Hollywood - Aufstieg der Titanen

As others have commented, the history itself is the star of this show. The presentation is subpar - especially when considering the subject. I tried to research if it was AI generated and could not get a definitive yes or no. I'm leaning toward a yes. There's something OFF about it, but the history presented is edifying.

The idea for this series is great, but the execution is awful bc it really does sound like an AI generated script. The acting is brutally bad, and the narration is cringe. This could have been good but it's pretty obviously AI slop, or at least created by a team that's no better than that. Raise the bar, Netflix. This is a weak effort.

As a life long cinephile I will watch anything related to the history of the movies.

For the most part, I enjoyed this, particularly the stuff with Carl Lemmle and Universal, but to not mention D. W. Griffith even once, (not even as of the four creators of United Artist) is just weird. Not to mention paring down the Warner Brothers from 4 to only 3.

I'm also not sure how "Tess of the Storm Country" (1922) could ever be considered the first feature film, when "Les Miserables", "Cabiria", and of Course, "Birth of A Nation" (1915) all precede it by many years.

But overall there is more good than bad and still worth a watch for film buffs.

While packed with enough Hollywood history to make even the most avid movie goer salivate, this series falls short in almost all other categories. The acting is wooden and shallow. Why they decided to use a narrator who sounds like Peter Falk is unanswerable. If you close your eyes, you'll swear you're watching the Princess Bride. Overall, it plays like an 8th grade attempt at docudrama. Watch for the history or don't bother.

I think it's a great presentation of the history of movies and Hollywood (assuming it's remotely accurate). I just find it extremely ironic that the narrator talks about Florence Lawrence or whoever's stage acting not translating to the screen because it was so over the top and such when every other sentence out of his mouth his eyes are as wide as they can be and his eyebrows are pulled up to the top of his face. Way to over animated for a series. Maybe you get away with that for a movie, but when you treat everything you say like you're explaining what happens after we die for an entire series it gets a bit old.