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Movie Reviews of Caprica
Movie Review: Wow!
Summary: 5 Stars
My expectations were very low.
The final year of Battlestar Galactica was ...good...but it didn't match the *amazing* and *phenomenal* of the first few seasons.
Nevertheless, it was good.
The idea of a prequel without Kara and Lee and Chief and The Old Man....you could only hope it would be entertaining...
But Caprica is not entertaining.
Caprica is brilliant.
How did the Cylons become living beings? What does "Cylon" mean? What was the stimulus for creating the machines that would
one day run over the entire human race?
Caprica opens in a holographic world created by teens for teens. Everything in the world is precisely how you
would expect teens of 2010 to create it. One big virtual reality ...shared life experience... is the Genesis
for all that would happen 58 years later.
There could have been no predicting what the holo-technology would eventually come to.
The cast took a bit of time to connect with. Half way through the movie it all clicked into place.
And at the end of the movie...with an ending that was both frightening and ecstatic...I was driven to find
out just when the season premiere's.
For someone who has never seen a season of BSG, this movie will be a four star view.
For fans of BSG, it's a five star engagement.
And there is great potential felt for the upcoming series.
Can't wait.
Kevin Hogan
Author of Covert Persuasion
and
The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24-7
Movie Review: An auspicious beginning to a promising new series
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of the Sci-fi Channel's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series. With each season, my admiration for this television grew even more. You can imagine how excited I was when I learned of the planned prequel, CAPRICA.
As the tale unfolds, we learn more about the multi-deity religious beliefs predominantly held by the people of Caprica as well as the divergent beliefs an underground minority hold regarding a singular god. More importantly, we begin to understand how this theological conflict plays a part in the birth of the Cylons.
Caprica follows the lives of the Graystones and the Adamas, two extremely different families brought together in very unexpected ways through tragedy. Through this connection, the genesis of the Centurions is spawned, as well as the evolution of a technology with the potential of great danger to the human race.
In this world, no one is who they seem to be on the surface. Tendrils of intrigue and dangerous secrets lurk in every dark corner. Humanity's never-ending struggle with right and wrong, with science versus religion is never more prominent than in the beginning to this epic story.
This movie is just a small part of what promises to be a tale as riveting as BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was. Viewers are made to wonder what price mankind is willing to pay for the ultimate technology. Will we risk our very souls? CAPRICA movie is definitely an auspicious beginning to the upcoming CAPRICA television series expected to launch in the year 2010. I know I will be waiting on the edge of my seat for more in this fascinating story.
Movie Review: Brilliant and Thought Provoking! (But, NOT for the kiddies!)
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this DVD to any fans of science fiction that enjoy a good philosophical debate as well as action and adventure.
I bought Caprica through Amazon while deployed in Iraq. While we did not have first run movies, we managed to cobble together a fairly nice set-up for showing DVDs. Caprica was the only movie that we ended up watching more than once.
Caprica serves as the prequel to the Battlestar Galactica series.
Caprica introduces Commander Adama, and we meet his father as well as the creator of the Cylons.
The DVD explains how the Cylons came to be created with a "bit of deception in their DNA." (I did not puzzle it out the first time around; my soldiers helped me out. I won't ruin it for you either; you have to watch the final five minutes carefully.)
Caprica asks some gnarly philosophical questions without either purporting there are easy answers or letting the audience off the hook without some serious though.
What is the nature of intelligent life?
Does a clone have a soul? Well, what if the clone is just a magnetic facsimile? What if the original model is dead?
Not since Mary Shelly has an artist addressed these questions so profoundly and powerfully.
I have not been able to watch the series that the original DVD precluded, but I look forward to seeing it in the future.
In service,
Rich
Movie Review: Frackin' awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Caprica" is the pilot episode of the "Battlestar Galactica" prequel series that will air on Sci-Fi next year. I was extremely impressed by the show, and must admit that it's much better than I thought it would be. The story is set on Caprica almost 60 years before the fall. The show revolves around two familles, the Greystones and the Adams/Adamas. A suicide train bombing tragically takes the life of 16-year-old Zoe Greystone, along with Joseph Adams' (Esai Morales) wife and teenage daughter. After the terrorist attack, evidence surfaces that indicates Zoe may have been a member of a religious extremist group responsible for the bombing. Meanwhile, Daniel Greystone (Eric Stoltz) discovers that his deceased daughter was a computer genius like himself. Zoe managed to create a carbon copy of herself that lives in a virtual world, and Daniel is intent on downloading his daughter and figuring out a way for her to live with him and his wife on Caprica.
This is an intriguing show that already has managed to fill in a lot of holes that were never fully explained in "Battlestar Galactica." It's a well-acted program with a solid cast, and the plot is deeply intriguing. Even though we all know how the development of the cylons will eventually unfold, I have a feeling that this show is going to satisfy a lot of "Battlestar Galactica" fans, myself included. I only wish that we didn't have to wait until 2010 to see more episodes!
Movie Review: Excellent start
Summary: 5 Stars
BSG was essentially modern-day Americans in space, more of a metaphor than an attempt to create an alien civilization. The new series remains very faithful to that, and posits what the United States could look like with another 30-40 years of technological advancement. It is completely our culture, but with the incredible attention to detail to remind you constantly that you're on another planet, which is in a group of planets that talk to each other. The other planets in the 12 Colonies are treated as other countries, and are talked about and alluded to in this pilot, but not yet seen.
The environment of the show is one of its biggest stars, certainly. But the show is also exquisitely cast, with characters that truly inhabit this other world, and are in their unique position in history and in their economy to be the direct stakeholders in the emergence of cybernetic life. And because this culture is so much closer to our own on a time scale, there is so much more room for social commentary and imagination of where our technology will be in the very near future, and the questions we will have to answer about AI.
And fans of BSG will be pleased to know that the show has the sheer power that you have come to expect from a show in the BSG universe. The only thing you will regret is that you have to wait a year for the actual series. Frickin' Sci-Fi Syfy.