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In Reply to: Dated schmated posted by NuWave on April 26, 2005 at 11:31:20:
I'm not criticizing your taste, just sharing my impressions, which obviously differ somewhat from your own. In retrospect, "V" just bored me, but that's just me and not meant to imply anything about your particular likes or dislikes.Dated material doesn't usually bother me, unless it draws too much attention to itself through employing of campy symbolism reflective of the time it was made. Not everything in the 60's & 70's did this; certainly not every feature film. However, some television fare is quite dated in my estimation; that doesn't necessarily detract from it's enjoyment, but in some cases it obviously will.
When a program reminds it's audience too much of the period in which it was produced, then it draws too much attention to it's production values. If this occurs it may become cliche` and more easily appreciated as nostalgia or campy hokum by most folks. Look at the 60's Batman TV series or the 70's Buck Rogers; heck, even take more mainstream fare like Starsky & Hutch or Dragnet (circa '67, w/Harry Morgan).
I don't wish to argue about differing perceptions of a particular television series, especially since I generally agree with you about the films of that era (i.e., Direction and budget having much more to do with the "look" achieved). In the case of SF, fantasy & adventure feature films the budgets tend to be far better than achieveable for television and you usually "see" where the money was spent on the screen. Those films don't date badly (i.e., Andromeda Strain, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Silent Running, Alien, Close Encounters, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.).
One example of excellent television fare from the period which hasn't dated badly is Shogun; of course, it isn't SF or a special effects extraveganza, but the high-caliber writing, cinematography and acting are all first rate and ageless! As television mini-series go this one is still crisp and the fact that it was produced in the 1970's doesn't draw attention to itself.
Sadly, speculative SF has been given short shrift on television until recently; there are notable exceptions throughout television's history, but the tendency has been to shy away from the deeper, weightier SF concepts in favor of whammy special effects and hammy acting (i.e., space opera). Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a certain amount of junk food in my diet too, but too much leads to recreational atrophy.
Cheers (respectfully),
AuPh
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Follow Ups
- Michael Ironside is great; Marc Singer, less so, but that wasn't my point. - Audiophilander 13:29:30 04/26/05 (1)
- Re: Michael Ironside is great; Marc Singer, less so, but that wasn't my point. - NuWave 14:23:44 04/26/05 (0)
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