the audience applauded

Good movie but grossly overrated

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

It was in a "scratched" bin at an op-shop, but all three discs played OK. Each of the ten programmes is only 42 minutes, so at one/day, it kept me interested for quite a while.In each episode, I found at least one really interesting item, mostly about abandoned places... a village in Dorset, a whole city in Indiana, a whole (small) island near Japan. And then there was the plants side. I knew a little about the vine Kudzu, and now I know a bit more, and Brazilian ginger too.Yes, the frequent CGI's of pancaking buildings gets a bit tiresome, especially when I know that this will take many decades before it happens, and, as others have pointed out, no one will see it, so who- cares? And only some of the "experts" were interesting. Although made in 2007, there were no shots of the twin towers demise.

This was a very watchable documentary and will be useful in schools and colleges, though I do think, like the Secret, it was a little too documentary like. sure to be a winner on the cable channels. i thought an angle was missing on how we should end up with life without people and yet other forms of life exist. the bit about Chernobyl and the neighbouring deserted ghost town was riveting and a real insight; if we originated from monkeys and apes, why was this not explained more/ ape life not mentioned at all until towards the end. are we really interested whether cockroaches will survive? We want the film to give us a better understanding of how we are abusing our planet and development of it. Certainly makes me wonder whether space exploration is in vain. Too American-ized again for me, only brief mentions of London Paris and italy. The visual effects are however excellent and should get further rewards for that at least

OK I am a nuke war movie buff, mainly for the human drama I now realize but this one caught my eye when the History Channel advertised it so I watched it. It's kind of cool but the thing is I was wondering what the motivation was to even make this? I said to myself immediately it was made for tree hugger/human haters, and we al;l know there are a bunch of them out there now. Looking at the sparse comments here on IMDb.com AFTER my deduction, I nailed it. A place I'd l;ike to visit, good riddance, lol, bunch of human haters are into this show. I also thought who would really be into this show? Civil Engineers must love watching this, I bet they are saying to themselves yeah I earn my government pay keeping your city livable! Anyway, if your in any of those three groups (post apocalyptic movie buff's/human haters/civil engineer's) you will be interested, if you are not in any of those groups, this is pretty pointless viewing. I did have a comical thought, in this make believe world there were three people that were left, Burgess Meredith (Time Enough to Read-Twilight Zone), Bruce Willis (Twelve Monkeys), and Peter Ustinov (Logan's Run), I don't know what happens when they all get together but that would have have been a lot more fun to watch then to see building's crumble, lol. I guess you could have thrown in Robert Duvall (THX 1138 ending) and Rod Taylor (The Time Machine), and a couple of women from Roger Corman end of the world films to spice it up more, maybe not. 3 of 10, maybe more if your really bored with what's on TV.