How Art Made the World
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Movie Reviews of How Art Made the World
Movie Review: Visually great, but not really informative.
Summary: 3 Stars
It has a great visual side, but pretty weak plot. No visual trick can rally keep one's attention for 290 minutes. while monotonous voice tells a long boring story asking questions all the time but barely providing digestible answers.Movie Review: Mediocre Minds Opine on the Evolution of Art
Summary: 2 Stars
Over ambitious project presents wild conjectures as truth, without proof. Slick exploitation of claims upon subject matter bolstered by sound and fury in place of substance. Intellectually vapid. NOT art history, and only half a step above those well researched revelations splayed on the pages of the National Inquireror. That the filmmakers believe they are performing the equivelant of translating the Rosetta Stone here-with-in is quite evident by the hubris of including their "Special Features" section, which consists of the filmmakers talking about setting up certain shots; what kind of a self-important mind could conceive that anyone would want to waste their time watching them relate that their camera crane showed up late one night. Who cares?! I am very disappointed that I wasted my time and money on this immature work of floppy-doodle.Movie Review: Basic and Misleading Treatment of World Art
Summary: 2 Stars
This series was a great disappointment. I expected a much better product from the BBC and related organizations. World history was greatly embellished by obvious speculation to the point that it almost became 'reality TV'. This is not for those who are looking for well packaged facts. Nevertheless the series is watchable and if you dont mind the embellishment, missing information, plethora of speculation etc it is not too bad.Movie Review: Visually stunning, intellectually impotent - Elitists of the world, Unite!
Summary: 1 Stars
I wasted enough time watching this so that I am not very inclined to write a lengthy review.
Key problems:
1. Unsubstantiated assertions on a wide variety of subjects. Quite silly in some cases. Morally corrupt and historically biased in others.
Love the seagull thing. Haha. What a crazy laugh that was. And what an "expert" they found to draw the most insane connections between us and ze birds.
2. Man is dealt with, and accepted to be an "animal", controlled by instincts and subconscious, primordial desires as opposed to much in the way of reason. Makes you wonder how we're capable of even watching this dvd without assistance. This doesn't just apply to the prehistoric world, but also to Ancient Greece apparently. I wonder what Aristotle would say to that.
3. The heroic nature of man and the art he has created is turned on its head, and we are led down another poor attempt at a modern version of Clark's Civilization.
More silly marxist/elitist/materialist/determinist garbage from the once great BBC. I was hoping that at any moment the Dalek's would show up and exterminate the condescending, pretentious narrator.
Yes, you need to listen and think carefully about what this man is saying to get really annoyed. But I did. And got it.
What happened to the Brits anyway? If they won't make us smart now, who will? Better learn Chinese fast.
Movie Review: Not Recommended
Summary: 1 Stars
This film fails on a number of fronts. First, it asks a series of questions about a given kind of art, and goes on to attempt an answer to just one or two of them. Second, it doesn't give any one art piece the attention it deserves as a masterpiece or work of cultural influence. Third, it proposes to explain the scientific or biological underpinnings which led the artists to create the work, but relies only on anecdotes from opinions of one or two experts in the field. Finally, it builds theories for how the art arose by making "if-then" statements whereby it assumes one statement to have been established as true based on earlier commentary, with the conclusion flowing naturally from that "certainty." But the certainty itself is, well, uncertain. All in all, very disappointing both intellectually and artistically.
A lesser critique but something that was quite distracting to me personally is that the narrator has strange mannerisms when he speaks.