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Battlestar Galactica 1980 - Complete

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5050582534511
Label : Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer : Universal Pictures UK
Publisher : Universal Pictures UK
Release date : 2008-02-18
Title : Battlestar Galactica 1980 - Complete
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : PAL
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1980-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 463
Studio : Universal Pictures UK
Theatrical releaseDate : 1980

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review by: date: 2008-11-15 rating:

A nice gentle feel-good series
Battlestar Galactica 1980 is for anyone who likes watching nice "Saturday morning" films that are good fun and have nice people in them. There is a lot of very intelligent dry humour in this series pulled off brilliantly by the lead actors. There are also some very moving parts: the truly beauteous song that the children sing, and a few minutes of the "Space Croppers" episode where we see a time animated sequence of crops growing to the accompaniment of the most joyful little synthesizer melody that must surely bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened viewer.

review by: chiggs58th date: 2008-06-01 rating:

OH MY GODS!
No need for a long and deeply insightful review here. GALACTICA 1980 is quite simply the most awful piece of garbage ever broadcast on Earth. The only reason for buying this appalling trash would be to see if its fearsome legend is true; And then, once viewed, one would simply have to toss the lot into the trash where it belongs. Yes, I kid you not, it's that bad. Please believe me.

review by: date: 2008-05-02 rating:

Disappointing!
This is just not good. It lacks all of the charm and excitement of the first series. It is clearly low budget, has a weak plot and you hardly see any cylons at all!

Barry Van Dyke is good in his Apollo-like role, but without a character like Starbuck to bounce off it just doesn't work. Troy (Boxey) is just boring and expressionless. What happened to that fun loving kid in the first series? Kent McCord displays absolutely no emotion throughout the entire series (or what they made of it). Maybe the writers were planning to reveal that Boxy has actually been replaced by a cylon in a bizarre plot twist, but then it was axed so they never got the chance!!!

My advice - don't bother!!!

review by: date: 2008-04-27 rating:

This is sad
Easily amongst the worst SF ever written for TV. In this list i would include the original "BSG", "war of the worlds the tv series" "buck rogers" "primevil" "the tomorrow people" you know where i'm coming from!? I am a huge sf fan brought up on Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Ellison, Blish, Aldiss etc so compared to these guys visions this stuff is truly crap. Do yourself A FAVOR don't buy this but get hold of the new BSG series or a decent sf novel by any of the above authors instead.

review by: BSG date: 2008-03-04 rating:

Battlestar Galactica 1980
This series is ultimately for those who watched the series when they were in there childhood and want to re-live that memory. It is also for those who want a complete collection of the orginal Battlestar franchise. It is not for those who think they are going to get a repeat of the first series as it lacks pretty much everything the first series made it famous for. There are very few battles with the cylons and when there are they are not great. This is because of the interfering studio bosses who cut the budget and tried to make it 'educational'. When they were told Dirk Benedict was apparently unavailable at the time, and Richard Hatch didn't want to be connected with the series they should have cancelled the show full stop because they are the cast who the fans wanted to see back. But after a quick, cheap re-think it was decided the series would take place twenty years after the end of the original series rather than five, and that Boxey would take Apollo's role, while "Lt. Dillon" would take over the Starbuck part. President Baltar was written out entirely, and Xavier was created to take up his role as resident bad guy. However, the series was still watched by many and it was going somewhere until they cancelled it. Even the last episode with Dirk Benedict is poor. This is previous footage which was shot for the orginal series but never made it for the final cut so why would it be acceptable for the failing series? Neither orginal actors wanted anything to do with this new series as it had gone away from what the orginal was about. So overall, buy it if your an old fan like me or not at all because to be honest, it's not that great.

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