It's not my intent to bash it, but I'm curious, why this mini-series is rated so high? Can someone explain? Maybe mostly
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filmklassik — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 08:06 AM)
Sorry but one can't grade a work of art on its intention, because when it comes to art and entertainment, intention is meaningless. Results are all that matters. And the results here are cheesy and, sorry, patently absurd.
And I love classic Sci Fi.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD? FORBIDDEN PLANET? 2001? STAR WARS? CLOSE ENCOUNTERS? COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT? WESTWORLD?
All great.
But V was just insulting. -
wallacesawyer — 9 years ago(May 20, 2016 02:52 PM)
Because people were still high on Sci-Fi after the STAR WARS films.
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dpcole7 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 01:23 PM)
And "V"'s budget reflects what, for the time, were impressive visuals. But the underlying plot and character development would have saved the miniseries if it had 1/10th the budget.
But it was an
event
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THX1701 — 9 years ago(August 11, 2016 12:40 PM)
beep Millennial Generation will never understand good writing and acting.
They're faces are always buried in the smartphones watching American Idiot contestants trying to sing on national TV and driving their gay green import cars thinking they look cool. That's what's wrong with their generation. I drive around in my gas-guzzling muscle Trans Am to show them what a real man drives.
Tell you what Zee944, this is better than InDePenis Day: Reinsertion. Watch both and compare, then report back to us with your observations.Trust doesn't rust.
I am Error. -
dpcole7 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 01:15 PM)
Regardless of "V"'s origins, what was made has the effects polish of "Star Wars", an accessible plot for masses to be able to relate to, characters of depth, and played out seriously.
In America, circa 1983, popular sci-fi was usually known as being one of three things, or a combination thereof:- childish camp like "Buck Rogers", since alien planets and situations were things most adults would not suspend disbelief for (hence the shows being made for children, using other means to draw and keep audiences, no matter how intellectual or intelligent the actual stories were and "Buck" was not always blessed with deep sci-fi, and when it was it became canceled - season 2 is woefully underrated, but mainstream audiences didn't care about the creativity involved or how it was played seriously and not for laughs)
- effects-laden b-movies like "Star Wars"
- cliche-driven pablum where 20-somethings played children such as "The Powers of Matthew Starr"
Yes, there was "Star Trek" - a franchise forgotten until the Star Wars movie prompted its transition to big screen
with already established characters
. Creating a new franchise with new characters isn't as easy. Especially when Trek's own characters were borne out of the civil rights movement, where new audiences would wonder why all Uhura did was answer phones when, back when the show first aired, her mere presence on the command center / bridge and not being white (the number one demographic, among the more racist attitudes of American culture of the time), was a message far stronger than any amount of dialogue for her to say could even begin to say. That's how great real Star Trek was. It didn't preach, it merely showed with equal merit and played it real and nothing else like it existed at the time.
"V" simply struck gold, with all the right elements and
at the right time
.
You would really have to be there.
Especially when only three networks and no home video existed,