Mr Havafap posted:

Did I dream it or was there a feature length Battlestar Galactica film made in the late 70's?
I distinctly remember seing it in a theatre, and that it was remarkably dark compared to Star Wars, what with the little kid losing his dog in a firefight (he gets a robot replacement later), battleship commander losing his son in a space battle against Cylons, and what looked like people used as live food for alien pupaes in semi translucent pods..
I know for a fact that I have never seen the original TV series, I wonder if a theatrical cut was made, maybe just for the European market?

Also Disney 's The Black Hole scared my young mind with its malevolent robot and zombified crew, at least I didn't have to struggle to stay awake as when we watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Good times!

sebmojo posted:

BSG the Movie made a huge deal out of SENSURROUND which afaict was just turning the bass right up in movie theaters, when the titular spaceship went by you could feel it in your bowels

Mr Havafap posted:

Did I dream it or was there a feature length Battlestar Galactica film made in the late 70's?
I distinctly remember seing it in a theatre, and that it was remarkably dark compared to Star Wars, what with the little kid losing his dog in a firefight (he gets a robot replacement later), battleship commander losing his son in a space battle against Cylons, and what looked like people used as live food for alien pupaes in semi translucent pods..
I know for a fact that I have never seen the original TV series, I wonder if a theatrical cut was made, maybe just for the European market?

sebmojo posted:

BSG the Movie made a huge deal out of SENSURROUND which afaict was just turning the bass right up in movie theaters, when the titular spaceship went by you could feel it in your bowels

Madurai posted:

The BSG movie was essentially the first two episodes of the show. All of those plot points you mentioned were, in fact, in it. It played in the US, as well.

Sensurround made the already-excellent thousand-seat Promenade I theater in north Dallas even better!

The idea came from an Indian I met after the war, in 1946. He told me, 'Overpopulation is the big problem coming up in the world' (nobody had ever heard of it in those days) and he said 'Want to make a lot of money, Harry? You have to import rubber contraceptives to India." I didn't mind making money, but I didn't want to be the rubber king of India! But I started reading a bit about overpopulation, and got the idea for the book. It stayed in my head as I watched the population trend going the wrong way. The thing took about eight years to write because I had to do a lot of research which was worth it.”

SlothfulCobra posted:

Soylent Green sprung from a guy having a conversation about investing in condoms in India.

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Although I think maybe the movie might've been shaped most by the idea of seeing protesting crowds of the era and imagining that people were there because there was no other space for them rather than making a point.

Madurai posted:

The BSG movie was essentially the first two episodes of the show. All of those plot points you mentioned were, in fact, in it. It played in the US, as well.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

That reminds me, they did something similar with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (the Gil Gerard/Erin Gray TV show), back in 1979. They filmed a movie that was intended to be shown on TV as a two-hour pilot episode for the series, but then decided to release it in movie theaters instead.