"....it's not the same ole rehashed crap you all want it to be." Hmmmm....a bit presumptuous there, Snik. It's not like those of us who reacted negatively to the "TCM Remembers" spot sat about in our rockers adjusting our partial uppers and saying, "Gee whillikers, Myrtle, I sure do wish that them there people at TCM would rustle up a good old fashioned schmaltzy piece of rehashed crap instead of all this gosh darned new-fangled stuff that all us old geezers are too rickety and demented to wrap our specs around."
Actually, if the purpose of this piece had been to showcase brilliant editing, an intelligent background song with thoughtful lyrics, and the virtuosity of a gifted director I'd be in your corner on your assessment of this piece. But style should exist to support, complement and enhance the basic conceit, not detract from it. I think that by focusing on the style of the piece the creators of this latest "TCM Remembers" retrospective lost sight of the purpose of a memorial tribute. That's what I find disrespectful, that they were so egotistically consumed with showing off their OWN filmatic talent that they forgot that-- oops! gasp!-- it isn't about them, it's about the talent we've lost. We weren't looking for something hackneyed or trite, we were looking for a tribute that had the courtesy to put its subject matter before its style. This one failed to do that.
