pull of social media, and the ever-dreadful news. If we are going to become God-reliant people, we need to be ready to keep shifting our focus back to God throughout the day.
If you've ever tried to recreate an impossibly cute cake that you saw on Pinterest and then wound up with a melting mound of brown and purple fondant, you've probably been tempted to post a picture of your failure with a dry, sarcastic caption: "Nailed it." Well, now there's a whole show about that. Netflix's Nailed It baking show brings your Pinterest fails to life and the hilarity is honestly next-level. Seriously, I had no idea that it would be this much more satisfying to watch people fail at baking than to succeed. I feel so understood right now.
Whereas normal baking shows like The Great British Bake Off or Cupcake Wars tend to make me feel like a failure who's never really achieved anything with my 28 years in this world, Nailed It makes me feel like I probably really could be a baker. Well, it makes me feel like I'm not the worst baker in the world, and at the very least that there are other people out there who are just as bad at baking as I am. Whether it's because of the terrible cakes themselves, or just the superior comedy of host Nicole Byer, this show will make you laugh harder than you've laughed all year.
If you don't believe me, just check out what everyone is saying on Twitter. Basically, we can all agree that this show is making our ribs hurt from laughing so hard. It's also making it difficult to carry on with our regular, daily routines because we're all stuck watching episode after episode instead of doing things like, you know, laundry. And even better, it's something that parents can feel comfortable watching with their kids, so it's the kind of fun that the whole family can enjoy.
I've been working really hard to avoid saying that Netflix "nailed it" with Nailed It, but I guess I can't help it. The show is the perfect antidote to perfectionist cooking shows and social media feeds that make your own baking skills feel like they're lacking. The truth is that nobody's life looks as mellow and beautifully filtered as what you find on Instagram or Pinterest. And try as you might, nobody's homemade princess cake has the face of a princess that looks like she was drawn by Disney. No, most people's princess cakes look like Toni's does on the show, with a bug-eyed princess and decapitated dragon.
"I don't mean to laugh but your princess is terrifying," Byer tells the grinning contestant. "I don't think anybody is coming to rescue her." The absolute best part of this interaction is that Toni completely agrees. When asked what she thought her princess would sound like, Toni began to talk in a low, gruff voice that sounds like a cross between Gilbert Gottfried and Smeagol. I love everything about this show. No one's feelings are getting hurt, and some average human with average baking skills will get to walk home with $10,000 for making the least terrible cake.
So if you've got a spare hour or two and you need a laugh, why not watch Nailed It to engage in some good-natured mockery of terrible bakers not at all unlike yourself. Unless, of course, you're actually a pastry chef in which case just try not to judge these contestants too harshly. After all, we're all just doing our best here. And also fondant is actually much harder to work with than it may seem.
This documentary is meant to inspire hope, or at least I think it is. As a tale of man and nature, interspecies bonds and the miraculous intelligence of the octopus as a product of evolution, this film is meant to leave the viewer filled with wonder. Instead, I left quite disgusted.
Such a scathing review . Craig seems very respectful of the surroundings and is clearly seen to whoever watches this documentary. Comments about looking his relationship with his family are disgusting
We agree. The guy is weird. Having an intimate relationship w an Octopus is creepy. It was beautifully filmed and the closeups of the sea life is really awesome. Having an unnatural obsession with an Octopus and discussing it adnauseum is just plain kookie in our opinion.
I liked the documentary BUT he lies when he gave the idea of having a close and deep relationship with the octopus. He never saved the octopus. So it was just like another type of documentary. Like a bad publicity.
Life or Something Like It is a 2002 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek. The film focuses on television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) and her quest to find meaning in her life. The original music score was composed by David Newman.
Lanie Kerrigan, a successful reporter for a Seattle television station, interviews a self-proclaimed prophet, Jack, to find out if he really can predict football scores. Instead, Prophet Jack not only predicts the football score, and that it will hail the next day, but also that Lanie will die in seven days, on the following Thursday. When his first two prophecies come true, Lanie panics and again meets with Jack to ask for another prophecy to test him again. Jack tells her that there will be a relatively significant earthquake in San Francisco at 9:06 am, which also happens. Now Lanie is convinced that she is going to die and is forced to reevaluate her life.
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