LeonLouisRicci
The very minimal footage of the actual "AOTD" is "WOW" inducing, but you would expect much, much, more from a Documentary with this pedigree. We see maybe ten minutes of inspiring "real" footage but not enough to pad this really disappointing delivery of abyss dwellers.There is much giddy talk that is really embarrassing and seems like a bedtime story for preschoolers and the film as a whole is barely educational. There is one scene showing "the ugliest thing on the planet, look...it has little feet" and that is truly "amazing" but the little guy with the five toes is on screen for about 30 seconds and except for one more really interesting "i have know idea what that is", Angel looking creature (on screen for 30 seconds), that's it.The rest of the "Aliens of the Deep" consist of shrimp, crabs, and tube worms. Hardly enough for an IMAX and Cinema release.
redfoxtattoo
this shouldn't be called aliens of the deep, more like picking rocks at the bottom of the sea. totally a fraud, of course i wasn't expecting to see aliens from another planet living there but to me its obvious that the title implies that its about weird animals that live there, and in 90 minutes all i saw was some fish, some crab, squid, octopus and some jelly thing, of about 6 seconds on the screen each, the rest is as lame as it could get, what a waste of time and the rental fee, i advise people who haven't seen it< do your self a favor, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND YOUR MONEY IN THIS LAME PRODUCT. wanna watch a good documentary? try these: zeitgeist, the corporation.
jldmp1
A failure on several levels...Throughout his repertoire, Cameron has set out to film water, or more precisely, 'liquidity' -- it's his customary point of departure -- what world could be more cinematic?. It follows that he will try to make parallels between deep ocean and space exploration. Cameron is also an unabashed showoff, so he must clutter every visual with gadgetry -- the 'look what I can do' factor -- as an unsubtle wink at the audience...every movie he makes. The deep ocean photography should have been more than enough, but he then has to make a push for SETI and other 'cutting edge' research.And therein lies a big problem. Cameron uses the most fecklessly infantile animation ever wedged into a big-budget movie, complete with little green men with sped-up voices (extended DVD version), and NASA probes that make noise in the vacuum while firing the retrorockets...this is no way to bolster science.It all concludes with "The Abyss" finale of mirrored 'aliens' making 'friends' in the deep...how can one push forward cinematically by repeating one's own worst clunker?
fugginspam
This semi-documentary was simply lame. So and so gives some credentials and then blah blah blah about how much they like riding in a submarine 3000 meters under the sea - NOT because that would be cool and a once in a lifetime experience but because they somehow need this kind of physical real-world experience to image being in outer space. Its boasted on the box about all these deep sea species we're going to see: different fish/octopuses/worms in whole movie: 6-7. Amount of time showing cool deep sea critters: about 4 minutes. Amount of time showing computer generated rejects from low-budget video games: about 4 minutes. Sometimes wasting 15$ can really aggravate me, and then wasting 2 hours of my life totally throws me off the deepest end of some Europan Frozen Ocean. 0.5/10 honestly.
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