Underrated


I think a solid 6.0 is too low for this. I can understand it being below a 7 on IMDb (I gave it a 7). I didn't learn anything new. But for a groundbreaking you-are-there documentary made so recently after the fact, I was impressed and mostly engrossed.

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But for a groundbreaking you-are-there documentary made so recently after the fact, I was impressed and mostly engrossed.


I completely agree with that assessment.

PS: Singing in the Rain is one of my alltime favs; love your username

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I also agree.

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I believe it is very underrated as well.. I watch the whole history channel,, a/e marathon about the assassin ation.
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

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Well, you can't go by the IMDb vote of 6.3 because, if you check out the age/gender breakdown on the voters, its the women (sorry, ladies) who sink the average on this project -- probably giving it a low rating because "it's sad."

The men give it a higher rating, presumably because they know it's supposed to be sad.

At any rate, it's a great period piece, a product of its immediate era.

While it's just a compilation of footage and doesn't address anything controversial (e.g., Oswald is presumed "guilty") it's a poignant time capsule, with its noble-tragic tone -- managing to be touchingly doom-riddled and yet somehow ice cold.

It couldn't be anything else.

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The most profound of sin is tragedy unremembered.

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I just saw it yesterday on the Decades channel. I can't believe that I had never seen it before. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. I thought it was very well done! I might have been too young to fully grasp what had happened, but I do remember how bad I felt that those two little children had lost their father.

(BTW, Mr. Lockwood...I loved you and Lina Lamont. But that voice???  )

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