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« Reply #435 on: April 19, 2009, 04:43:37 PM » |
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Exactly why I never end up getting TV shows on DVD. It's too damn expensive. Except for Firefly. One season is easy enough to handle. And MST3K, of course. Don't even have all of those yet, though. I'm sure it will come down by the time it's released at the end of July or early August. But I was expecting around $200, $50 per season plus the miniseries and Razor. That's a lot of hours. The Digital Bits had a picture of the box last week, supposed to come with a little Cylon figure. |
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« Reply #436 on: July 31, 2009, 10:30:03 AM » |
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Watched the extended versions of the season 4.5 episodes last night.
Basically the last 4 hours of the series have major additions, and they are mostly fantastic.
Only one that doesn't really add much is the bit with Baltar and the neighbor kid that he treats like a servant. Does give us a longer scene with Caprica and Baltar in his house when she tells him about his dad's new place, to cut the kid out for the broadcast version they had to cut a bunch of dialogue between Caprica and Balter.
Got to see the Chief's flashbacks, adds an extra punch to his actions at the end.
The scenes in the strip club with Adama and Tigh have better continuity now with some little extra bits with Ellen put back.
Oh, and some extra CGI stuff during the big battle at the colony, man does that look unbelievable on Blu-Ray.
There's a little video with Ron before one of the extended cuts where he says that the HD master that they used for the Blu-Ray is higher quality than what you got to see even on the best HD channels, it really shows in some places. Even the scenes in previous episodes where they digitally added grain look much cleaner on BD than the DVDs, for example in Exodus on the DVD the grain was not evenly distributed and blotchy, on the BD it's distinct pixels with the action perfectly clear "behind" the grain.
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« Reply #437 on: August 07, 2009, 08:27:27 PM » |
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« Reply #438 on: August 12, 2009, 10:58:48 AM » |
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Got all 20 thinpak covers done for the Blu-Ray set, all except Razor look like the example linked below, for Razor I scanned the DVD thinpak and cut in a text box for the Blu-Ray info. All the disk info is from The Digital Bits website, the inserts that Bill Hunt posted for people to use. Anyone know of glossy and thin inkjet paper (as thin as standard DVD thinpak covers)? I was going to do more fancy graphics for the cover but photo paper is too thick and plain paper just doesn't cut it for getting good details. http://www.science.widener.edu/~schultz/BSGcovers/BSG_S1D1s.jpgIf people are interested I'll make full size jpegs of all 20 and put them up. |
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« Reply #439 on: August 12, 2009, 05:26:59 PM » |
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Will Bryan Singer Helm a Battlestar Galactica Movie?
Source: HitFix.com
August 12, 2009
Drew McWeeney at HitFix.com, who is fairly well connected in the industry, is reporting that Bryan Singer's earlier plans to produce and possibly direct a new Battlestar Galactica feature film might indeed come to fruition.
According to HitFix.com, Singer was developing a follow-up television series based on the popular '70s sci-fi show with producer Tom DeSanto (Transformers) that was close to shooting in 2001, when it fell apart. Since then, Ron Moore successfully relaunched the series to create a show with a vocal cult audience that ran from 2004 to 2009 with plans for a spin-off show called "Caprica." The show's popularity apparently prompted Universal to reexamine the possibilities of a movie and they signed Glen Larson to write a script for a movie that had no ties to Moore's show.
If the rumors are true and Universal does sign Singer to develop a second "Battlestar Galactica" movie, in theory, he could revive some of his original ideas that were scrapped, but one wonders how much of a connection (if any) a Singer-produced/directed feature film might have to the most recent television show and whether this is in place of the Larson-penned version announced earlier this year.
You can read Drew's full report over on HitFix.com and decide for yourself whether this is a possibility. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57989 |
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« Reply #440 on: August 12, 2009, 06:24:17 PM » |
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I wouldn't mind if there was no connection to the new show. I am not one of those people who thinks the new show is the greatest thing ever,in fact I got so board with the new show that I haven't watched any of season 4 yet and don't plan on buying it. It just turned into too much of a soap opera and I don't think the producers had any idea where the story was going or what the point of it was. That said I still like the first season. They just seemed to lose their way in season 3.
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« Reply #441 on: August 12, 2009, 08:27:46 PM » |
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You might want to give season 4 a try, everything came together really well in the end IMO.
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« Reply #442 on: August 12, 2009, 08:29:36 PM » |
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You might want to give season 4 a try, everything came together really well in the end IMO.
Yeah, season three started to rev up that motorboat in preparation to jump, but four really brought it all back. |
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« Reply #443 on: August 12, 2009, 08:52:52 PM » |
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Ok When I get some money I'll buy season 4. I just got so tired of flashbacks,Baltar,and the whole thing they seemed to be pulling where I was supposed to care who was sleeping with who. If I gave a care about that sort of thing I would be watching the young and the restless.
