Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

skytwo Watched the Series as a kid, watched it again as an Adult , and the series is Timeless. If they simply reedit the episodes and edit out the computers and enhance graphics a bit the show still holds true. What this show offers you is , story telling. Apllo & Starbuck's friendship while fighting cylons. Loren Green's amazing performance as Adama , he is really very convincing. The Actor who played Baltar , when you will see him act and them compare his emotions and facial expressions you will understand the quality of his acting. Not to mention the awesome Cylons. What do I love about the show , sense of Alien Culture they don't make many reference to Earth's culture. They have their own identity and terminology. Amazing special effects similar to Star War's 1 type battle scenes, considering it was a TV show not a movie , the production was superb.Great performances by Dirk Benidict as Starbucks , a lovable character who told jokes even in the darkest of situations. Unique topics dealing with Technology, Humanity, Government and strategy in space warfare. Can't imagine the show with out STARBUCK played by Dirk BenidictMaren Jensen , is the best female space girl she is in the showThe best part of show is the feel good factor of the show , and sense of family , and positive role models like Appolo , Boomer and to some extent Starbucks.The costumes wore by the actors are superb and the sound effects are superb and the Battle Ship sequences are amazing as well Its enough to say it inspires people to use their imaginations , specially kids to play as space pilots and think of exploring space

PlugInYourBrain The Original 1978 Battlestar Galactica TV Series has copped a panning compared to the vastly superior 2004 "gritty reboot".To rate the original series fairly you need to understand not what it is like now, but what it was like then.In 1978 we had never seen anything like it. We had "Star Wars" the year before, but that was just 2 hours and 15 minutes in a cinema, and it was three years until the next one.Battlestar Galactica offered us the same thing on TV every week. Girls didn't much care, but boys went crazy. Battles in space, every week! What's not to like?After an impressive opening the show took a dive. Apparently intent on attracting a family viewing, they de-emphasized war-in-space and started copying other shows. The Dirty Dozen... in space. High Noon... in space. Murder She Wrote... in space.Adults weren't fooled and didn't watch anyway. Half-way through "The Living Legend" offered some respite, but Kids wondered what happened to their space opera.Towards the end they switched back to science fiction. We got a string of very good shows such as "War of the Gods", "Experiment on Terra" and "Greetings from Earth". This was good sci-fi and what we'd wanted to watch all along. But by then the ratings had fallen and although still good, not enough to justify the show's huge budget. After just one season the show was axed.The acting wasn't up to much, but I doubt kids noticed or cared. Lorne Greene made a great Adama; a warmer and more loving fatherly figure than the reboot's Edward James Olmos (awesome, but in a different way). They replayed the same special effects shots every week, but they were spectacular nonetheless. The production design was camp, but in the 70's people wanted mindless escapism. They didn't want the gritty realism we see in today's sci-fi dramas.One thing teenager boys were heartbroken over was the disappearance of Maren Jensen as Adama's daughter Athena. We never forgave Starbuck for dumping her for Laurette Spang's character of Cassiopea. Why? Why? Why?As I rate shows on IMDb I realize the futility of a ratings system. It depends on who is watching, and when they were watching it. I'll try anyway:A kid in 1978: 8 / 10. An adult in 1978: 5 / 10. A kid in 2013: 4 / 10. An adult in 2013: 2 / 10. An adult watching only the better episodes in 2013: 8 / 10.Unless you're in nostalgia mode and really want to watch everything I recommend you only watch the better episodes: 1-5, 12-13, 15-16, 19-20, 22-24.

