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Which of the most watched miniseries did you watch?
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 348939" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>I watched many of these miniseries in their entirety, and portions of them as well.</p><p></p><p>The mini-series format can be both promising and frustrating in equal measure... Obviously, you have much more time to address and flesh out the details of plot and character from the source material, usually a book. And while that sounds like a luxurious opportunity to do justice to a novel in a way a 2 1/2 theatrical movie cannot -- even one which attempts to be faithful, I almost always find miniseries use much of their additional screen time in a manner that winds up feeling like indulgent filler and reductive ponderousness.</p><p></p><p>With a two or three hour motion picture -- a good one, naturally, since you have to pare down the narrative, removing side-characters and extraneous detail from the book regardless, the limitations in length can force the filmmakers to focus on the "spirit" of the original story, the key plotlines in the book which provide the gist of it, and emphasize geographic and cultural and zeitgeistical details through the camera lens to offset the loss of those aforementioned side-characters and minor events which populated the pages. </p><p></p><p>I mean, give me L.A. CONFIDENTIAL any day to a bloated miniseries that wants to be everything yet doesn't know what. (Minus, of course, the "Lana Turner" scene which cast the wrong non-lookalike model, and I would <strong>still </strong>fix with CGI).</p><p></p><p>As a banal aside, I rather liked the AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN miniseries from 1991. It was bemused Dominic Dunne high society silliness, for the most part, what with its improbable pattern of coincidences, as per Dunne's pattern. But I still liked it well-enough, never read the book, and they filmed a lot at Filoli which reminds the viewer what DYNASTY could have felt like had they done anymore location shooting -- even just a little -- after the pilot.</p><p></p><p>Not the best print:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]C41u7NORilI[/MEDIA]</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]LyHAt6posPE[/MEDIA]</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]J3G-Rnb7t8c[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 348939, member: 57984"] I watched many of these miniseries in their entirety, and portions of them as well. The mini-series format can be both promising and frustrating in equal measure... Obviously, you have much more time to address and flesh out the details of plot and character from the source material, usually a book. And while that sounds like a luxurious opportunity to do justice to a novel in a way a 2 1/2 theatrical movie cannot -- even one which attempts to be faithful, I almost always find miniseries use much of their additional screen time in a manner that winds up feeling like indulgent filler and reductive ponderousness. With a two or three hour motion picture -- a good one, naturally, since you have to pare down the narrative, removing side-characters and extraneous detail from the book regardless, the limitations in length can force the filmmakers to focus on the "spirit" of the original story, the key plotlines in the book which provide the gist of it, and emphasize geographic and cultural and zeitgeistical details through the camera lens to offset the loss of those aforementioned side-characters and minor events which populated the pages. I mean, give me L.A. CONFIDENTIAL any day to a bloated miniseries that wants to be everything yet doesn't know what. (Minus, of course, the "Lana Turner" scene which cast the wrong non-lookalike model, and I would [B]still [/B]fix with CGI). As a banal aside, I rather liked the AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN miniseries from 1991. It was bemused Dominic Dunne high society silliness, for the most part, what with its improbable pattern of coincidences, as per Dunne's pattern. But I still liked it well-enough, never read the book, and they filmed a lot at Filoli which reminds the viewer what DYNASTY could have felt like had they done anymore location shooting -- even just a little -- after the pilot. Not the best print: [MEDIA=youtube]C41u7NORilI[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]LyHAt6posPE[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]J3G-Rnb7t8c[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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