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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790760308
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790760304
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD11489D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 03, 2001
Running Time: 196 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1983

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
They come in peace to enslave humankind. Aliens place our world in a hammerlock of fascist rule and valiant freedom fighters battle to save our species. Special features: director commentary: gag reel: international trailer: subitles in english french and spanish. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/04/2005 Starring: Marc Singer Robert Englund Run time: 197 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Richard Heffron/daniel Blatt

Amazon.com:
In its day, V was a monumental event that for one generation remains a pop-culture touchstone. Close Encounters of the Third Kind may have reassured us that perhaps we have nothing to fear from alien visitors and E.T. introduced us to a benign extraterrestrial who only wanted to go home, but Kenneth Johnson's 1983 television miniseries knew better. Visitors who claim to come in peace are revealed to be nothing but human-looking reptilians on human conversion and conquest. As in the dark days of fascism, some collaborate with the enemy; others form the resistance.

At the time, the epic scale of this production was unprecedented. Those 50 motherships that hover over Earth's major cities anticipate Independence Day by more than a decade. The special effects and makeup are still awesome. Less so is the often-hackneyed dialogue. But thanks to their signature roles, the mostly no-star cast, most of whom would be reunited for a sequel and subsequent television series, have ensured themselves standing invitations to sci-fi conventions. Marc Singer is cameraman-turned-freedom-fighter Mike Donovan. Julie Parrish is a medical student-turned-rebel. Richard Herd is the aliens' supreme commander. Jane Bradler is Diana, the ravishing but ruthlessly ambitious alien science officer. Leonardo Cimino lends dignity to his heavy-handed allegorical role as a Holocaust survivor. Look for a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund as one of the aliens.

The DVD is presented for the first time in widescreen format. Supplemental features include an amiable and enlightening director's commentary and a brief "making of" segment. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- My Parents Love It!
So I bought this series for my parents for Christmas since they do not have satellite or cable. They pretty much just watch videos. They loved it! They are huge fans of anything sci-fi and this was perfect for them. The quality is excellent and even though some of the special effects are cheezy, you can't stop watching. I reccomend this to anyone who doest want to spend a ton of money on a miniseries but wants to be entertained for a few days.

Rating:

- good fun video
Good fun mini-series as the earth resistance fights for freedom with the secret help of some of the invaders. Story idea based on Nazi Germany's take over of Europe. Will not win any acting awards but good fun video for the family to watch together at a good price.

Rating:

- More trash from Ken Johnson
If you like really bad dialoge, lousy action scenes, and weak casting then anything by Ken Johnson would do. This mini-series is a joke, The Johnson commentery and short featurtte is a joke, and as useual it is packaged with Warner Brothers second rate DVD standards.

Rating:

- Remember the one where the lady swallowed the Guinea pig?
Unfortunately, that's one of several reminders I throw out there whenever I'm trying to find out if someone has ever watched V before.

Eating live rodents, harvesting humans for food, and stealing the earth's water supply are not usually the big plot items that turn people onto a TV show or movie. And yet in 1983, everyone was glued to their television sets to watch V. (And even those who weren't were joining the throng of fans a year later for V: THE FINAL BATTLE.) Perhaps, it's ... Read More

Rating:

- From profound to medicre
V the mini series and it's sequel V the final battle are great SF. Tough the special effects are not up to today's standard, this is more than compensated for by the interesting storyline (a parable about the naziregime) and protagonists who are real people with real faults and doubts. Some become collaborators, some become heroes against their will, but there are no black and white characters all good or all bad, except for Diana (a Dr.Mengele-like character only with real power, not a follower ... Read More

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