Winged Seduction: Birds of Paradise

I get that filming in the mountains of Papua New Guinea is challenging. However, I don't really need to hear about what the photographers had to do to get their helicopter, how the weather impacts flying, how hard it is to find a landing sight, how hard it is to hike in the rain forests, how their equipment handles the environment, how their camp is set up, what kind of cameras they use, how they set their cameras up and on and on and on. When they finally show film of the birds of paradise that are supposed to be the subject of the film, they give us film of playback of video on a laptop screen. I only got 13 minutes into it and in total there was about a minute and a half of marginally good footage of actual live birds. National Geographic could learn a thing or two about film making from David Attenborough and PBS.

As another review notes, way too much of this video is about making the video. So many shots of legs hiking through jungle, helicopter flying over jungle, guys setting up equipment, guys looking around etc. So much yak about planning for years, overcoming difficulties, how everyone felt...

To be fair - there were a few minutes on the actual birds, and a couple good shots of them.