For billions of mice, this is the last thing they saw on this Earth.
Hollywood could spend millions and not get anything quite this beautiful and terrifying.
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Wow! Very nicely done. (Still, I feel for the mice.)
Wow! That is an amazing video. I have had owls swoop by me at night and you can barely hear their wings.
“Hollywood could spend millions and not get anything quite this beautiful and terrifying.”
You couldn’t have a better first comment to follow that vid than anon nurse’s ’cause it’s all about empathy. “District 9″ gets it right and “2012″ doesn’t no matter what they spent on the FX. If you can’t relate from the mouse’s point of view you’re probably not going to be awed or terrified.
This is a big raptor that probably that brought the mouse’s point of view home to more than one human:
http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/haastseagle.htm
It would be so much more exciting to watch humans killing wolves and other prey from a small plane or helicopter with a high-powered rifle–just ask Sarah Palin.
Are you sure that this was not a Campaign Commercial for the RNC or GOP Fund raiser lit piece?