the horny bitches cuts – master post
I'm pretty sure that by now we all know about the documentary series Big Beasts being narrated by Mr Tom Legs-For-Centuries Hiddleston, and many of us feared that he would be uttering some sentences that would be absolutely fucking devastating especially when taken out of context…
And some of us know that I've taken it upon myself to comb through the episodes, isolate these lines, remove the background sounds (to the best of my abilities), and compile them into what we lovingly refer to as The Horny Bitches Cut.
look at this mf being all smug because he knows what these lines have done to us
Well a new development has been made and now I've taken it upon myself to comb through Earth at Night in Color and create its respective Horny Bitches Cuts. Lawd have mercy on our souls
Everything under the cut
TV Series
Big Beasts #releasethehornybitchescut collection
Earth at Night in Color Season 1 collection
Earth at Night in Color Season 2 collection
Earthsounds collection
Movies
The Pirate Fairy
Kong Skull Island
Interviews/BTS
Kong Skull Island bts video of Tom running up the stairs sounding like ✨something else✨
The Soccer Aid promo interview
Early Man IGN Comments
Jill Scott's Coffee Club – the "ohh yes!"
worship & reverence (aka "trying to get us to kneel")
something about horses…
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Micro-Reviews: Stuff I enjoyed with my Apple+ free trial, Part I
Recently had the chance to spend a couple months with Apple’s streaming service, and while I’m not going to keep an ongoing subscription, I did find several shows that I watched and enjoyed in their entirety and would recommend! The ones in this post are all documentary-related, and I think several would be worth having a one-month subscription to watch, at least.
Prehistoric Planet
Fantastic dinosaur documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, with the more current (presumably) understanding of prehistoric creatures’ lives and appearances--including feathers! I know feathered dinosaurs aren’t new, but I feel like it’s taken a while for feathers to make their way into moving depictions, y’know?
Anyway, it’s very fun, because dinosaurs are very fun. The creatures are photorealistic, and the backgrounds were so realistic I literally couldn’t even guess if they were all CG, or if they used real-life shots and placed the creatures in.
I know I’m not talking much about the content, because I can’t find much to say other than fantastic, absolutely worth watching. It combines a bunch of my favorite things: dinosaurs, BBC documentaries, and David Attenborough narration.
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
Another one for the documentary and science lovers. At an hour and a half, I broke it up into multiple sessions. This is about “the cultural, spiritual, and scientific impact of meteorites” and their craters.
Narrated and written by Werner Herzog, whose narration continually delighted me because it’s a bit like a monologue from a conversational partner. We’re introduced to a South Korean antarctic station, and as the camera walks trough the spacious, sunlight rooms, Herzog recounts how nearby, Robert Scott’s men spent the winter in tiny cave.
As we watch people prepare food in a shiny modern kitchen, he recounts how the historical men dreamt of banquets ripped away from their forks; one man who managed to eat in his dream was “rightfully hated” by his comrades. [heavy pause] But we’re not here for lobster and kimchi. Anyway, about the science...
Later, we get a digression about how delighted he is by some footage of someone walking into the background of a camera shot and doing some work on the ground, against the rules of good filmmaking.
Topic to tangent back to topic again. I suspect this is what people experience in conversation with me. The subject matter was interesting, but Herzog’s narration himself was so much fun that when I discovered he had previously created a documentary about people living in Antarctica, I immediately placed a library hold on it.
Earth at Night in Color
Absolutely fascinating. Using state-of-the-art cameras that are able to film at night not in the grey-and-green-toned night vision we’re used to, but in color that, if you didn’t remember the name of the show, would have you guessing they’re filming in the day, or maybe dusk at most. If you’re the kind of person who likes nature documentaries, you’ll like this. I also enjoyed the “behind the scenes” bits at the end of each episode that show how the crew filmed things, or issues they ran into. I am continually amazed at nature documentary camera people--the episode on Patagonia noted that the crew walked a collective 5000 kilometers.
Also notable is learning via Tom Hiddleston’s narration that apparently the British way of pronouncing puma is pyoo-mah, which led me on a google rabbit trail that ended in a linguist’s blog post from 2006.
Tiny World
A nature docuseries that spotlights small creatures, narrated by Paul Rudd because he played Ant Man, which is hilarious. (The narration is perfectly fine, but reading the rationale in an interview cracked me up.)
I was continually amazed and astounded and the close-up footage they got of tiny creatures--at least with pumas (*Tom Hiddleston voice* pyoo-mahs) you can film them from a distance! Each episode focused on multiple creatures--more than five each time--so you get a good look at a lot of things. “Tiny” here ranges from ants and other teeny insects to small lizards, shrews, geckos and more.
They did a great job keeping a light, inquisitive tone--it’s not a comedy and you’ll also find yourself fearing for a hummingbird in the middle of a Caribbean hurricane, but my absolute favorite part was the episode with peacock spiders (tiny and cute and colorful), the males of which do a courtship dance. Tiny World made the fantastic decision to play The Macarena to accompany this.
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Recommendations
If you are looking for a movie to watch, I recommend The Lost City
If you are looking for a book to read, I recommend Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton
If you are looking for a show to binge, I recommend Earth at Night in Color (on Appletv)
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