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Summary: MUST HAVE!!!!
Review: I feel like a young teen again waiting for BG (movie and the tv series) to be released on DVD.....EXACTLY how I felt waiting for each upcoming tv series episode when it first aired......laying on belly on floor with pillow wearing pajamas, 12 inches from tv screen looking up at console tv, without even blinking, with mixed emotions inside hoping the humans would escape cylon attacks, and surprise attack the cylons back!!!Without a doubt, I was captivated most by the shiny silver bodied radar-echo sounding cylons with a single red-eye shifting back and forth horizontally, their voice with robotic-like sound and manners and a touch of automated human-like passion to complete the task at hand....destroy mankind. Seeing the cylon weaknesses and strengths was for me separate excitement from the surrounding drama. I always wondered if in the upcoming episodes the humans would find earth while the red-eyed cylons chased them to earth ......where a major battle would occur. The endless possibilities (in my imagination) of what was to come in the upcoming episodes were some of the most exciting times of my teenhood. One of the greatest sci-fi tv series I ever saw as a teen, and feel the same way about BG now. The series and movie is timeless and ICON 70's sci-fi FOREVER!!! ...."By Your Command"......I am ready to purchase and re-live very memorable Battlestar Gallactica moments, and confident that others who will see it for first time will enjoy it too.
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Summary: BSG IS AWESOME
Review: Battltlestar was not just a sub-title from Star Wars. It was its own plot. With the upcoming SCI-FI event, it will explore indept the typcal life aboard a battle ship called Galatica.
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Summary: BUY IT NOW!!!!!!
Review: for over 20 years pEOple have slammed BSG for not being as good as star wars.......excuse me? but sci fi series is. QUIT SLAMMING IT AND WATCH IT AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME.what you'll discover is a wonderful tale about tragedy,exodus,survival,conflict,strategy,and even romance.you'll find a group of people who are forced to draw a line in the stars and fight back when all odds are agianst them . the story is actually better than star wars. and maybe even better acted than star wars. what it fails to do is capture your immagination the way star wars did. the specail effects hold up even by todays standard. i'm going out on a limb to say that the 2 1/2 hour pilot movie is arguably the best space opera ever behind the star wars trilogy.if you love great looking space battles,good special effects, and a great story. this film is a must see.you owe it to yourself to own a copy of this movie. it is a classic treat your gonna wanna see over and over and over...and just like star wars you'll never get tired of it
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Summary: Outstanding then....memorable now!
Review: The original story of a tribe of humans escaping extinction by a robotic race bent on annihilation of the human race. The original theatrical release with amazing special effects for the late 70's. I was never a Star Wars fan, but this series led me into the Star Trek craze and I am grateful for the clean family entertainment that I now show my own kids. Too bad the SciFi Channel wants to bring it back with two bimbos playing Starbuck and Apollo & turn the whole thing into a... freakshow. BAN SCI-FI CHANNEL AND THEIR SPONSERS NOW!!!!!
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Summary: Classic Campy Sci-fi
Review: This movie is classic camp sci-fi given legitimacy by the Star Wars movies. As melodramatic as it is, it is still a great science fiction adventure that has the emphasis on people. For the time period and the fact that it was on TV, the effects were quite good. One of the best parts is seeing a lot of famous actors playing roles in the infancy of their careers.
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Summary: Unworthy of the name "science fiction"
Review: In 1976 the sci-fi genre attained a new degree of respectability with the commercial and critical success of "Star Wars." It was a given that the show would be imitated. "Battlestar Galactica" represents the worst of these imitators. It almost single-handedly restored sci-fi's undeserved reputation for being juvenile and silly. From the outset, BG cannot decide if it is being goofy or serious. It centers on a war, with graphic destruction and the ever-present threat of genocide. Protecting us from genocide are cocky young hot-shots with comic-book names like "Apollo" and "Starbuck." If the writers couldn't take the show seriously, why should the viewer? It is pointed out that the battlestar represents the most powerful vessel ever constructed. However, the heroes do not stand up to the aggressors. Instead, they run away like frightened mice. Who wants to tune in every week and watch heroes running away? For the serious sci-fi fan, BG is an insult. It represents everything that makes non-fans snicker at the genre.
