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Summary: SC Fi 80's! V There coming to get you! V Invasion!
Review: I remember this Tv series back when I was 9 to 10 years old.It was when Thriller was hot.And BreakDancing was the bomb.It was a time to remember!.I loved this Sc-Fi series.And only the best type genre!You will never see stuff like this again man do I miss it.I only wish the company would get the other one done!Where the heck is V:Final Battle DVD!I will always remember the good old 80's rocked.I would highly Recommend this to Fans of the Series!All I can say to HollyWood Man they should bring this Series back in Theatres or TV! can you Imagine wat type of stuff they could do today!
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Summary: Great TV movie
Review: This is a great movie. The production was well done and the movie still holds up well to modern audiences. But what intrigues me is the way the movie created tension. You have a full 15 minutes of different scenes in different locations before you even see the visitors arrive. It's a lot longer before you even see them. It's a great way to build suspense and also suspicion. You didn't even know the "terrible secret" till you're well into the movie.The weaknesses of this movie are relatively small. They overplay the gullability of people a bit and some of the special effects are not all that great. But the character building and general drama of the movie is not lost and the actors succeed often in developing their characters. You can also see the wisdom of the producers in anticipating a sequel with lots of "unexplained events" towards the end. It would beg for a sequel. The DVD also contains a featurette on the making of V. It's OK. Very grainy and not well produced. But it's interesting to see some of the backside of moviemaking.
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Summary: The WHOLE TV-miniseries
Review: Down below it is said that this DVD only contains half of the TV-series. That's not quite true! There were TWO series. THIS one is the first and it is a complete story in itself about the passion a rebel leader develops (Compare the beginning and the end of the movie). The second series is called "The Final Battle". As the movie is an allegory about faschism, the open ending isn't really that important as it points out the message "The war will be long, but we are eager to win!"
I hope Warner is going to release the second series, which had 3 parts (and features the great Michael Ironside), and the short-living series (19 or 20 episodes, I believe) on DVD, too.
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Summary: Only Half
Review: This DVD doesn't contain the whole mini-series. Only about half. The that was the only thing that was disapointing about this dvd.
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Summary: Worth having...
Review: If you are a fan of this miniseries, the DVD is definitely worth having. I have read some reviews that say that it's not worth having, because it doesn't include V: The Final Battle which concludes the V saga (before the television series that is). What it does have is a classic television movie in clear crisp color and sound. There's no distortion here at all, as I have seen with some old copies of it rented from video stores. The real gold of the DVD is in the commentary by director Kenneth Johnson. His commentary is some of the best that I've heard on DVD. That includes higher budget made for the big screen movies. He takes you right into the making of this film. From camera angles, characters, and metaphors of the story, he is able to do with his commentary what even the 25 minute behind the scenes footage doesn't do - make you feel like your an insider to the making of this miniseries. I suspect that there is little that you won't know about the making of this production after listening to his commentary. For hardcore fans, you'll even get some tidbits about what's happened to some of the cast since the making V. Personally, I purchased V: The Final Battle on VHS, because I love this miniseries and couldn't wait for it to come out on DVD. For anyone interested in purchasing the VHS version of V: The Final Battle, there are two purchase options. One is a one tape LP speed version... the other is a three tape SP speed version.... (I got the tape speed information from the Warner Brothers website.) I've heard that the first DVD has sold so much better than expected that it's a pretty sure bet that there will be a DVD available in the not too distant future for The Final Battle. I would give it five stars except there is a gag reel missing from the DVD that was supposed to have been there. I don't know what happened there, but I really wanted to see it, hence, the missing star.
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Summary: It keeps getting better
Review: I saw V when it first aired and several times since then, but not until it came out on DVD, did I see the whole thing. The wide screen presentation added quite3 a bit to the whole experience. If you like V, this is a definite must have.
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Summary: Sci fi at its best (and in the 80's!)
Review: This movie has always been a favorite. I must have been 5 or 6 when it came out, but I still remembered most of it. I love the birth! It was awesome. I can't wait for the Final Battle to come out!
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Summary: A glorious "What Could Have Been"
Review: As one of the most fanatical "V" fans to be found in the early 80's, I couldn't quite give this DVD release the 5 stars that I so desperately wanted to. As an allegorical "it certainly CAN happen here" tale, V is unparalleled. As a science-fiction tale it's merely okay --and as for the cheesy comic book-level TV series it spawned, well, the less said about that the better. Probably the best feature of the DVD is the commentary by Kenneth Johnson, but for me, it only brought home the tragedy of what this truly excellent pilot degenerated into. The original "V" isn't so much about an alien invasion as much as it is about us as a civilization and how human beings react to dramatic changes in the norm. Once the shock of extraterrestrial contact (in the form of "Independence Day"-style ships over the world's major cities) wears off, it's astonishing how quickly the Visitors are welcomed into almost every facet of human culture, and how difficult it is for so many members of the cast to accept "the truth" as inadvertently discovered by Marc Singer's character.
There must be at least 30 principal characters to keep track of, but for me that's what brings this series down to earth --it's the best way to showcase how world events affect "the ordinary guy." Visuals are impressive by 1983 standards --again, mainly because of how ordinary they're made to look (for example, alien shuttlecraft take off and land at a manufacturing refinery and rate about as much notice by passerby as, say, a tractor trailer). <pause> Okay, to be fair, there's some truly scary makeup effects and a great edge-of-your-seat spaceship chase sequence at the end. All told, whether you're a devotee of the TV series, a Jane Badler fan (hubba hubba), or a student of the Nazi "phenomenon" of the 1930's, this chapter is worth spending your money on, but ONLY this one. Skip "The Final Battle" sequel and certainly avoid that demeaning "L.A. is the Center of the Universe" TV series.
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Summary: A great movie
Review: It seems that there are 2 opinions about this dvd movie; either you love it or you hate it because it doesn't show what happens after the doctor sends a messege into space. Some are even saying that "they'll wait for V The Final Battle to come out" so they can "get the complete set". Who says that they'll sell a "complete set" when they digitize V The Final Battle into a DVD? Actually, I believe that if they do release V The Final Battle it will almost certainly be completely seperate from the original series. So don't wait, relive the classic sci-fi thriller. I've seen some very interesting comments and i'd like to comment on one of them. I noticed that someone said that this movie was not dolby surround. They even went as far as saying that it is mono. This movie IS Dolby Surround and it is NOT mono. Dolby digital and Dolby surround are 2 different things. While this movie may NOT be Dolby Digital, it certainly IS Dolby Surround sound. The best way you can enjoy Dolby Surround today is by using a Dolby Pro-logic 2 home theater recever. Dolby pro-logic 2 takes Dolby Surround and turns it into 5.1 channel sound to create an experience very similar to dolby digital or dts. Whoever thinks that this DVD movie is mono or not dolby sorround is seriously misinformed.
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Summary: V The Original Independence Day!
Review: This tv series was latter ripped off by the will smith movie and it just shows how great it was and how ahead of it's time the idea's and script were... hell even the special effects had me scared at the time! This series was origianlly released on five videos... now you can own it on one dvd for cheaper than the price of one video... How cool is that! This series raised the bar for the sci fi genre... X-files, Babylon 5... they all took a page from the book V... if you haven't seen it check it out!
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