In Reply to: "The War" posted by rico on October 3, 2007 at 05:11:17:
I disagree. I think it was smaltzy, overloaded with hometown trivia, but mostly just boring and droning. It had none of the punch or grace of "The Civil War". It certainly had some excellent segments and told of courage, but overall as a multi-hour documentary product, it was flat, relied on too much recycled material seen too many times. And it had the most distractingly bad music/soundtrack I think I've ever heard. Burns' TCW was superb but his recipe demands fresh ingredients and doesn't work with stale, canned stuff. The final episode last night was by far the best.Don't taze me Bro!!
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- RE: "The War" - DWPC 09:47:52 10/03/07 (3)
- "Boring and droning." Yes. Boring and droning. Boring and droning. Boring and droning. Boring and droning. Bor - clarkjohnsen 08:32:34 10/04/07 (0)
- "distractingly bad music/soundtrack" At first I thought someone was torturing a cat in the background... - Tony D. 21:47:57 10/03/07 (1)
- Meyer and Ma achieved the audio equivalent of malodorous smell-a-vision. nt - DWPC 09:31:18 10/04/07 (0)