CNN Millennium 2000

Rating:
Summary: Awful waste of money!
Review: Actually, I wanted to give this 0 stars!

I expected more from CNN - but as I listened to Larry King read off a bunch of credits for the first five minutes I knew that this video was going to be just a rehash of the original broadcast. I was expecting pictures without the CNN "bug" in the corner and dull commentary. We got poorly edited segments of festivities that should have been shown in full and long drawn out segments of stuff that should have been edited down. For example: With all the pyro that was going off around the globe, why did we have to suffer 3 whole minutes of various shots of the Hollywood sign all lit up with blue flashing lights? Overall, this DVD sucks. Let's hope that ABC has done a better job with their video.

Rating:
Summary: Crass cash-in on a major non-event.
Review: CNN has really embarrassed itself with the release of this Millennium 2000 video. After several years of hype, the coming of the year 2000 came and went with few problems, and with a world-wide celebration that was underwhelming.

The plans for this video release were laid out before the actual event, and in this instance, CNN can hardly be blamed for the fact that nothing of note happened *anywhere* during the celebrations.

The video feels like (and is) nothing more than a crass attempt to cash in on a very transient fad. It's very similar to the cash-in videos that many news organizations churned out at the end of the Gulf War, and about as useless. There is no focus upon any individual area of the world, to put the local celebrations into context. Meaningless imagery that blends together into a bland homgenous whole is all that this video provides. If you stayed inside and didn't watch television at all during the 1999/2000 New Year, then perhaps this video might fill some minor part of your life. Otherwise, it's a poor replacement for a celebration, and should be avoided by anyone who wants to retain a happy memory of the New Year.

Rating:
Summary: Crass cash-in on a major non-event.
Review: CNN has really embarrassed itself with the release of this Millennium 2000 video. After several years of hype, the coming of the year 2000 came and went with few problems, and with a world-wide celebration that was underwhelming.

The plans for this video release were laid out before the actual event, and in this instance, CNN can hardly be blamed for the fact that nothing of note happened *anywhere* during the celebrations.

The video feels like (and is) nothing more than a crass attempt to cash in on a very transient fad. It's very similar to the cash-in videos that many news organizations churned out at the end of the Gulf War, and about as useless. There is no focus upon any individual area of the world, to put the local celebrations into context. Meaningless imagery that blends together into a bland homgenous whole is all that this video provides. If you stayed inside and didn't watch television at all during the 1999/2000 New Year, then perhaps this video might fill some minor part of your life. Otherwise, it's a poor replacement for a celebration, and should be avoided by anyone who wants to retain a happy memory of the New Year.

Rating:
Summary: This is a two hour commercial for CNN
Review: Don't waste your time with this one, the CNN millenium logo is on so many views, it even blocks much of the fireworks at the bottom of the screen. I would have paid twice as much if they put in the effort to make it worthwhile.

Rating:
Summary: This DVD really SUCKZ!
Review: Dont buy this dvd ..... is horrible , you can see the Cnn logo in all the video , just 2 minutes of each country ? ... the Pictury is really bad and the sound sucks , the only good thing of the dvd is the last part that have a kind of video clip . But dont buy this dvd for that. waste your money in others things. And the editorial review says that has the celebration in Buenos Aires .... well .... i dont know what they think when they say Buenos Aires. But i didnt see it in the dvd.

A really BAD Dvd .........

Rating:
Summary: CNN 2000 - A Disappointment
Review: First of all, the program was only 1 hr. 14 min. long. Secondly, instead of fully showing most of the cities, they kept the "live" format, jumping from place to place. Naturally, except for the occasional split screen, only ONE place can be shown live at midnight. The others show ongoing, post-midnight celebrations. I'll wait for someones presentations of each city in it's fullest, thank you.

Rating:
Summary: Reporting of the Events
Review: I enjoyed "CNN Millennium 2000." The only reason I didn't like the video was because this was NOT CNN's coverage. It was coverage from the Associated Press. Several days later, Steve Springer, executive producer and managing editor for special events, told the wire service in an AP press release that APTN was an invaluable tool to CNN's coverage. Throughout the day, CNN was exclusively reliant upon APTN.

However, I really liked the events as they unfolded. I had written a customer review of "CNN Millennium 2000" for both netflix.com and dvdempire.com and e-mailed copies of it to CNN's Paul Vercammen, SHOWBIZ correspondent, in the Los Angeles Bureau of CNN. I told him that it's a historic memento, not just for now, but for many years to come, because it's the only time in our lives will we ever see a new year like this-a new year dawn, a new century, and a new millennium. I also told him that I liked the report he gave from Las Vegas, Nevada, and liked Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff manning the newsdesk at the CNN Center in Atlanta. I also told him that I really liked watching the celebrations in the Pacific (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Victoria, and Vancouver, the latter 2 are in British Columbia, the westernmost province in Canada, our neighbor to the north) because it really "heated it up," since all of the United States and all of Canada, its neighbor to the north, entered the new century. He sent me a reply thanking him for the kind words and support. He also told that he liked his assignment. I then e-mailed a copy of his reply to Scott Leon, his boss, in the New York Bureau of CNN.

Because the box does not tell the cast and crew. I would also like to give the director. They were Richard Kaplan, CNN/US President, and Suzanne Spurgeon, CNN Vice-President and Los Angeles Bureau Chief.

Rating:
Summary: Reporting of the Events
Review: I enjoyed "CNN Millennium 2000." The only reason I didn't like the video was because this was NOT CNN's coverage. It was coverage from the Associated Press. Several days later, Steve Springer, executive producer and managing editor for special events, told the wire service in an AP press release that APTN was an invaluable tool to CNN's coverage. Throughout the day, CNN was exclusively reliant upon APTN.

However, I really liked the events as they unfolded. I had written a customer review of "CNN Millennium 2000" for both netflix.com and dvdempire.com and e-mailed copies of it to CNN's Paul Vercammen, SHOWBIZ correspondent, in the Los Angeles Bureau of CNN. I told him that it's a historic memento, not just for now, but for many years to come, because it's the only time in our lives will we ever see a new year like this-a new year dawn, a new century, and a new millennium. I also told him that I liked the report he gave from Las Vegas, Nevada, and liked Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff manning the newsdesk at the CNN Center in Atlanta. I also told him that I really liked watching the celebrations in the Pacific (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Victoria, and Vancouver, the latter 2 are in British Columbia, the westernmost province in Canada, our neighbor to the north) because it really "heated it up," since all of the United States and all of Canada, its neighbor to the north, entered the new century. He sent me a reply thanking him for the kind words and support. He also told that he liked his assignment. I then e-mailed a copy of his reply to Scott Leon, his boss, in the New York Bureau of CNN.

Because the box does not tell the cast and crew. I would also like to give the director. They were Richard Kaplan, CNN/US President, and Suzanne Spurgeon, CNN Vice-President and Los Angeles Bureau Chief.

Rating:
Summary: Pyros on Parade
Review: I feel there is too much focus given to just the fireworks displays at each site. If you have seen one sky rocket, you've seen them all. ABC's video tape on the 2000 celebration (which I would personally rate 4 stars) is much better, giving more time to other events.

I'm glad I didn't erase the 5 tapes that I recorded ABC for 26 hours straight. CNN could have done much better.

Rating:
Summary: To the guy from Knoxville TN
Review: I hope you see this!.. I wanted to find out if you could make me copies of your 5 video tapes, and what you would charge me. I wish I had been prepared to do this. I don't see your email address, so please let me know if we can make some kind of an arrangement, I would be happy. Thank you [e-mail]