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Release Date: 17 August, 2004 Retail Price: $59.98 OUR Price: $44.99 You SAVE: $14.99! Cast: |
Babylon 5 - The Movies Reviews
Not nearly as good as the series
What i can't stand Stracynski(sp) doing is always omitting key characters out of every movie. The cast is what makes babylon 5, babylon 5. In each and every movie, there are always key characters missing. The entire 3rd movie consisted of ONLY garibaldi and lochley. I mean come on! Where's sheridan and delenn? More londo and g'kar please, less lochley! Delenn is missing from A Call to Arms, etc.
Another honorable mention is to the HORRIBLE soundtrack in that movie. It was terrible and very annoying to say the least. The first movie was all right, since we all ready know what happens in the earth mimbari war. The second and third movies were a bit weak in terms of excitement and were basically fill ins. They seemed more like 2 part episodes than movies, and weak fill in type 2 parters to say the least. The first hour in both movies were rather boring and stretched.
A Call to Arms seems MUCH like what you're NOT supposed to do. This seemed very analagous to star trek TNG and nemesis! The series was magnificent but the transition into the movie was horrible. Characters are twisted and turned, etc. Weak story line and cheesey dialogue and characters. Techmages giving Sheridan revelations. CHEESEY! Come on! I can't say how much I couldn't stand that thief character who is supposedly a thief but seemingly knows much more than sheridan. A thief with an attitude and a loner type. How original can you get? I can't stand how they purposely make sheridan into a second rate character so they can 'boost' his replacements. Classic cardboard cut out characters, which is the main reason i'm NOT watching crusade. Block of wood Daniel Dae Kim and the girl from beastmaster? Oh, please! Do yourself a favor and stop watching babylon 5 after season 4! It seems to spiral 'to hell' after it. What a pitiful and horrible end to such a great series.
How can one explain flaws in a 5-star rating?
I have found this a very entertaining collection for those dark nights here, and having no TV I can watch it on the computer.
As others have already indicated, The Gathering (the original movie/episode to begin production of the show) is a good place to start, even (or especially) for people who haven't learned the outlines of the story yet. This collection is then interesting to watch: for the improvement in the prosthetics worn by many actors, the development of much more moving stories (here, it is appropriate to mention Londo Mollari's talents as a storyteller/emperor), and the better production quality once things got going (including wonderful music). The only hard point is the acceptance that the story Thirdspace COULD have happened between the Shadow war and Earthwar. No way!
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