Amazon

this IMAX was the opitomy of amazing. eye-popping visuals and information, Plotkin gives a detailed description of his line of work. just as fascinating or even better than his book "tales of a shamans apprentice", this IMAX will make you want to visit the amazon and join Mark on one of his expeditions. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone looking for an interesting film to watch and to be wowed again by Mark Plotkin.

It's great for the whole family. I can't tell you how many times I've watched it, but every time gives me another reason to go visit South America. Not only is the IMAX great, but the soundtrack also is very soothing.

The IMAX contains jaw-dropping scenes such as a baby sleeping on a mammoth lily-pad while staying totally dry.

Plotkin has done it again.

The Amazon basin and the mysterious Indian tribes that live within its rainforests are subjects that are very near and dear to me. I studied this a bit in college, and I'm always a sucker for a documentary that purports to have new footage of the Amazon interior.

I paid four bucks last night to watch "Amazon" via on-demand cable. It was a huge let-down.

Actually, the film footage was actually very impressive. There were the obligatory machu picchu shots, sure, but also some great shots of the "amazon jungle railroad" which I was thrilled to finally see, great shots of the enormous headwater canyons in Peru, and some crazy Indian tribe footage where they had what looked like four foot rafters embedded in their chins. Also there were piranha, white-handed gibbons, pink dolphins, and electric eels. Plus shots of the rain forest canopy, which is not something you see very often. The IMAX team simply got some amazing footage out of this. I can't rate it highly enough - I'm sure it wasn't easy to get either.

But the production! I can't believe that somebody didn't put their foot down, and fire the director. The music made me want to watch the thing on "mute". 90 minutes of Synth-Pan-Flute ensembles... ugggh. The story was both retarded and offensive. They tried to make the Medicine Man Indian into some kind of modern explorer or something, but he never had a single intelligent thing to say. The narrator was not the worst part, but she wasn't very good either.

I'm just really angry that such amazing footage was ruined by such a stupid script and then completely trashed by *constant* and extremely annoying background music.

I hope someday someone buys the rights to this film and repackages it into a good documentary.