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Title: V - The Complete Series (2004)
Format: DVD
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Starring: Marc Singer and Jane Badler
Director: Kevin Hooks, Gilbert M. Shilton, and Cliff Bole
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 127 minutes
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• Posted on 2009-11-18
  V
  
  this DVD brought back so many memories for me! i remember watching the original mini-series and tv show back in the 80s and being obsessed with them. i remembered so many details while watching these DVDs, it was like i had just seen the episodes a few weeks ago - not 25 years ago!
  
  a MUST BUY for anyone who was a fan of tv in the 80s. :)
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-11
  Good 80's Sci-Fi Show
  
  Good show, considering it was the 80's and the acting was horrible at times. Continuity was almost non-existent between episodes, and what is it about laser weapons that can't hit the broadside of a barn? "V-The Complete Series" is the logical conclusion to the original mini-series "V" and the follow up mini-series "V-The Final Battle." Back in the 80's when it was new, it was still hokey but the story was compelling as you want the "Resistance" to defeat the "Visitors" and give "Diana" her due. Compared to the remake on TV now, the quality is night and day, but it was still as good show as it is now. And Diana was "hot" (for a lizard).
  
  If you're a fan of Sci-fi, this is a cult classic. Naturally, if you saw it when it first ran, you need to do your best to ignore the laughable stuff and just enjoy the show. The story could have gone on longer if the continuity issues were fixed and NBC didn't get tired of it, but now we have the remake which changes the story up a bit, but it is as compelling as the original. Make sure you pick up the whole series so you can get into the story. It will help you enjoy the remake that much more.
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-06
  The ORIGINAL V!
  
  I thought that the V was so phenomenal when it aired as my family and I watched it relentlessly in the ... 80s, was it?
  
  Well, seeing it recently just let me know how far we've come in technology! Remember the Atari? The Nintendo ORIGINAL console? It was nostalgic to say the least.
  
  The reason I said that the series was just `OK' was because it started off with a pasty, unrealistic special effects fight between Diana and Mike - the leader of the V and the leader of the Resistance. I had not seen the first and second miniseries in over 20 years and so I was thrown off by the shoddy special effects that were unprecedented during the time they aired. I was only thrown off because I had not seen what led up to the beginning of the series. I have watched the original series on the SciFi channel since and have become more excited about finishing the TV series once I have completed the miniseries. In short, I have not yet seen the entire TV series - I stopped the DVD after about 2 minutes of watching it. Once I have, I'll re-write this review.
  
  For now, I'll just tell you don't buy this set unless you have watched both V - The Original TV Miniseries, and V - The Final Battle. If you do, it will be a complete and total turn off.
  
  Thanks for reading this review!
  Don't forget to check back later for a full review!
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-02
  YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING
  
  I am not a writer or an actor - just another one of the masses with an opinion derived from watching decades of television and film. However, after reading some glowing nostalgic reviews of this 80's miniseries, I just had to get something in print about this flimsy excuse for a sci-fi story. It just reminded me of how tacky and cheesy a lot of the culture of that decade was - not too different than the tackiness of the one that proceeded it.
  
  George Lucas got away with Star Wars as an allegory for the Nazis and
  facism by making the whole thing into a "once upon a time" fairy tale set in another galaxy populated by races similar to ours. It also helped that he used beyond state of the art visual effects and original production and costume designs. I'm not putting Star Wars up with Citizen Kane or Shakespeare - just saying it's a well crafted piece of pop culture.
  
  The Twilight Zone also had mostly allegorical stories, but even though they were subverted visually by low budget (and real tacky) effects and costumes, they are still great to watch because of the high level of story and dialogue writing and top notch acting.
  
  Then there is this "V" miniseries pablum. It is the typical soap opera miniseries garbage the the major network television shows spewed out in the 70's and 80's (and lets face it - they still try it). Poor, lazy writing (much of it obviously edited by low payed hacks) and bottom of the barrel production values. I watched ten minutes of this pop culture sugar candy just recently and it just reminded me of how many low points the decade of the '80s had. If ANYONE, even people who may be fans of this series (though I can't imagine why)watched it with any kind of objectivity, they would have say to themselves "why am I even doing this?". Great art direction and effects can make up for some poor dialogue writing and sloppy plotting, but only up to a certain point. When ALL of the movie elements are given short shift, then we end up with a day old cup of pale diner brew like "V" instead of a series like "The Invaders" - which was more like a fresh cup of Jamaican Mountain in a five star hotel balcony overlooking the Caribbean. Remember THAT series? It holds up even now. A good concept - the communist-like takeover of the planet by an alien culture infiltrating us fifth column style. Take the plot from "The Fugitive" and combine it with a creepy, subversive alien take over and you have classic storytelling. No need for bad costumes as in V (my God, the bad uniforms - as if an advanced alien race would wear uniforms similar to our cultures - boots and sunglasses and all)and the Star Trek clone spaceships and shuttles that looked more like our future technology than something alien).
  
  I wish that the major tv networks would give up creating unimaginitve miniseres that are just soap operas tarted up in cheap costumes. HBO and the other cable networks put them in there place over the years with real quality written and acted series. Though I am not a follower of "Battlestar Galactica" - I watched a bit of it just to see if it had the quality critics had been giving it and admit it was done rather well. Imagine if NBC or ABC or CBS had remade it....on second thought - don't!
  
  I don't expect all television and film to always be top quality - I don't mind one and two star creations. It's when drivel like "V" tries to pass itself off as anything of quality that makes me want to shoot the television. Thank God for box sets of "The Twilight Zone".
  
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-10-22
  Brought back memories
  
  My husband and I use to watch "V" on tv regularly when it was a series. Now every Saturday evening I'm enjoying watching hours of V. Watching the series has brought back so many memories. If you're not a V fan, you wouldn't like it because the graphies are so "cheesy", it was the best they had to offer in the 80's. If you are a fan you will enjoy it. I can't wait to see what the new V series which is airing in November is going to be like.
  
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