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Summary: John Dykstra tries to create
Review: "Star Trek" was described as "Wagon Train to the Stars" but that particular concept reduction certainly applies more to "Battlestar Galactica," since the series has the remnants of humanity travelling in a ragtag fleet from their neck of the galaxy to the fabled 13th colony known as Earth. However, the pilot episode from 1978 makes it clear that despite Lorne Greene playing Commander Adama and inspiring all sorts of "Bonanza" jokes, the idea here is to invoke the special effects style (and hopefully the success) of "Star Wars." Special effects guru John Dykstra received most of the money and most of the publicity for this series, so it is not surprising that the spacecraft models are the best part of the pilot. The premise for the series is that just as the humans are about to make peace with the Cylon Empire, the Cylons attack the fleet and the colonies and destroy pretty much everything except the Galactica, the last remaining battlestar. This happens as a result of the naiveté of President Adar (Lew Ayres) and the tainted advice of the traitor Count Baltar (John Colicos). The military catastrophe is rather forced, requiring stupidity on the part of pretty much everybody in the government and military with the exception of Adama. Putting all your Battlestars in one quadrant and providing two sentry ships for the entire fleet pretty much insures a Pearl Harbor type disaster. But once you get past the neat models you are pretty much dealing with a standard space opera where the main theme is to remind people of "Star Wars" as often as possible (although the Vipers are not as cool as the X-Wing fighters). Lt. Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is a free spirit in the Han Solo mode, Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) is a more mature Luke Skywalker, and Adama is the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi father figure who actually happens to be a father (I have a question: how you go from naming you first two children Apollo and Athena only to name the third one Zac? I teach Classical Greek & Roman Mythology and there is no mention of a Zac. Just curious). With the success of "Star Wars" science fiction was suddenly in and big bucks could be committed to a television series while Hollywood started remaking old classics like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Flash Gordon." But while "Battlestar Galactica" offered promise, it did not live up to its potential. Every week the group of humans continued their quest for Earth with the Cylons on their heels while the humans bickered among themselves in an allegory of contemporary social problems (the people from our planet are better than the people from your planet) and engaged in standard soap opera love stories (Will Athena get over the death of Zac and learn to love the trying to be serious Starbuck?). Watching the pilot is going to be of nostalgic value to those who watched it with eager anticipation back in 1978 and really wanted it to be something worthy of all the hype, i.e., "Star Trek" instead of "Space 1999." For those who did not catch in the first time around and compare it to "Farscape" and "Enterrprise," they will wonder what all the fuss was about. The answer is, not much beyond some great models from Dykstra.
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Summary: Man I loved this series!
Review: I like the fact that it's on SciFi and that they released it on DVD. But I really wish they would make like Babylon 5, DS9, and the rest of the series and make a digitally remastered compilation of the whole series season by season. I think this was a fantastic piece of work and watching it on cable, the SFX are still pretty good even now after two decades! There is a difference between regular special effects and digital computer stuff. Please please please release the entire series!
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Summary: BG Lives
Review: I gave it three stars because it is rumored that the widescreen version is fake. The black bars are just placed there for effect and it isn't the true widescreen format. I love Galactica and can't wait for the DVDs to the series to be released for purchase. Right now however this is all we have unless they come up with a special edition DVD with interviews with the surviving cast. The best episodes were the ones with the late Lloyd Bridges as Commander Cain titled The Living Legend.
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Summary: Space Cheese
Review: Cheesy, soap-opera quality film meant to capitalize on the late-70's space craze is ok when there's action but really starts to drag when there's dialogue. The special effects are pretty good but the cast, with a couple of exceptions, is soap-opera quality at best. After reading that this film was pieced together from episodes of the TV series, the lack of a strong, clear narrative makes a little more sense. After a strong first half hour, it feels like this movie just sort of wanders around. It has a somewhat incoherent, pasted-together feel. But despite the film's weaknesses, there are worse ways to kill a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon. If for no other reason, you should check out all the 1970's David Cassidy-style haircuts.
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