Flambards Collection Set
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Movie Reviews of Flambards Collection Set
Movie Review: Love the story but not the music
Summary: 4 Stars
I love and own many british series. Old ones and newer ones. I enjoyed The Flambards story but not the music.
I have given this series only 4 stars because of it. The music is very important in any movie and the music in this series is to me, really awful. A reviewer described it as "hauntingly beautiful" I was amazed! I came here thinking I would find a great many reviewers saying how bad and very annoying the music score in this series is. I was wrong.
Having said that, I did love the story and the acting, it is not the best acting but still good to watch.
Movie Review: Flambards
Summary: 4 Stars
Enjoyed this series when it came out originally. Great cast and story. My sons were in their early teens when this was shown here in the U.S.A.; now in their 40's, both have asked I share the DVD with them, as they too remember liking it. Both feel they will enjoy it even more now they are mature gentlemen. We have all been haunted by the various melodies for years.Movie Review: Flambards
Summary: 4 Stars
I had read the book many years ago,and enjoyed it....the movie followed it ,so was worth adding to my collection..Movie Review: COULD HAVE BEEN INSPIRATION FOR "COLD COMFORT FARM"
Summary: 3 Stars
If they had not been written at a later date, to me, the K.M. Peyton novels "The Flambards" could have been a part of what inspired Stella Gibbon in 1932 to write her brilliant and very humorous spoof, "Cold Comfort Farm" which is also about an orphaned girl going to live with some very strange (skuzzy) relatives on a decrepit farm. The heroine of that story eventually restores the farm through her own aggressiveness and resilience. This DVD of the BBC's 1978 adaptation of "The Flambards" is no spoof; however, it is a serious tale about an orphaned girl that has exhausted her welcome at her aunts' homes and has come to stay with her very surly, bitter and crippled uncle and his two rather strange sons--one being nasty and a very unkind snob loving to hunt and ride horses and the other being misunderstood but very nice and not a snob hating to hunt and ride horses but loving airplanes. The reason that she is even welcomed in the uncle's home is that when she "comes of age" she has an inheritance which makes her very desirable as a daughter-in-law. Plus once she becomes a "woman of means", she can restore the crumbling Flambards farm.
Although the acting is good and the series gets better as it goes along, I basically found the whole enterprise to be rather dated with the picture quality of the DVD being rather fuzzy especially in the first two episodes and the sound quality being very poor through out all of the episodes--I could not understand the dialog over the irritating background music plus, (I'm afraid, to me), the entire series has one of the worse sound tracts that I've ever heard--it almost drove me to drink (not that I need any excuse)--(I really did not understand the use of the word"mum" over and over in the recurring theme music; it was as if the singers had run out of words to sing and were just making incoherent vocal sounds to the music;after the "mums" stop then there is some infernal whistling . All that I do know it annoyed me immensely.)
I had not seen this program previously; therefore, this was my first exposure to the Flambards. Therefore, I have no great nostalgia for this program which no doubt affected my opinion of this presentation.
Needless, to say, I was disappointed with this DVD of "The Flambards"
Movie Review: Quirky But Grows On You
Summary: 3 Stars
I think quirky is the first word that comes to mind when I think of Flambards. I love the time period of 1902 onward. The costuming and the interiors/exteriors are top-notch but that silly music that the other reviewers mention is indeed annoying and is so irrelevant to the storyline. I was not watching PBS and British dramas in the late 70's so I am not familiar with any of the actors who star in the series. I am surprised it has not been re-made since it has alot of potential with the right cast and a better soundtrack. I am on disc three, so I am anxious to see how it wraps up. The music really ruins this in my opinion since it sounds too contemporary for the time period. I prefer Monarch of the Glen or Berkeley Square which are both well written and acted without the awful music.