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The Blueberry Hill
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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 4:01 am |
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I didn't like this. I guess the weird flashiness and hyperactivity and superficiality is well explained by it being sponsored by an energy drink company? Not really sure what anyone (who is familiar with videogames) got out of watching that? I would rather they just focus on one person (Junko Ozawa, maybe) per episode and skip all the 'posing' scenes and non-comments by other, unrelated musicians. Actually, that guy with the little keyboard seemed interesting; just talk to him for two hours.
Sometimes I hate documentary film makers as much as real estate agents and landlords. |
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The Blueberry Hill
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:22 am |
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| Deets wrote: |
| The Blueberry Hill wrote: |
| I didn't like this. I guess the weird flashiness and hyperactivity and superficiality is well explained by it being sponsored by an energy drink company? Not really sure what anyone (who is familiar with videogames) got out of watching that? |
They got Junko Ozawa and Hip Tanaka to do sit-down interviews. They found the dude from Rebecca that Konami brought in to help compose Lagrange Point. They found the guy who composed Gimmick! talk about the effect his music had on people 20 years later. They have Hally doing fill-in commentary for everything. These are all names basically nobody in the English-speaking world knows, deep cuts, whatever you want to call it.
You can tell just by watching the first episode that a person with a lot of knowledge and deep interest in video game music and music in general made the decisions on who to talk to. And you're complaining this thing is superficial?
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Yeah. I think they waste all that, though.
| diplo wrote: |
| The Blueberry Hill wrote: |
| I would rather they just focus on one person per episode |
I'd rather that happen too, but I think the documentary's intent is to chart development across a range of people in a somewhat chronological way, and not to be hyperfocused portraits. The non-comments (which, yes, I agree, are dull and don't contribute much, although I do understand the desire to show some sort of "ripple effect") by unrelated musicians will only begin to annoy me if they become prominent. But they make up a very small part of the current video, and I can't be bothered to get worked up over them.
I'm glad this is a thing that is happening less for myself and more for the composers. |
I think that's a fair enough approach, and agree with Deets that whomever they've got doing research on this is doing a great job. I guess my main problem comes from the episodes only running 15 minutes, I guess. If each was a half or full hour I'm sure all those little extra things would stay little, and we'd get more of the interesting stuff. |
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