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Summary: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
Review: IT IS SO GREAT TO SEE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA BE RELEASED ON DVD. THIS IS THE THEATER VERSION OF THE TV PILOT FILM. A STORY OF A RACE OF ROBOTS KNOWN AS CYLONS LAUNCH A SNEAK ATTACK ON THE 12 PLANETS THAT ARE INHABITED BY HUMANS. THE ONLY SURVIVING BATTLESTAR, THE GALACTICA LEADS THE SURVIVORS IN AN ASORTMANT OF SHIPS ON A QUEST FOR A LEGENDARY PLANET KNOWN AS EARTH. WHILE ON THERE QUEST THERE ALWAYS IS THE DANGER THAT THERE ENEMY THE CYLONS WILL FIND THEM. A GREAT MOVIE ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10 I WOULD GIVE IT A 10. LOTS OF ACTION WITH A GREAT STORY, AND EXCELLENT SPECIAL EFFECTS. MORE FUN THAN WATCHING STAR WARS. I HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS MOVIE. I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT MORE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA EPISODES ARE RELEASED ON DVD IN TE FUTURE. THE PICTURE QUALITY ON THIS DVD IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN OF THIS MOVIE. IT IS A LOT BETTER THAN THE PICTURE QUALITY OF THE VHS RELEASE. AND THE SOUND QUALITY IS PERFECT. UNFORTUNATLY THERE IS NO TRAILER ON THIS DVD. TRY IT IT IS THE BEST SCI- FI ENTERTAINMENT.
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Summary: BEST OF THE BEST
Review: I loved the movie,I loved the series and I loved the books.I just wish it would have gone on for a few more seasons.
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Summary: The Worst of Science Fiction Television.
Review: Big Budget effects and space battles could not salavage this late 70's feature about a rag-tag fleet of ships searching for a lost world called "Earth". Made solely to cash in on the popularity of Star Wars, and it ended up as a show that made no one famous. Not reccomanded.
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Summary: Great As Always
Review: I love it! I'm looking forward to seeing more of the series released on DVD hopefully soon.
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Summary: The Cult Classic in its truest form...
Review: I don't care what the critics say -- Battlestar Gallactica was NOT Star Wars for the small screen! Gallactica is the embodiment of cult evolution theory (as noted in Charriots of the Gods and the likes) and a good ol' fashioned down-to-earth good vs evil Sci-Fi flic. Ok, I admit that I'm remiss it only features a mono soundtrack, but to be honest, after the first couple minutes, you become so involved in the storyline and (although dated) decent special effects (for their time) that you really don't notice.This is a MUST-HAVE for any sci-fi buff!
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Summary: Not Eps 1 and 5 but the edited 3 hour pilot
Review: As stated elsewhere, this is not eps 1 and 5 re-edited into a two hour plus movie but a re-edited version of the three hour pilot that ran on ABC. Universal, hoping to recoup the costs of this costly project, re-edited the TV movie and released it theatrically first in Canada (prior to it's premiere on ABC) and then in the USA (AFTER it's premiere on ABC). To see the original three hour pilot catch it on the SCI FI channel where it airs in three parts. (Baltar lives, thus creating a nemesis for Adama). This film was sighted as one of Hollywood's biggest rip-offs in Michael Medved's "Golden Turkey Awards" for having the gaul to release a film theatrically that had already aired almost frame for frame on television. As far as the DVD transfer, well, visually it's fine but the audio is poor at best. Some neat supplemental material but ultimately a disappointemnt.
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Summary: The most famous failure ever?
Review: This movie, and the series that followed it, must have been spectacular failures, in the best sense, because now, twenty years later, you can still see clips from it in those commercials starring Howie Long and Terri Hatcher. In other words, the special effects were great fifteen to twenty years before computer effects were invented. Admittedly, this was its best feature, the effects, but the story is well told too, and deserves to be seen. The reason, by the way, that the series was cancelled was not because of low ratings, but because of the high budget. Galactica deserved a five-year run, but fans will have to be happy with this movie until the powers that be finally get going and film some new material involving Galactica, which they've been talking about doing for years and years.
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Summary: Star Wars fans are just a LITTLE envious methinks
Review: ...Now to actually review Galactica. The plot is, as youprobably guessed, that a bunch of robots called Cylons (Who ARE likeStormtroopers in that they can't aim strait except when conveniant for story advancement) pretty much screwed over all KNOWN human colonies so they're headed for Earth. I fell in love with the ah-so-original storyline right away. Then we have the excellent characters... except Boxy, I really hate dumb-little-kid types who are there for nothing more than plot gimmicks. The only reasons I don't give this movie 5 stars is one, because I try never to give perfect reviews, two, because of Boxy, and three, because of his dumb dog.
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Summary: A DVD release that could have been so much better
Review: This is the theatrical release of the pilot movie "Saga of a Star World." It was released in "Sensaround" sometime after the series premiered on television. A lot of footage was cut (perhaps 10-20 minutes worth), but a few additional shots are added such as a certain villain's execution. Universal missed an excellent opportunity to release an uncut version of the pilot movie. Instead what we get is what was already released on video with matts added for a widescreen effect--effectively cutting the top and bottom off the picture. Shame on you Universal!
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Summary: Holds up well
Review: The music, the effects, some of the acting... It was all above and beyond what had been attempted up to that point on TV (1978). It all holds up well over twenty years later, although it could be improved with a new TV or motion picture version, which I will continue to hope for. One small detail I must point out: I've seen it mentioned several times, the last occasion by a reviewer slightly lower on this page, that this movie is a combination of the TV pilot and the 5th episode of the series. In reality, the 5th episode of Galactica was "The Long Patrol." There is no footage from "The Long Patrol" in this movie, so you don't have to worry about some hatchet editing job being done. This is simply the 3-hour pilot with about 20 minutes or so of footage edited out, so that it runs slightly over 2 hours. I don't know how, why or where this 5th episode reference began, but it is not true.
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