In The Booth with John Boyega | World War II: From the Frontlines | Netflix
In The Booth with John Boyega | World War II: From the Frontlines | Netflix
Go behind the scenes with John Boyega, as he narrates the story of World War II reimagined and retold with fresh eyes and thought provoking experiences told like only Netflix can in the new series World War II: From the Frontlines Season 1.
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Yeah he was a great narrator
Terrible choice for a ww2 narrator, had to google wtf choice of narrator, why not have someone with no inner city london street accent, instead use a ww2 historian that speaks without a distracting dialect. Can only assume they are trying to appeal to a younger audience by trying to be hip but had to watch the french version with subtitles as couldnât take it seriously.
The best WWII documentary Iâve ever watched in my life. WOW!!!!
I've just started watching this! I love John Boyega and he does a great job! Very distinctive. He's awesome. â¤ď¸
Terrible choice. Couldn't even watch it because of the complete clash. Such a shame.
My roadman detector went off 5 minutes in and I had to turn it off.
It was sooo good!
Incredibly good narration, brought real gravity and weight to it.
I don't understand why they cast actors to narrate documentaries – I always find it much more engaging when written and spoken by an expert with a true passion for his/her field. An actor reading off a script just isn't the same.. he sounds quite disconnected from the subject matter. As would anyone compared to someone who had devoted their life to researching a subject. The documentary is ridiculously Eurocentric and completely ignored the existence of Asia other than Japan. It acts as if the war in the east started when Japan attacked pearl harbour, whereas for Asians WW2 started in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. China is the allied country that was in WW2 for the longest period with the second highest death toll (20-30 million people brutally killed in China by Japanese Imperialists). This documentary acts as if those deaths were completely irrelevant.. the word China is mentioned once in the whole thing. Omitting China would be like omitting Russia from the European war – or ignoring the NAZI extermination camps. It's incredibly offensive and dehumanising to Chinese people that the sacrifice of tens of millions of people is considered so meaningless to western audiences it isn't even mentioned, instead opting to focus on humanising the Invading country.
Nice.
I will say that the colorizations were fantastic. That said… this was a documentary that was heavily UK and US biased. There were significant campaigns and actions not even mentioned, but the Blitz/Battle of Britain, for instance, was almost an entire episode. D-Day is covered like a visit to the Waffle House, Stalingrad hogs over half an episode, though the viewer is left to guess if anything else at all happened on the Eastern Front. Okinawa is literally covered in less than 12 seconds (!), claiming less screen time than a sinking English vessel in the Mediterranean during the North African Campaign! No coverage of the exhausting campaigns of Indo-China and Malaya – nothing. Listening to wanna-be erudite Boyega, we hear only that Italy invaded Greece, leaving the whole chapter of Italian failure and Germany's Balkan campaign to rescue Mussolini untouched, and the Crete campaign shamelessly forgotten. Footage was often mixed up (showing Polish soldiers instead of Soviet soldiers), the wrong aircraft in the wrong theaters, etc. And then we come to the handling of the holocaust – not a mention of Auschwitz or Sobibor, no, no… but a long, meandering and incorrect telling of Dachau – which was NOT an extermination camp. This 'telling' was horrendous in its presentation, giving the viewer a shallow, Swiss cheese version of these cataclysmic events. Finally,. I take issue with Boyega as narrator. He was the Woke choice, I suppose, but I would like to see a White man narrate a special on Wakanda or Black Panther… His accent, a selective mash-up of Upper-class West African and East End London English… it mad me cringe! The man cannot, for the life of him, pronounce a word that ends in 'er'…. "Hit-laaaahw was dead." "A young New Yorklaaaawh…. in Africaaaaahw…." Enough already. Boyega is an eternally dissatisfied, entitled social justice warrior. He should stick to that lost cause and quit complaining about Star Wars.
Nice voice đđ congratulations mate good narrator
John, you may or may not see this. But I commend your narration. It was superb.
They hired a guy who is borderline racist against white people, refuses to date white women and is very obsessed with black victimhood in white majority countries…… narrate a topic that almost not a single black person in the developed world is interested in. If this is Netflix' attempt at trying to get BME audiences interested in white history in detail, esp WW2, this ain't it. Everyone knows John Boyega couldnt give a monkeys about WW2 in real life. Get an African American GI with family who was in the war to narrate. We can believe in that kind of personal investment.
He did so well in this series. So happy to see a young actor take a mature role in narrating an important history lesson đđż
Very good job here, just the right ammount of emotion to a very clear narrator
Nice blackwashing of history having a black actor voice a documentary about a war that was fought overwhelmingly by White men. White people's history matters. This is erasure and black privilege at its finest.
Totally unsuited to the taskâLondon Gangsta innit is just inappropriate and patronising. I appreciate that post George Floyd the Netflix executives would have insisted on a diversity choice for the narrationâbut how about someone with a little more gravitasâSamuel L. Jackson for example? Probably beyond the reach of the budget for a series like thisâbut Boyegaânahhhhhâdoesn't cut it at all. Pity because there is a ton of work in this series all undermined by dumb Hollywood suits.
They should have never invented a comment section for social media. Waaay too many Walking Dead heads in the world for that. Just read what the zombies post.
Why have a black guy narrate? Blacks made up a tiny proportion of those who fought in WW2, almost an insignificant number. Stop blackwashing history, Netflix, and similarly woke organisations. This was a white conflict.
His accent I canât
John Boyega had me seated all through man.
An absolute perfect choice.
I knew I recognized that voice but couldnât place itâŚfantastic work. Another amazing documentary by Netflix
The urban narration is very annoying and dumbed down.