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Is this the one where its Sky's same half dozen resident film critics who look like they were handed the same lazy research notes and script about 5 mins before filming, but then pretend to be experts in film music?
If so think we had a thread on this.
Or maybe its different?
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It's pretty weak on details or being particularly informative, but I have enjoyed the series. It's such a reminder about how great film music used to be and what films are missing these days.
Also, it's been fun commenting "got that on CD, yeah got that one too... " And sulking about which scores are missed as the show progresses "I can't believe they missed THAT one!" etc. It's actually gotten me playing some old CDs again that I hadn't heard in a while.
There really is a need for an in-depth documentary series on this subject with more time and detail, but there's hardly an audience for it I suppose so will never happen.
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I saw the back half of the series and they were RREEEEEAAAALLLLYYY scraping the barrell when it came to post-2000 episodes.
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One of the shabbiest, worst researched and presented programmes ever (on any subject).
I gave up after they showed a clip of Spartacus but played the score from Cleopatra behind it (when talking about Alex North) & their discussion of Kubrick’s use of Holst in 2001: A Space Odyssey (At which point I thought i had entered an alternate universe)
Awful Awful Awful
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By idiots for idiots. (a bit harsh I know but that was my thinking when I could bear to watch it)
I had a bit of a twitter rant about it as i have a fair few followers but Sky Arts haven’t actually tweeted anything since January & wouldn’t answer to any negative criticism anyway. It was easier to just stop watching it & forget it exists
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There really is a need for an in-depth documentary series on this subject with more time and detail, but there's hardly an audience for it I suppose so will never happen.
Well this was a 12 episode series devoted to film music, I don't think you're really going to get more than that on TV. I'd say there must be plenty of podcasts that dive into this area a lot more deeply though.
I think I watched this show back when it was first mentioned on this board.
One poster above mentioned it as "for idiots, by idiots", so I guess I'm one of those idiots myself. I don't know all that much about the history of film music and wouldn't have been familiar with a lot of the older/smaller scores discussed, so I did find some of it interesting at least.
I was mostly gutted by which composers they focused on in more recent years. I was so looking forward to a talk on Danny Elfman (one of my faves), but he only featured in a "blink and you'd miss him" mention towards the end, with Spider-man of all things being the only score singled out?!
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I soon gave up on the series the first time around. Hopelessly superficial.
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