Science Fiction & Fantasy > 1978 Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Original but not the best

Advantages: Retro Galactica
Disadvantages: uhm Retro Galactica

...get attacked and only one battlestar (a warship) called Galactica is left in the whole fleet. The Cylons also attack all the human worlds meaning. The survivors are then left struggling and form a fleet of ships and flee into exile in search of the planet Earth, where the 13th tribe settled. The first 10 episodes keep to the plot, with state of the art special effects for TV at the time. The series ran out of money so special effects or costumes ...
...becomes more and more absurd towards the end of the series in an effort to keep going without backing. There are no special features at all on this other than still photos. It is a basic DVD transfer, which for me is all I want. The main Character of the series are: Captain Apollo - Richard Hatch Starbuck - Dirk Benedict Lorne Green - Commander Adama The episodes in the boxset are: Saga of a Star World 1, 2, 3 The Lost Planet of the Gods ...

jtamagnini 03.09.2008 · Read full review
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Space Pirates

Advantages: Brilliantly futuristic in the 70s
Disadvantages: That was 30 years ago...

...sit down in front of Blake's 7 while she eats cake and I do sit ups (not because I shun cake, but because I've already scoffed mine while she has been eating her main course at a more socially acceptable speed). I have the whole of the show on DVD and/or video, and each Sunday we watch 2 episodes. For poor people who don't know these things, Blake's 7 is a sci fi show that ran in the UK from 1978 until 1981. The only slightly important thing to ...
...constant pursuit of Blake, and Blake's ongoing wish to destroy the Federation). The latter is attempted in various ways, usually by the detection of a key part of the Federation's infrastructure (such as a communications complex or a decryption device) and a subsequent plot to demolish it. Sometimes they respond, like the nice, helpful terrorists they are, to distress calls which may or may not turn out to be genuine. This is something they never ...

zoe_page 15.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blake's 7 - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

Don't Fall Asleep

Advantages: Tense, Dark, Great performances, Excellent ending
Disadvantages: Can’t think of any

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers was one of the first truly successful B movie remakes. The original was done in 1956 under the same name, followed by this, and then retold in the1993 film Body Snatchers. Of the three films this is the only one you need to see. It is taken from the original Jack Finney novel and written for the screen by WD Richter. The title basically gives away the whole plot in an instant. ...
...there is little else to explain other than the methodology of this alien invasion. We see the amoeba like life forms travel across space and find there way to the Earth, where they set upon the plant life and parasitically live off them, produces beautiful flowers. Everyone knows the purpose flowers evolved; to attract things; and the foolish humans must have been really taken by these ones. The little pod flowers wait until their victim is asleep ...

ThePolarOne 23.10.2004 · Read full review
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Warlords of Atlantis.

Advantages: Doug McClure
Disadvantages: Same old same

Warlords of Atlantis I can't help smiling when I see Doug McClures name on a movie thanks to the Simpsons taking the micky out of him. Anyhow here he is and to be honest he gives a decent performance We follow the incredibly smart, but slightly distracted, Professor Aitken and his son Charles and Charles friend Greg as they go off in search of yep you guessed it, The Lost City of Atlantis. They of course hire a very dubious and ...
...they may find decide to mutiny. Along the way there is the obligatory sea monster, which looks very plastic and the Alien inhabitants of, the now deep sea, Atlantis. Atlantis decides that it can take over the world and only Charles and Greg can stop them. They are helped by the very pretty Atlantian slave girl and soon they are all fighting and fleeing. Has a similar feel to 'The land that time forgot' and about the same tone. It was ok if you're ...

MaldivesHoliday 11.01.2009 · Read full review
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Again? ok why not!

Advantages: Piece of nostalgia, closely linked to the remake
Disadvantages: Special effects are dated

...Running time: 125 mins Battlestar Galactica is a science fiction pilot film that follows a human civilzation located in a star system far far away but not a long long time ago (sorry, couldnt resist). Their struggle for survival against a robotic civilzation called the Cylons leads an exciting story arc that could eventually lead to a startling development in the subsequent tv series. Comparisons were inevitably made between this and Star Wars, ...
...hype. That being the case, Battlestar still offers originality, and even though the special effects are obviously dated, the story is engrossing as it is exciting with plenty of action along with a continuation into 2 subsequent tv series. Sadly, as a dvd there is little in the way of extra's, but that's ok becuase Im sure that there are many people out there looking to replace there old vhs copy with this higher quality dvd. ...

Robbos 04.04.2007 · Read full review
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