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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790760308
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790760304
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 03, 2001
Running Time: 196 minutes
Sales Rank: 2999
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its natural resources, the war for Earth begins. An important key to the humans' success is distinguishing the their own from the aliens.
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: 
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
Rating:  - A Classic TV Sci-Fi that Ages Very Well!
I remember it well the first time I saw this on television as a kid and I was totally in awe at just how great a drama this was. I would look forward every week for the next installment of how we would defeat the aliens that stole our water and ate our flesh. Even at that level I was able to thoroughly enjoy the entire series. It wasn't until as an adult while viewing this again on dvd did the Nazi analogy become obvious to me and although the effects lack the CGI touch of today, I'm still impressed ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointed
I loved the '83 original V miniseries. I just want to know....where is the rest of the 6 hr. miniseries???? This item is only 196 minutes!!! We didn't even see the monster baby born. Please tell me that there is a disk somewhere with the rest of the series......
Rating: - Scary tv aliens.
This came out for tv when I was still very young.
I remember when the aliens first show us a glimpse of what was under the human disguise.
YIKES!!!!
It scared the &*(^^ out of me as a kid.
The story, acting, directing are all solid if not spectacular.
The fx were very good for it's time but kind of laughable now a days.
Still, if you're really into the whole, Alien, Independence Day thing, then you really can't afford to miss this series.
Would we even have ... Read More
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