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« Reply #444 on: August 12, 2009, 10:02:06 PM » |
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Although I have some major complaints about some parts of how it all ended, and some aspects of season 4 annoyed me, overall I think season 4 is better than 3.
Even with the bits that I don't like about the ending I have watched the last 4 hours several times now, has the same emotional impact every time, some people can't suspend their belief for some bits but what's going on with the characters and the action was enough for me to go along for the ride.
The new series has always been a drama first and then science fiction, the first 2 seasons they had a good balance, went a bit far over to the drama side in season 3 (with the exception of Exodus), more of a balance in season 4. And after the ending they came up with there was always a "fantasy" aspect to it all along, at least looking at it from an atheist perspective.
I was sick of Baltar in 3 and most of 4, but looking back the show always had a recurring theme of "redemption" that came up often, and although I'm not sure his character deserves it he gets more likable at the end. And Kara gets seriously annoying the first half of season 4 but it's mostly used as a plot device to bridge to the cylons, even Katee said she hated her character most of the season.
Well, didn't really mean to write that much, oh well...
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« Reply #445 on: November 17, 2009, 06:45:58 PM » |
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So I just watched the series finale yesterday. It was pretty good up until the end. I cant really see everyone in a group of almost 38,000 people deciding to just give up all their technology and living primitive. Hopefully the groups were distributed with people who can farm and know how to hunt with primitive weapons like bows and spears. Probably very few of the colonists had that kind of survival training. Did they bring seeds for planting down from the fleet? The suicide mission to rescue Hera didnt seem to have a payoff since Earth has people that are geneticly compatible with the colonists. What was up with Starbuck? I haven taken to calling her "Starbuck the White" in the 4th season. The Galactica herself didnt really get a proper send off for me, considering the show was named after her. I guess Ronald Moore isnt very creative when dispatching ships that need to go out in style. He was one of the writers for Star Trek Generations, and the Enterprise got a horrible goodbye in that movie. If I was writing I would have had it knocked off course by a collision that took Sam offline somehow and had it drift through space for a few thousand years before entering orbit of a planet that had primitive space flight. They would board Galactica and reverse engineer its FTL and sublight systems and build a ship based on its design that looks remarkably like the original Glen Larson Galactica. I also would have had the colonists arive only about 10,000 years ago and start the city of Atlantis, and inspire the ancient Greeks religion. Thats just me though.
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Well no one here is getting out alive. This time I've really lost my mind and I don't care. So close your eyes and kiss yourself goodbye, and think about the times you've spent and what they've meant.
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« Reply #446 on: November 17, 2009, 06:51:21 PM » |
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would you have also given them the gift of apostrophes?  edit: the plan was really boring and pointless and didn't clean up any loose ends. i wouldn't recommend watching it. |
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« Reply #447 on: November 17, 2009, 09:32:05 PM » |
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edit: the plan was really boring and pointless and didn't clean up any loose ends. i wouldn't recommend watching it.
Sort of agree there. It was cool to see what was happening on the cylon side during the first 2 seasons, but it didn't give us much we didn't already know. I think it could have been edited better, should have stuck with each thread a bit longer instead of jumping around as often as they did. I would call it more frustrating than boring, just when you started to get into what was going on in one place they switched to another part of the story. I cant really see everyone in a group of almost 38,000 people deciding to just give up all their technology and living primitive. Your view on that might be different if you had been living for several years crammed aboard a bunch of broken down space ships, and remembering the hell on New Caprica when you tried to rebuild your technological society.  |
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« Reply #448 on: November 17, 2009, 11:15:14 PM » |
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You might want to give season 4 a try, everything came together really well in the end IMO. *cough......what? Nah, that's fine. It seems like people either really loved the end or, like me, thought it was one of the worst things ever. I honestly can't think of a stupider series finale. People bitched about the Sopranos ending just cutting to black but I would have preferred Adama giving speech about them about to arrive at Earth and then all the sudden...-black-....*credits roll. That would have been much less of a disappointment. Instead we're left with this: <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iNIIsQqGqqY&hl=en_US&fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iNIIsQqGqqY&hl=en_US&fs=1</a>]]>All kidding aside. If this new movie ACTUALLY based on the original series does happen then they can count on my ticket buy. |
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« Reply #449 on: November 18, 2009, 09:00:42 AM » |
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I cant really see everyone in a group of almost 38,000 people deciding to just give up all their technology and living primitive. Your view on that might be different if you had been living for several years crammed aboard a bunch of broken down space ships, and remembering the hell on New Caprica when you tried to rebuild your technological society. No, not really. I spent almost a year in Iraq at Abu Ghraib prison living in a cramped broken down building built in the 30s that used to be a medical ward, and it didnt turn me off in any way towards real flushing toilets. I dont see the colonists giving up toilets to crap in holes they have dug, or give up flowing showers. It wasnt the technology in general that made New Caprica hell, it was the Cylons, and the planet itself wasnt that nice of a place to live. If the Cylons hadnt showed up they probably would have been fine with out any AI technology. |
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