The Jewel in the Crown
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Movie Reviews of The Jewel in the Crown
Movie Review: Must we put spoilers in the product description?
Summary: 4 Stars
Must we put spoilers in the series summary? Doh!Movie Review: Old VHS quality, unfocused story w/too many characters
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, I agree that this transfer is terrible at best. I was shocked with the old VHS quality of this, there wasn't much effort to clean it up.
The second point I have is that only the first 3 hours based on the first book in the series seems focused and comprehensible to me. After that I found myself seeing too many characters that come and go and it not really continuing the story after that, what happened to the baby or the main heroines Indian lover? I think devoting 14 hours to just the first book would have been a better route.
I admit I have only watched the first disk so far but I almost completely have lost interest due to all the many forgettable and numerous characters with no real central story, who are these people and will any of this carry into the next episodes? It seems to be some mishmash about Indian independence in general after the first 3 hours.
Again I have not watched the whole series so it could be better and based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews it probably will come back to a coherent narrative, but I think they could have cut a lot of the characters and subplots and made this even better or more clearly delineated which novel each saga is based on.
Movie Review: Fantastic series, over-the-top acting, wretched transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved watching this series. The cast was terrific (Tim Pigott-Smith is as snake-like as the cobra he kills in the bathtub), the locales stunning, and the story compelling. However, the acting was occasionally far too melodramatic, something I don't expect from British actors, and the editing was substandard in places. The DVD transfer was the most wretched I'd ever seen and the sound quality was awful. Whoever handled the transfer has every reason to be ashamed. Do not let any of this stop you. It's one of the best TV mini-series ever made and is thoroughly engrossing to watch.Movie Review: Horrible transfer - just get the VHS format.
Summary: 3 Stars
Great story and strong performances - but, ugh, what a lousy transfer to DVD. The images are grainy and the sound muddied. That said - the performances are uniformly excellent.Pass on the DVD and get the somewhat superior VHS version.
Movie Review: Excellent Series; Awful DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD edition ruins all of the magic of the original. Poor copy, hideous transfer, incredibly bad sound trandfer - the voices are bland, dull, it's a miserable. How not to do a DVD