V - The Final Battle

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Summary: blast from the past
Review: I still remember the only time I didn't fight with my siblings. Every Friday night while we were watching V. It was worth it.

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Summary: V: The Final Battle
Review: It was GREAT ! If you've seen the first V and you wanted to see how it ends well here's your lukey day. GO BUT IT NOW!

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Summary: spectacular!
Review: Most captivating series of its time. I think that it's high time to re-air the series,with the help of modern day computer animated technology. A lot of people don't really know what sparked some of today's block-buster movies like Independence Day. A must see. Genuinely intriguing.

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: V is the greatest man-eating-lizards-come-to- earth-and-eat-people-movie ever made. Stars legendary B movie actors Marc Singer and Micheal Ironside. A must have!

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Summary: yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Most excelent seque

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Summary: Most awesom movie
Review: I loved the ending and the dam scen

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Summary: Perfect sequal
Review: This is a perfect sequal to the original. BUU IT NOW!!!! END

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Summary: i really love this
Review: This second V mini series wasn't quite up to the standards of the first V and yet it was still a helluva lotta fun. Loved it. Popping it into the DVD player is always a blast! Sure I know it's not highbrow but hell it's FUN. Just have fun watchin' space lizards get their butts kicked by Marc Singer. Works for me!

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Summary: A Critique of the Technical Features of the Discs
Review: We all know the story, so I won't go too much into that.

V: The Final Battle was a pale shadow of the original two-part miniseries (which was really, really awesome). The writing was awful, the plot lame, and bringing in Dennis McCarthy to contribute his cheesy MacGyver-esque military marching-band action tunes was sad.

But everyone has seen TFB and can decide for themselves. What I'd like to contribute here are some critiques of the DVDs themselves:

1. The biggest flaw, and the primary reason I'm writing this: the DVD is letterboxed. One reviewer wrote: "The DVD provides a crystal clear, widescreen picture..." Yeah, and how do you think they got a widescreen picture out of a 4:3 TV show? Yeah, you guessed it - they painted 25% of the picture black and voilà! - a widescreen picture. What it means in reality, though, is that much of the imagery is too crowded, too tight. Half the time peoples' chins and hair-styles (and those could be BIG in the 80s) are cut out of the picture. I've looked over all of the reviews here, and no one else seems to have any complaints about it.

What it means is that this is not going to do as my collector's item. I'm going to need the full frame one day. Funny, the orignal miniseries discs didn't seem to have this problem. Yes, they were 'widescreen,' but nothing seemed to be blacked out - everything fit.

2. The sound is mono. Yes, I know it was originally aired in mono, but Kenneth Johnson took the time to re-mix the audio for the original miniseries, to add something to that great disc.

3. No extras. Again, great care was taken in providing some extras for the ultimate fans out there, in the original miniseries. The Final Battle comes with nothing. Well, maybe something - there is a menu item, "Cast and Crew," which gives you nothing but a list of actors. I could have just watched the credits.

All in all, the disc is not of great quality - file under "Could Have Done Better," or, "Awaiting a Better Version."



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Summary: V: The Final Battle was Awesome
Review: It is about time that they FINALLY came out with the V Series.


I was about 11 or 12 at the time that they had a miniseries called V that rocked the pants off of NBC executives. Then they brought out V: The Final Battle.

Then they came out with a TV series called V.

The problem is that what you could do with a mini series was harder and more expensive to do with a WEEKLY TV Series.

Therefore, main characters were written off in unexplained plots.

NBC moved the series around so much that when the TV Series Finale came about a lot of NBC affiliates didn't even air it.


V: The Original MiniSeries A+
V: The Final Battle A+++
V: The TV Series C+