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Title: Music Score an Atrocity
Review: These films are wonderful documents, but the music score is incredibly self-absorbed, self-important noodling and violin screeching annoyance that pay absolutely no attention to the era, to the action, and in many cases to Christmas itself. What could Kino be thinking? In fact, the grating scraping even runs out of its own steam, and is repeated ad nauseum without forethought to its placement in the edit. Laziness in just flying in some quickie available material in the Avid edit suite, it would appear. Do yourself a favor; put on your own Christmas instrumental CD and turn off the atrocious audio on this CD and enjoy the terrific images. If Kino had used the same crew that did the fabulous and thoughtgful new music for the silent "Peter Pan," this piece would be priceless.
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