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Guinea pig snacks for everyone!

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 L.T. Hanlon1 Comment

 

Journalist Marc Singer stands with his back to us as he videotapes a giant alien flyinf saucer gliding over a river in El Salvador.
More than 35 years later, the slow-moving, almost-documentary style special effects in the original “V” miniseries remain effective.

Photo is of the following typewritten text. Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Chicago, USA. Those lizards still work! Today I binge-watched the original V miniseries first telecast in 1983. Surprisingly, the production holds up really well. In fact, many of its set pieces created the template for subsequent cinematic ventures into alien threats. Much of the reason why V remains visually impressive is that the special effects rejected a frenetic approach to depicting alien technology. The Visitors' gigantic saucers sweep over earth gracefully, slowly, even slower than the ships in 1996’s Independence Day. Even the Visiors' smaller craft move little faster than terrestrial helicopters when chasing humans. The only thing that doesn't work for me in V is its derivative score. Composer Joe Harnell gets a wave-through for cribbing Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries and Gustav Holst's Mars, The Bringer of War (everybody does those), but rubberstamping Bernard Herrmann's main theme from North By Northwest makes me expect Cary Grant, James Mason, and Eva Marie Saint to show up. Still a good time, however. The shocker everybody talked about at work the next day was, of course, watching Jane Badler enjoying a rodent snack.

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