Dream Big: Engineering Our World

Some great footage in here but the pacing and editing felt kinda odd. Think they tried to cover too much rather than going into more detail on a smaller number of topics. You jump around lots of places and nothing felt linked together. Just didn't work for me.

8th grade level content. 10 minutes in and we're still getting narration at 35 words per minute. Contrast that to Carl Sagan's Cosmos with 75 words per minute and words of a more difficult to comprehend nature. "Where's the Beef?"

I saw this IMAX movie in California Science Center just 2 years ago, and recently I also saw this movie on Netflix.

First of all, this movie gave me more energy to engineering. How huge what the engineering made and is going to make is and the contributions of engineering. It is mainly focused on some kind of architecture or specific project. I'm not a member of these kinds of research areas, but these inspired me so much.

The title "Dream big" seemed to mean the dream to make big things, e.g., big buildings, huge bridge, and so on at first impression. But, I think there are bigger meanings: Dream can make it possible to create a new world we can not imagine now, and we as engineers have to dream big.

When I saw this movie the first time is the sophomore of my university in Japan. Of course, some of you who can use English natively think it as childish because the narration is very easy and might make you sleepy. But the main theme of this movie is more than appearance.

Very cute, short and light, with the presence of children and several magnificent ingenuities generated by brilliant minds produced by brilliant hands... Divine soundtrack, "One Day" touches my soul and heart, and quotes the fantastic boys from the movie "Spare Parts", beautiful and exciting...

I found this on DVD from my local library. It was made as an IMAX film so the sound and video are first rate.

Jeff Bridges narrates. It features a few engineers, and a team of high school students, using engineering principles to solve big problems. Like buildings that won't crumble in an earthquake, tall buildings that withstand typhoon winds, a bridge over a dangerous remote river so students can get to school, a canal system in Scotland, an underwater robot competition. It also has a good focus on opportunities for girls and ladies to get into engineering.

Overall a very satisfying and informative presentation. I don't get why there are a few very negative reviews here.