Life After People (2008)

Nice effects though.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Overall it is a good show but it is very repetitive and it is too much focus on American landmarks, most of which are places that are extremely insignificant like who the f**k cares about a creepy elephant statue in Atlantic City or some random church in Boston. Australia was only in one episode and it was only about the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour bridge, nothing else. I think the episodes should have set up so certain groups of episodes would be dedicated to a certain continent and another episode about one of the capital cities.Take the episode "The Capital Threat" for example, it is an episode dedicated to capital cities and the only one one featured is Washington D.C. and Los Angeles is NOT a capital city why didn't they feature a city like London or Canberra. It would have made much more sense.

This series is a little too tightly focused on the USA. It shows what would happen to almost every major city in the USA in a life after people but only a handful of places around the world. I feel it is highly dramatised and only describes what could happen if the worst possible set of circumstances were to occur. Everything that is built in the modern era is portrayed to be very brittle and fragile and most of modern society's achievements will apparently not last more than 100-200 years. A building that has already lasted 100 years might not last another 20 years without humans and the only reason given is "lack of maintenance". At times it does get a bit repetitive,just showing building after building giving up, falling down, then the cycle repeats. The jumps in time which are commonplace may cause a little confusion.

Impressive visuals, but this is as much science fiction as science fact - the level of speculation that goes on mars it. It routinely ignores non-degradable garbage and nuclear waste in its prognostication, there are huge leaps in logic - for instance, involving zoo animals. They present the only issue as whether they can get out of the zoos, not if they can actually survive the wild, they will actually mate, if there is enough diversity to even create a gene pool for the species to survive. In essence, this show takes incredibly complicated issues with multiple factors and boils them all down to more simple ones. Plus, they misrepresented an area of Chernobyl in order to make their point! There was something vaguely Republican about the whole thing, the idea that no matter what we do to the Earth, it's okay, because it's going to turn back into a pristine Garden of Eden anyhow! Enjoy this for what it is - a science fiction documentary.

This would have been very interesting if it wasn't for the flashing images, CLOSE closeups on old dolls amongst other things, the over dramatic narrator and music. I want facts, images which i can see something, and not 80% about USA, this is not a documentary it's infotainment. The problem with that is that there is more entertainment than information, though what is so entertaining about blurry images every two seconds? Why are these so called documentaries made? It is not for giving people interesting facts that's for sure. I'm disappointed. More and more of these crappy infotainments are made and it keeps out the interesting parts all it shows me is closeups of trees, windows, roads, birds, office buildings, flowers etc.