Atreyu_II Who, having grown up at the time, can ever forget the good old days, when TV shows like this were the ultimate scream of fashion?I wasn't even born in the 70's, but I still remember very well that in the early 90's TV often aired TV series like this, which now looking back were made before my time but as a child I didn't know that fact nor do I cared.'Battlestar Galactica' was created by Glen A. Larson, who also created 'Knight Rider', another TV series from my childhood.Now, looking at it through an adult's perspective, it is lesser great than it was in the days of innocence, but still 'Battlestar Gallactica' shines in nostalgia. Although some episodes were better than others and they always had their flaws, the show really gives that feeling of nostalgia. If not perfect, at least it is authentic. It is from a time when things were real, when things had a special magic. The opening, for example, is fantastic, with those spectacular images of space and space wars. The opening music too is absolutely wonderful, and that opening quote is memorable: «There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.»Like I said, it's by no means a perfect TV show. But the action scenes and their delicious sounds, the special effects, the space backgrounds... ahhh.... it's all so authentic and perfect (as it should be), without any of the excessive action and explosive noise seen these days.It starred Lorne Greene as Commander Adama, Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Lt. Starbuck, all of them great. Most of these episodes also had Noah Hathaway in a minor role as Boxey, Apollo's little son. Boxey is the cute little tyke. Him and his Muffit. This was a few years before he "became" Atreyu. Too bad Boxey doesn't have a bigger role. Inevitably, this TV series resembles '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars'. It was even accused of plagiarism when 'Star Wars' itself heavily drank ideas from an early 70's film called 'Silent Running'.

The_Other_Snowman I've recently had the chance to watch this show on a thing called the Retro Television Network, a channel whose line-up consists mostly of short-lived Glen Larson programs and other assorted junk from the Seventies and Eighties. For a while I only knew of "Battlestar Galactica" from the original pilot movie, and I could only guess how much worse the actual show was.And it really is awful. It was made in 1978, but that's no excuse: "Star Trek" was ten years earlier, and the heyday of "Doctor Who" was just a few years before "Galactica" came on. The special effects are just fine, even if they quickly become tedious and repetitive, cursed with irritating sound effects. So there must be something else that makes this series as terrible as it is.Maybe it's the actors? Lorne Green plays Adama as a warm, fatherly patriarch whose first instinct in any situation is to start shooting, because he's so wise he knows exactly who is good and who is evil. Moral ambiguity was apparently not known of in the USA back then. Richard Hatch plays heroic Apollo as an overgrown boyscout who always seems seconds away from dispensing public service announcements. It's amazing that Hatch took on a dynamic role in the remake. Dirk Benedict, star of "The A-team", chomps on his cigar, seduces the ladies, and as the loutish Starbuck generally gives men a bad name. Tigh and Boomer, the black sidekicks, just do generic sidekick stuff. Lord Baltar, played by John Colicos (who was the first Klingon on "Star Trek") tries to be evil, but comes off weak and sniveling. There might also be some women in the cast, but it's hard to tell.Or maybe it's the writing? In one episode, Apollo crash-lands on a planet and becomes the star in a remake of the western classic "Shane", and has a shootout with a Cylon who for some reason is wearing a cowboy hat. In another episode, Starbuck crash-lands on a different planet and runs into a gang of small blond children, who he teaches to be soldiers. In the 1970's it was apparently okay to give children guns and teach them to kill. Another episode rehashes "The Guns of Navarone". Plots typically involve some threat from the menacing (but useless) Cylon baddies, a feeble attempt at pacifism by the Quorum of Twelve (take that, democracy!), and repeated efforts by our heroes to convince everyone that killing and shooting stuff is the only option. There will then be a battle consisting of stock footage from the pilot movie.But wait, there's more: The music, in generic Seventies style, is bombastic and obnoxiously martial; the villains are appallingly clumsy and hopeless; there's an annoying little boy and his robot dog-monkey; there's a game called Triad in which grown men compete in their undies; there are cloying attempts at sentimentality and family-feelings that are straight out of Sesame Street. Most characters are flat and childish. The few women have very minor parts, and even those in uniform wear high heels and faint periodically. Everyday terms are replaced for no reason: "year" becomes "yahren", for example, and we are also treated to centons, microns (not to be confused with real microns, aka micrometers), and other stupid words. There's a sort of jingoistic, hawkish patriotism at work that was outdated even in 1978.After this show was canceled, Glen Larson went on to make such classics as "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "Knight Rider", and "Manimal", clogging US airwaves with rubbish until vanishing sometime in the late Eighties. Will he return to save television?