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Movie Reviews of Caprica
Movie Review: Intelligently Sensational!
Summary: 5 Stars
Before watching this show i was a little hesitant to give it any credit as a legitimate show, because spinoffs never really seem to be as good as the original. However, after watching Caprica,i was blown away. I am a big Battlestar Galactica fan,but even for those who may not know much about Battlestar Galactica,it is still a very well thought out story of the origins of the previous series. There are some very interesting philisophical questions proposed in this show that really makes you think deeply about what it means to be human, and whether death is really the end of life. This movie is also a little grittier than the Battlestar series since theres more nudity and violence present,but it does not detract from the engaging story line. I am not sure if this show will be successful as an entire series, since alot of the major plotlines of the overall story are presented,but this movie is phenominal on its own. It's a definite must for any Battlestar Galactica fan, or those who like science fiction or for those who like to think about a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.Movie Review: Only IQ's of 120 or more need apply!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't mean for the title of my review to be taken literally.
I do mean to say that Caprica is state-of-the-art science fiction, emphasizing science as much as fiction. If Independence Day and Transformers are your ideas of good science fiction, you need to grow up. This movie is not for you.
Caprica is for those who are not so arrogant as to presume their universe is the only universe.
Caprica is for enlightened beings capable of asking themselves, "What am I?"
Caprica is for a person who appreciates the potential of digital processing and the moral issues of ontology that arise from it. (Ontology is the study of being.)
It's true that I have been watching Battlestar Galactic DVDs. I am four episodes deep into the third season. Caprica is part of the Battlestar Galactica universe, and I found my knowledge of that universe to be useful. But it was not a prerequisite. Caprica stands alone. You might, however, like to know the name of Battlestar Galactica's commanding officer. It is William Adama.
Movie Review: Putting it all together
Summary: 5 Stars
Many movies have tried to create a vision of society's immediate future; a future that is within reach of the technology of the present, where technical differences between the future and our present are due solely to engineering advances and not fundamental scientific breakthru's. Examples include Gattaca, Aeon Flux, The Matrix trilogy, 2001, 2012, and the Alien movies. But probably the most realistic and most impactful is this made-for-TV movie called Caprica. Named after its fictional setting, this origins story for Battlestar Galactica is the pilot for a TV serial of the same name. The cast of characters include the family of Galactica's Admiral Adama, and the Graystone family, whose patriarch, Daniel, is the founding father of the Cylons. The movie is scripted as a drama, part political thriller, part family soap opera, with some romance and comedy added in. This pilot contains the occasional scene of violence, but numerous scenes of sex and nudity; hence an R rating is appropriate. Overall, a great show; I can't wait for the serial to come out.Movie Review: A worthy "prequel" to BSG
Summary: 5 Stars
FIRST OFF: I followed "Battlestar Galactica" religiously from beginning to end, and I still think it's one of the greatest sci-fi TV series ever created (if not THE greatest), and at my age that's saying something. But some things I had heard about "Caprica" didn't seem to bode quite as well: That it was more melodramatic, kind of like "Dallas" in outer space.
Well NOT TO WORRY, because "Caprica" is an extremely worthy successor/prequel to BSG. It is different, make no mistake about that, but I found it absolutely haunting for one reason more than anything: It portrays a human civilization on the cusp of a Technological Singularity. Sure, there have been plenty of movies and TV shows that have explored the concept of machine intelligence, but to the best of my knowledge there has never been an attempt to portray the Technological Singularity (look it up on Wikipedia if you like) in the terms that futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge have envisioned it. "Capica" is noteworthy for scratching the surface.
Movie Review: If you liked Gattaca, you'll like Caprica
Summary: 5 Stars
The first scene of Caprica felt like an urban rave in San Francisco's Warfield. You see a brunette character on a balcony. You see the same character close to a stage. Are they twins? Or Cylons?
I like how the film started off with that question, and had the sort of pacing in its first 20 minutes that you'd find in "Batman Begins." Everything gets laid out really quickly so much so that the action cannot meet the frisson of the dialogue.
The feel of the show has some parts from BSG that are very familiar: the music, the lakeside scenery of Baltar's Caprica flashbacks, and the corners cut from books. There's also a feel that reminds me a Gattaca: the suits, the technology that seems just a decade away like computer paper, and home robots that do security clearance.
Caprica is a really smart show that makes you feel tragedy and how technology changes the meaning of words like consciousness and individuality.