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Originally Posted by
Bill Buklis 
I didn't know they made a
Galactica 3. I dunno, though. I loved the Battlestar Galactica series, but the 1980 version was, uh, less than ideal to put it mildly. That series was almost like the BSG version of Superman. What were they thinking?!
It was only released in Europe as a theatrical film (oh well, maybe we can sell it to those perverted Europeans...
).
It's cut together from the episodes
"Galactica Discovers Earth" and
"The Night The Cylons Landed". I just recently bought the 1980 series (since it was cheap, and the theatrical film won't be released anyway), and man, what WERE THEY THINKING??? Super Scouts?? Nazi Germany (plus hilariously bad accents)?? This series is so unfocused and totally random, not to mention the absense of logic (
Oh no, don't erase that formula on the computer screen!!! It stayed there for 2 years, since we haven't yet invented pen & paper! Hmm, maybe we can reconstruct it from the CRT burn-in...) and hilariously bad acing in most scenes. And yet, it amazingly finishes with one of the best Galactica episodes.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Buck Rogers is the only one I can think off hand that had a theatrical movie turned into a series with the same cast. Of course they had in mind the series to begin with.
The Black Hole. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I still enjoy it today despite there being no scientific basis in reality.
Yeah, Buck Rogers was also released as a theatrical film. Another Glen A. Larson series I grew up with. The Black Hole scared me as a kid, especially the scene when they remove the mask...
. Disney surely had its dark phase between 1979-1985 (The Black Hole, Tron (watch Sark's head when he is defeated...!), The Black Cauldron). Otherwise, a great special effects film for it's time. For me, it also contains lots of unintentional humour...
Another film I might be tempted to buy on Blu Ray.
