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No Band of Brothers or pacific by long shot. Modern take on it brought it down

posted 9 years ago by mpboylanjr-54038
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I don't know how some feel but the modern spin on this particular series brought the quality way down. The music was REDICULOUS !!! . I love WW1 history shows and I've read basically every good book on all the campaigns and I like the documentary and films to reflect the times and make it more authentic. This wasn't horrible by any means but the whole modern spin on it could have been wiped away for a more authentic look at the times . I get the Brits want to make a series for some pride and all and they have made similar ones that are good but they missed the mark on this a bit . Still was interesting , but that music was Awful lol. I give it a 6.5 but rounded up to a 7.
This was no Band of Brothers or Pacific by 100 miles but decent try.

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[–] Necramonium 9 years ago

The modern music was indeed something that took the at ww1 era atmosphere out of the series, they should have stayed with music from the same era, there were some great songs made back than to support the boys at the front. The series is more like Generation war but with a bit smaller budget.

[–] raf-33 8 years ago

No, we hit the mark on the head, we aimed at a young audience for the centenary, we weren't aiming at foreigners or old people. Something that seems to be an assumption around the show...

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[–] Petronius Arbiter II 8 years ago

we weren't aiming at foreigners or old people.

Well, as an American baby boomer, I guess I qualify as both, but I really can't give this series more than a 7 out of 10.

I don't mind that they used so much modern music, I mind that it really wasn't very good modern music. I don't mind creative cinematography either, in fact I usually rather like it, but episode 3 just went hog-wild with it.

We Yanks may be "foreigners" to you, but we're a lot more interested in World War I nowadays than you'd imagine, and top-notch British productions like "37 Days" will never fail to impress us, but ... this ... just wasn't top-notch.

What puzzles me most of all is, almost everything else the BBC does, they use primarily London accents, which we can usually understand fairly well, and are even not half-bad at deciphering Cockney, but here we have all this Mancunian and thick Irish accents and almost every other kind of English except the kind of English the average American can understand without too much trouble. About half the dialogue sounded scarcely more intelligible than Chinese to me, and I'd be willing to bet most other Americans would have it even worse than I did. Couldn't the producers have met us halfway on the accents? Did they have to seemingly go out of their way to alienate a good third or more of their potential international audience?

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