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Special Features
Interview with the directors
Kwazulu during the run
Shooting Wild Ocean - behind the scenes
Recording Wild Ocean - recording orchestral strings in UK
Shooting Wild Ocean - slideshow with soundtrack (Ken Burns style)
Wild Ocean quiz
About the filmmakers
About the sardine run
About the region - Kwazulu Natal and Transkei
Wildlife on the Run
Kwazulu during the run
Shooting Wild Ocean - behind the scenes
Recording Wild Ocean - recording orchestral strings in UK
Shooting Wild Ocean - slideshow with soundtrack (Ken Burns style)
Wild Ocean quiz
About the filmmakers
About the sardine run
About the region - Kwazulu Natal and Transkei
Wildlife on the Run
Editorial Reviews
WILD OCEAN is an uplifting cinematic experience capturing one of nature's greatest migration spectacles through the magic of IMAX®. Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy amidst the dolphins, sharks, whales, gannets, seals and billions of fish. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, WILD OCEAN is a timely documentary that celebrates the animals that now depend on us to survive and the efforts by local people to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Hope is alive on the Wild Coast where Africa meets the sea.
Special Features:
Interview with the directors
Kwazulu during the run
Shooting Wild Ocean - behind the scenes
Recording Wild Ocean - recording orchestral strings in UK
Shooting Wild Ocean - slideshow with soundtrack (Ken Burns style)
Wild Ocean quiz
About the filmmakers
About the sardine run
About the region - Kwazulu Natal and Transkei
Wildlife on the Run
Originally conceived, photographed and released in ultra high-resolution IMAX® 3D process. The 3D image is optimized for home viewing by scanning the original 15/70 image at a 5.6K resolution for the 3D Blu-rayTM release. This 3D Blu-ray will play on a standard Blu-ray player.
Special Features:
Interview with the directors
Kwazulu during the run
Shooting Wild Ocean - behind the scenes
Recording Wild Ocean - recording orchestral strings in UK
Shooting Wild Ocean - slideshow with soundtrack (Ken Burns style)
Wild Ocean quiz
About the filmmakers
About the sardine run
About the region - Kwazulu Natal and Transkei
Wildlife on the Run
Originally conceived, photographed and released in ultra high-resolution IMAX® 3D process. The 3D image is optimized for home viewing by scanning the original 15/70 image at a 5.6K resolution for the 3D Blu-rayTM release. This 3D Blu-ray will play on a standard Blu-ray player.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I saw the movie Wild Ocean 3D at the Imax theater in the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., over Christmas Break. It is an amazing experience. It was of course in 3D.
The filmmakers take you to one of the few remaining stretches of wild coastline, the KwaZulu-Natal Wild Coast in South Africa, where you observe the migration of millions of fish and the various biosystems that these fish support - sharks, dolphins, whales, gannets, people. It is Africa by the sea, and it is stunning.
I especially loved the musical score. Composed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, the people who created STOMP Live, it is a pulsing, engaging, and outsize score for an outsize film about an outsize landscape. I loved it!
The underlying message is, of course, the disappearance of wild ecosystems and what must be done to prevent more loss. Great movie, great message.
The filmmakers take you to one of the few remaining stretches of wild coastline, the KwaZulu-Natal Wild Coast in South Africa, where you observe the migration of millions of fish and the various biosystems that these fish support - sharks, dolphins, whales, gannets, people. It is Africa by the sea, and it is stunning.
I especially loved the musical score. Composed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, the people who created STOMP Live, it is a pulsing, engaging, and outsize score for an outsize film about an outsize landscape. I loved it!
The underlying message is, of course, the disappearance of wild ecosystems and what must be done to prevent more loss. Great movie, great message.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By TT Lu
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
The title of this BD 3D DVD is a little misleading. It mainly talked about the migration of sardine in South Africa and its upstream food chains. It is an interesting story. The movie has a lot of mediocre footages that are not good for 3D experience.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
This feature isn't bad and kind of interesting at times. The 3D was pretty good but I did notice some ghosting in a few spots that I bet were errors in the mastering process. Nothing bad though. It was also nice not to be preached at about conservation through the entire film (see Grand Canyon: River at Risk for that sort of thing).
On the down side, it was boring in a few spots and it seems like they used the same shots over and over again (especially the dolphins swimming at the camera).
Not worth $20 but still interesting.
On the down side, it was boring in a few spots and it seems like they used the same shots over and over again (especially the dolphins swimming at the camera).
