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In Reply to: RE: "The War" posted by rico on October 03, 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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then I realized it was YoYo Ma torturing his cello. Typical Ken Burns tinkling pianos as well. IMO the period music works for obvious reasons but the rest is quite forgettable.
The program itself re-hashes some familiar territory and is schmaltzy to say the least, there was some new footage which was interesting. I could watch 'The Civil War' several times over with nary a thought to boredom but this latest Burns effort just doesn't cut it IMO.
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