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glorified_version · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:18 pm

Ken Burns' documentaries are informative but a bit tepid stylistically, but I'm really looking forward to this:

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

Quote:

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

Of course, they'd be a lot better if they were sold off to private companies and Yellowstone was renamed "Wal-Mart National Park"

simple schoolboy · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:44 pm

You just couldn't resist, eh?

We are familiar with your love of the documentary format, but are there any other sorts of films that you enjoy, or are they below you?

4-bagger · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:36 am

This is really good!

glorified_version · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:49 am

simple schoolboy wrote:

You just couldn't resist, eh?

We are familiar with your love of the documentary format, but are there any other sorts of films that you enjoy, or are they below you?

Actually I much prefer narratives, I think. But documentaries are a great way of educating people. The visual medium is the dominate way to communicate information, of our age.

jerome230 · **Joined:** Wed May 27, 2009 6:37 pm **Posts:** 315

i can't get past his haircut
ken burns has become a caricature of himself

bart d. · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:32 am **Posts:** 17563

Goddamn is this a boring documentary.

dkfan9 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:53 am

bart d. wrote:

Goddamn is this a boring documentary.

lol

4-bagger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:32 am

bart d. wrote:

Goddamn is this a boring documentary.

not enuf explosions for ya?

bart d. · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:32 am **Posts:** 17563

4-bagger wrote:

bart d. wrote:

Goddamn is this a boring documentary.

not enuf explosions for ya?

Yes, exactly. There are not enough explosions for me.

punkdavid · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:45 am

All the most glorious wonders of nature from the comfort of your Barcalounger.

PBS/Ken Burns National Parks Documentary

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