Not worth $20 but still interesting.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Kevin Gensch
Format:Blu-ray
Grab a puke bucket as you'll be sick from buying this.
Here is what you get: Sardines swimming in circles for half, yes - half!, the movie. I understand that the little stinky things were the "highlight" but they are the entire movie!
Sardines swimming here. Sardines there. Oh look, other birds, fish and stuff are hungry. Cue the Sardines! They must know the producer or something.
Really? Nothing wild about their featured Ocean.
3D: Horrible for the underwater shots. Great for above water shots. But, don't we want to see great underwater shots - AFTER ALL the movie is WILD OCEAN.
I really wish there were more sardines swimming in circles. Couldn't get enough.
Here is what you get: Sardines swimming in circles for half, yes - half!, the movie. I understand that the little stinky things were the "highlight" but they are the entire movie!
Sardines swimming here. Sardines there. Oh look, other birds, fish and stuff are hungry. Cue the Sardines! They must know the producer or something.
Really? Nothing wild about their featured Ocean.
3D: Horrible for the underwater shots. Great for above water shots. But, don't we want to see great underwater shots - AFTER ALL the movie is WILD OCEAN.
I really wish there were more sardines swimming in circles. Couldn't get enough.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This Wild Ocean 3D bluray movie is absolutely superb and stunning!!! I am so glad I purchased it. I watched it twice at an IMAX theatre and now I have already watched it twice on my computer-and I just received it yesterday!! The music conveys a feeling of teamwork-individual efforts toward a common greater good. I also want to buy the Soundtrack for it. This movie scores a 15 on a chart of 10!!! Again, absolutely superb and stunning!!!!!!!!! One of the best purchases I ever made!!!!!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Its a nice story but like the other reviewer I was hoping for a better 3D experience , what annoyed me the most is the narrator - he has a thick south African accent and can be hard to clearly hear - its distracting - he sounds a little like Morgan Freeman but its not him.... I was hoping to see more species - there are a lot of dolphins and sardines but I wanted to see more .... btw the channel n3d on directv airs this program for free in 3d as well....
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Fish
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
They should have called this movie "African Sardines". What a stupid movie and a waste of money. If you pay more than $10.00 for this you got ripped off.(I did) The 3-D is good and had allot of depth throughout the movie but unfortunately it had several spots where there is moderate "ghosting" which ruined it. Like the previous review, I couldn't understand most of what was said due to the heavy accent of the narrator. The movie was about the plight of the sardine population in Africa or something like that.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By CheapTech
Format:Blu-ray
Poor video quality, poor 3D effect, poor footage... everything about this is bad.
Do not buy it. Don't even spend time watch it.
It's just sad.
Do not buy it. Don't even spend time watch it.
It's just sad.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational
I truly enjoyed this movie and would definitely recommend it everyone who love the sea and all it has to offer.
Published 5 months ago by B. Crosby
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Imax!
This was a great IMAX! Visually stunning! The 3D is really cool and the music is awesome! The cinematography is amazing! I loved it!
Published 5 months ago by Go Green
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wild Oceans
I would rate this as just okay,I think it might be more appropriate for younger children as they might see the wow factor that eludes most adults. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Romiesteve
5.0 out of 5 stars
imax wild ocean blue-ray
this movie is great, everything looks so natural and real. love this movie. it takes nature to a all new level
Published 9 months ago by shelley16
2.0 out of 5 stars
Rent maybe; don't buy
Dull dull dull. Half the time showing nothing but sardines and most of the rest is on land in south Africa. The tone is a sledgehammer political Eco lecture. Winner of this. Read more
Published 13 months ago by LetsGo
5.0 out of 5 stars
imax wild ocean - blue ray 3d
Amazing video! Love the 3D effects! Bubbles and dolphin are playing in my livingroom!!! And the herring are dancing too! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jonelle E. Kop
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring
Very boring video. All they show is dolfins and sardeens. U see it all within the first couple minutes. Read more
Published 16 months ago by CS2012
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully recorded, a Little too Political
The video is wonderfully recorded, but the political commentary was like the last scene of the empty sardine can - empty.
Published 16 months ago by Craig Rutten
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Movie!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Stuff!!!!! I learned a lot of about our oceans watching this movie!!!! I would recomend this to all! A must movie to have.
Published 17 months ago by T
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too short for the price
First off for the length of the "movie" the price should be at least half of what it's selling for. The movie's 3D effects were cool but I thought there could have been more. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Matthew Cartier
