Amazon 3D: In The Heart Of Wild Nature (2013) Blu-ray 3D [Region A Locked TBC]

[Jbug]

Watched this last night and was sorely disappointed. Here's why. First they used a musical soundtrack throughout the movie. The music wasn't bad but the choice of music over the atmospheric background sounds of the rain forest would to me have been much better. Except for a shot of a guy playing with a dolphin it's wall to wall music. Then a very high percentage of the shots in the film were of trees, plants, and water. I kept thinking, they sure are wasting a lot of run time just showing that stuff.

If you read the description of the disc content on the back of the disc case, it mentions the many varieties of species of insects and animals in the rain forest. You would be led to think you were going to see a lot of them but again it's all trees, plants and water. An odd thing about this film is how they would be talking about something before it was even on screen. If you get a chance to watch this movie you will see what I mean by odd. For example they were talking about and showing a grasshopper then the narrator changed subjects but the shot of the grasshopper would still be running. That happened multiple times during the film so I also question the editing decision unless they for some reason meant to do it that way. Even so, it was a odd and something I've never seen in other documentaries.

Forget the jaguar or whatever that big cat is on the cover. They show him/her for about a minute total and offer no useful information on it at all. As for the 3D, there are a lot of nice shots with depth but all those wasted shots looking down the river were flat. There are pop-outs, the best one being when it is raining as the rain extends out of the screen by a nice margin and looks very cool. That is the best 3D shot in the film and the best I've seen for rain in any 3D movie For those who like pop-outs which I do it's a keeper.

For me, it's too bad they decided not to show more animals and insects. That is what I wanted to see, instead they spent too much of the films run time lingering (and I do mean lingering) on shots of tree, plants and water and most of those shots had no narration at all. I've you get to a chance to see this please post your thoughts as well.